Category: themes
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Linked In, Liked, Retweeted, and Friended: Finding God and Oneself in the Digital Age
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We’re starting work on the upcoming weekend retreat in August, and I’ve been playing with the title and write up. Father Rusty, the Friar / Priest who will be leading the retreat came across “The Facebook Sonnet” that was recently published in the New Yorker. You should read it, really,…
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Creating Cards to Share: A Retreat Activity
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At our last retreat, “Living Joy to the Fullest,” we asked the participants to think of ways that they could do things for others. We were looking to ways to focus on how our actions can impact others, and bring joy to their lives, as well as our own. Kim…
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Corporate Retreats and The Big Move
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The other day I got a nice email from Miss M who posed some great questions about planning a corporate retreat for her company. She has been asked to plan and lead a corporate retreat for 16 people at a beach house! How cool! After reading through the bulk of…
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A Wall of Gratitude
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Tomorrow is our next retreat and one of the things I’m most excited about is the event we’re doing at the end of the day. Every once and awhile, the team gets brainstorming and we just get on a roll. We decided that as our last activity, we’d ask everyone…
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Wrestling with the Idea of Living Simply: Removing the Spiritual Clutter
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Our Retreat Planning Team met today, for the first of our meetings leading up to an April 10 retreat. At these early meetings, we focus on finding a theme. It’s amazing to see the creative process at work; all of us striving to find something that is at the core…
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Change and the Power of Choice
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I’ve been neck deep in change over the past few months, as I imagine many of you have. My job got nutty, looking for a new job is stressful, and to top it off … this morning I went down to the garage to find out my car had been…
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Retreat Theme: Be the Change You Seek
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Our planning team met on Monday evening to go over our next retreat theme, which is “Be the Change You Seek.” The title comes from the quote by Ghandi. We agreed upon the theme after thinking about what’s been going on in our own lives. While we each meet up…
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What Kind of Retreat Appeals to You? and What Moves you to Blog?
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This week my retreat planning team met with Father Rusty to go over a little plan we concocted. See, we lead retreats for young adults (defined as ages 18-40). It’s a pretty wide range for a single gathering of people, especially seeing as a high school senior and a new…
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Celebrating the Moments of Daily Life
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I ran across these banners on Etsy by bird and bear, and I’m delighted by them. While we’re all used to hanging banners for the big days in our life, birthdays, anniversaries, New Years Eve, why don’t we look for those other moments to celebrate? Both the very simple acts…