Retreats
Lives of Service: A Working Retreat at Pendle Hill
Mar 19 - 21, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Lloyd Guindon
Join the Pendle Hill maintenance team for a weekend of fun, service, and fellowship around work projects to prepare Pendle Hill for the spring and summer. Learn new skills or practice old ones. But most of all, enjoy the beautiful grounds of Pendle Hill!
It's All about Resurrection – Body and Soul!
Apr 2 - 4, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Elizabeth Ellis and Amanda Ann Hoffman
Practice various forms of prayer, movement, and story-telling to travel through the final days of Holy week, remembering the story of Jesus. Together we will celebrate and rejoice in resurrection in and around us.
Giving Over: Practices Supporting Contemplative Prayer
Apr 23 - 25, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Marcelle Martin and William Dietrich
Join with others longing for a deeper communion with God. Explore a variety of practices that help us "give over" willing and let go of the busy activities of our minds. Prepare to enter the still, spacious place of encounter with the Divine called contemplative prayer.
Changing Gears at Sixty
Apr 25 - 29, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
Elisabeth Dearborn and Joyce Victor
Getting on with your life as a late bloomer if you can only figure out what kind of flower you are? What loves lie fallow? What wants to come alive inside of you? This experiential weeklong course invites a deeper understanding of this precious stage of life.
Honoring the Sacred Feminine Within
May 7 - 9, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Peggy O'Neill and Rachel Stacy
Join other women to honor ourselves as mothers, daughters, and sisters to one another, whether by birth or by Spirit. In so doing we bring the Sacred Feminine back to our world by balancing the masculine and feminine.
Washed in Light by Tender Hands: Deep Body and Soul Rest
June 20 – 24, 2010 Sunday through Thursday (4 nights)
John Calvi
Combine deep rest with learning simple clothes-on massage and energy work. Chart previous life-work to see what's next. Experience a cleansing of self, followed by the right questions to explore what’s coming up for you. Enjoy time to rest and remember the cross-roads of life: how did I get here and become me?
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.
Lives of Service: A Working Retreat
Sept 17 - 19, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Lloyd Guindon and Bob Denison
Join the Pendle Hill maintenance team and spiritual nurturer Bob Denison for a weekend of fun, service, and fellowship around work projects to prepare Pendle Hill for the fall. Projects will be weather-dependent and may include outdoor painting projects, work on the grounds, sprucing up the outside of buildings, and work of the household. Learn new skills or practice old ones.
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.
Opening to Emmanuel: An Advent Preparation for Love
Nov 26 - 28, 2010 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
Ken and Katharine Jacobsen
This semi-silent retreat during the advent season draws on the Hebrew prophets, and explores how we may find and follow the way of Love in our lives.