The Liminality Press
Dr. Lisa R. Withrow
With an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from the University of Glasgow (Divinity faculty), and three certificates from Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson School of Management in Executive Leadership, High-Performance Leadership, and Change Leadership, I focus on keeping an up-to-date portfolio of trends, research, and challenges facing higher education, the church, non-profits, and business.
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In my prior full-time work as a professor of leadership, academic dean, and author, I crafted courses and publications based on intersections among leadership excellence, conflict management, and organizational structures layered with cultural systems. After leaving full-time employment in higher education in summer of 2019, I became a certified Gestalt and ICF coach, a certified mediator, and a co-founder of the Engaged Liminality Guild (with Tim Carson). I established my own business, Clear Transition Strategies, in late 2019. (https://cleartransitionstrategies.com).
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I currently work with clients through online and face-to-face conversations/trainings, domestically and internationally. I also continue to teach leadership studies as a fully affiliated faculty in Chicago. At this point, I have authored of 5 books and contributed to/have been editor of 6.
Dr. Tim L. Carson
Timothy Carson is the curator of The Liminality Project. In addition to holding a Bachelors degree in Education and Masters degree in Theology, his Doctoral research and dissertation focused on Liminality.
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Tim is the author of Liminal Reality and Transformational Power (2016), editor of the anthology Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality (2019), co-author of Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality (2021), and editor of the anthology The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery and Hope (2022).
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Following many years serving as a parish pastor, Tim continues to write, edit, blog, facilitate groups and seminars focused on liminality, and work with people making life’s great passages. Tim teaches a variety of liminality courses in the Honors College of the University of Missouri.
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Tim and his wife live in Central Missouri near the banks of the Missouri River and enjoy the arts, cinema, travel, Celtic music and exploring every unknown threshold.