The Rowe Center 22 Kings Highway, P. O. Box 273 s p r i n g / s u m m e r Rowe, MA 01367 2020 The Rowe Center workshops • retreats • summer camps Unplug, Unwind & Understand
Spiritual Guidance
“The Spiritual Guidance Program opened up new fields for me, both through the people who are part of it, and all of those who contribute. If you are interested, don’t hesitate!” —Patricia Larkin, graduate of 2015-2017 Cohort
• A two-year low-residential training program meeting the need for well-prepared individuals who can offer guidance to people on their spiritual journeys. • Multifaith approach. Outstanding faculty. Warm, caring community. Online and also in residential intensives amid the beauty of the Berkshire foothills. • Learning rooted in lively class sessions, group discussions and participatory exercises, focused individual study, spiritual practices, and supportive mentorship.
Now Accepting Applications for the 2020-2022 Cohort
For more information about the program, including tuition fees, and for an application form, please go to: unplug, unwind & understand www.rowecenter.org/spiritual-guidance
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April 3-5 Drawing Out Your Soul: Touch Drawing . . . DEBORAH KOFF-CHAPIN ...... 4 Oct. 9-12 Freeing Our Children to Learn and Grow . . . PETER GRAY, ET AL ...... 26
April 3-5 African-American Stick Pounding...... MELANIE DEMORE...... 4 Oct. 16-18 Couples on the Path to Wholeness . . . . . JOYCE & BARRY VISSELL...... 27
April 9-12 Tongues of Flame: An Easter Retreat. . . . . NEIL DOUGLAS-KLOTZ...... 5 Oct. 16-18 Healing the Body’s Racial Trauma ...... RESMAA MENAKEM ...... 27
April 9-12 Jewish Ancestral Healing for Passover. . . . TAYA SHERE & DORI MIDNIGHT ...... 5 Oct. 23-25 Jumpstart Your Poetry Engine...... JERICHO BROWN...... 28
April 17-19 Writing for Insight, Resilience & Courage. . . MARK MATOUSEK...... 6 Oct. 23-25 Nature Escape: Drawing & Exploration. . . . CLARE WALKER LESLIE...... 28
April 17-19 Song of the Soul: Songwriting for Everyone. . CRIS WILLIAMSON...... 6 Oct. 30-Nov. 1 Holy Trouble: Teresa of Avila ...... MIRABAI STARR ...... 29
April 24-26 The Lost Foundation of Western Spirituality . . SHARON BLACKIE ...... 7 Oct. 30-Nov.1 Healing Through Dreamwork...... RODGER KAMENETZ & KEZIA VIDA...... 29
April 24-26 What’s in a Name? Knowing Spring Trees. . . MICHAEL WOJTECH...... 8
April 26-29 Language of Astrology, Tarot, & Alchemy. . . SHARON BLACKIE ...... 7 YOUTH CAMPS & ADULT COMMUNITY RETREATS
May 1-3 Freedom from Religious Trauma ...... LINDA KAY KLEIN...... 9 June 14-19 Skill Set: A Retreat for Young Adults 20-30...... 19
May 1-3 Saint Francis, Dogen, and Rumi...... STEVE KANJI RUHL ...... 9 June 28-July 18 Junior High Camp (Ages 13-15) ...... 18
May 8-10 Springtime Retreat for Writers of All Kinds. . ELLEN BASS ...... 10 July 19-25 Young People’s Camp 1 (Ages 8-10) ...... 18
May 8-10 Functional Medicine Meets Kundalini Yoga. . . DANA G . COHEN & BHAJAN AKAL SINGH. . . . . 10 July 19-25 Young People’s Camp 3 (Ages 11-13) 1 week...... 18
May 10-14 Spring Work Week...... 11 July 19-Aug. 1 Young People’s Camp 3 (Ages 11-13) 2 weeks...... 18
May 15-17 At the Edge: Life’s Seven Major Passages. . . E H. . RICK JAROW...... 11 July 26-Aug. 1 Young People’s Camp 2 (Ages 9-11) 1 week...... 18
May 15-17 Joanna Macy: Celebrating Her Life’s Work. . . STEPHANIE KAZA WITH GUESTS ...... 12 Aug. 2-22 Senior High Camp (Ages 16-19)...... 18
May 22-25 Family Arts Camp ...... W . CUDNOHUFSKY & R . GIBSON...... 13 Aug. 23-28 Kindred Spirits: A Community Supporting Healing & Self-Discovery ...... 19
May 22-25 Exploring the Language of Birds...... JON YOUNG, ET AL ...... 13 Aug.29-Sept. 3 Creativity Camp ...... 19
May 29-31 Ecstatic Touchtm Level 1...... SARA & THOMAS STOUT ...... 15 Aug.29-Sept. 3 WomenCircles: A Celebration of Women ...... 19
May 29-June 1 Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes. . . . LINDA KOHANOV...... 14 Sept. 4-7 Labor Day Retreat for Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning Men...... 19
May 31-June 2 Ecstatic Touchtm for Couples Level 2...... SARA & THOMAS STOUT ...... 15 Sept. 11-13 Members & Friends Vacation Retreat...... 20
June 5-7 The Secrets of Conscious Coupling . . . . . CHELSEA WAKEFIELD...... 16 May 10-14 Spring Work Week...... 11
June 5-7 Callings: Finding Your Authentic Life . . . . . GREGG LEVOY ...... 16 Sept. 27-Oct. 1 Autumn Work Week...... 23 June 12-14 Singing Our Stories ...... KATHY BULLOCK & SISTERS ...... 17
Sept. 11-13 Members & Friends Vacation Retreat ...... 20 INFORMATION
Sept. 18-20 Mushrooms are Magical! ...... DAVID WILLIAM FISCHER...... 20 Volunteering at Rowe...... 8
Sept. 18-20 Writing from Earth’s Landscapes...... MARY REYNOLDS THOMPSON ...... 21 Personal Retreats and Group Rentals ...... 17
Sept. 18-20 Shamanic Divination Training...... NAN MOSS...... 21 Cost & Registration...... 30
Sept. 25-27 The Thinning Veil: Autumn Plants . . . . . LIZ MIGLIORELLI ...... 22 Become a Member, Contact Rowe...... 31 Sept. 25-27 Coming Home to Your Heart...... EDWARD ESPE BROWN...... 22
Sept. 25-27 Creating a Home Funeral ...... HEIDI BOUCHER...... 23
Sept. 27-Oct. 1 Autumn Work Week...... 23
Oct. 2-4 Creating Mandala Art for Harvest Time . . . . KATHRYN COSTA ...... 24
Oct. 2-4 Fundraising for Social Change ...... STEPHANIE ROTH ...... 24
Oct. 5-7 Fundraising for Social Change ...... STEPHANIE ROTH ...... 24
Oct. 9-12 Building a Vocal Community® ...... YSAYE BARNWELL ...... 25
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p r i l p r i l (T h u r s day -S u nday ) A 3-5 A 9-12 Neil Douglas- Klotz, PhD, is a Drawing Out Your Soul: Opening to Creative Flow Tongues of Flame: An Easter Retreat renowned writer through Touch Drawing h d e bo r a h ko f f - c h a p i n h n e i l d o u g l a s - k l ot z in the fields of Middle Eastern Immerse yourself in the enlivening process of Touch Drawing—a Experience chant, movement, and contemplative prayer with spirituality simple yet powerful way to create drawings through the touch of your the Aramaic Jesus. and the Deborah Koff-Chapin has been fingertips on paper. translation and developing Touch Drawing since it fter Easter, Jesus’ students experienced a rebirth of love and light in the interpretation of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. He directs the Edinburgh came to her in an inspired moment he body, psyche, and spirit can speak directly through this process. As you celebration called Pentecost, which enabled them to understand each A Institute for Advanced Learning and in 1974. She teaches the process move your hands on paper in expression of inner sensations, impressions person at the heart level, beyond language. They felt empowered to go out and internationally. Deborah is creator T for many years was co-chair of the of SoulCards 1 & 2 and SoulTouch are made on the underside. In one sitting, you can bring forth a series of images, change their lives and the lives of others. How did they get to that place? The Mysticism Group of the American Coloring Journals. She is the author a record of your transformational process. This weekend will be a spacious time answers lie in Yeshua’s (Jesus’) native Aramaic language, which not only restores Academy of Religion. He is the author of Prayers of the Cosmos; The Hidden of Drawing Out Your Soul and The of deep inner exploration. Deborah holds a safe and sacred space while you the richness of meaning hidden there, but also reveals the actual spiritual Touch Drawing Facilitator Workbook. Gospel; Blessings of the Cosmos; and draw, using her gentle drumming, crystal bowls, and soulful voice. Interior time experiences and practices that he conveyed to them. In this Easter retreat led Deborah has been Interpretive Artist Original Meditation: The Aramaic Jesus at numerous conferences, including to draw and write will be balanced with sacred circle, vocal toning, movement, by Neil Douglas-Klotz, author of numerous books on Yeshua and the native and the Spirituality of Creation. The Parliament of the World’s and sharing. If you lack artistic confidence, Touch Drawing can catalyze your spirituality of the Middle East, you’ll learn simple chants based on Jesus’ Aramaic Religions. She holds a BFA from creativity. If you have experience with visual art, it deepens your source of sayings and experience them in a deeper way, alternating chant and silent Cooper Union. Deborah has served inspiration. If you are a therapist, teacher, social worker, coach, or spiritual guide contemplation with simple movement in the form of Dances of Universal Peace. Taya Shere on the board of the International (Taya Mâ) is Expressive Art Therapy Association or work in healthcare or hospice, you can bring Touch Drawing into your work. You’ll also experience a simple breathing practice based on Yeshua’s prayer (the co-founder of and is founding director of the Center There is a $50 materials charge. “Lord’s Prayer”) in Aramaic. Through these pathways, you also might experience, Kohenet Hebrew for Touch Drawing. in your heart and mind, the “tongues of flame” that Yeshua left behind. Priestess Institute. This program lasts an extra day and costs an additional $150. She is an Assistant Professor at Starr Melanie A p r i l 3-5 King School for the Ministry and a DeMore faculty member of Embodied Ministry has toured A p r i l 9-12 (T h u r s day -S u nday ) and Embodied Leadership at the The Rhythmic Art of African-American extensively, Chaplaincy Institute. She teaches singing at A Passover Gathering Stick Pounding h m e l a n i e d e m o r e Jewish Ancestral Healing: Ancestral Lineage Healing workshops festivals, taya s h e r e & d o r i m i d n i g h t across the US and offers session work Create a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, rhythmic community and universities, h online.Taya Mâ is co-author of The combine it with singing spirituals and songs of protest and peace. coffee- Gather in community this Passover—a particularly potent time for honoring Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New houses, and ancestral