Wholeness as the Holy Work of Process Theology with Dr. Sheri Kling

Sep 6, 2025

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In this episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz and Dr. Sheri Kling explore how personal trauma, dreamwork, and encounters with the natural world can become gateways into deeper wholeness and divine relationship. Sheri weaves process theology and Jungian psychology into lived stories of synchronicity, butterflies, and sacred encounters that remind us we are co-creators in an unfolding cosmos of meaning. What emerges is an invitation to trust the flow of becoming, where even separation is part of the holy dance that leads us back into connection with Earth, Spirit, and one another.

Dr. Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Process & Faith (a multifaith network for relational spirituality under the Center for Process Studies) and is also the interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton, Florida. She earned her doctorate in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology and brings together theology, depth psychology, mystical wisdom traditions, relational worldviews, and the intersections of spirituality and science to help individuals find meaning, belonging, and transformation. A theologian, teacher, songwriter, and spiritual mentor, Kling is a faculty member at the Haden Institute and Claremont School of Theology (adjunct), and authored A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation; she also offers courses, concerts, retreats, and dynamic “Music & Message” presentations.

Connect with Sheri:

Organization Website: Process and Faith
Book: A Process Spirituality: A Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation
Book: Finding Home: Rural Reflections on the Journey to Wholeness
Process Pop-Up Video with Victoria Loorz

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Connect with the Center:

Website: wildspirituality.earth
Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com
Email: hello@wildspirituality.earth
Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality
Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
07:04 Sheri's Background, Looking For Belonging
09:11 A Love Of Horses
09:53 Suburban Nature And The Golf Course
11:41 The North Georgia Mountains
12:55 Finding Comfort In Nature From Trauma
13:55 Finding The Divine Feminine
14:31 Finding Home
15:46 Emerging From Emotional Numbness
17:46 Connecting With Jungian Work
18:53 Deep Relationship With Place
21:27 Introduction To Process Theology
28:13 Connecting Inner Wholeness With Universal Wholeness
31:44 Whitehead + Jung
33:55 Dream Work And Syncronicity
42:12 Transformational Practices Of Wholeness
47:00 Sin And Separation As Necessary
51:49 The Butterfly Pushing Out
55:47 Invitation And A Story With A Chimpanzee