Summer/Fall 2009
A Quiet Day in the Quiet Garden
Enjoy a day in the Quiet Garden. Materials will be provided for creative expression, and meditation spaces abound both indoors and throughout the grounds. Participants are invited to attend on any first Friday, for all or part of the day. A short meditation begins and ends the day.
First Friday of each month from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
- July 3: Free to be!
- August 7: Tending the Garden
- September 4: Labor Day
- October 2: Harvest Time
- November 6: Attitude of Gratitude
- December 4: Great Expectations
Bring a bag lunch; beverages and snacks provided.
Suggested donation: Any Love Offering is appreciated.
Open Garden and Celtic Hootenanny at Healing Ground
The Holy Trinity Greens are inviting folks to come out to Healing Ground for a summer tour of the gardens. Folks will be available to talk about organic gardening, the water collection system, composting, rain garden, water features, and how to certify your backyard as a wildlife habitat. This is a family event and children are most welcome. Bring a blanket and picnic supper and just enjoy the grounds. Music will be provided by the Bishop’s Bridge band.
Sunday, August 30 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm
Bring a blanket and picnic supper.
Enneagram Wisdom Circle
Tests and Challenges in Consciousness
The Enneagram is a comprehensive psycho-spiritual typology that helps us understand our personality and our relationships. At its deepest level, it is a map to wholeness that helps us remember who we are and what we came here to do. This bimonthly series is designed for people who have had an introduction to the Enneagram, know their Enneagram type and are committed to practicing presence in their daily life. This session's focus is on working the Enneagram symbol to gather the strengths and gifts of each point as we integrate toward wholeness.
The more we operate in present time, and the more we shift to a higher level of consciousness, the more prepared we are to deal with what Carl Jung called the shadow aspects of who we are. It is time to shed light on these parts of ourselves that offer challenges to our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical expressions of who we are. Frances Vaughan said it best: "There is no such ting as the dark night of the spirit, there is only the dark night of the ego."
Led by: Dee Irwin, Enneagram teacher and retreat leader
Every other Wednesday from 9:00–11:30 am, September 9–December 16, 2009
Suggested donation: $100
A New Earth Study Group
This highly interactive study group, based on Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, will encourage participants to look at their life “purpose.” Experiential processes will engage the group so that issues such as: how we make ourselves happy or not; how to get our minds unstuck; managing our ego so it becomes a more effective servant; practicing presence and more will be offered in a safe and supportive learning environment.
Led by Kevin Haggerty, teacher, counselor, executive coach, consultant for Farr Associates. Kevin’s life goal is to help people understand that their purpose in life is to be happy through self-awareness and to share that happiness with their families, friends and community. For further information, call Kevin at 336.509.5777
Six Monday evenings from 7:00 to 9:30 pm beginning September 14 and ending October 19, 2009.
Suggested donation: $100 per person or $175 per couple.
The Enneagram as a Tool for Spiritual Practice
The Enneagram is a comprehensive psycho-spiritual typology that helps us understand our personality and our relationships. At its deepest level, it is a map to wholeness that helps us remember who we are and what we came here to do. This class is designed for people who are committed to practicing presence in their daily lives and who wish to use the wisdom of the Enneagram to help deconstruct the false self and reconstruct the true, authentic self.
Led by: Dee Irwin, Enneagram teacher and retreat leader
Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm for ten weeks beginning September 15, 2009, through November 24, 2009 (no class on October 6) at 213 Fisher Avenue.
Suggested donation: $100
Creative Clay Beads
Polymer clay is a user-friendly medium for artists and non-artists alike. Participants will work together in a guided, step-by-step process to create their own polymer beads. Lots of ideas for making your own jewelry or gifts.
Led by Judy Gibson King, an artist who has been working in clay for 15 years
Saturday, September 19, 2009, 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Suggested donation: $50-$65 which includes lunch and materials
Layers of the Landscape
This program, co-sponsored by Holy Trinity Greens, Piedmont Land Conservancy, is free and open to the public but people do need to register with Healing Ground.