stories and shifting patterns from constriction to freedom. Paths of Jewish Women’s Spiritual concert tick Pounding is a traditional form of musical communication created by Leadership and Siddur HaKohanot: A halls. Her enslaved people in South Carolina’s Sea Islands, who created a language made or thousands of years, Jews have carried stories of resilience and blessings Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook. S recordings include Share My Song up of various dialects and languages from Western Africa. This tradition has been and Come Follow Me. In addition to Falongside stories of scarcity and survival. This weekend, join others in working carried into the present by the Gullah people, the descendants of those original her solo work, Melanie facilitates to shift “survive” into “thrive,” transforming intergenerational Jewish trauma and Dori Midnight practices enslaved Africans who still call the islands home. When drums were taken away vocal workshops for professional connecting with wellness in your ancestral lines as a source of blessing and healing. and community-based choral groups community-based from the slaves after a rebellion, they made rhythm by pounding the floor of and has taught her program “Sound Explore ancestor reverence rituals rooted in Jewish tradition, including song, intuitive healing their stilt-supported quarters with hoe and broom handles; that, together with Awareness” in schools, prisons, visioning practices, ancestralization prayers, working with Jewish ancestral plants as that weaves clapping and foot stomping and singing, created a unique form of music and and youth organizations in the US, allies and supports, and crafting talismans, healing tools and more. Participate in an plant and stone medicine, ancestral and queer magic, spiritual practice. Canada, Cuba, and New Zealand. engaging, creative, and accessible Passover Seder. Learn and practice fundamentals She is a founding member of the and justice work. Drawing on her “The energy is immense,” Melanie says. “It’s beyond congregational; it connects Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble of Ancestral Lineage Healing, as a source of blessing and support, in your life and in training as a clinical and energetic us as a human tribe.” Join this multi-talented singer, composer, performer, choral Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage your ancestral line, while creating boundaries and support for troubled ancestors. herbalist and an interfaith minister and instructor, and “vocal activist” for an exuberant weekend of learning about Gullah/ Choir and has shared the stage with Open to people of all faiths (or no faith!) and ancestral backgrounds, Jewish or not. on her ancestral lineages (Sephardi/ Ashkenazi),Dori grounds her work in Geechee culture through its dynamic music and rhythmic heart, turning the numerous artists, including Buffy Saint Come solo, with family members, or with dear friends. Marie, John Prine, Laura Nyro, Sweet practices of collective liberation, self- workshop room into a living, breathing drum! Honey in the Rock, and Pete Seeger. This workshop lasts an extra day and costs an additional $150. There is a determinism, and love. This workshop has an additional materials charge of $10. materials charge of $20.
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A p r i l 17-19 A p r i l 24-26 Wise at Heart: Writing for Insight, Resilience, Courting the World Soul: Reclaiming the Lost CREATE A LASTING and Courage h m a r k m ato u s e k Foundation of Western Spirituality h sharon blackie LEGACY “Mark is a masterful and loving guide: His wisdom teachings Delve deeply into mysteries of the wild psyche, learn how to reconnect Let your spirit live on at Rowe . and brilliantly conceived questions will enable you to dissolve the with the soul of the world, and map the mysterious, sacred story that Remember The Rowe Center coverings and open to life-changing truth.”—Tara Brach nestles at the heart of your life. in your will. Mark n times of personal and social uncertainty, you may forget that you’re Matousek he old forgotten pre-Christian mythologies and philosophies of the West— is a teacher, already wise at heart. Caught in struggles of everyday life, it’s easy to lose from the magical stories of Celtic Ireland to the soul-centered myth-tellings I speaker, and the bestselling, award- T touch with internal wisdom and look for answers outside yourself. When you winning author of six books including of Plato in ancient Greece—are rich, complex, and beautiful. They offer a world practice turning the mirror inward to the wisdom waiting there, however, you Mother of the Unseen World: The in which everything is alive, has purpose and intentionality of its own, and wants may realize how knowledgeable you actually are when you quiet your mind Mystery of Mother Meera. He blogs to be in conversation with us. It’s a world to which each incarnated soul chooses regularly for PsychologyToday.com, and listen to the voice within. This quieting helps bring insight, resilience, to come, carrying the fire, carrying the image it was born with, fulfilling its Thrive Global, and the Huffington Post. and courage. This weekend will combine Mark’s lessons with group dialogue, He is the Creative Director of V-Men, own unique calling, and offering a gift that only can be fully expressed through dyadic work, and personal writing time as a path of self-inquiry and deepened the male arm of V-Day, Eve Ensler’s relationship with the anima mundi: the soul of the world. Sharon will help you insight. “Wise at Heart” will reveal fresh perspectives, novel solutions, renewed movement to end violence against learn to reclaim those old, indigenous ways of being in the world—to reclaim women and girls. self-esteem, and clarity of purpose that increase self-awareness—and self- the lost foundation-stones of Western spirituality. In this deeply experiential trust—in your evolution toward a more awakened and meaningful life. You’ll workshop, you’ll join Sharon and others to work with myth, archetype, poetry, begin to hear the still, small voice within that knows you better than you image, and embodied practice to explore our culture’s lost heritage. know yourself and can guide you toward your treasury of wisdom. A p r i l 26-29 (S u nday -W edne s day ) Cris Williamson Speaking the Language of the Soul: was busy Astrology, Tarot, & Alchemy h sharon blackie changing A p r i l 17-19 the face of Delve into your own unique archetypal wisdom and learn how to spin popular music Song of the Soul: Songwriting for Everyone Sharon the threads that weave your deepest self into the greater, ever-shifting decades Blackie, tapestry of this ensouled cosmos. cris williamson before indie h PhD, is labels were “The first time I heard Cris’s music, it was like hearing honey dripped on a an award-
JILL CRUSE ymbolic systems such as alchemy, astrology, and tarot offer a way to the norm and cello...Cris has been a whole lot of women’s heroes — including mine.” winning understand and work with the language of the imagination: the language years before women had any real —Bonnie Raitt writer and internationally S access to the industry. In 1975, she recognized teacher whose work of the psyche itself. The rich, beautiful, and profound archetypal images recorded the landmark album “The “A brilliant lyricist and composer.” —The Boston Globe sits at the interface of psychology, and mythic themes encoded in each of these different but complementary Changer and the Changed” for her mythology, and ecology. Her approaches can help you to shed light on your own individual place within brainchild, Olivia Records, the first highly acclaimed books, courses, earning to divine your own thoughts and write them down lyrically is a woman-owned, woman-focused lectures, and workshops focus on the great mystery of earth and cosmos. In this intensive, experiential workshop, record company. It remains one Lbeautiful way to access your soul-nature and become more confident and the development of the mythic Sharon will guide you in learning to use the principles of archetypal astrology of the best-selling independent expressive in your living. Join Cris, legend of women’s indie music, for a journey imagination and on the relevance of to explore the imagery of your birth chart; you’ll trace your steps through the releases of all time. Today, with 31 native European myths, fairy tales, of risk and spirit as you translate feeling into lyrical, musical form. Using lifelong “Fool’s Journey” offered up by the Major Arcana of the Tarot; and you’ll albums to her credit and a Lifetime and folk traditions to the personal, observation, imitation, and imagination, you’ll write the songs of your soul. You Achievement Award from the social, and environmental problems transform yourself in the golden crucible of alchemy. “It’s only by transforming Americana Music Association, Cris don’t have to be a musician or a writer to take this workshop; you do have to be we face today. She is the author of ourselves that we can hope to transform the world,” Sharon says. Join her for continues to tour, including three a seeker. Anyone can do this, and Cris will show you how. You’ll discover that The Long Delirious Burning Blue; this powerful workshop in learning to speak the language of the soul, and begin sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, If Women Rose Rooted; and The you can be good at it, too, starting with baby steps. If you play an instrument, your own journey of transformation. and headlines many of the great folk Enchanted Life. She is currently you’re invited to bring it; if you don’t play, you’ll have accompaniment. Bonds festivals, including Newport, Kerrville, working between the west coast of This program is one day longer than our weekend programs and costs $150 Moab, and Vancouver. and lifelong friends are made quickly here. You will find each other, and Cris Ireland and Wales. more. Take both programs and get a 10% discount on your program and will be a guide. accommodation fees.
