HEALING GROUND
Healing Ground is a retreat center located in Summerfield, North Carolina that supports the mission of the Servant Leadership School. It is offered to the community as a place to experience renewed spiritual strength and nourishment. The grounds are beautifully landscaped with an outdoor labyrinth, a prayer path through the hardwood grove, and many meditation areas by the pond and in the woods and gardens. Personal retreats can be guided or unstructured. Small groups (up to 15) can gather to explore dimensions of the inward journey of personal transformation and the outward journey of offering our gifts in the world in which we live. A skilled group of retreat leaders is available to facilitate retreats and are willing to tailor programs to meet the needs of individual or group.
WINTER/SPRING RETREAT OFFERINGS
A QUIET DAY IN THE QUIET GARDEN
Come any first Friday (Jan. 6, Feb. 3, Mar. 2, Apr. 6, May 4, Jun. 1, 2012) from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Beverages and snacks provided; please bring a bag lunch. Simple love offering.
Join us at the beginning of the month as we take time to slow the pace and enjoy a quiet place to pause and let our bodies and minds rest and our hearts awaken. We begin at 10 a.m. with an opening meditation and gather again at 2:45 p.m. for a closing circle. The in-between time is intentionally unstructured to allow each person time and space to do what is most nurturing whether is it expressing with creative materials, reflecting, praying or meditating in the outdoor chapel or the labyrinth garden, enjoying one of the many gardens and natural areas, reading or even napping.
AN ENNEAGRAM WISDOM CIRCLE
Wednesdays, 9-11:30 a.m. from. February 1 – April 4, 2012.
Suggested donation: $100
The emphasis is on fun and illumination this term with a focus on looking at characters from literature and film to make various aspects of Enneagram dynamics come alive in a way that combines the get-inside-the-head-of-the-different-types approach of Helen Palmer with the psychology/sociology theoretical approach of Don Riso and Russ Hudson. Judith Searle's book The Literary Enneagram will serve as a basic reference, though we will not necessarily take her analysis as the only interpretation of the characters she presents.
Led by Dee Irwin, Enneagram teacher, spiritual director and retreat leader.
INSIDE-OUT HEALING: A STUDY GROUP
Seven Tuesday evenings: January 17-- February 28, 2012 from 7-9:30 p.m.
Suggested donation: $125 per person, $200 per couple
Inside-Out Healing: Transforming your Life Through the Power of Presence is the 7th book from Richard Moss. Moss asks: “Are you ready for a shift of consciousness that liberates your mind and heart?” Whether you’re motivated by illness, relationship unhappiness, or the desire to excel and experience life to the fullest, this book is a helpful guide. This will be an experiential and highly interactive process, not an academic exercise.
Leader: Kevin Haggerty, teacher, counselor, executive coach, consultant for Farr Associates. For further information, call Kevin at (336) 509-5777 or (336) 616-0668.
THE ART OF LOSING: POETRY, GRIEF AND HEALING
Five Monday Evenings: February 13, 20, 27, March 5, 19, 2012 from 6:30-8 p.m.
Suggested donation $55
Here, we will talk specifically about our experience with grief. Whether it's grief of a loved one, a pet, a job, or physical ability, we will explore the sense of loss and look at how we recover. With the understanding that we come to and through grief in our own time, we will sensitively look through the lens of poetry at the pain, confusion and sometimes relief in loss, as well as our healing. Participants will be guided to write their own poetry exploring their emotions, memories and hopes.
Leader: Jacinta White of The Word Project. Visit www.poetryheals.com. Jacinta has led numerous writing and poetry workshops for Healing Ground, the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro, the Greensboro Public Library as well as many patient support groups. She is a bright and engaging spirit.
“COMPASSIONATE LISTENING: HEALING OUR WORLD FROM THE INSIDE OUT"
Saturday, March 10, 2012 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $45-85. Bring a dish to share for pot luck lunch
Compassionate Listening is an act of personal, social, and spiritual transformation. Strengthen your capacity to connect with the humanity of each person whose path you cross, whether or not you share the same values and behaviors.
Explore the Core practices of “Compassionate Listening”:
• Transform your judgments of self and others;
• Humanize and connect with people who “trigger” you;
• Shift from reactivity to compassion;
• Offer compassion to yourself and others
Leader: Jan Hutton, MSW, a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator, believes in supporting wholeness in each human being. Over the last 39 years, she has served as a community organizer, social worker in hospice and hospital settings, meditation teacher, and she hopes, a ‘kind’ person. http://www.compassionatelistening.org/
FIFTY WAYS TO PRAY: A LENTEN RETREAT
Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Suggested donation: $45 -$55 with lunch included
Lent is specifically a time for prayer and reflection. Come explore creative and hands-on ways to pray based on Teresa Blythe’s book, 50 Ways to Pray: Practices from Many Traditions and Times. Jo Owens promises that no prior experience is necessary and all prayers are acceptable.
Led by Rev. Jo Nygard Owens, an ordained Presbyterian minister who is currently serving as the Communications Coordinator at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. She is learning a great deal from her two year old daughter and has found that she can be very creative in making everyday tasks part of her spiritual practice.
POETRY TOWARDS SELF AWARENESS: A RETREAT
Saturday, April 21, 2012 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday, April 22, 2012 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $75 Includes lunch on Saturday and all materials
In this two day "retreat" participants are guided in using poetry and other art forms for self-discovery and delight. There will be ample time for reading, writing and sharing within an intimate group. Whether you are a poetry lover or novice, this series is for you if you're longing to discover something new about yourself or wanting to get back to a part of you that you think you may have been neglecting.
Leader: Jacinta White. See The Art of Losing for her credentials.
BORDERLANDS AND SOUTHERN WALES PILGRIMAGE IS IN PROGRESS
Anticipated date is late July through first week of August 2012.
Rev. Carolyn Williams Ashburn will be leading the pilgrimage for Healing Ground. This will be a repeat pilgrimage from 2008 whose highlights include time at Belmont Abbey, Brecon Beacons, Tintern Abbey, Patrishow’s Well, a Cistercian monastery on Caldy Island, St. Govan’s Head, and St. Davids. Please contact us if you have an interest and we will put you on the inside track as details are confirmed.
