Programs

After five years of exploratory gatherings that have involved diverse members of the Seven Pillars’ community, the publishing of poignant and probing articles by our thought leadership, and much collaborative work between our Staff, Board, Wisdom Council, and Guiding Voices, Seven Pillars has recently celebrated a pivotal moment in our evolution with the unveiling of “The Seven Pillars.”

Establishing the foundational architecture for our “house’s” work in the months and years to come, The Seven Pillars invites each person to undertake an exploration, individually and collectively, of The Seven Pillars’ process. This journey through The Seven Pillars illuminates the unfolding experiences of life and facilitates the emergence of a living wisdom that can help us address the urgent social and ecological needs of our time, with integrity and beauty.

This year, Seven Pillars House of Wisdom has embarked on a new series of programs founded upon The Seven Pillars that are designed to embrace both “in the world” and virtual learning opportunities, while supporting and enhancing each individual’s journey toward a heart-centered citizenship of the sacred.

The Living Wisdom Tour is a multidimensional and experiential program, presenting a wide variety of innovative offerings, from dialogues and salons to transformances, transformational performances that explore wisdom through music, imagery and performance. Each Tour stop uses a range of formats to explore “The Seven Pillars” as a process of transformation and discovery, both individually and collectively. Our Pathways — Heart-Centered Conversation, Sensing Presence and Creative Expression — are employed as tools to access and navigate through the Pillars, as well as deepen the exploration.

In January 2013 we launched The Living Wisdom Tour with “Pillars of Sophia: A Benefit Concert Supporting Seven Pillars House of Wisdom” in New York City. Click here to view a Gallery of images from this event.

The Living Wisdom eBook Series takes inspiration from the illuminated manuscript, a revolutionary media form first developed in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. that merged the written word and visual image in order to heighten and provide added dimensions to a reader’s experience. Over the centuries, the illuminated manuscript became a preferred vehicle for books with religious and spiritual content, capable of stimulating different parts of the reader’s brain and consciousness in their engagement with the sacred.

In recent years, breakthrough technological advances have generated an opportunity to create an illuminated e-manuscript that adds further dimensionality to the reading/viewing experience by combining word and still image with video and computer-generated animation graphics. This new media platform has been described as “multi-touch,” and Seven Pillars’ new eBook Series seeks to optimize the opportunities offered by the multi-touch platform to enrich and enliven an individual’s exploration of “The Seven Pillars’” process as well as our “Pathways.” 

This spring, Seven Pillars began development of the eBook Series’ first title, The Seven Pillars.

Over the coming months, Seven Pillars will unveil a series of upgrades to our website, which will offer expanded publishing and social networking capabilities. All of our media initiatives will be designed to strengthen and grow our web community, with an emphasis on creative expression and interactivity.

The first of this series of enhancements is a new gallery feature that aids and enriches our collaborations with a growing community of talented visual artists. Visit the Gallery page here.