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A p r i l 24-26 M ay 1-3 What’s in a Name? Knowing Spring Trees Break Free Together: Freedom from Silence, Shame, h m i c h a e l wo j t e c h and Religious Trauma h linda kay klein Delight in the splendor of spring trees at Rowe—their bark, their buds, the Move from silence and shame into voice and freedom, exploring the beginnings of new leaves and flowers—and learn to know them by name! causes and effects of religiously rooted trauma and recovery inda, a survivor of religious trauma who has spent 15 years researching elebrate the new or soon-to-arrive spring bloom of leaves and flowers in it, will gently guide you to release damaging religious teachings that keep Linda Kay Klein is the founder of Rowe’s forests and feed your curiosity to know more about trees. Michael will L Michael Wojtech, a freelance C you from claiming your whole self—including your story, your body, and Break Free Together and author of naturalist, writer, teacher, illustrator, help you to identify tree species by their bud, leaf, bark, and other characteristics PURE: Inside the Evangelical Movement your spirituality (whatever that means to you). Using art, writing, breathing, and photographer, is author of Bark: and to understand the functional advantages of these myriad traits. You’ll get to that Shamed a Generation of Young visualization, embodied experience, creative exercises, and small group sharing A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast know trees across a range of scales, from cells to forest ecosystems, and through Women and How I Broke Free. She has (“Michael is the expert when it in which you’ll be allowed to come into voice in your own way and in your been featured on CBS National News expanses of time, so that you can enjoy watching tender new leaves and flowers comes to identifying trees by their own time, you’ll explore your experiences with religion and spirituality and the and on NPR. She and her work have bark, and his book Bark is a must for bloom from sugar maple buds and grow into energy-producing leaves and been written about in Elle Magazine, legacies of those experiences. You’ll learn about Religious Trauma Syndrome anyone interested in natural history” seeds, or the smooth bark of a young oak slowly develop furrows and add new Good Housekeeping, Vice, the New York and the differences between capital “T” and lower-case “t” traumas. For example, —Tom Wessels). He also is co- protective layers. You’ll also explore what makes this sense of “knowing” about Post, the Chicago Tribune, Fox News author, with artist Julia Kuo, of many experience lower-case “t” trauma growing up within a system that declares Online, and other national media trees feel so potent, so vital—how learning names and practical facts can open a Drawing Trees and Leaves. He earned their bodies are sinful and that, if they don’t fulfill particular gender or sexuality outlets. Linda is also the founder his master’s degree in Conservation window into deeper understanding and connection. When the weekend is over, and former director of the award- stereotypes, they’re somehow “less than.” At this inclusive workshop, all are Biology from Antioch University you’ll be able to walk through a typical forest and actually know what you are winning program Work on Purpose, welcome. (However, it’s not appropriate for people actively recovering from New England, where he edited the seeing. a leadership-development model that journal Whole Terrain. capital “T” Traumas, such as sexual violence, as Linda is not a licensed therapist.) helps people find their purpose and put it into action.
M ay 1-3 Rowe’s Community Service Volunteer Program Saint Francis, Dogen, and Rumi: Three Great Reverend Mystics and What They Can Teach You Steve Kanji Volunteers are a part of the Rowe staff and work 33 hours Ruhl, M.Div., h s t e v e k a n j i r u h l a week in exchange for room, board, and the opportunity to received his Discover how three of the world’s most admired mystical teachers— attend some of the conferences. Stay from six weeks to nine Master of months, depending on your schedule. Work is arranged by Divinity degree Francis of Assisi, the Christian saint; Dogen, the great Zen Buddhist teach- matching Rowe’s needs with your skills and preferences and from Harvard er; and Rumi, the Islamic Sufi master—can enliven your spiritual journey. may include housekeeping, maintenance, office work, or University, cooking. The study portion of the program is self‑directed where he did intensive study of aint Francis, Dogen, and Rumi flourished in the same tumultuous century, and includes personal reading and writing, group work, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Sand their lives, their poems, and their practices still motivate people today. conferences, the experience of living in community, and the other world religions. An ordained Rebels who revitalized the spiritual traditions they loved, they integrated mystical opportunity to practice new skills in day‑to‑day life. Zen Buddhist minister, Reverend Volunteers live with each other and in a more loosely Kanji has served as a Buddhist experiences of the sacred into their lives, and they can guide you in doing the knit community with the rest of our staff. Living, working, adviser at Yale University and is a same. Join Kanji, author of Enlightened Contemporaries: Saint Francis, Dogen, and core faculty member in the Shogaku hether you’re fresh out of college, going through a and playing with the same group of people is full of Rumi, and learn how the playboy who became a revolutionary Christian saint, Zen Institute and in Rowe’s Spiritual mid-life evaluation process, or newly retired, our complexities, challenges, and joy. Each person is invited W Guidance program. Kanji has the aristocrat who became a pioneering Buddhist monk, and the lawyer who volunteer program is a chance to take stock, explore new to speak honestly and openly, to find new ways to deal been a guest speaker or workshop became an ecstatic Muslim sage can serve as models of personal transformation, directions, meet wonderful people in a beautiful rustic with conflict, to take risks, to enter the mysterious realm facilitator at Harvard’s Center wisdom, and spiritual courage. Discover why Francis’s radical environmental setting, engage in meaningful work, and be a part of a of the inner life, and be transformed by the whole experience. for World Religions, Yale Divinity message, Dogen’s championing of women, and Rumi’s blissful erotic imagery of value‑based supportive community. If you believe in what Rowe is doing and have time to take a School, the Omega Institute, and Sabbatical is related to the word Sabbath: time outside break in your life, please check out the program at elsewhere. In addition to Enlightened seeking the Divine feel so modern. Participate in Dogen’s Zen meditation, Rumi’s normal time. Many have found our volunteer program to www.rowecenter.org. Call 413-339-4954 or send an email Contemporaries, he is the author of ecstatic dance, and Francis’s songs and contemplative prayer. Experience the be a wondrous, enlightening respite. Others deepen their to [email protected] for more information. The Constant Yes of Things: Selected heart of their spiritual teachings, explore their poetry, and share a pilgrimage commitment to volunteerism, an opportunity for service. Poems 1973-2018. walk on Rowe’s nature trails.
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Ellen Bass is M ay 8-10 a Chancellor of May 10-14 (S u nday -T h u r s day ) the Academy of The Writing Life: A Springtime Retreat for Writers American Poets. Her poetry of All Kinds h ellen bass Spring Work Week h f r i e n d s o f r ow e books include “Ellen Bass’s frighteningly personal poems about sex, love, birth,
IRENE YOUNG Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. motherhood, and ageing are kept from mere confession by the graces onderful food, real and important work, the beauty love. Folks in mid-career, in transition, or retired see this She co-edited (with Florence Howe) of wit, an observant eye, an empathetic heart, and just the right image Wof springtime, evening entertainment, outstanding as a refreshing break and a great place to meet new friends. the first major anthology of women’s deployed at just the right time” —Billy Collins company, and a special kind of bonding are what we of- Join this happy, productive crew for a day or two poetry, No More Masks! Her newest fer in exchange for your labor. We respect hard work and or all five, but be careful; it can be habit forming! collection, Indigo, merges elegy and eave the rush of your busy life—be still enough to hear the stories and expect a lot from ourselves and from those who join our Some of us have been doing this for years. praise poem in an exploration of life’s poems that gestate within you. With Ellen’s expert guidance, you’ll write, complex grey areas. Her non-fiction L productive and delightful work par- books include Free Your Mind: The Book share your writing, and hear what your work touches in others. You’ll also read ty. Re-experience what your body for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth; I model poems and prose by contemporary writers and discuss specific aspects can do; find the relaxation intrinsic Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women of the craft, but mainly this will be a writing retreat—time to explore and to meaningful physical work; bring Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse; create in a supportive community, helping each other to become clearer, go more beauty to this good earth. Pay by and The Courage to Heal: A Guide the sweat of your brow. If you have for Women Survivors of Child Sexual deeper, take new risks. With the inspiration of this gathering, you will have the Abuse, which has sold over a million opportunity to create writing that is more vivid, more true, more complex and friends with skills and open hearts, copies and has been translated into 12 powerful than you’ve been able to do before. Whether you are interested in invite them along; we welcome anyone. Work Week is Rowe’s most inter- languages. She teaches in the MFA poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, or journal writing, this weekend will provide writing program at Pacific University. generational gathering. Campers not a rich opportunity to immerse yourself in the writing life. Both beginners and long out of Rowe Camp see this as a experienced writers are welcome. cool chance to return to the place they Dana G. Cohen, M ay 8-10 MD, is the Medical Director of Complete New Science, Ancient Tools: Functional Medicine Wellness, an M ay 15-17 Meets Vibrational Healing integrative health center in Manhattan At the Edge of the Abyss: Life’s Seven Major Passages h dana g. cohen & bhajan akal singh and co-author of Quench: Beat Fatigue, e. h. rick jarow Experience more energy, focus, and better digestion through healing Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body and Their Call to Transformation h techniques based on functional medicine and Kundalini yoga. Through the New Science of Optimum Learn how to work with the most urgent and agonizing issues in your Hydration. She earned her medical personal life—and in the collective life of our planet. degree from St. George’s University or thousands of years, great civilizations have utilized the healing School of Medicine, did her internal s societies, and indeed the planet itself, hurtle toward an abyss of properties of water, sound vibration, and the technology of Kundalini medicine residency at Albany Medical F environmental catastrophe, endless conflict, and general mean-spiritedness, Center, and was board-certified in A Yoga to maintain alignment with their inner and outer ecosystems. Mystics E.H. Rick Jarow, PhD, works as 1998. She trained under Dr. Robert there is a call for deeper methods and perspectives. Join Rick to discover consider water to be the first medicine. For functional medicine, water a Transformative Language Artist, Atkins, author of the iconic Dr. Atkins’ traditional Western esoteric and contemporary depth-psychology techniques astrological guide, and facilitator of and optimal hydration are the first steps to treat and prevent chronic New Diet Revolution. for navigating your life’s seven major passages of transformation. Six of these interior journeys through meditation, illness. Sounds, including mantras, chants, and drumming, have been used are associated with planetary energies: Saturn governs crises involving limits, poetics, depth psychology, and the worldwide for healing for millennia; Kundalini yoga activates energy at the Bhajan Akal Singh structures, governments, and more; Uranus corresponds to the impulse for therapeutic arts. He is the author of base of the spine, channeling it through the chakras in a process of spiritual is an active sound numerous books, including Alchemy practitioner, teacher, freedom from stagnant situations; Neptune rules periods of inspiration as well as perfection. Join Dr. Cohen, nationally renowned internal and functional of Abundance, Creating the Work You researcher, and times of “getting lost”; Pluto’s passages concern initiation into the depths and the Love, and The Advanced Manifestation medicine doctor, and Bhajan, specialist in sound healing, as they guide you ceremonialist. A potentials of rebirth; Jupiter provides expansion of your horizons; and Venus, Program. He is professor of Religious through a journey of new science and ancient healing methods. You’ll come graduate of the Woom Sound School of course, governs love and all of love’s travails. The seventh passage involves Studies at Vassar College and the away with a five-day jumpstart plan consisting of small, simple movements in New York, Bhajan’s vibrational chairperson of the Carolyn Grant ’36 sessions have been described as a reconciling all these forces into the forging of your own authentic path. Please you can make each day to move water through tissues that hydrate your Endowment Committee on embodied mixture of shamanism, Kundalini yoga, note: if you register at least one week before, you’ll receive a chart from Rick learning and the mythic imagination. body; meal plans, including smoothies and elixirs using the most hydrating Tantra yoga, and Asian acupressure. that can help pinpoint the major passages you are facing. and nutrient-packed plants; and a lifetime plan for continued improvements.
