We are excited to be offering at least one session (and maybe two!) of Awakening the Creative Spirit: Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors in the Expressive Arts in Michigan next year. Tentative dates right now are May 31-June 5, 2011 with the strong possibility of another session scheduled in September 2011 if the first one fills quickly (and given [...]
Posts in the Art, Creativity, & Spirituality Retreat category
Soul Care Groups, Awakening the Creative Spirit, and Fall Registration Coming Soon!
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2010-2011 Soul Care for Compassionate Listeners Professional and personal growth through supervision and the expressive arts for Spiritual Directors, Chaplains, Counselors, & Pastors committed to compassionate listening and care of souls. with Kayce Stevens Hughlett, MA, LMHC & Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE October 2010-May 2011 (see flyer for specific dates and registration information) Monthly [...]
Abbey Dreaming and Blossoming
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For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance. Arise, my beloved, [...]
50% for Haiti
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It takes clear space, contemplative time, and good conversation to engage complex problems. Busyness, consumerism, and their accompanying anxiety can easily become substitutes for meaning and clarity of purpose, numbing our capacity to act responsively. Allowing us to be selectively attentive and to filter out complexity and ambiguity, they foster superficial thinking, short-term perspectives, and [...]
Stepping Through the Door
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"I want to step through the door full of curiosity" -Mary Oliver I returned from my pilgrimage two weeks ago and found piles of work awaiting me. Some of it was wondrous, meaningful, rich work like co-leading a retreat for the threshold time of All Saints and beginning a new online class on Benedictine Spiritual [...]
Lingering at the Threshold
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I am leaving again to lead a retreat on Honoring Our Ancestors. These next few days are a threshold time in the Celtic calendar, when the veil between worlds is said to be especially thin. I have been lingering in this thin place for the last month and am eager to join with a group [...]
Retreat & Learning Opportunities
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A quick note to let you know that my Teaching Calendar has been updated with several upcoming retreat & workshop opportunities. A reminder to join Betsey Beckman and me for a wonderful Art & Movement retreat to Honor Our Ancestors over the weekend of Halloween, Samhain, and All Saint's. This will be a beautiful time [...]
Opportunities for Creative Nourishment!
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With the season of autumn comes the invitation to shed what no longer energizes you and make inner space for new possibilities! Consider three opportunities to support you in your creative explorations: ****** Join Kayce Stevens Hughlett and me for a monthly * Soul Care Supervision Group engaging the arts *. If you are in a ministry of [...]
Honoring Our Ancestors
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I invite you to consider joining Betsey Beckman and me for an art and movement retreat for All Saint's and All Soul's on Honoring Our Ancestors. We will be gathering for three nights at St. Andrew's Retreat House on the beautiful Hood Canal October 29-November 1, 2009. Our $50 early registration discount is good until [...]
Awakening the Creative Spirit
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In the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that I would wake up to this moment of love -Rumi, from "The Awakening" Get up, I depend on you utterly. Everything you need you had the moment before you were born. -David Whyte, from "Waking" Spring is the season when the earth [...]
