Dr. Sheri Kling is an author, speaker, singer, and spiritual mentor offering courses, keynote concerts, retreats, and one-on-one soul work for wholeness, purpose, passion, and joy. Dr. Sheri has spent a lifetime focusing on transformation and human flourishing. Her specialty is harnessing proven wisdom from a range of sources to address the individual and societal problems that keep us divided and suffering.
Drawing from multiple disciplines, including religion, theology, psychology, ecological studies, spirituality, and the arts, Dr. Sheri passionately communicates ideas and practices that positively impact people and culture. She then translates those ideas into practical living solutions that enable people to succeed at all levels and make a positive difference in their worlds.
Dr. Sheri regularly speaks to groups, leads retreats, works one-on-one with individuals who seek to deepen their spiritual lives, and guides groups in online and in-person special events. Her primary text, A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation was published by Lexington Books in 2020. She has numerous other publications and has released three music CDs.
Dr. Sheri Kling holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Religion (Claremont School of Theology) and a M.A. of theological studies (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago). She is a faculty member of the Haden Institute and a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist who considers herself a “voice for transformation.” See some of Dr. Sheri’s scholarship at Academia.edu.
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My Story
I’ve explored a lot of really interesting things in my life because I’ve always been interested in learning my way forward. I went to college and studied communications. I worked in business, focusing on marketing strategy, communications, and conference production. I went to massage school to learn how to connect more deeply with other humans.
I moved from Atlanta to the mountains of northeast Georgia and rented a hundred-year-old cottage on eight acres of land because I wanted to live in a rural environment – and wrote a book of essays while I was there. I even got my masters and then a doctorate in religion and theology, because I was interested in the biggest questions that humans have been asking for millennia.
And now I’ve decided to take all of those rich experiences and focus them toward positive change. I’m funneling all of my skills into midwifing wholeness through soul, story, and song to combat the fragmentation I see in our world.
We’re fragmented at all levels, but that is not the way it has to be. I believe everyone deserves to know that they matter, they belong, and they can experience positive change.
Since humans started thinking, some of the greatest minds have had a lot to say about cultural disorientation and fragmentation.
And because I’ve learned from many of these amazing thinkers, leaders, philosophers, theologians, and writers throughout history I know that a lot of what we’re seeing in the world, in business, in our democracy, are patterns that we’ve seen before.
I believe that what we need is a more authentically human way to get everyone aligned and connected as humans because that’s the one thing we have in common that is not going to go away. And no individual, institution, or event can strip that from us.
I know how to harness the power of the ideas that have been proven throughout centuries and translate them into inspiring ways of thinking and being that are life-giving and transformational.
I believe in people. I believe in human flourishing.
And I think renewed people with a renewed vision can renew the world.