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M ay 15-17 M ay 22-25 (F r i day -M o nday ) A Wild Love for the World: Celebrating the Life and Family Camp: Multi-Generational Music, Work of Joanna Macy h s t e p h a n i e k a z a , w i t h g u e s t s Stephanie Folk Dance, and Art (Ages 6+) Kaza, PhD, has Joanna Macy turns 91 this month! Join us to celebrate the many facets worked closely h walter cudnohufsky & rachel gibson and remarkable accomplishments of a beloved teacher who taught at with Joanna Macy Rachel Gibson, PhD, taught Rowe for 38 years! and her students elementary school music and is his Memorial Day weekend, come revel in four very special days of artistic and colleagues currently an Associate Professor of play for all generations. Under the proven adage that “everyone is an artist to create the T oanna Macy’s life and teachings have inspired hundreds of thousands of people Music at Westfield State University, new book A Wild Love for the World: and musician,” your co-leaders will provide a safe and nurturing environment around the world to move from despair into gratitude, from paralysis induced where she is the coordinator of music J Joanna Macy and the Work of Our to explore the arts. With Rachel you will engage in singing games, folk dances, education and an elementary music by the state of the world to confident and effective environmental action. Krista Time. She is professor emerita of specialist. Rachel is also on faculty at instrument play, and songs from a variety of world cultures. Walt will lead you Tippett, host of “On Being,” says that “Joanna Macy embodies a singular clarity Environmental Studies, University the University of Montevallo Kodály gently through fun and simple drawing and painting exercises. Come prepared of vision about the totality of what it means to be human at this moment in time. of Vermont, and is now engaged in Institute in Alabama. to be moved and uplifted! You’ll leave with songs in your heart, matted pieces Her wild love for the world is a beacon to us all—and an exuberant invitation— climate advocacy with local faith- and-justice action groups in Portland, Walter Cudnohufsky has taught a of art in your hand, and resources to continue the experience. Most of all, you’ll to join our passion to hers, whatever the lives we lead.” Oregon. Her Buddhist roots are in popular 10-month watercolor class have the warm satisfaction of giving yourself memories you will never forget. Come celebrate Joanna’s big ideas and calls for action at this special tribute Soto Zen. She is the author of Green for adults since 2007 in Ashfield, This workshop is open to all: Grandparents with grandchildren, parents and weekend honoring her remarkable accomplishments. Throughout the program, Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Mass., and also conducts occasional watercolor classes for children. caregivers with children, any variations of family, and individual adults. No prior contributors to the book A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Action in Uncertain Times; Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Author of several books, he is the experiences in music, dance, or art are necessary to enjoy this wonderful artistic Our Time will provide experiential workshops offering transformative practices Environmentalism; Mindfully Green; principal landscape architect at Walter celebration. that draw on her work and apply her systems-oriented and Buddhist-oriented and Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Cudnohufsky Associates, Inc. See our website for prices. frameworks to today’s environmental challenges. Joanna hopes to join us Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume. through a video call from her home in Berkeley, if possible. Come celebrate Jon Young’s M ay 22-25 (F r i day -M o nday ) Joanna’s crucial work and recommit to reinvigorate, restore, and repair our often leading-edge work on bird fragile sense of belonging with Earth and each other. Check our website for more Joanna Macy, Exploring the Language of Birds h jon young, language has information. PhD, author, been included in teacher, activist, amy hyatt, and david & saskia vanderhoop his book What the created a Discover how understanding the language of birds—what they are Robin Knows and ground-breaking showcased in other books, including telling each other and what they are telling you—can enrich your life in framework for Animal Tracking Basics, Coyote’s Guide personal and social practical and surprising ways. to Connecting with Nature, Bird Talk, change called he communication network of birds is a vast, complex, and delicate and Exploring Natural Mysteries. His The Work That Reconnects. Bill work is also the subject of the popular McKibben says of her work: “Joanna T instrument humans can easily tap into. Bird language is a way to learn about audio CD series Seeing Through Native Macy is one of the planet’s treasures.” what’s happening across a landscape, including the presence of predators or the Eyes and Advanced Bird Language. Her books include Coming Back to discovery of a food source. Since the beginning of human history, people have Since 1983, Jon has been training and Life; The Work that Reconnects; Active mentoring people worldwide. Hope; Mutual Causality in Buddhism used this communication network for survival, and modern Indigenous peoples Amy Hyatt has been working and General Systems Theory; Widening still depend on it. Many people who study bird language find that this ancient professionally in community building Circles: A Memoir; World as Lover, and universal language has reawakened their connection to nature. Come and empowerment projects since World as Self, and translations of the experience it with our workshop leaders, who will teach you the principles of 1998. She has worked with the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Joanna Vermont Wilderness School in many received honorary degrees from bird language. If you have worked with them before, this longer program will capacities since 2001. New College of California, Starr King give you the opportunity to go even deeper. Working with a facilitator trained in School of Ministry, California Institute mapping, you’ll explore our beautiful bird-filled meadows and forests to observe David and Saskia Vanderhoop are of Integral Studies, and Alice Lloyd the founders-directors of Sassafras and listen to birds. You’ll bring your stories back to the group to create a bigger College and was honored with the Earth Education on Martha’s 2013 Bioneers Lifetime Contribution story. You’ll play games. You’ll return home with an increased sensitivity to your Vineyard island, a nonprofit that Award—and a Lifetime Membership surroundings and a deeper understanding of your relationship to—and role in has offered Nature-Connection from the Rowe Center! stewarding—the entire ecological system. Mentoring programs since 2005. This program lasts an extra day and costs an additional $150.
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M ay 29-31 Ecstatic Touch™ (Level 1): The Art of Pleasure h s a r a & t h o m a s s to u t Dedicate a weekend to bliss, sensuality, and ecstasy through the Tantric art of ecstatic touch!
