Published: Nov. 23, 2024
Produced by Marcelle Martin for New England Yearly Meeting, edited by Cai Quirk with support from Marcelle Martin and Jennifer Hogue, this eight-minute video portrays part of an interview with Quaker author and dreamworker Tina Tau of North Pacific and New England Yearly Meetings.
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In this interview, Tina Tau tells how she learned to understand the meaning of dreams and shares some dreams that offered significant guidance for her, including guidance for finding her role in this time of great change.
Raised Quaker in Oregon and New England, Tina Tau was both adventurous and restless. Argenta Friends School, a tiny Quaker boarding school in the mountains of British Columbia gave her a taste for Quaker communities, and she later worked at John Woolman School in
California, Hidden Hill Friends Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Pendle Hill in Pennsylvania. Eventually she came back to Portland, adopted two girls from China, and more or less settled down. She served as clerk of Multnomah Meeting in Portland for three years. After training as a spiritual director and becoming certified as a dreamworker (through Jeremy Taylor’s Institute for Projective Dreamwork), she focused on dreamwork as the place where her “deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger.” (Frederick Buechner) She serves on the board of the Portland Grief House and hosts dream circles and workshops there.
Tina has hopes for dreams as one way of repairing the torn places in our world.
She’s written three books of poetry, and a memoir entitled Ask for Horses: Memoir of a Dream-Guided Life, published in 2022 by Kelson Books.
Click here for Tina’s website.
Click here for the uncut interview with Tina Tau (69 min).
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This project received funding from the Obadiah Brown and Sarah Swift Benevolent Fund, and also from the Legacy Fund in New England Yearly Meeting.
from Tina Tau, Multnomah Monthly Meeting (11/18/2024)