This is a lively, in-depth writing retreat, based on the acclaimed Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method developed by Pat Schneider, described in her book, “Writing Alone and With Others” (Oxford University Press), and offered by more than 1,000 workshop and retreat leaders internationally. Together as participants in Write for Your Life! we will foster …
View course details “Write for Your Life: An Amherst Writers and Artists Workshop”
We are developing morally courageous leaders with the vision and audacity to build a better world. Are you ready to do your inner work and join us? AST is excited to launch a new kind leadership programming. Through shared practical and experiential opportunities with a host of wise and compassionate facilitators, we are engaging people …
View course details “Leadership Learning”
Come to a safe space to find your most authentic voice and your truest words in writing. We’ll use contemplative practices such as meditation, silent hikes on your own, guided journaling, and art to coax your awareness, self-compassion and creativity. Emerge refreshed from the weekend with a renewed sense of yourself and artifacts from your …
View course details “Writing for Self-Discovery: A Women’s Retreat at Casa del Sol”
Life has many demands and moves fast. Our bodies, minds and spirits often need a chance to slow down, reflect and recharge. Ghost Ranch offers majestic and expansive space and support for such renewal. Guided wellness offerings and hikes will be available to you, however, you set your schedule for these days. Additional offerings available, …
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What if … … we no longer associate descriptions of “blind, deaf, and lame” with people we perceive as failing to manifest spiritual wholeness and needing a specific healing? … we move beyond believing we already know what healing for others would look like? … our teaching examples began to embrace the language of changes …
View course details “Radical Wholeness: A Circle of Trust® Retreat”
Young Adult Life & Leadership Initiative has moved online and is still taking applications! “It was so helpful to go deeper, to be quiet, to be able to hear what I’m being called to do… and to share this experience with others.” —A Participant Apply now! Overview A program to nurture the spiritual life …
View course details “YALLI: Young Adult Life & Leadership Initiative – Online”
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of …
View course details “Embracing Paradox: A Circle of Trust® Retreat”
Take time for yourself and glow from the inside out. This weekend is about you!! Kirkridge, a winter wonderland, nestled in the Poconos, will be a perfect place for you to rest, relax, and renew after a busy holiday season. Together, we’ll have optional activities including crafting and creating hobbies, cooking feel-good food, and cozying …
View course details “Re-CHARGE: a getaway weekend for self-care”
The Epistles of Paul remain largely untouched in today’s preaching and teaching, and if we hear about Paul at all it is often through Acts. To neglect Paul effectively shortens our New Testament. This course will help us take a fresh look at Paul the Apostle and his impact on the early Church. His letters …
View course details “Reclaiming Paul for Today (Online)”
Proceeding canonically, The Pentateuch is a survey course in which students examine the first five books of the canon of the ancient Israelites; the Hebrew Bible. Students will attend to the patriarchs, the earliest covenants, the exodus traditions, laws, codes and ritual of the agrarian society represented in the biblical world of the Torah. Students …
View course details “Old Testament: The Pentateuch (Online)”