oin Sara and Thomas, certified SkyDancing® Tantra teachers, in this Jtransformative seminar that weaves together sensuality and spirituality. Whether Sara & Thomas Stout, certified you attend partnered or solo, you’ll fine-tune your skills in the Tantric art of SkyDancing® Tantra teachers and faculty members of Ecstatic Living® ecstatic touch; learn sensuous, healing, and pleasurable whole-body touch; Institute, teach sacred sexuality integrate spirituality with your physical body; explore the surrender of giving and conscious relationship seminars and receiving; open new doors to the heart; and allow more pleasure and trust in California, on the East Coast, in your relationships. Employing conscious touch, ritual, and communication as and in Minnesota. Married for over 25 years, Sara and Thomas bring the foundations of this sensuous weekend seminar, you’ll experience deepened great warmth, insight, and humor connection with yourself as the difference between self and other dissolves into a into their workshops. For over two harmonious flow of ecstatic energies. Unlike traditional massage, Ecstatic Touch decades, while balancing their lives includes eye contact, communication, breath awareness, sensory play, and energy as parents and working professionals with backgrounds in psychotherapy movement. No previous experience necessary. For all genders, orientations, and and bodywork, Sara and Thomas relationships. Those who arrive partnered may work together exclusively during have cultivated what they call “the the workshop and with others, if they wish. Open to everyone. Take both programs art of intimate relating,” which they and receive a 10% discount on program and accommodation fees. Sponsored by beautifully demonstrate through Ecstatic Living® Institute. their workshops. They are also never-ending students of meditation, M ay 29-J u ne 1 (F r i day -M o nday ) Linda yoga, sexuality, and interpersonal Kohanov M ay 31-J u ne 2 (S u nday -T u e s day ) Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for is an author, dynamics. speaker, riding l i n da ko h a n ov Ecstatic Touch™ (Level 2) for Couples: Transformation and Self Discovery h instructor, Discover the creative and transformational aspects of equine wisdom. horse trainer, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy h sar a & thomas stout Sponsored by Ecstatic Living® Institute. internationally recognized Travel to peaks of excitement and through valleys of relaxation, access This Ecstatic Touch for Couples program orses mirror and can help you to recover the beauty, power, and nobility innovator in the field of Equine your innate ecstatic source, and discover how easy it is to “be” your is an advanced and intimate seminar for H of your own spirit, that elusive Presence so easily lost in the frenzy Experiential Learning, and respected essence and connect with yourself and your partner! partnered participants only. Prerequisite: and disconnection of modern life. During this workshop, you’ll receive a writer on the subject of Equine having participated in Ecstatic Touch: copy of the Way of the Horse deck and guidebook, which will be used as an Facilitated Psychotherapy. In addition ould you like to learn how to be a skillful, multi-orgasmic lover who The Art of Pleasure, another of Sara and to her latest book, The Five Roles of a Thomas’s introductory seminars, or other interactive learning tool. Linda will offer a sequence of experiential activities W effortlessly rides waves of sexual ecstasy and transforms lovemaking into Master Herder: A Revolutionary Model related experience. and journeying experiences designed to exercise greater facility in moving for Socially Intelligent Leadership, she a spiritual experience? Ecstatic Touch™ for Couples: The Art of Sexual Ecstasy back and forth “between the worlds.” The workshop also will include a half- has published The Tao of Equus: A takes the art form of Tantric pleasure to another level: infinite ecstasy. During this day trip to a local farm where you’ll learn a simple yet profound technique for Woman’s Journey of Healing and weekend, explore hands-on techniques to expand your capacity for ecstasy and Transformation through the Way of the being multi-orgasmic while giving and receiving whole-body conscious touch. connecting with the wisdom that living horses have to offer. This workshop Horse, selected as one of the Top Ten will be useful for equestrians and nonequestrians to access the unique Religion and Spirituality books of 2001 You’ll discover how to transform your sexual spark into a bonfire, become the wisdom that only horses can provide. No previous experience with or interest by Amazon.com; Riding Between master of your own ship, stay grounded and focused in waves of ecstasy, play in horses is required for exploring the profound ways that these animals the Worlds: Expanding Our Potential with the balance of control and surrendering into bliss, expand your idea of through the Way of the Horse; and what it means to be orgasmic, and cultivate deeper intimacy and trust with can inspire expanded states of consciousness that are useful in handling Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes your life’s challenges and accessing deeper levels of your human potential. for Self Discovery. She is the yourself and in your partnership. Learn to create a sacred and magical realm This program lasts an extra day and costs an additional $150 plus a $20 founder and director of Eponaquest of deep relaxation, profound pleasure, full presence, and heightened sensation. materials fee. Worldwide near Tucson, Arizona. Come away with lifelong tools for intimacy and connection!
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J u ne 5-7 J u ne 12-14 Soulful Relationships: The Secrets of Conscious Singing Our Stories Coupling h c h e l s e a wa k e f i e l d h k at h y w h i t e b u l l o c k & s i s t e r s Bring your partner and your relationship to a workshop that will shift Join Kathy, one of our long-time beloved presenters, and her three sisters, forever the way you experience loving and being loved. all accomplished Gospel musicians and teachers, to uncover your most powerful self through stories and songs as they share inspiring journeys eople are rarely arguing about the topics they are arguing about, and of breaking through barriers and embracing faith and joy. Kathy White Bullock, PhD, is a most people don’t understand the reasons why they drift into protective professor of music at Berea College in P Kentucky, where she teaches theory Chelsea disconnection. Join Chelsea, internationally recognized relationship expert athy, Lydia, Diane, and Earlene will take you into their hearts, and, with their and ethnomusicology and directs the Wakefield, and workshop leader, and discover what your conflicts are really about. Klove, their music, and their stories, they will have you singing, dancing, crying, Black Music Ensemble. She performs, PhD, LCSW, depth psychotherapist, Relationships have a predictable path of development, and, in the second stage, thinking, and discovering a deeper level of faith, healing, and hope to reveal your lectures, and leads workshops in the “soul worker,” couples therapist, most people get scared and begin to close their hearts. Relationships become most beautiful, powerful self. Their personal journeys from immense joys to deep US, western and southern Africa, writer, and international teacher and Europe, and the Caribbean. retreat leader, is the author of the profound invitations into transpersonal growth when we look at them through despair, from crippling pain to empowering love will challenge and inspire you. Reverend Lydia White Thomas forthcoming Labyrinth of Love as well the lens of the Self rather than the lens of Ego. You’ll learn about the essential Their career paths have included professor, consultant, composer, lawyer, business is a music director, singer, pianist, as Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty: capacities of a conscious relationship: courage drawn from the Self, commitment owner, contractor, pianist, author, preacher, workshop clinician, preacher’s wife, Becoming the Person You Were Meant to composer, and IT consultant and Be and In Search of Aphrodite: Women, to a process of growth and inquiry, the shift from furious to curious, how deeper minister of music, and choir director. They’ll share family stories of growing up in administrator. Archetypes, and Sex Therapy. She is listening leads to compassion, how creativity opens the possibility field, and Washington, D.C. during the Civil Rights Movement, of singing together, and of Diane White-Clayton, PhD, is an an associate professor and director of how mindfulness and differentiation assist us in conscious communication and life in the Black Baptist church pastored by their father. Join them to sing Gospel internationally renowned composer, the Couples Center at the University feeling truly understood. Come and deepen your sense of trust, connection, and inspirational songs, reflect through journaling or poetic expression, and singer, pianist, and director. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Earlene White Morgan, Esq., in was the founding director of the Rowe passion, and satisfaction. Open to couples at all stages of relationship, gender, dance, dance, dance! addition to being a lawyer, is a singer Spiritual Guidance Training Program. or sexual orientation. and instrumentalist.
Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding P e r s o n a l R e t r e at s a n d G r o u p R e n ta l s and Following An Authentic Relax, Relate, Reflect, Revitalize Life— rated J u ne 5-7 among the “Top 20 Career reate your own private retreat. a community meal. Watch the sunset traditional room, $125 for a comfort Callings: Finding Your Authentic Life h g r e g g l e voy Publications” by the Workforce C At Rowe, the soul-sustaining from the porch swing and marvel at room, and $150 a night for a studio. What will it take to make your life “come true”? Information Group — and Vital Signs: beauty of nature abounds. Walk the awesome night sky. Spend part of These rates apply only on nights when Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion in our enchanted forest. Enjoy the there is no programming. If you need hat kind of life is calling you? Would it involve changing careers, for Life, is the former behavioral sights and sounds of the waterfall. a cost break, we will barter. going back to school, starting or leaving a relationship, moving to the specialist at USA Today and a regular W Delight in tranquility by our old mill On weekdays and sometimes blogger for Psychology Today. A former country, making a creative leap, starting a new venture, having a child? Or is adjunct professor of journalism at pond. Fall, winter, and spring, our on weekends, our guest rooms, life calling you to be something: more creative, less judgmental, more loving? the University of New Mexico and guestrooms offer quiet and solitude conference rooms, and wonderful Are you being called toward or away from something, called to change or former columnist and reporter for the most weekdays. Take a break from food are available for your group to renew your commitment to something, or called to return to a place or pursuit Cincinnati Enquirer, he has written your busy life and reconnect with your rent. Our new guest house is available about the subject of callings for the in an entirely new way? Join Gregg, author of Callings: Finding and Following An soul. Come alone, bring a friend, or for summer group rentals. We can host New York Times Magazine, Washington Authentic Life, to explore the psychological, spiritual, and practical processes Post, Omni, Fast Company, and other have a family reunion. weddings as well. you’ll encounter in listening and responding to your callings. Questions you’ll publications. He has presented widely, Make your own schedule. Get up your day in working meditation. Call us at 413-339-4954 or write tackle in this workshop will include: “What wants to emerge in my life right including at the Smithsonian Institute, at dawn or sleep in. Write, read, walk Weekday rates, including kitchen to [email protected] . We’d be Environmental Protection Agency, now? What does it ask of me? How do I tell the true call from the siren-song? the labyrinth, or simply do nothing privileges, are $65 a night for a dorm happy to send you our group rental National Conference on Positive at all. Help yourself to breakfast and room, $75 for an economy room, packet. How do I handle my resistance to it? What happens when I say no? What Aging, Microsoft, and the American lunch and join the staff when we have $90 for a rustic room, $110 for a happens when I say yes?” Counseling Association.
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YOUTH CAMPS VACATIONS WITH A PURPOSE Choosing the Right Summer Camp Can Be More Important Rowe’s Summertime Adult Community Retreats than Choosing the Right College! Each of our thriving summertime retreats offers in its own way an experience of community, connection, self-discovery, joy, and renewal.
In the seclusion and beauty surrounding us, and without distractions—electronic and otherwise—of the outside world, people open up to each other in profound ways. They welcome old friends and newcomers alike. You may arrive as strangers, but leave as friends. Which community is right for you? Fuller descriptions and registration information can be found on our website, www.rowecenter.org.
June 14-19 Skill Set: A Retreat for Young Adults 20-30 Skill Set is an opportunity for young adults to live, learn, and grow to- gether in a peer-led environment. It’s a chance to learn skills not taught in school but that are vital to young adults in building their lives and a world they want to live in. A special reduced sliding scale applies.
