Lauri Ann Lumby
Has over twenty-five years of experience as an educator, facilitator, spiritual counselor and soul-guide. She has supported hundreds through her one-on-one guidance, books, workshops, retreats, online classes and community.
Lauri is an author and a poet and has published eleven books including Authentic Freedom – Claiming a Life of Contentment and Joy, and her popular novel Song of the Beloved, the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene.
Lauri earned her master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia/ITP University, is a trained Spiritual Director in the Ignatian tradition and has certificates in Adult Education and Psycho-Spiritual Development. Lauri is a Reiki Master Practitioner in both the Usui and Karuna traditions and is an ordained interfaith minister. Lauri has also studied and been trained in shamanic practices under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen Schmitz. You can reach Lauri directly at lauri@lauriannlumby.com.
What We Do:
Lauri Ann Lumby provides a one-of-a-kind education platform that provides the resources and tools to support you in becoming self-actualized so that you might enjoy the meaningful and fulfilling life of your dreams.
- • Embodied learning
- • Where knowledge meets practice
- • Combining education, spirituality, and psychology
- • Applying ancient wisdom
- • The marriage of scholarship and mysticism
- • Rooted in empowerment
We don’t just talk about self-actualization. We do it! Self-actualization is known in your ability to:
- • Successfully reason, discern, and exercise your own truth.
- • Access and develop reliance on your own inner authority.
- • Identify and harness your own unique giftedness and contribution to the world.
- • Discover, nurture, and cultivate a sense of meaning and purpose in your life.
- • Name, claim, set and maintain boundaries around your personal needs.
- • Develop meaningful and satisfying relationships with others.
- • Exhibit care and concern for the betterment of the world for the benefit of the all.
Soul Soul is the uniquely creative way in which you have been gifted to find meaning and purpose in your life and the way in which you are called to find fulfillment in service to the betterment of the world. Soul is your true self – the part of you that knows your gift and your call, and is that which compels you to seek out, discover, cultivate, and nurture those gifts and their calling, thereby empowering you to share your gifts in service to the betterment of the world.
Mentoring with Lauri:
Lauri Ann Lumby is one who guides and supports others in the unfolding and fulfillment of their soul. Soul-Tending The process through which you are supported in coming to understand your unique giftedness and calling and empowered to live that out for the sake of your own fulfillment and in service to the betterment of the world. Soul Tending under the guidance of Lauri Ann Lumby includes:
- Personality, Temperament, and Gifts Assessments.
- Exploration of the Soul’s calling.
- Uncovering and transforming the obstacles to living out that calling through a variety of mindfulness, creativity, and shamanic practices including Lauri’s trademarked Authentic Freedom™ protocol.
- Depth work – identifying ungrieved losses, unhealed wounds, past traumas, ancestral trauma, and learning shamanic practices for transforming and releasing them.
- Shadow work – uncovering the unintegrated and often rejected parts of self and bringing them into wholeness.
- Ongoing support.
Monastic Living in the Modern World
Lauri Ann Lumby is a modern-day monastic, living a contemplative life in the midst of the hustle and bustle of a semi-urban community in Northeastern Wisconsin.
“My home is my “monastery.” My practice is my “church.” My showing up in the world is my way of being of service to humanity. I’ve learned that true service is not about what we do, but how we are showing up as Love in the world.” – Lauri Ann Lumby
The Order of the Magdalene
Lauri Ann Lumby is the founder and spiritual director of the Order of the Magdalene.
The Order of the Magdalene is a secular order of women and men who have completed Lauri’s Magdalene Formation Program and who have come together for one common mission: to be in service to Love through the fostering of our own inner development and to support the betterment of the world through our own unique gifts.
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