RENEWING THE SOUL OF COMMUNITY LEADERS
Getting away from the familiar can foster new insights and valuable perspective. Choosing to come away for a weekend or day can be a vital resource for a group’s well-being, deepening connections and purpose as well as providing space and time to listen without distraction to the invitations of the Spirit for your life together.
Our Colleagues are experienced and gifted lay and ordained ecumenical leaders who serve in a variety of contexts. Drawing upon their experience and listening well to your intentions for your retreat, a theme and format are developed. Valuing collaboration and the gifts of diversity strengthened in shared leadership, our facilitated retreats offer the wisdom of two retreat leaders. Your group will be guided with meditations by the leaders, opportunities for restorative silence, and shared reflections that are facilitated. Sharing meals, times of worship or prayer and moving about the beautiful campus offer quiet places for pausing as well as occasions for community story, laughter and insight to emerge.
Let us know your possible dates and hopes for your time here and our staff will discern an appropriate team who will confer with you to develop an inspiring and fruitful retreat.
“We who have lost our sense and our senses – our touch, our smell, our vision of who we are; we who frantically force and press all things, without rest for body or spirit, hurting our earth and injuring ourselves: we call a halt.
We want to rest. We need to rest and allow the earth to rest. We need to reflect and to rediscover the mystery that lives in us, that is the ground of every unique expression of life, the source of the fascination that calls all things to communion.
We declare a Sabbath, a space of quiet: for simple being and letting be; for recovering the great, forgotten truths; for learning how to live again. ”