ABOUT THE BOOK

In Sweet Company Conversations With Extraordinary Women About Living A Spiritual Life (Jossey Bass), is a compelling collection of intimate conversations with 14 remarkable women, each with a spiritual life that nourishes them and serves as a dependable compass for their decision-making. Each chapter tells the story of one woman's inner development in her own words, and the social, emotional, and professional fulfillment her spiritual commitment provides her.

In Sweet Company casts a wide net: The women range from 31 to 91 years of age; they come from Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Native American traditions and follow practices synthesized from their own life experience. Above all, they are women who are beloved and respected for who they are as well as for what they do.


Participants include:

Olympia Dukakis - Academy Award-winning actress
Riane Eisler - Historian, feminist, and author of The Chalice and the Blade
Sister Helen Prejean - Social justice activist and author of Dead Man Walking
Zainab Salbi - Founder of the global relief organization Women For Women International and author of Between Two Worlds
Katherine Dunham - Dancer, choreographer, and Kennedy Center Honoree
Grandmother Twylah Nitsch - Seneca elder and founder of the Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge
Rabbi Laura Geller - Third women in the world to be ordained a Reform Jewish rabbi
Margaret J. Wheatley - Management consultant and author of Leadership and the New Science
Le Ly Hayslip - Peace activist and author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Sri Daya Mata - President of Self-Realization Fellowship, the world-wide religious society founded by Paramahansa Yogananda
Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress - Priest and psychotherapist who uses the labyrinth as a tool for spiritual transformation
Alma Flor Ada - Fullbright scholar and award-winning children's writer
Gail Willliamson - 1999 Mother of the Year
Miriam Polster - Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer