LEGACY: THE ART WITHIN A LIFE:
"When your life becomes your message, you will understand your legacy"
-Ronda LaRue
SoulArts is an artful way of honoring the arc of one's life as the true meaning of legacy.
Sharing this lifework began at the intersection of my own life-long studies in social psychology, scientific research, world spiritual philosophy and practices ...alongside an unusual inner breakthrough experience through a dialogue with death in my mid-40's and which I write about in my first book: ReMembering Who You Really Are.
My personal journey resulted unexpectedly in requests to work with me in private retreat from people seeking deeper self-healing insight, life meaning, and new pathways during difficult life crossroads and transitions.
“What is true does not persuade.
It becomes unmistakable.”
— ronda larue
WORKING PRIVATELY TOGETHER
Many people arrive at this work during midlife and elder crossings
— moments when the life they have built begins asking deeper questions about meaning, direction, and what is still waiting to be lived.
My long body of work and fused expertise isn’t derived from formulaic methods or linear mental structures. Rather, it moves within the integral science and art of full bodied attention given at the thresholds of the unknown:
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how people organize around fear.
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where clarity is being avoided.
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the subconscious trails hinting toward insight
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perceptual breakthrough - i.e., highlighting the moment where something essential shifts the ground of understanding.
Over the years, mentoring students started calling me "their loving butt kicker” — someone "a bit on the Zen-side" who sees both a person’s unrealized genius and their most static self-deceptions.... A hinting at my (sometimes impish) willingness and ways of shining a light onto our competing discrepancies and blind spots in such a way that it offers both compassionate humor and, where needed, a tough steadiness. (Admittedly, I rather appreciate that label, as high compliment.)
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Private Mentoring Relationships
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SoulArts Creative Collaborations
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Organizational Advisory works
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Living Legacy Compositions
A LIFETIME OF ATTENDING
My evolving work grows within a lifetime of consulting and mentoring depth practice with individuals, organizations, and communities — attentive to how people and group systems organize under pressure, navigate transition, and move toward holistic heart-driven possibility.
Whether working privately with an individual, advising a board, shaping a community conversation, or composing a living soul-essence work, I view from the same lens: how individuals and groups organize around fear, clarity, avoidance, courage, spirit, and truth.
My most recent SoulArts Studio compositions and gatherings at our private home called The Vista House are not separate from my decades of private mentoring work. Through this newest legacy works using music as a carrier for self and social insight, are designed to offer a realization of underlying forces making up social behavior as well as the emergent genius within an individuals path of self-reclamation and legacy in action...
Here at our home in Ashland, Oregon, my work now includes expanded private mentoring and advisory work with mission-driven organizations, occasional small gatherings, and the continued compositions including music, performance art, collaborative works engaging both personal and cultural thresholds.