August 23-28 Kindred Spirits: A Community Supporting Healing and Self-Discovery At Rowe Youth Camp, we honor and respect young people, encouraging them to learn who they are and find their places in the world—and have fun in For more than 30 years, this community has been connecting people to the process. their sense of self, to the natural world, and to other human beings. As young people come to believe in themselves, they see the With roots in the 12-step recovery movement, it offers a summer-camp experience for adults to waken their hearts and move into wholeness. possibilities for changing the world, and camp becomes a model for connection, for peace, and for greatness. Young people develop at their own pace, in their own ways. To help parents and campers choose the August 29-September 3 Creativity Camp camp that is developmentally appropriate, we have listed our camps with Do you want to open your creative mind? Do you want to get out of your recommended yet flexible age guidelines. See the camp descriptions on head and experience art in new ways? Stretch your creative muscles with our website at www.rowecenter.org to learn what each camp offers. For more this exciting new camp for creative people of all interests and skill levels. information, please contact [email protected] or call 413-339-4954. You’ll explore the creative process through a variety of disciplines and have an opportunity to collaborate and mold this new five-day arts community.
T h e R owe Y o u t h C am p S c h ed u le August 29-September 3 WomenCircles: A Celebration of Women Young People’s Camp Deepen your connection to the spiritual world in a safe and supportive July 19-25 YPC 1 Ages 8-10 environment. Let beauty and joy refresh and renew you as you expand your July 26-Aug. 1 YPC 2 Ages 9-11 awareness of the sacred and find your inner truth at this yearly gathering of July 19-25 YPC 3 Ages 11-13 sisters in spirit. (1 week session) July 19-Aug.1 YPC 3 Ages 11-13 (2 week session) Sept . 4-7 Labor Day Retreat for Gay, Bisexual, and Junior High Camp Questioning Men June 28-July 18 Ages 13-15 Now in its 36th year, this is one of the nation’s longest-running gay Senior High Camp men’s retreats. The goal is to create a weekend of surprise, sharing, and August 2-22 Ages 16-19 self-nurturing, while building a long-lasting community of men and a more connected view of gay lives and the world.
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S e p tem b er 11-13 S e p tem b er 18-20 Members and Friends Vacation Retreat Writing from Earth’s Landscapes: A Mythic Journey h m a ry r e y n o l d s t h o m p s o n fter a long summer, we need this The schedule is relaxed. We’ll have a wonderful dinner, followed by Are you an activist longing to make a difference? A creative person with kick-back-and-relax celebration, some festivities and introductions entertainment, or those who prefer A much to offer but feeling blocked? A seeker looking for answers? Join where we thank and honor our Friday night. On Saturday morning, peace and quiet can chill in the Mary and discover how to write your mythic journey! members, visit with old friends, and we’ll offer a selection of workshops. farmhouse. On Sunday morning we’ll welcome newcomers. Then we’re off to beautiful Pelham sleep in, have a leisurely breakfast, and ewild your imagination and spark your Earth-born creativity. Awaken to the Mary Reynolds Thompson is the author of Embrace Your Inner Wild Lake for a gourmet picnic of harvest gather for a service in Rowe’s chapel. power of Earth’s metaphors as wisdom guides. Put language to your wildest R and Reclaiming the Wild Soul: How foods and an afternoon of sunning, To honor and thank our members, dreams and most authentic desires. Align your personal path with the dream of Earth’s Landscapes Restore Us to swimming, singing, socializing, and you pay only our fee for room and the Earth. Discover a nature-based writing practice that brings greater clarity to Wholeness. She is also an instructor napping. Some choose to go off to board, but there’s no discount. If your life path. Join Mary for this writing journey that roots your mythic story for the non-profit TreeSisters, a facilitator of poetry therapy and the Clark Art Museum, MASS MoCA, you’re not a member, there is an in five Earth archetypes: the deserts for initiation, the forests for inspiration, journal therapy, and a certified life or open-ended exploring. You’re additional $50 fee which also gives the oceans and rivers for depth, the mountains for ascent, and the grasslands coach who has helped thousands of welcome to join us for our annual you a one-year membership. Children for return. In writing from these ancestral landscapes, your personal search for people discover and live their Wild meeting at 4:00. The afternoon ends are welcome for half their parents’ cost, meaning becomes part of the dream of the Earth, gaining a fierce potency that Soul Story. She is the founder of Write The Damn Book, a program with hors d’oeuvres and schmoozing. and child-care will be provided in the awakens you to profound meaning and purpose, revealing your soul’s patterns that guides writers on the heroic The sauna is always open. mornings. This retreat is heartfelt, and potential through image and metaphor. It is time to write a wilder, larger, journey from procrastination to On Saturday night, we’ll have warm, embracing, and inspiring. and deeper story for your life. No previous writing experience is required. publication, and is a core faculty member of the Therapeutic Writing Institute in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
S e p tem b er 18-20 Michael Harner’s Shamanic Divination Training S e p tem b er 18-20 h n a n m o s s Mushrooms are Magical! Learn how to converse with plant and animal spirits, to use quartz crystals, and how to seek and receive revelatory knowledge from visionary sources. h dav i d w i l l i a m f i s c h e r Come forage in the woods of Rowe, exploring in a hands-on way the huge f you’ve taken the prerequisite Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS) role fungi play in our lives and discovering new ways to partner with them! Iworkshop “The Way of the Shaman”® with an authorized FSS Faculty Member, here is your next step. One of the classic tasks of the shaman is to ushrooms are magical, marvelous, mysterious, and amazing! Veteran journey into non-ordinary reality in order to obtain answers to questions, both at mycologist David William Fischer has celebrated their secrets for over the request of others and for yourself. This weekend you’ll have the opportunity M Nan Moss is a longstanding faculty 30 years as an author and teacher, often employing poetry, music, and art to do David WIlliam Fischer is a member of the Foundation for to engage in divination journeys and gain experience in using various time-tested so, and there’s no better guide to help you learn about their fantastic benefits. renowned mushroom expert, writer, Shamanic Studies, an international shamanic divination techniques. In the shamanic search to become a person of Discover how consuming mushrooms can bolster human health; how to find and environmental advocate who has organization founded by Michael knowledge, you’ll learn, as shamans have from time immemorial, techniques the best wild mushrooms; how to identify and enjoy gourmet wild mushrooms been featured on NPR, the National Harner that is a leader in the that will serve you well. Please bring the following items: a rattle, a drum, or Geographic Channel, and other major resurgence of Western shamanism. without getting sick or dying; why plants, animals, and fungi are all absolutely media. His classic volume Edible She studied shamanism with both (if you have them); bandanna or eye covering; pen and notebook; rough- dependent on each other; why and how mushrooms have evolved several Wild Mushrooms of North America indigenous teachers of Brazil, Norway, surfaced, grapefruit-sized rock (not a crystal); small quartz crystal, at least one different times in Earth’s biological history; why fungi have the wildest sex lives; (University of Texas Press) has stood Siberia, China, and the western US inch long; blanket; and eight small objects, which you can hold together in your how they sometimes pop up overnight; how to keep children and pets safe from as “the” book on that subject for and has explored Celtic shamanistic cupped hands and that you picked up outdoors. over 25 years. He is also coauthor traditions as well. She is the author lawn mushrooms; how fungi powerfully enhance and inspire human spirituality, of the encyclopedic Mushrooms of of Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Note: Successful completion of this workshop is one of the prerequisites culture, health, and nutrition (after all, fungi existed for over 100 million years Northeastern North America. Our Connection to the Elements. to receive the FSS Gold Certificate of Completion. Thirteen FSS Continuing without humans, and we evolved into their world), and much more! Education (CE) credits available.
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S e p tem b er 25-27 * S e p tem b er 25-27 Coming Home to Your Heart A Death of One’s Own: Creating a Home Funeral Edward Espe h e dwa r d e s p e b r ow n h h e i d i bo uc h e r Brown began Zen practice Learn how to make yourself at home in your body and in your mind, Join Heidi, one of the leading proponents of the Home-Death-Care and cooking at this place, at this time, through being present with your thoughts, movement, and learn how to care for a loved one before and after death. in 1965 and feelings, sensations, and emotions. was ordained as a priest by he time between a loved one’s death and the burial or cremation is a powerful ou might not know Edward’s name immediately, but you probably know Shunryu Suzuki period of transition for the person who has died, for you, and for grieving the legendary Tassajara Bread Book and that staple of the Rowe kitchen, T Heidi Boucher, a leading pioneer in Roshi in 1971. His teaching style is Y family and friends. When you and your family are supported in reclaiming the the home-death-care movement, has both light-hearted and penetrating, The Complete Tassajara Cookbook—both authored by Edward. He’s also a noted experiences and emotions of death in your own unique ways, you can find that been guiding families in caring for their incorporating poetry and story- Zen teacher, and this weekend he will share his “Zen and Beyond” teachings— own dead for over 35 years, helping telling. In addition to writing The the healing process is deepened and connections with each other are strengthened. including the utter impossibility of getting the world to be invariably to your them bring beauty, artistry, and Tassajara Bread Book, The Complete Heidi, a home-death-care guide featured in The New York Times and elsewhere, will reverence to the vigils they create and Tassajara Cookbook, and No Recipe, liking—so that you can be at home in the here-and-now, at home on the help you rediscover practices that once were a natural and normal part of everyday to sacred spaces for community to he is the editor of Not Always So: groundless ground. You’ll be sitting quietly, walking on the earth, and doing life: the rituals of caring for deceased loved ones at home and creating sacred gather and mourn. She is also the writer, Zen Lectures by Suzuki Roshi. The some qi gong, useful practices for seeing what you notice, for noticing what you producer, and director of In The Parlor: Most Important Point, a collection of space for family and friends to gather. This workshop gently introduces and shares see. You’ll also participate in Tasting Experiences, not to see if something tastes The Final Goodbye, an award winning Edward’s lectures, was published last ideas addressing the practical aspects of home-death-care, creating sacred space documentary featuring three families year. He is the subject of the critically the way it should, but to taste what is actually in your mouth. Feeling your way for vigils, washing and dressing the body, home funerals and green burial, self-care, and their journeys in caring for their own acclaimed movie How to Cook Your along, you’ll be coming home—to the moment, to your senses, and to your ways to stay connected with your loved one, and more. loved ones after death —a film that will Life and also leads workshops on heart. Welcome. be screened during the Rowe workshop. Liberation Through Handwriting and She also lectures internationally on the Mindfulness Touch. topic of caring for the dead.
