Led by The Rev. Peter Pearson, OSB Tuesday, November 6 – Friday, November 9 For over twenty five years, Peter Pearson has been teaching others to paint icons using the classic techniques of Byzantine iconography. In each workshop there is a focus on the four fold way of iconographers: technique, history, theology, and prayer. Each …
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Led by Brother Roy Parker Tuesday, October 30 to Friday, November 2 Shakespeare’s phrase for Italic handwriting in his comedy “Twelfth Night” indicates that the English aristocracy of his day retained Italian writing masters to teach them the newly developed script of the Italian Renaissance. Is your inner aristocrat yearning for expression? This workshop in …
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Mindful Whole Person Care Led by Patricia Dobkin, Ph.D. and Tom Hutchinson, M.B. This intensive two-day workshop aims to introduce two complementary concepts: mindfulness and whole person care in the context of clinical practice. Participants will be physicians and other health care providers who will learn how to promote healing in one’s self and others …
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MARIA PAPACOSTAKI Nov 30-Dec 2, 2012 Fri 6:30 dinner thru Sun lunch Cost $355 Adrienne Rich wrote: “[m]erely pause and listen to my own pulse vibrating, lightly as falling snow, relentlessly as the rain storm, and hear what it has been saying.” Life’s hardest grief can be the greatest gift, when you know how to …
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LAURICE NEMETZ Nov 2-4, 2012 Fri 6:30 dinner thru Sun lunch Program $400 Come to Kirkridge for our fifth year of this special program combining yoga and spirituality! For thousands of years, yoga has been a means to obtain a higher level of spiritual understanding. As such, it can be complementary to one’’s own religious …
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MICHAEL S. GLASER AND KATHLEEN W. GLASER Oct 26-28, 2012 Fri 5:00 p.m. thru Sun lunch Cost $425 Derick Walcott’s provocative poem, “Love after Love,” invites us to reconnect with those parts of our essential selves that have been suppressed, ignored or cast aside –to bring into the present that which has unwittingly been relegated …
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MICHAEL MORWOOD Oct 16-18, 2012 Tues 6:30 dinner thru Thurs lunch Cost $345 Our starting point will be contemporary data about our universe and the observable patterns of operation throughout the universe. We will use this starting point to consider, in a new light, who or what we mean by “God”, our relationship with this …
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BROTHER BERNARD SEIF Sept 28-30, 2012 Fri 6:30 dinner thru Sun lunch Cost $355 Many people attend weekends like this one, called “Science, Spirituality, and Healing,” because they would like time to slow down and be present to the Sacred. Others long to ponder the deeper realities of God by gathering new information and discuss …
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BILL HARLEY Sept 14-16, 2012 Fri 6:30 dinner thru Sun lunch Program $415 Today, brain science is affirming what good teachers have known all along – a story is the best way to teach and to learn. People use stories to make sense of the world and their lives – their structure and nature go …
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Pay Attention, Expect to Be Changed, Honor Your Connectedness, Choose Beauty, Live Radiantly. Rooted in early Quakerism, these advices call us to live more fully in all aspects of our lives. Explore them from a variety of perspectives and discover ways they can awaken and energize your daily life. Take time for personal reflection and …
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