Category: retreats
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Breaking into Small Groups: Collage of Quotes
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Tomorrow kicks off the big “Spiritual Pilates” retreat. I’m excited and ready to go lead it! One of the things I love to do with retreats is find a creative way to break people into small groups. Here’s the set of 42 individual images that we’ll be spreading out on…
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How to Plan a Retreat: Putting Together the Basic Timeline
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We’re getting to that point in the retreat planning where you’re putting the peddle to the metal. You’ve put the building blocks in place. You have your theme figured out, you have a team in place, and you’ve put the basics down on paper. Now, how do you put these…
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Making the Choice Between ‘Bitter’ and ‘Better’
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One of the things that a priest friend and I like to talk about is the choice that is inherently involved in each moment. We can choose joy, we can choose to be kind. We can choose love. Or, as he likes to say, we can choose to be “bitter”…
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Spiritual Pilates, Strengthening our Spiritual Core
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Just about five years ago, while visiting my parents in Kansas City, I fell down the stairs. Carrying two drinking glasses, in socked feet, I made the split second decision that saving the drink ware was the priority, and landed square on my back. And I slid down a few…
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How to Plan a Retreat: Making the Flyer
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It’s week three of the “How to Plan a Retreat” series, and this week, we’re tackling: The Flyer. We’ve already looked at “The Beginning,” and “Coming up with a Theme” which are worth a read as we move into this third step. You’ve got a lot of hard work behind…
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How to Plan a Retreat: The Beginning
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So perhaps you’ve been assigned or delegated or volunteered or hired to help plan a retreat. First of all – Congratulations! You’re going to have a great time, and learn a lot in the process. Someone saw something in you that made you the perfect choice for this role, or,…
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Oh That Pesky Nothingness
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Last week I wrote a little about being worried about attending a silent retreat which is being lead by Cynthia Bourgeault. I was wrestling with the questions of “What if I find something ugly in the quiet? Without anyone there to help it look nice? Without anyone to laugh it…
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Taking That Retreat Feeling With You
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The Young Adult planning team had its first meeting for our March retreat today. Our focus was to come up with our theme, and then to brainstorm on some ideas for the day. One of the things that we always struggle with are ways that we can help people take…
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A Fear of the Nothing
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I like to attend retreats as much as I like leading them. One of the ones of special note coming up is with Cynthia Bourgeault. She is the author of one of my favorite recent reads, The Wisdom Jesus. Her site describes her as a “hermit priest, writer, and internationally…