S e p tem b er 25-27 S e p tem b er 27-O cto b er 1 The Thinning Veil: Autumnal Plant Magic (S u n d ay -T h u r s d ay )
h l i z migliorelli Autumn Work Week Discover deeply nourishing spiritual ways to honor the magic of autumn, through plant medicine, elixirs, herbal allies, and more! friends of rowe
oin Liz, founder of Sister Spinster Apothecary, and build relationships with Jplants and practices that have been used for this “thinning veil” time of Wonderful food, real and important work, the year, when ancestors and spirits are close. Rooted in Old European folk-magic beauty of the fall, evening entertainment, outstanding traditions, this class explores healing rituals, folklore, and medicine-making that company, and a special kind of bonding are what we can connect you to the spirit and medicine of place, offering examples of ways Liz Migliorelli is a community offer in exchange for your labor. We respect hard to work intimately with the land and season of autumn. You’ll work closely with herbalist and founder of Sister Spinster work and expect a lot from ourselves and from those Mugwort, Elder, and the fairy-tree, Apple. Each night you and other participants Apothecary. Liz’s people are Western who join our productive and delightful work Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and will collectively incubate a plant dream with herbal allies and each morning party. Re-experience what your body can do; find volcano folk from Napoli. She lives in spend some time reflecting on the herbal dreamwork. You’ll craft medicines for the Hudson River Valley in New York the relaxation intrinsic to meaningful physical work; Camp see this as a cool chance to return to the place your personal apothecary to keep you nourished throughout the season, such where she teaches classes on folklore, bring more beauty to this good earth. Pay they love. Folks in mid-career, in transition, or retired as an immunity elixir, a dreaming syrup, and an apple essence that you’ll join ancestral remembrance, and plant by the sweat of your brow. If you have friends see this as a refreshing break and a great place to meet medicine and magic. Her work with others in creating in the magical Rowe orchard. You’ll drink deeply from the well with skills and open hearts, invite them along; we new friends. Join this happy, productive crew for a plants is inspired by community care, of old folk magic and leave feeling prepared to craft your own season-honoring flowers, social justice, old folkways, welcome anyone. Work Week is Rowe’s most inter- day or two or all five, but be careful; it can be habit rituals at home. and emerging folkways. generational gathering. Campers not long out of Rowe forming! Some of us have been doing this for years. There is an additional $20 materials fee for this program.
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O cto b er 2-4 O cto b er 9-12 (F r i day -M o nday ) Kathryn Creating Mandala Art for the Harvest Time: Costa is Building a Vocal Community®: Singing in the an artist, h kathryn costa writer, and African-American Tradition h y s ay e b a r n w e l l educator who Join Kathryn as she guides you in creating art based on sacred geometry, has opened Reserve quickly: This workshop is a whole lot of fun and sells out early! labyrinths, and nature! Experience the joy of creating your own mandala the door to art for relaxation, insight, and self-expression. creative joy ne of the most energetic and beloved workshop leaders ever to come to for thousands Rowe, Ysaye will envelop you in the joy of community through the music of people in 175 countries through O he fall is a wonderful time of harvest—and a time to reflect on your personal her YouTube videos, online courses, of the African-American vocal tradition, including calls and chants, spirituals, Tharvests, those blessings from the year thus far. During this weekend of workshops, and book The Mandala ring shouts, hymns, gospels, songs of the Civil Rights Movement, and songs Ysaye M. Barnwell holds a doctorate in speech making mandala art, you’ll have space to access your inner intuitive artist Guidebook: How to Draw, Paint, and of contemporary struggle. Mostly you’ll sing, but she also will bring her deep Color Expressive Mandala Art. Her pathology and a postdoctoral degree and create something uniquely yours. The mandala, Sanskrit for “circle,” is a passion can be summed up in three knowledge of the African-American tradition to discussions about the songs’ in public health. Starting in 1979, she beautiful container for adding color and patterns, but creating mandalas is so little words: “create and connect.” historical, social, and political contexts. She will introduce you to the values performed and recorded with the much more than making pretty pictures; when you step before the circle, you get Kathryn’s workshops help people find embedded in the music, the role of cultural and spiritual traditions and rituals, internationally renowned a cappella quartet Sweet Honey In the Rock centered, immersed in beauty. You slow down and listen to your intuition and clarity, let go of fear, embrace their ways in which leadership emerges and can be shared, and the nature of cultural dreams, and explore their creativity. and composed some of the group’s inner wise self. This creating and connecting lead to deep insights and answers. When Kathryn isn’t creating mandalas, response to political struggle. On Saturday and Sunday evenings, there will be most popular songs. She retired Creating mandalas, combined with guided “soul journey” meditations, journal she enjoys art journaling, collage, films, discussions, impromptu performances, or sing-a-longs led by some of from Sweet Honey in 2013. writing, setting intentions and using affirmations—with plenty of time to slip mixed media, photography, and the workshop participants. into the creative zone—is a powerful practice. You’ll go home with completed ikebana (Japanese flower arranging). No prior musical experience is necessary; the only requirements are a artwork and practical tips for continuing your mandala practice long after the willingness to sing as fully as you can and to embrace joy. weekend. For all levels. Beginners welcome—no drawing experience necessary. This Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day weekend workshop lasts an All tools and supplies provided. extra day and costs an additional $150. O cto b er 2-4 and O cto b er 5-7 Fundraising for Social Change: Building a Strong Individual-Donor Program h s t e p h a n i e r ot h Join Stephanie, trainer and consultant with social-justice groups, for a fun, interactive workshop that will help you create an action plan for success!
he purpose of fundraising is to build relationships. Focusing on the T relationships, rather than just the donations, will result in loyal donors who give money, time, visibility, ideas, and contacts to your organization. This workshop will help you create or expand and strengthen your individual-donor
Stephanie Roth has been consulting, fundraising program. You’ll learn how to build a broad base of individual donors, training, coaching, and writing widely with a focus on strategies for donor engagement. You’ll also discuss and learn on fundraising and board development about common taboos regarding money and how to move past them. You’ll for the past 30 years. With Kim discover how to keep track of your donors, design and run donor campaigns, Klein, she is also a founder of Klein and Roth Consulting, where she has find the right people to ask, how to recruit and support a team of askers, and trained fundraisers from thousands create a fundraising plan. This very practical course is grounded in social- of organizations in how to build, justice values and assumes that organizations will lead with their mission and maintain, and expand a broad base of vision. This workshop is designed for staff, board members, and volunteers. individual donors. Stephanie currently serves as Development Director at Organizations are encouraged to send several people. CLAM, an affordable housing land This program is offered twice to accommodate people with different trust in rural Northern California. schedules.
