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"Moving" Experiences:
CREATION-TIDE: LAMENT, CELEBRATION, AND ACTION
4 sessions, Sep/Oct 2022
Learn how to talk about the looming climate crisis: spiritually, locally, and productively. Work through the challenges of climate doomism and of community paralysis. Plan your next steps as a parish or group.
REMEMBRANCE-TIDE: LOSS, GRIEF, AND HEALING
4 sessions, Nov 2022
Move past the myth of “closure” to a deeper understanding of grief, loss, trauma, and moral injury. Engage scripture, poetry, image, and movement, in a prayerful space of mutual support.
ADVENT: PEACE ON EARTH - AND AT CHRISTMAS DINNER
3 sessions, Tuesdays: Nov 29 | Dec 6 | Dec 13, 2022
Explore the challenges of populism, Beloved Community, and hope. Use prayer, lectionary-based readings, and interactive exercises / reflections to discover new ways of reaching across cultural and political difference.
EPIPHANY-TIDE: PAIN, HOPE, AND PRAYER
4 sessions, Jan/Feb 2023
The Magi’s gifts of myrrh, gold, and frankincense can also be symbols of pain, hope, and prayer. Deepen your parish’s commitment to eradicating racism with learning; with structured listening exercises; and with prayerful, courageous self-expression. Select images and craft language around dismantling racism, that your congregation can use in its liturgy for the upcoming year.
LENT: SPEAKING OUT LOUD ON THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM
Ash Wed intro + 5 sessions, Feb-Apr 2023
Rediscover the lost Christian virtue of parrhesia: “speaking boldly,” “telling it like it is.” Using physical exercises and lectionary-based Bible reflections, we explore the pathways that prophet-Jesus laid out.
PENTECOST: DIFFERENCE AND UNITY
4 sessions, Jun 2023
Using the work of African American theologian Willie James Jennings, find out how you can build a community of real difference: listening deeply across race and class, tackling microaggression, honoring diverse ancestors, praying with new images.
SEASON OF PRIDE: QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND CHRISTIAN VOCATION FOR EVERYONE
4 sessions, Jun/Jul 2023
Discover the wisdom of Lesbian, Gay, Queer and Trans spiritual leaders: embracing the exile, invoking the ancestors, gender and sexuality as call to discernment, taking a chance on God.
A MONTH OF WOMEN SAINTS: DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM POWERFUL WOMEN IN SCRIPTURE AND IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY
4 sessions, especially suitable for Feb/Mar/Jul 2023
Learn the history and symbolism of our mothers in faith: the nashîm hayil (Prov 31, “women of strength”) of Genesis, Exodus, the New Testament, the Early Church, and the modern era. Content reflects some of the key women commemorated in church and secular calendars during each month of the year.
Each experience can be customized to your congregation or setting as:
workshop series
workshop series
4 - 6 sessions of 1½ hours online or 2½ hours in person: learning, discussion, and lectio visceralis (visuals; music; exercises/guided movement; and critical/creative prayer and reflection)
Preparatory readings and videos for each session
Weekly enrichment materials for reading/viewing and journaling
Help for your parish team with marketing, publicity, and social media
Also available are:
a regularly scheduled time for drop-in conversations
a customized, 600 word final report and theological reflection to share with your parish or group (synthesizing participants’ key insights and continuing questions)
single, stand-alone workshop
single, stand-alone workshop
An online session of 2-3 hours; or an in-person workshop of 3-4 hours: learning, discussion, and lectio visceralis (visuals; music; exercises/guided movement; and critical/creative prayer and reflection)
Preparatory reading and video
A follow-up session with congregational leaders
Help for your parish team with marketing, publicity, and social media
interactive, online service
interactive, online service
A 1¼ hour online, interactive prayer service using lectio visceralis (visuals; music; exercises/guided movement; and critical/creative prayer and reflection)
Preparatory reading and video
Collecting photos from congregational members and creating a custom-made photomontage for uses in the service
A 15 minute de-brief of the service with all the participants
A follow-up session with congregational leaders
Help for your parish team with marketing, publicity, and social media
I am happy to help “sell” the workshop internally to your leadership group, with advertising materials, previews, testimonials, and assistance in preparing an internal proposal.
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