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Debonee


 Debonee

Debonee Morgan is a Certified Spiritual Director, licensed psychotherapist (specializing with Religious Trauma) and the Exec Director and principal teacher at non-profit Zeitgeist – creating education, practice and community for Spiritually Independent people in Atlanta and beyond. Ordained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro as a Holy Rascal and honored to be a graduate of the inaugural cohort of Richard Rohr's Living School, Debonee is committed to the perennial and panentheistic tradition, (as Richard says, “What’s true is true everywhere.”) She is a certified as an End-Of-Life Doula and in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy by the California Institute for Integral Studies.  


Debonee's Practice
Zeitgeist

EXPERIENCES
    Activity Time Information
    Show Date
    Thu 3 Sep 2026 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    Title ShortWisdom Camp 2026: Radical Mysticism
    Venue Relating Arts
    Experience DescriptionWhat happens when contemplation refuses to stay quiet and compassion refuses to sit still? Since the story of Mary and Martha, seekers have wrestled with the tension between stillness and service, between listening deeply and acting boldly. Yet across spiritual history, some of the most transformative voices have woven these threads together: mystics who reshaped the world, and activists whose work flowed from profound interior depth. Drawing inspiration from legendary mystics, psychologists and activists such as Howard Thurman, Simone Weil, the Buddha, Carl Jung, Esther Perel, and Gabor Maté, this day-long gathering invites participants into a spacious exploration of inner life as a compass for courageous, meaningful engagement with the world. Guiding the experience are Debonee Morgan and Carl McColman, two Atlanta-based contemplative co-conspirators committed to curiosity, connection, and holy imagination. Carl is the author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism, Read the Bible Like a Mystic, and other works that explore contemplative wisdom for everyday life. Debonee is a queer-centric therapist, death doula, community convener, and executive director of Zeitgeist, a center without walls for spiritually independent seekers and their allies. Together they draw from a wide constellation of contemplative communities, including the Living School, Shalem, Contemplative Outreach, Holy Rascals, Ligare, and the California Institute for Integral Studies. Expect rich conversation, shared discernment, playful spirituality, and an openhearted trust that deep listening can spark creative, love-rooted action in our time. Our day will include short presentations from Deb and Carl, conversations with them (and all participants), exercises for discernment and possibility-play, somatic practices like meditation and embodied prayer, and an appreciation for rest, silence, wonder, and not-knowing. WISDOM CAMP EXPERIENCES Experience 1 Radical Mysticism: Playful Possibilities for the Contemporary Crisis with Debonee Morgan and Carl McColman Experience 2 Dissolving Binaries, Dissolving Dualities: The Polarity and Paradox of the Contemplative Life with Carl McColman Morning Practice: Befriending Silence and Stillness Experience 3 Trauma and Broken Attachment: From Woundedness to Wholeness with Debonee Morgan Experience 4 Contemplation as Resistance: The Subversive Side of Mary and Martha with Carl Experience 5 Love and Re-ligion: Authenticity and Beauty (Beyond the Institution) with Debonee Afternoon Practice: Embodied Prayer/Meditation Experience 6 Living Presence: Conversation and Connection in the Service of Personal and Planetary Healing with Carl and Debonee
    Show Date
    Fri 4 Sep 2026 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM
    Title ShortDreamwork
    Venue Convo Table 01
    Experience Description“I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.” Mulder in The X-Files. Whether slinking in on softly clicking claws, or soaring ethereally into luminousness, our dreams can present with brilliant emotions, magnificent imagery, and mysterious messages – or they can be so simple as to be puzzling in their ordinariness. Come sit to learn a few skills to be able to play with what dreams may come, to unwind yourself in them, and allow your insights or half-understandings to inform your spiritual and day to day life.
    Show Date
    Sat 5 Sep 2026 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM
    Title ShortDreamwork
    Venue Convo Table 01
    Experience Description“I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.” Mulder in The X-Files. Whether slinking in on softly clicking claws, or soaring ethereally into luminousness, our dreams can present with brilliant emotions, magnificent imagery, and mysterious messages – or they can be so simple as to be puzzling in their ordinariness. Come sit to learn a few skills to be able to play with what dreams may come, to unwind yourself in them, and allow your insights or half-understandings to inform your spiritual and day to day life.
    Show Date
    Sat 5 Sep 2026 2:00 PM to 2:50 PM
    Title ShortReligious Trauma
    Venue Front Porch
    Experience DescriptionJoin two trauma specialists (psychotherapeutic & spiritual) at an open table for conversation around Religious Trauma – we’ll cover the basic areas of harm that are caused by beliefs, people and systems that can be annoying at best and life threatening at worst. And we’re here to listen.
    Show Date
    Sat 5 Sep 2026 3:00 PM to 3:50 PM
    Title ShortA brief interactive panel on spiritual direction
    Venue Oasis
    Experience DescriptionGather with a group of spiritual directors to find out 1) What the heck is it and 2) Should you become one We will also have a mini triads of group spiritual direction as an experiential session