On Being a Retreat Leader
Deepening Contemplative Leadership
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, 10am - 4pm
Saturday, Spring 2010, 10am - 4pm
The leader's role is a very humble and delicate one: assisting an atmosphere that frees everyone to listen in simple trust. (Tilden Edwards)
Do you have a growing sense of call to retreat leadership? Are others sensing Presence in your leadership and inquiring about you leading retreats?
In all considerations of contemplative leadership, we want to make choices for spaciousness, flexibility, and openness to the True Leader, the Spirit. With this posture of the heart and mind, this workshop will address practical items for planning a retreat: theme, content, schedule, space, forming community, entering silence, etc. More importantly, we will explore our experiences and hopes of offering authentic spiritual leadership, fostering a setting in which retreatants may be led to personal encounters with God. We will give special attention to problems and resistances that may arise on retreats.
For those interested in Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program, a special introduction will be given.
| Dates: |
Saturday, September 26, 2009 Saturday, Spring 2010 |
| Time: | 10am-4pm |
| Place: |
Shalem Library 5430 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814 |
| Leader: | Ann Dean |
| Cost: | $50 (Please bring a bag lunch.) |
Ann Dean is Director of Shalem’s Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups
& Retreats Program. She retired from pastoring an ecumenical faith
community in the Church of the Saviour in 2004 and is a member of the
Dayspring Retreat Mission Group, which sponsors multi-faith retreat
days throughout the year. She is a co-founder of the Shalom Innernet Group, which has fostered
peacemaking through multi-faith contemplative prayer groups since 1999.
Registration
To register online for Saturday, September 26, 2009, please click here.
To register online for Spring 2010, please check back in the fall.
To register by mail, download our Short Program Registration Form (PDF).
Or contact Program Registrar, Chris Jeffrey,
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, (301-897-7334 ext. 209)
Directions
For directions to the Shalem Library, please click here.