$100.00 Enjoy a week’s study leave in the high desert of Northern New Mexico. You are on your own schedule but have the opportunity to dine, worship and hike with other clergy. Optional hiking and visiting neighboring communities are also offered. Spend as much or as little time with colleagues during your time at Ghost …
View course details “The 3 R’s For Clergy: Rest, Reading & Renewal”
$375.00 Based on the work of Parker J. Palmer, this Circle of Trust ® retreat explores the intersection of our personal and professional lives. Using poetry, meditation, dialogue, stories, music, movement, relaxation and journaling, we foster renewal of body and mind. Those in professions such as organizational leadership, education, community service, law and medicine know …
View course details “Journey Toward An Undivided Life: An Introductory Circle Of Trust ®”
$350.00 Brian McLaren is the elder statesman in a movement called the “emerging church.” He is a bridge builder and gifted teacher connecting what separates us from God and one another, while introducing us to the hope that something is trying to be born both in and among us. Suzanne Stabile is a retreat director, …
View course details “Enneagram & Emerging Christianity”
$800.00 The Spiritual Journey – August 20-27, 2012- Step One in the Art of Spiritual Direction Formation Training or may be taken as a stand-alone class This is the pre-requisite course for the Art of Spiritual Direction program which may also be taken by anyone as a stand alone class in spiritual and personal discernment. …
View course details “The Spiritual Journey – Stillpoint”
$355.00 We all have stories to tell and by putting our words on the page we feed our souls and benefit our physical selves as well. Writing stories is one of the most healing activities in which we can engage. When we put pen to paper and recapture events in our lives, both happy and …
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$350.00 During this week-long session, participants will explore the prophetic books of Ezekiel, Micah, Zechariah and Jeremiah, seeking to discern how each of these prophets sees the world, grounded in their spiritual experience depicted in the texts. Our focus will be on the spiritual awareness of these ancient teachers, and how this shaped their views …
View course details “Prophetic Vision, Spiritual Insight & Political Discernment”
$360.00 Congregational leaders, are you concerned by conflict and reactive behaviors in your church? Here’s help. This course features two popular workshops: the “Healthy Congregations” workshop uses the insights of family systems theory to help church leaders become more effective stewards of their congregations. The workshop, originally created by Dr. Peter Steinke, is based on …
View course details “Healthy Congregations Transform Conflict”
$365.00 A thousand years ago, Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen, abbess, composer and artist, looked into the night sky and wrote, “Stars on their axes, dancing in chorus.” What kind of life might we lead if we could “see” the stars dancing? Seeking the transcendent with curiosity and wonder brings us closer to the Source, …
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$350.00 During this week, we will read the Gospel from the perspective of creative nonviolence and discuss the great themes of life, love, peace, vision and hope, through John’s story of “signs” and “glory.” From the wedding at Cana to the raising of Lazarus, we will walk with Jesus and meet John’s great caricatures– Nicodemus, …
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$360.00 “Teaching Children in the Celtic Way” is an alternative pedagogical approach to teaching children (grades 1-5) about God, Jesus, themselves and the world around them. Built on the theology of Celtic spirituality and the teachings of John Philip Newell as well as other Celtic teachers, this class will involve participants in reviewing their own …
View course details “Teaching Children In The Celtic Way”
