Mindful Whole Person Care

McGill Programs in Whole Person Care

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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Everest Build ll, Nepal

Habitat for Humanity International

Oct. 5–13, 2012 After the success of the first Everest Build in 2010, Habitat for Humanity Nepal is once again bringing together partner organizations, corporations and individuals to build homes together with local families in need. In October 2012, hundreds of volunteers from all over the world will join together to shine a light on …
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Embracing the Dark Night

Kirkridge Retreat Center

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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Yoga and Spirituality

Kirkridge Retreat Center

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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Returning Your Heart to Itself: Poetry and the Opening Door

Kirkridge Retreat Center

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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A Christian Spirituality for the 21st Century

Kirkridge Retreat Center

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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Science, Spirituality, and Healing

Kirkridge Retreat Center

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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Jesus: a Jewish Manifestation of the Divine Presence in the Universe

Kirkridge Retreat Center

MICHAEL MORWOOD Sept 21-23, 2012 Fri 6:30 dinner thru Sun lunch Cost $345 The Hebrew Bible was not a preparation for a heavenly God to send his son to earth. Rather, it was the Divine, present everywhere, manifesting itself in the worldview, culture and concerns of a particular group of people. Christians need to rediscover …
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The Teaching Power of Stories

Kirkridge Retreat Center

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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Exploration In Rome

Anglican Centre in Rome (The)

Monday 21 – Thursday 24 October 2013 A ‘mini-pilgrimage’ designed to enable independent travellers to explore their faith in the context of Rome and its centrality in Christian history. The course will follow the established pattern of earlier years (see above). Cost: 220 €