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O cto b er 9-12 (F r i day -M o nday ) Peter Gray, O cto b er 16-18 research professor Freeing Our Children to Learn and Grow in of psychology at Couples on the Path to Wholeness Boston College, is Our Ever-Changing World h peter gr ay,akilah the author of Free h j oy c e & b a r ry v i s s e l l to Learn: Why richards a lexa nder khost bria bloom , , Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Discover why Marianne Williamson says, “I can’t think of anything If you’re concerned about the happiness and healthy development of young Make Our Children Happier, More more important to the healing of our society than a connection between Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, people—not to mention the future of our country!—this workshop’s for you! spirituality, relationship, and parenthood. Bravo to the Vissells for helping and a blog called Freedom to Learn t’s a national problem that must be more fully recognized: Children in today’s for Psychology Today. He is a founding us find the way.” Joyce Vissell, RN, MS, is a nurse/ I society have only a fraction of the freedom their parents and grandparents member and president of the nonprofit therapist and Barry Vissell, MD, is Alliance for Self-Directed Education magine your relationship expressing the true depths of your love and a medical doctor and psychiatrist. enjoyed. Less free to play, explore, and pursue their own interests than in decades They have been deeply in love for and a founding board director of the commitment. If you’re in love, this retreat is an opportunity to rise even past, our kids are burdened with lengthier schooling (and greater rigidity therein), nonprofit Let Grow. I 55 years, have raised three children, constant adult surveillance and control in and out of school, over-concerns for higher in love. If you’re facing challenges, this retreat is an opportunity for have been teaching at Rowe for 27 Akilah S. Richards healing on a profound level. You’ll learn tools for deeper appreciation, healthy years, and “walk their talk.” Their their safety, and appallingly decreased trust. They are experiencing record rates of hosts the Fare of the communication of feelings, the effects of using your partner as a mirror— model of relationship and deeply anxiety, depression, and even suicide. This weekend, Rowe presents four people Free Child podcast, heart-oriented approach have made a who promote children’s freedom on many levels. Their presentations and exercises featuring episodes working with positive as well as negative projections—understanding and unique impact upon many thousands aim at stimulating thought about childhood and the value of play. In discussions on Self-Directed respecting each other’s differences, resolving conflicts, apologizing (making of people’s lives. As a result of the Education among amends), sharing sexual wellness and happiness, and developing a true inner world-wide interest in their nine based on your concerns and experiences and those of other participants, you’ll Black, Indigenous, and People of connection with your partner. You’ll learn a creative process to allow past hurts books, including The Shared Heart, discover what can be done at the level of the family, neighborhood, school, city, Color (BIPOC) communities. She has Models of Love, To Really Love a state, and nation to engage the curiosity, playfulness, and sociability of our kids; written for Mater Mea, My Brown Baby, to heal, conflicts to be resolved, and trust to grow. There will be exercises and Woman, and To Really Love a Man, to stimulate their self-direction genes; and to liberate them from the bind that Mutha Magazine, and Tipping Points, practices for couples to do with each other. they have been conducting talks and the online magazine of the Alliance they—and as a consequence, we—are in. workshops on relationship, parenting, for Self-Directed Education, where and personal growth. This program lasts an extra day and costs an extra $150. The retreat is family she is a founding board member. Her friendly, with ample opportunity for children to play and explore. Couples forthcoming book is Raising Free People. O cto b er 16-18 Resmaa receive a 10% discount, and each child above the age of six comes for only $100. Alexander (Alex) Menakem is Khost is the Restore, Reclaim, and Re-source: Healing the the founder Editor-in-Chief of Justice Body’s Racial Trauma h r e s m a a m e n a k e m and columnist for Leadership Tipping Points, the Join Resmaa for this powerful weekend and begin learning how you can Solutions, a online magazine of recover from the racial trauma that you—and all of us in America—carry consultancy the Alliance for Self- firm dedicated in the body. Directed Education. He is the founder to “coaching of Flying Squads and Voice of the leaders through civil unrest and mericans suffer from the historical and perpetual myth that Black bodies, Children, and serves on the Board of restlessness so that they may create Friends of the Modern School. He also A Native bodies, and other bodies of color are inherently deviant and justice for all.” He is the author of is a facilitator at the Brooklyn Apple subordinate to the dominant “white body supremacy structure.” This translates three books: My Grandmother’s Academy. Hands, 101 Tips for Emerging Justice to “white-body supremacy trauma” that everyone—people of color and white- Bria Bloom, raised Leaders and Rock the Boat: How identified individuals—integrate into their bodies and that communities and as an unschooler, is to Use Conflict to Heal and Deepen systems, including white-identified ones, integrate into their structures. People an advocate for Self- Relationships. Resmaa has appeared of color, of course, suffer most immediately and acutely from this ongoing Directed Education on the Oprah Winfrey and Dr. and young people’s Phil shows as an expert on conflict trauma, in which the pain of racism and white-body supremacy is inflicted on rights. She lives in Portland, Oregon. mediation, self-care, and healing, and black or brown or other bodies deemed inferior by white-supremacist culture. She is a writer and a facilitator and has been a non-profit executive and Resmaa teaches the basics of Cultural Somatics training, which directly address founder of PDX Flying Squads (a business owner for over 25 years. the many dimensions associated with how the body carries racialized trauma. community for self-directed young He is a certified Psychological First people.) She is also the Managing Aid Trainer and Responder, teaching Join him to find strength and healing that is holistic and resilient, setting a Coordinator for the Alliance for Self- the basics of cultural somatics and course for healing historical and racialized trauma carried in your body. Please Directed Education. psychological first-aid to participants. bring a yoga mat, a pillow, and wear loose, comfortable clothing.
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Nature Escape: Drawing, Exploring, and Meditation Holy Trouble: Teresa of Avila as a Guide to a Radically Mirabai Starr, known clare walker leslie h Authentic Life h m i r a b a i s ta r r for her teachings on Cultivate an abiding connection with a great wisdom being, Teresa With careful guidance from Clare, learn fun and simple ways to draw, to the mystics, see, to become mindful, and to find solace in the ways of the plants, birds, of Avila, available as a loving guide for your spiritual journey of contemplative animals, and weather, and in Rowe’s beautiful late-autumn landscape! awakening and service. practice, and the transformational power of grief, is the author of Wild earn how to use pencil, pen, colored pencils, and simple watercolor eresa of Avila is as relevant today as she was 500 years ago when she traveled Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Ltechniques as Clare leads you in beginners’ techniques for drawing local Tthe rugged Spanish countryside. Teresa was on fire with longing for the divine, Wisdom of the Women Mystics; Mother of God Similar to Fire; translations of plants, trees, birds, other animals, rocks, and waterfalls in the wooded and who she related to as “Beloved,” and she was equally grounded and practical. Teresa of Avila and Julian of Norwich, meadow landscapes surrounding Rowe. Clare will show you how to draw “God,” Teresa famously said, “lives among the pots and pans.” Teresa was both and other books. In her acclaimed nature anywhere; it is all about learning to see, she says, and, in the seeing, wild and shrewd, a besotted mystic and a skilled reformer. She was subversive, translations of the mystics Mirabai uses Clare Walker Leslie, artist, to find great comfort, care, curiosity, and wonder. She emphasizes the process in the very best sense, stirring up the pot of organized religion and igniting the fresh, lyrical language to help make naturalist, writer, and educator, is timeless wisdom accessible. She was the author of 54 nature journals and of drawing rather than any finished product and encourages the joy of being hearts of countless women (and a few daring men). Join Mirabai—who has an adjunct professor of Philosophy and 13 books, including Keeping A Nature with nature that simple drawing offers. During this weekend, you’ll spend time translated some of the greatest literary and spiritual jewels of this mystical master World Religions at the University of Journal, Drawn To Nature, Nature indoors learning techniques and spend time outdoors for demonstrations on into fresh, accessible, contemporary English—for a weekend gathering that will New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and Drawing, and the most recent, A Year how to draw nature while wandering—with plenty of time, too, for reflective weave contemplative listening with deep dialogue, silent sitting, evocative writing continues to teach widely. in Nature: A Memoir of Solace. She lives with her family in Cambridge, meditation techniques considering the solace that nature can provide, especially prompts, and inter-spiritual chanting, building community and refilling the cup of Massachusetts and Granville, during the time of this workshop, in the week before the presidential election. the heart. Discover for yourself why the teachings of Teresa of Avila resound across Vermont. Family groups are welcome also. the centuries with renewed vibrancy.
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O cto b er 23-25 Jericho Family Dreams: Healing Your Intimate Relationships Brown, PhD, through Dreamwork Jumpstart Your Poetry Engine is the author of three h r od g e r k a m e n e t z a n d k e z i a v i da Rodger Kamenetz is the author of jericho brown collections of h The History of Last Night’s Dream poetry: The Strengthen your connections with family members—living or deceased—by and founder of Natural Dreamwork, New York Times bestselling poet Claudia Rankine says, “To read Jericho Tradition, finding the most important moments in dreams, sharing them, acting them an approach that treats every dream long-listed Brown’s poems is to encounter devastating genius.” out together, and responding creatively with writing and drawing exercises! as having the potential of a sacred for the 2019 encounter that can heal. He also is National Book ericho Brown is “part of a new guard of black and gay writers…unwilling ave old stories gotten in the way of current relationships with your the author of the international best- Award; The New Testament, named seller The Jew in the Lotus and other Jin their writing to confine their identities.”—National Public Radio. In one of the best of the year by Hfamily members? Do you feel frustrated and stuck in patterns with award-winning books and is Professor this workshop, Jericho will help you generate new work through a set of Library Journal and the Academy your loved ones? Your dreams are an extraordinary resource to assist you in Emeritus at Louisiana State University of American Poets; and Please, unconventional exercises that keeps your ears open and your fingers moving. the careful work of restoration and repair of your most intimate connections. and on faculty at the C.G. Jung which won the 2009 American The workshop engenders new ideas about writing, and, as there is a profound During this in-depth weekend with father/daughter team Rodger Kamenetz Center in Illinois. Book Award. His poems have relationship between reading poetry and writing it, you’ll read, discuss, and even appeared in The Nation, The New and Kezia Vida, you’ll discover how your dreams can help you see through Kezia Vida received a BA in recite the work of several poets whose examples might lead you to a further Yorker, The New Republic, and The your projections and false stories, rewrite out-of-date narratives, and set you philosophy from Yale University, has honing of your craft. The workshop also features exercises for writing the duplex, Best American Poetry. He has a PhD on a path of self-actualization and wholeness. By gaining understanding of the been working with and studying in Literature and Creative Writing dreams under the Natural Dreamwork a form Jericho invented that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. You Natural Dreamwork group approach to sharing dreams, you’ll learn how dreams from the University of Houston tradition for nearly a decade, and is should bring to class at least 14 lines, 9-to-10-syllables each, from one or more and is an associate professor and can help you heal intergenerational wounds and breathe new life and depth the author of The Dreaming I. She past poems that haven’t “worked.” You’ll get feedback about ways to repurpose the director of the Creative Writing into your most treasured relationships. Family members are invited to attend is currently developing a 111-acre good but failed lines in new poems and use the duplex as a catalyst for the group Program at Emory University in together, and those who have lost beloveds are also especially welcome—but ecological dream retreat center Atlanta. outside her home in New Orleans. conversation. you don’t need to have a family member present to participate.
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