Arts and Writing
Minding Our Lives: Looking Deeply at the Present Moment
Apr 30 - May 2, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Richard Brady
Challenge and opportunity are continually being offered to us. How can we understand and inhabit this moment fully in order to receive its blessing? To examine and embrace life, workshop participants will meditate, journal, and share with others, blending the gifts of solitude and connection.
Blessing Grief
May 14 - 16, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Patricia McKernon Runkle
Discover grief’s blessing. Walk this wilderness as sacred territory using Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters.
Women Weaving Work and Worship
June 27 – July 1, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Sara Knisely
Practice weaving, spinning, and knitting with other fiber artists. Learn new skills, create beautiful products, share your stories, and have fun. Laugh and bond with like-minded women on their spiritual journeys.
Furniture Building Basics: Make a Small Table with Simple Joinery
July 4 – 8, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Wright Horne
Learn basic joinery, mainly using hand tools, and then apply those skills to constructing a small table. Joints featured: mortise and tenon, edge joinery, dovetailing. Hands tools and wood will be provided, but bring your own tools if you have them (email instructor for list). No previous experience or skills required – all welcome.
Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
July 11 – 15, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Dan Wakefield
Recall and write about meaningful parts of your life journey through exercises which evoke past experience and through group sharing in a nurturing setting. "Re-experience" events to gain fresh understanding and appreciation of the richness of your life.
The Teaching Power of Stories
July 18 – 22, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Bill Harley
Look at how stories work in people’s lives, what stories define their own lives, and how to use story in an educational setting. Teachers will leave with new ideas for using story in the classroom and a deeper understanding of their work as teachers. Appropriate for all people who see themselves as teachers.
Intensive Journal® Program for Personal/Spiritual Growth
July 25 – 29, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Vic Kryston
Learn this internationally recognized integrated system of journal writing, meditation, and reflection to connect with the many facets of your life. The Intensive Journal® method can help you develop a foundation for future decisions, a tool for self-discovery and creativity to use throughout your life.
Nurturing Gifts of Spirit through Art and Writing
August 1 – 5, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Anne Beaufort
Dip into contemplative waters and refresh yourself through journaling and visual play as spiritual practices. Try impromptu writing, “shorts,” “topics du jour,” and other writing approaches. Use oil pastels, colored pencils, watercolor, and collage to complement writing practices.
On the Shore of What We Know: Reading and Writing Poetry about the Divine
August 6 – 8, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Dilruba Ahmed
Explore craft elements such as metaphor, point of view, persona, and imagery as strategies for conveying what’s known and unknown in our own experiences of the Divine. Beginning and experienced writers of poetry and prose are welcome.
Telling Our Stories
August 8 – 12, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Allan Brick
Liberate your narrative voice and let your stories spill forth and tell themselves. Through enabling exercises and mutual support, we will learn to listen better to each other, and thus to listen more deeply to ourselves.
Fill the Well
August 13 - 15, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Melanie Weidner
This weekend retreat includes simple drawing and writing response activities. We'll focus on the sacred experiences of spiritual and artistic presentations, collaborative conversations, and prayer. You'll take away inspiration, renewal, and an open heart.
Creative Spirit: Paper Arts Collage
August 15 – 19, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Melanie Weidner
Explore making art as “prayer in process” with spiritual catalyst and artist Melanie Weidner. Nurture your inner life and creative spark in the beautiful Pendle Hill arts studio, surrounded by image, metaphor, poetry, community, and gentle guidance.
Life Work: The Writing Lives and Poetry of Three Spiritual Poets
Oct 10 - 14, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Paul Lacey
Read the work of William Stafford, Donald Hall, and Jane Kenyon, and practice your own writing.
Holding, in the Light, Framing the Sacred: Photography in the Digital Age
Oct 22 - 24, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Sharon Gunther
Worship, poetry, Taizé chanting, and worship sharing will enrich our time together as we also visit the basic technical aspects of digital photography and explore fine art photography, portraiture, and photo-journalism.
Holding, in the Light, Framing the Sacred: Photography in the Digital Age
Oct 22 - 28, 2010 Friday through Thursday (6 nights)
Sharon Gunther
Worship, poetry, Taizé chanting, and worship sharing will enrich our time together as we also visit the basic technical aspects of digital photography and explore fine art photography, portraiture, and photo-journalism.
Priests and Prophets, Visions and Stories: A Men's Retreat
Oct 22 - 24, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Jens Braun
As men, many of us have lost contact with some essential human qualities of our nature. We are encouraged by our culture to impose power over creation, time, and space. Begin the change you long for.
Holding, in the Light, Framing the Sacred: Photography in the Digital Age
Oct 24 - 28, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Sharon Gunther
Worship, poetry, Taizé chanting, and worship sharing will enrich our time together as we also visit the basic technical aspects of digital photography and explore fine art photography, portraiture, and photo-journalism.