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CHRISTINE’S TEACHING CALENDAR 2008-2009
Ignatian Prayer Experience
Mondays, October 13th - November 24th, 2008, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
at St. Joseph Parish Church in Seattle, WA
Contemplative Art & Movement Retreat
December 3-7, 2008 on the Hood Canal in WA
co-led with Roy DeLeon
Advent Evening of Prayer
Thursday, December 11 from 7-9 p.m. at St. Joseph Parish Center in Seattle
co-led with Betsey Beckman
Spiritual Directors International Conference
April 17-19, 2009 in Houston, TX
Friday Evening Session: Cultivating Presence Through the Expressive Arts
Awakening the Creative Spirit:
Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors in the Expressive Arts
May 17-22, 2009 on the Hood Canal in WA
co-led with Betsey Beckman
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Ignatian Prayer Experience
Mondays, October 13th - November 24th, 2008, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
at St. Joseph Parish Church in Seattle, WA
Sponsored by the Ignatian Spirituality Center
Please visit their website for details and registration
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December 3-7, 2008
CONTEMPLATIVE ART & MOVEMENT RETREAT:
An Exploration of Monastic Rhythms Through Art & Movement
with Roy DeLeon, OblSB and Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, OblSB
at St. Andrew’s Retreat House on the Hood Canal
Do you long to uncover a contemplative rhythm to nourish your creative process?
Are you drawn to explore ways that the monastic tradition can feed your everyday life?
Do you want a retreat experience of guided meditation, movement, and creative expression?
Our retreat schedule will be guided by the tradition of praying the Hours. We will pause four times each day to pray the hours through movement. Roy will lead us in embodying the Psalms through “blessed movements,” a gentle series of movement-based prayers inspired by yoga postures.
In between, Christine will gently guide you in lectio divina and a combination of poetry writing and collage/mixed media art exercises to tap into your inner wisdom and longings. We’ll take our artistic inspiration from the “Book of Hours,” a monastic book of prayer filled with art to illuminate its words, and the “Book of Creation” which will surround us on the Hood Canal. During the retreat you’ll create a simple accordion-style book filled with your own wisdom and art to be used for future inspiration and meditation.
In this retreat we’ll immerse ourselves in a contemplative rhythm rooted in the monastic tradition as a way to nurture our creativity. We will have time for silence, for movement prayer, and for art-making. Together we will explore the rhythm of stillness and creating, and how each nourishes the other. We will pause throughout the day to notice what season we find ourselves in and what qualities the time of day offers to our creative process.
All levels welcome!
** Click here for Retreat Registration Form **
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AWAKENING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT:
Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors in the Expressive Arts
with Betsey Beckman, MM and Christine Valters Paintner, PhD
NEW DATES: May 17-22, 2009
at St. Andrew’s Retreat House in Union, WA on the Hood Canal!
A weeklong experiential intensive exploring tools for integrating the arts and imagination into spiritual direction ministry.
Our encounters with the holy are rooted in symbol and image and speak the language of dreams. Spiritual direction tends to these encounters and can be deeply enhanced by tools that invite listening to and engaging the inner symbolic life. The focus of this program is on developing the skills of working with the arts and imagination to deepen the work of spiritual direction.
Together we will explore how the healing power of such tools as guided imagery, body awareness, dream work, ritual, poetry, journal writing, visual art, movement, song, and storytelling enrich our own spiritual lives and our work in spiritual direction by giving us access to another language with which to encounter the divine presence within. Participants will develop comfort and skills in using these tools. The program consists of didactic input and time for discussion and reflection on how we see using the arts concretely in our work as spiritual directors. Also appropriate for counselors and chaplains who want to integrate the arts into their work one-on-one.
Absolutely no previous art experience necessary — only a willingness to awaken the creative spirit within!
Facilitators:
Betsey Beckman, MM, is nationally acclaimed as a spirited dancer, storyteller, teacher of SpiritPlay and dancing Spiritual Director. With her extensive background in performance, movement therapy, ministry and InterPlay, she is regularly featured as artist/presenter at national conventions as well as local churches. Betsey’s publications include books, audio-cassettes and videos on embodied prayer and she offers the gift of playful improvisation whenever possible!
Christine Valters Paintner, PhD in Christian spirituality and has earned certificates in expressive arts education and spiritual direction. She is the Program Coordinator at the Ignatian Spirituality Center and an adjunct faculty at the School of Theology and Ministry, Seattle University. Her co-authored book on Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness will be published by Paulist Press in November 2008. She is also an artist and publishes reflective art journals and prayer cards with her photography and writing.
Program Cost: $1200 includes all instruction, art supplies, handouts, articles, lodging (mostly single rooms) and meals for 5 nights.
Minimum 8 / Maximum 12 participants.
Please feel free to contact Christine at Christine AT AbbeyoftheArts DOT com or (206) 329-3110 with any questions you may have.
* For more information and a registration form visit www.AwakeningtheCreativeSpirit.com *
