About Craig Pesti-Strobel

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​Performance Experience

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Art

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​Books, Blogs, Articles, Videos, Misc. Writing

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​Workshops
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Retreats

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Craig S. Pesti-Strobel is an inter-disciplined performing and visual artist, a spiritual guide and religious author and community leader. He has 45 years of on-stage experience, as well as 38 years experience as a spiritual leader of religious communities. 

As the principal collaborator for ConSpiritu, Pesti-Strobel offers the following:

• Workshops and classes on wisdom, experiential spirituality, and life integration,
• Facilitated performance collaborations 
• Group process workshops utilizing improvisatory creativity 
• Custom-designed rituals for healing, life transitions, and forgiveness for individuals and groups 
• Ceremonies and celebrations for individuals and groups. 
• Individualized spiritual and life integration counseling and guidance.

Pesti-Strobel is a professionally-trained performing artist and scholar of performance studies and religious studies.  In addition, he is an ordained United Methodist minister, with special interests in spiritual formation, Deep Ecology, and religion and the arts. 
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The links to the left will lead you to writings, books and blogs that he has written over the course of several years, in addition to current projects and support sites for his workshops.

EDUCATION

Graduate Theological Union Ph.D., 2001
The Upper Room (Nashville), Academy for Spiritual Formation, 1993 
Pacific School of Religion, Master of Arts, 1986 
Pacific School of Religion, Master of Divinity, 1986 
Yale Divinity School, 1982 
Willamette University, Bachelor of Science (Biology), 1980 
Willamette University, Bachelor of Theatre, 1980 
Cerro Gordo Center for Creative Community, 1977

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS

• Performance Experience
• Curriculum Vitae
• Work Experience

​LIFE PHILOSOPHY
​Lean in and listen to the stories of:

• The Earth and its creatures
• The people I meet
• The people I know and love
• The people I don't yet understand
• Those who are most different from me, and thus have much to teach me
• Myself

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