Day Away – July Start: Jul 3, 2013 @ 9:00 AM End: Jul 3, 2013 @ 4:00 PM Cost: $50.00 Cost includes lunch. It is extremely important that you arrive on time (9:00am sharp) so that the sacred space that is created through the opening worship can be honoured. Day Away is for individuals to …
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Religion and Foreign Policy: The Global Challenges of Religious Pluralism Saturday June 22 and Sunday 23, 2013 3520 University Street, Birks Chapel, Montreal, QC The resurgence of global religions poses new opportunities and dilemmas for foreign policy and international relations. This conference offers a constructive conversation that bridges the theoretical work …
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A Language for the Inward Landscape Register Online May 9-11, 2014 Friday through Sunday (2 nights) How can you describe Quaker spiritual experience in words? From the beginnings of the Quaker movement, Friends have sought to articulate their personal spiritual condition and inward processes and those of their meetings, and they developed a …
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Building Organizational Trust: Finding Ways to Work with and through Others Register Online April 25-27, 2014 Friday through Sunday (2 nights) To work effectively and efficiently with and through others, it is important to build and maintain organizational trust. If trust is developed each participant will feel safe to share her and …
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Program Planning: Doing My Best with the Resources I Have Register Online February 21-23, 2014 Friday through Sunday (2 nights) When we are called to a social action, few of us will find that we have the resources we need or want to achieve the change we would like to bring about in the …
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The Refuge of Awakening Register Online February 16-23, 2014 Sunday through Sunday (7 nights) Mindfulness meditation is a simple technique offered by the Buddha for awakening the mind and heart. This retreat will be a time of silence with periods of sitting and walking practice, opportunities to talk about your own practice, and …
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Compassionate Listening: Healing the World from the Inside Out Register Online February 14-16, 2014 Friday through Sunday (2 nights) How do we engage those who differ from us so we can find our shared humanity? Developed by Quaker Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, the Compassionate Listening Project evolved in grassroots peacebuilding efforts in the Middle East …
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Musical Masterworks of Allure and Transformation Register Online December 28, 2013 – January 1, 2014 Saturday through Wednesday (4 nights) As the 20th century approached, a hurricane of new movements unmoored the musical forms of Old World Romanticism. Between 1870 and 1920, new styles – Modernism, Impressionism, Orientalism, Primitivism, and Neo-Classicism – altered …
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Open Heart, Peaceful Mind: A Retreat for Rest and Reflection Register Online December 28, 2013 – January 1, 2014 Saturday through Wednesday (4 nights) Relax into a time of serene rest and renewal. Open to the new year’s unfolding with a retreat that honors your heart, mind, and soul. Practice mindful meditation in …
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Emmanuel: God Coming, God Present Register Online November 29 – December 1, 2013 Friday through Sunday (2 nights) Take the weekend after Thanksgiving to reflect on the paradox that God is both forever coming into our life and world and always with us if we but attend to the Living Presence. Can we, …
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