Fall/Winter 2006 Retreats
The Urgency of Now
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time…This may be humankinds last chance to choose between chaos and community.” Prophetic words written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967 as he urged us to work for peace through nonviolent coexistence. Today those words speak to all aspects of our life on this planet as we face the ravages of global warming, unilateral war-making, and epidemic poverty and hunger with 1 out of every 3 people on the planet living on less that $2 a day. The problems are so vast and we individually feel so powerless to affect them, yet the changes required will only come from our own actions. Join us for a day of conversation and commitment to work day by day, deed by deed for social and economic justice, peace, nonviolence, and ecological sensitivity.
Saturday, August 26, 2006, 9am-5pm. Suggested Donation: $30, includes lunch.
Note: See the Servant Leadership School’s Spiritual Activism: Changing the Bottom Line in America on Tuesdays from 5-6:30 for a 10-week conversation related to this offering.
The Dance of Yin and Yang
Yin and Yang, and their many energetic expressions, are often seen as polarities, but in truth they are interdependent, mutually arising, intrinsically supportive, and every-changing energies that create and maintain balance in our inner and outer lives and in the Cosmos. This one day training will use sacred play, experiential inquiry and deep listening and reflection for ourselves and in community, to lead us toward insight, healing and wholeness.
Friday, September 15, 2006, 9am-4pm. Led by Diana Hawes, mystic, poet, health care practitioner and lover of life. Suggested Donation: $77 (it’s the geometry), includes lunch.
Transforming the Soul: The Enneagram and Spiritual Practice
The enneagram has grown in popularity as a powerful psychological tool for understanding nine different personality or ego types and the characteristic mental, emotional and behavioral patterns associated with each and how and why these patterns arise. The real strength of the enneagram, however, is as a tool for spiritual transformation, one that helps us remember who we are and what we have come here to do.
Friday, October 27, 2006, 6-9pm and Saturday, October 28, 2006, 9am-5pm. Led by Dee Irwin, psychologist, retreat leader and enneagram student and teacher. Suggested Donation: $120, includes Saturday lunch.
Step by Step, Side by Side: Parallels of the Twelve Step Program and the Liturgical Year
The experience of observing the Christian Liturgical Year parallels the sequence and experience of the spiritual journey of working the Twelve Step program in interesting and informative ways. Both provide the content and setting for transformation and healing to happen. Explore the parallels and the power for recovery each offers as we prepare for the new church year.
Saturday, November 11, 2006, 9am-4pm. Led by Patti Colliver Gilbert, a teacher and facilitator who has had intense involvement with both in her 40 years of professional service. Suggested Donation: $85, includes lunch.
She Who is All Names & Escapes All Naming: Sacred Play with the Divine Feminine
Healing Ground invites women to join retreat leaders Adele Wayman and Ann Deloria for a co-creative day—of altar making, dancing, singing and reflection—both silent and noisy. The focus of the day will be to create altars as generative, embodied spaces for insight, revelation and ceremony. Our intention is to meet at the edge of our knowing of the divine feminine to honor and engage with her and form a teaching circle. Each woman’s experience, traditions, lineage, spiritual practices, creative energies, and emotional life will enrich the knowing of us all and our collective spiritual journey. The activities of the day will include invocation, movement, silence, guided meditation and voice. The altars will be created from fabric, flowers, gifts of nature, our own collage and materials plus treasures and personal mementos of the participants. The altars will reflect the power of what we’ve made with our hands and hearts as we call out the nameless/all names goddess herself.
As you set your intention for the retreat, be aware of objects, treasures, fabric, photos, gifts from nature that capture your interest. Bring with you any of them that ask to be part of the altar. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your lunch. Drinks and snacks provided.
About the retreat leaders: Adele Wayman is a professional artist and Hege Professor of Art at Guilford College. Anne Deloria is a dancer, former professor of Dance at UNCG and is currently in private practice as an energy body worker.
RESCHEDULED to SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2007 (from Saturday, November 18, 2006) 10am–4 pm. Suggested donation is $65.
Healing Ground Goes to Mepkin Abbey
Advent is a perfect time to stop and go into a quiet meditative space in preparation for this holy season. Healing Ground has reserved seven rooms for a Friday–Monday retreat at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. Mepkin Abbey is a Cistercian monastery that follows a Benedictine life of prayer, work, and study. An added feature to this Benedictine retreat is the opportunity to view the Crèche Festival that includes Nativity sets selected from their collection of over 300 crèches from around the world. You may also want to spend time in the Clare Booth Luce Library.
Leave Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Greensboro on Friday, December 1, 2006, and return Monday, December 4, 2006. A $75 registration fee to Healing Ground is required to reserve space, includes transportation. Donation for accommodations and meals given to Mepkin Abbey. Check their website at www.mepkinabbey.org.
“Book Birthing”
Join us for a “Book Birthing” on December 17 from 2-5pm. New Day Dawning is a companion for the spiritual journey. Though written in the early morning hours, it invites the reader into a personal encounter with the Holy at any time or place in life. Through it the Rev. Linda Faltin revels in the ordinary, everyday experiences of life, sharing with openness and honesty her own doubts and questions as well as her hopes and deep faith.
Here is one of the prayers from Linda’s book:
God of Mystery,
I open myself to you this day.
I let go of the struggle to
know-
and rest in the awareness of
being known…
Saturday, December 17, 2006, 2pm-5pm.
Knit One, Pray Too
Healing Ground is sponsoring a prayer shawl ministry that is held 2–4PM on the first Monday of the month in Smyth Library at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 305 N. Greene Street, Greensboro. There is a growing need to create prayer shawls, blankets, premi-caps, chemo hats, pillows, and scarfs that are given as gifts to people who are in need of some tangible evidence that people are praying for them. We are looking for willing hands and hearts to join us in an effort to bring comfort, peace, healing, and strength to people who need to know that someone cares.
Call Pat Bailey 643-8898 or Amelia Deaton 908-8479 with questions.
The Quiet Garden
The Quiet Garden ministry was begun in England by the Rev Philip Roderick in 1992 as a ministry of hospitality and prayer. It has grown to a network of quiet gardens around the world that offer space for prayer, silence, reflection and the appreciation of beauty; for learning about Christian life and spirituality; and for experiencing creativity and healing in the context of God’s love. Healing Ground would like to affiliate with the Quiet Garden movement and invites those who are drawn to this vision to join us in discerning how best to provide for this ministry of hospitality and spiritual refreshment.
Call Dee Irwin or Pat Bailey at 643-8898 or email us at healingground@triad.rr.com to become part of the Healing Ground Quiet Garden Mission group.
The Suggested Love Offerings are just that—suggestions. We welcome you at any retreat for any amount you may wish to give. Scholarships are always available and we welcome barters or work exchanges if you would like to trade your time and talent for a retreat offering or a personal retreat. If you are financially blessed, you may want to sponsor someone who is blessed in other ways.