Learn how to garden and landscape as if all life matters. We are losing our native butterflies and birds through overuse of ornamentals. We can restore our landscapes to healthy ecosystems that are both beautiful and support all life through the use of native plants and trees.
Led by Judith Kramer, garden designer and master naturalist who has also helped design many of the sacred spaces at Healing Ground
Saturday, September 26, 2009, 10:00 am–12:00 noon, in Broome Hall at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Playing with Prayer
This workshop has been rescheduled
and will take place in the Spring of 2010
Prayer is a serious spiritual practice but when it is only proper and somber, it can lose its vitality. Playing with Prayer is the opportunity to open yourself fully; to use the totality of your senses, imagination, awareness, to be in touch with the many and varied ways that we are connected to and can communicate with the Divine in our everyday lives. To play at prayer is to see new possibilities, new beginnings, new colors, new avenues, and new ways of being. Together, we will look at and experience some of the many and varied routes to prayer, involving not only the mind, but the body and the senses.
Led by Linda Faltin, B.S. R.N., and M.Div. The Rev. Linda Faltin is a retired Lutheran Pastor who lives in High Point, NC. She was a registered nurse for many years, a hospice director, and served as a parish pastor for fourteen years. She is also a writer and retreat leader, an avid reader, and the unashamedly proud mother of three grown children and five grandchildren. She defines herself as “a spiritual pilgrim.”
Not to take place as planned on Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:00 am–3:00 pm but will be scheduled in the Spring
Suggested donation: $40-$60
Touching the Earth,
Becoming Peace on Earth:
A Day of Mindfulness and Reconciliation
Only when we are able to touch and maintain peace in ourselves and in our relationships can we restore and embody Peace on Earth. This Day of Mindfulness and healing will water the seeds of peace in ourselves and in our relationship to our families, our communities, and the earth.
By generating the energy of mindfulness, insight, and gratitude, we heal our anger and division and prepare the ground for reconciliation, peaceful communication, and belongingness.
Wear loose comfortable clothing. Bring a meditation cushion or bench if you have one and a mat and blanket for lying comfortably on the floor. You are also requested to bring a vegetarian potluck dish to share during our community meal.
Guided by Diana Hawes and Bill Patterson, ordained lay practitioners teaching in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and supported by Pat Bailey and Dee Irwin, co-directors of Healing Ground.
Saturday, November 7, 2009, 9:30 am–4:00 pm
Suggested donation: $25–$50. All proceeds will be used to support the work of Healing Ground and of Blue Cliff Monastery, a teaching facility in the Thich Nhat Hanh lineage located in New York State.
An Advent Retreat at Mepkin Abbey
It has become an advent tradition for Healing Ground to offer this retreat as a perfect way of stepping into the rhythm of a quiet and meditative preparation for this holy season. We have reserved eight rooms at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. It 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 from around the world
Check their website at: www.mepkinabbey.org
Friday, December 4 at 9:00 am to Monday, December 7 at 4:00 pm
Suggested donation: $80 includes transportation to Mepkin Abbey. Participants leave a donation to Mepkin Abbey for their accommodations and meals at the monastery. Space is limited to 8 participants and usually fills quickly.
Healing Ground's 2010 Pilgrimage Options
Study Pilgrimage to France:
"In the Steps of Mary Magdalen"
This pilgrimage will take place in Chartres and Southern Provence in France. There is a formidable history that we will follow that spreads the Gospel by Mary Magdalen and the Black Madonna in Southern France. Our primary stops will be Chartres, Vezelay, and St. Maximin with an optional pre-trip stay in Paris to see the Louvre and Giverney.
Led by Marcy Walsh, Dee Irwin and Pat Bailey
May 10–May 21, 2010
Contact us at 336.644.0076 for further details.
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.
Walking the Labyrinth at Healing Ground
This form of meditation or prayer walking has been helpful to people throughout the ages and continues to be an effective way to center oneself, restoring peace and calm.
Healing Ground has a beautiful outdoor labyrinth in the Quiet Garden which is always available for use. You can also bring the experience of walking the labyrinth to individuals or groups by taking advantage of Healing Ground’s portable 11-circuit canvas Chartres labyrinth (rental fee is $100).
