St. Francis
Retreat Center
Contemplative Connect
August Offerings
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"
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world
but leads us deeper into it." Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Online Retreats
Suggested donation is listed on retreat description;
Don't let financial hardship keep you from participating.
If you need a partial or full scholarship,
please email mepkinguestmaster@gmail.com to register.
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Mepkin Speaker Series
Mondays, August 3, 10, 17,
7:00-8:30 PM ET
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Friday, August 28th
2:00-4:00 PM ET
Suggested Donation: $45
includes all speakers' presentations
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Session One: August 3
Elders: Called
to Seed Hope
with Sr. Ann Billard, OLM
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason to hope.
Teilhard deChardin
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Session Two: August 10
Elder Circles
for
Social Change
with Mahan Siler
Can becoming an elder for justice be a narrative
to embody in aging?
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Session Three: August 17
Reimagining, Realigning, and Reassessing
Our Life Direction
with Jim Briggs
Through presentation, reflection time, and conversation, we will share some of the challenges and opportunities of these times. All in the hopes of coming to new insights into what’s next in our lives...
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Session Four:
Friday, August 28
2:00-4:00 PM ET
The Role of Archetypes in Fostering
Personal Fulfillment
and Spiritual Maturity
with Carol Pearson
This lecture will begin with a discussion of archetypes as universal images, characters, and narratives and then move to briefly describe 12 and how they foster authenticity and wholeness and potentially spiritual gifts. The lecture will be followed by a time for questions and sharing. Those who wish to do so are invited to take the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator® at Storywell.com. There is a modest fee for taking this, which includes an in-depth report about your results.
Included in the Evening Speakers Series and
the Carol Pearson Workshop
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A Journey of One Inch:
The Writing of
Spiritual Autobiography
With Mary McNamara
beginning August 5, 2020
suggested donation $100
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This 10-week online course on the writing of spiritual autobiography will focus on the deeper aspects of a person's experience rather than simply the surface details of a life.
Course will be limited to 24 participants and will run
each Wednesday from August 5th to October 7th.
Each two-hour session will be held from 10-12 a.m. ET.
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Mary Colgan McNamara
grew up loving silence and words almost equally—and longing for an older sister. Her early Convent experience offered all three. There, silence deepened, words expanded and sisterhood became a way of life. After four years of mission work in Latin America she continued working in education and gave seminars and retreats on spirituality, women's issues and liberation theology. She and her now-deceased husband Christian form/ed part of Mepkin's Contemplative Eldering team. Her segment involves writing as a contemplative practice. The words she writes as she ages carry her ever closer to the awe-filled Grand Silence.
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Desert Mothers and Fathers:
Ancient Guides for Prayer
with Carl McColman
August 10-14
Suggested Donation: $60
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Carl McColman
is a contemplative writer, speaker, teacher, soul friend, and storyteller. He is the author of numerous books, including The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, Answering the Contemplative Call, An Invitation to Celtic Wisdom and Unteachable Lessons.
Carl’s writing appears on numerous websites, including Patheos, the Huffington Post, Day One, Contemplative Life, and Medium. He regularly posts new content to his personal blog at www.carlmccolman.com on topics such as Christian mysticism, contemplative practice, Celtic spirituality, and interreligious dialogue.
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Advanced Enneagram Online Retreat
with Christine King
August 24-28, 2020
Suggested donation $
80
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Dr. Christine King, author of Choosing Compassion: The Enneagram's Nine Pathways, is an Enneagram researcher, consultant, and teacher,]. "After forty years of university teaching and global consulting, I continue to be in awe of how the Enneagram helps people experience their lives with fresh perceptions, seeing through an uncluttered lens of kindness, compassion, and beauty."
Christine has been a University professor in Asia, Europe, and the US, and she facilitates global team workshops worldwide.She now lives outside of Asheville, North Carolina on a small farm, the 'home' of her consulting work, Fresh Perceptions.
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"Who Am I Now?"
Elders and Archetypes
Online Workshop
with Carol Pearson
Suggested Donation: $100, includes Friday lecture
Friday, August 28th, 7:00-8:30 PM (ET)
Saturday, August 29:
11:00 AM-1:00 PM (ET) & 3:00-4:30 PM (ET)
Sunday, August 30 (optional), 3:00-4:30 PM (ET)
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This experiential workshop is based on the belief that the hero’s journey, as described in Carol’s book,
Awakening the Hero Within: 12 Archetypes to Help us Find Ourselves and Transform Our Lives,
is never over. The workshop includes the lecture on Friday, August 28th at 2-3:30 pm ET.
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Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., D.Min
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, is an author of the
Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within (winner of a Nautilus Award Gold Medal),
as well as
The Hero Within
,
Awakening the Heroes Within
, as well as
What Story Are You Living?
and
the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator TM (both with Hugh Marr).
Currently 75, she took a new job as Provost and then President of Pacifica Graduate Institute at 65 and was awarded the Doctorate of Ministry at 69, which means that she has, and is, experiencing the joy and the challenge of the elder years. Website: www.carolspearson.com
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