Retreat Schedule
*Subject to change without notice.*
Thursday, August 9
6:00pm - 7:30pm Opening Night Community Dinner
8:00pm - 10:00pm Opening Night Experience with Rev. Dr. Kenn Gordon, Rev. Dr. David Ault and Jeffon Seely.
Friday, August 10
8:00am - 8:45am Morning Spiritual Practices
Option 1: Morning Meditation in the Prayer Room
Option 2: Poetry as a Spiritual Practice with Rev. Johanna van Gelder
Utilizing a sacred practice of contemplative reading called Lectio Divina, Johanna opens you to the poetry of mystics, ancient and new, as a means to experience a divinity and connection with the texts and to apply that experience in beneficial ways to everyday living.
Option 3: Heart Centered Yoga with Diane Christensen
Heart Centered Yoga is a Gentle Flow practice where we discover Presence With The Body. This practice will focus on the power of breath and the healing that can occur with kind, gentle movements. This practice is designed for all ages and skills.
8:30am - 9:30am Breakfast (Now Included in the Retreat Registration!)
9:30am - 11:30am Morning Community Gathering with Rev. Dr. Pat Campbell, Rev. Dr. Bob Luckin, and Rev. Judy-Ann Davis Young
12:00pm - 1:00pm Community Lunch
1:30pm - 2:45pm Workshop Session I (2 Options)
Becoming Sacred Listeners with Rev. Linda Finley
Thomas Merton called it “A Hidden Wholeness.” Maria Niemeth calls it “the Hero’s Heart.” We hold within us the Truth we are seeking. This process of learning to help people “hear themselves to wholeness” is designed to help Team Leaders, Board/Council Members, Practitioners, and Ministers learn to ask open, honest questions that guide the speaker to find their own Truth. Participants will learn the simple art of asking questions and will move into dyads/triads to practice how it works. The exercise is designed to build community and use our practices in new ways.
A Question of Worth with Rev. Bonnie Rose
Feelings of unworthiness often undermine our best attempts to live a good life. Rev. Bonnie Rose offers a mystical approach to cultivating the self-worth that sets us free. We’ll explore principles, paradoxes, and practices that call us home to our innate worthiness. Come, play, and remember the holiness of who you are.
2:45pm - 3:15pm Break
3:15pm - 4:45pm Workshop Session II (2 Options)
Passport to Living a (more) Creative life with Robyn Rice Olmstead, RScP & Rev. Gil William Olmstead
This workshop is for anyone that wants to ignite passion, purpose, and play into their daily life! On today’s journey you will:
- Explore your passions.
- Unearth your dreams.
- Cross the Dualistic Divide.
- Activate your creativity, power & purpose!
Join us on this journey and see where your Passport will take you!!
The Subliminal Link - Unlock the Power! with Rev. Marquita Pierre-McAlister
Become conscious of your subliminal messages that impede or enhance deep connection with self and others. Learn research-based tools and techniques to experience a more conscious, enhanced way of living through clear intention and heart-centered communication. Choose to re-write the subliminal scripts to flip disharmony and separation into joy, peace, connectivity, and well-being.
5:00pm - 8:00pm Free Time & Dinner On Own
8:00pm - 10:00pm Evening Experience
Featuring Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones, Rev. Marquita Pierre, Rev. John Scott, and Brad Wethern, RScP as Ernest Holmes
10:00pm - 11:00pm Chant with Gary Lynn Floyd
Cultures throughout time have honored sound as something deep and sublime, which can lead us into union with the Cosmos. It is the key to transcendence, and offers us an opportunity to unite with Divine Mind. Join Gary Lynn Floyd and the music team in a spiritual practice of chanting, connecting, and harmonizing with all that is.
Saturday, August 11
8:00am - 8:45am Morning Spiritual Practices
Option 1: Morning Meditation in the Prayer Room
Option 2: Poetry as a Spiritual Practice with Rev. Johanna van Gelder
Utilizing a sacred practice of contemplative reading called Lectio Divina, Johanna opens you to the poetry of mystics, ancient and new, as a means to experience a divinity and connection with the texts and to apply that experience in beneficial ways to everyday living.
Option 3: Heart Centered Yoga with Diane Christensen
Heart Centered Yoga is a Gentle Flow practice where we discover Presence With The Body. This practice will focus on the power of breath and the healing that can occur with kind, gentle movements. This practice is designed for all ages and skills.
8:30am - 9:30am Breakfast (Now Included in your Retreat Registration!)
8:45am - 12:00pm Free Time!
Suggested activities:
- Take a walk or hike on the nearby trails
- Rent a bike and head up the mountain
- Relax by the pool, jacuzzi or at the hotel
- Ziplining (Click Here)
- The Alpine Coaster (Click Here)
- Visit Olympic Village (Click Here)
- Shopping in downtown Park City
- Golf
12:00pm - 1:30pm Community Lunch
1:30pm - 2:45pm Workshop Session III (2 Options)
Passport to Living a (more) Creative life with Robyn Rice Olmstead, RScP & Rev. Gil William Olmstead
This workshop is for anyone that wants to ignite passion, purpose, and play into their daily life! On today’s journey you will:
- Explore your passions.
- Unearth your dreams.
- Cross the Dualistic Divide.
- Activate your creativity, power & purpose!
Join us on this journey and see where your Passport will take you!!
The Subliminal Link - Unlock the Power! with Rev. Marquita Pierre-McAlister
Become conscious of your subliminal messages that impede or enhance deep connection with self and others. Learn research-based tools and techniques to experience a more conscious, enhanced way of living through clear intention and heart-centered communication. Choose to re-write the subliminal scripts to flip disharmony and separation into joy, peace, connectivity, and well-being.
2:45pm - 3:15pm Break
3:15pm - 4:45pm Workshop Session IV (2 Options)
Becoming Sacred Listeners with Rev. Linda Finley
Thomas Merton called it “A Hidden Wholeness.” Maria Niemeth calls it “the Hero’s Heart.” We hold within us the Truth we are seeking. This process of learning to help people “hear themselves to wholeness” is designed to help Team Leaders, Board/Council Members, Practitioners, and Ministers learn to ask open, honest questions that guide the speaker to find their own Truth. Participants will learn the simple art of asking questions and will move into dyads/triads to practice how it works. The exercise is designed to build community and use our practices in new ways.
A Question of Worth with Rev. Bonnie Rose
Feelings of unworthiness often undermine our best attempts to live a good life. Rev. Bonnie Rose offers a mystical approach to cultivating the self-worth that sets us free. We’ll explore principles, paradoxes, and practices that call us home to our innate worthiness. Come, play, and remember the holiness of who you are.
5:00pm - 8:00pm Free Time & Dinner On Own
8:00pm - 10:00pm Evening Concert Experience with the Retreat Music Team!
10:00pm - 11:00pm Fireside with Dr. Kenn Gordon and Rev. Sharon Hudson
You know them in their official capacity as our Spiritual Leader and Field Leader of Centers for Spiritual Living. And we love the service they give to our organization. Would you like to know why and how they got to where they are? Want to get to know the wonderful man and lovely woman behind the titles? Want to hear their vision and perspective around the things that matter to us? Few better ways than by the fireside... the spot we humans first gathered to tell stories, share tales and hear the wisdom of the ages. Spend time with these two exemplars of spiritual truth; Dr. Kenn Gordon and Rev. Sharon Hudson.
Sunday, August 12
8:00am - 9:00am Breakfast (Now Included in your Retreat Registration)
9:00am - 9:45am Community Meditation with Rev. John Scott
10:00am - 11:30am Closing Taize Experience
12:00pm - 1:30pm Closing Community Lunch