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Date/TimeTopic/Title (Facilitator(s))
The Way of the Dream Rev. Darby Christopher & Kendra Yates Wednesday, April 12th 6-8pm Intro to Dreamwork Rev. Kelly P. Carpenter Sunday, April 16th 6:30-8pm Dream Group Revs. Maria Teresa Jones & Kelly Carpenter April 17-May 15, Mondays, 7-8:30pm Poetry: a Kind Friend in Grief Rev. Molly Bolton April 25 & May 2, 7-8:30pm Type & Soul Roger Pearman July 15, 1-4pm Emotions & Health Roger Pearman September 30, 1-4pm Savvy Mindfulness Roger Pearman October 28, 1-4pm |
The Way of the Dream, Wednesday 4/12, 6-8 pm
$30.00
A Heart-based approach to Dream Work Drawing on principles from Dr. Stephen Aizenstat’s theory of Dream Tending, this workshop will explore an approach to dreams that includes attention to the imaginal field of the dream, including its setting, images, and story line. We relate to the offering of the dream by engaging ritual to companion its energy in our waking lives. Participants will learn the following:
This workshop will be on Zoom led by Rev. Darby Christopher and Kendra Yates. Rev. Darby Christopher, MSW, is an ordained interfaith minister who facilitates individual and group dream work. She graduated from the Haden Institute’s Dream Leadership Training in 2006, and since that time has consistently led or co-led dream groups and dream related workshops. She is a co-leadership of the Natural Spirituality Regional Gathering. In 2020 she self-published the book From Anxiety to Connection: A Path to Authentic Relating. She is making plans to launch an offering in the world called Dream Liturgy: a convergence of dreams, ritual and natural play; Darby is married and the mother of two twenty-something young adults, as well as a young, energetic Boykin Spaniel. She enjoys exercise, reading, cooking and laughing. Kendra Yates has been co-facilitating a dream group at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Dunwoody, Georgia for the past 20 years. She graduated from the Haden Institute’s Dream Leader training program in 2015. A link will be sent to registered participants a day or two before the workshop Dream Group (Mondays, 7-8:30 pm, April 17-May 15)
$30.00
Apologies, but this workshop is full and no longer available. Dream Group will use projections of others to explore the layered meanings of a dream. Each session we will try and work 2 dreams. Participants will be encouraged to bring a dream to work and help others in the group by being active in the group process. Participants will be invited to attend the Intro to Dream Work on April 16, 6:30-8pm, no charge. Please note: this workshop will be limited to 9 participants, and is currently Full. The Revs. Maria Teresa Jones & Kelly Carpenter will facilitate the group. Intro to Dreamwork, Sunday April 16th 6:30-8pm
$20.00
This online workshop will introduce people to working with dreams as a spiritual practice. It will cover the following topics: 1) how to remember dreams, 2) history of dreams in the Bible, 3) Jung's model of the psyche, 4) dream settings & symbols, and 5) dreamwork principles. The workshop format will be on Zoom, with a powerpoint presentation, interspersed with Q & A time. Rev. Kelly P. Carpenter is a United Methodist pastor, a graduate of the Haden Institute's Dream Leader & Spiritual Direction programs, Executive Director of Threshold Retreat, Inc. Poetry: a Kind Friend in Grief
$50.00
Tuesdays, 4/25 & 5/2, 7-8:30 pm In this two session workshop, through guided group reflection and journal prompts, we will soulfully engage poetry as a source of consolation in sorrow. Participants need not consider themselves a writer to participate. This workshop will be on Zoom for both sessions Participants will learn to use poetry as a tool for spiritual support, and an entryway into journaling and reflection. Rev. Molly Bolton (she/they) is a spiritual director, liturgist, and poet who lives outside of Boone, NC. She engages poetry as a tool for liberative spiritual care in clinical, ecclesiastical, and community settings. Molly holds a Master of Divinity from Wake Forest School of Divinity and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction from San Francisco Theological Seminary. She served as staff chaplain at Cleveland Clinic for 6 years and is ordained in the United Church of Christ. Molly writes weekly liturgical resources for enfleshed.com Find Molly at revmollybolton.com If the cost of the workshop is prohibitive, please contact us: thresholdretreat@gmail.com Type & Soul
$50.00
July 15, 1-4pm Personality type was developed by C.G. Jung to grasp how we become one-sided and turn away from other parts of ourselves and our experience. This workshop will explore how we can use personality type to can get in touch with aspects of ourselves that allow us to reconnect with earth, body, and spirit, completing a short survey about personality type and engaging in small group discussions to explore type differences and patterns. Needs for each type pattern related to promoting well-being by reducing stress will be reviewed. All eight of Jung’s mental functions and their pragmatic important to daily life and symbolic value to soul work will be explored. Emotions & Health
$50.00
September30, 1-4pm Roger Pearman will lead this workshop, Identifying and understanding the information in emotions provides a basis for enhancing emotional intelligence. Savvy Mindfulness
$50.00
October 28, 1-4pm Mindfulness reduces stress, enhances attention, elevates creativity, and promotes psychological well-being. To be savvy in using mindfulness practices, individuals need to understand some key aspects of how the brain works and the pragmatical activities needed to use our natural mental resources mindfully. Participants will experience: (1) orientating to key principles of brain rules and why these are important to mindful practices, (2) engaging in specific mindful practices that can be repeated as needed, (3) creating a mindfulness plan, (4) linking soul needs to connection with nature as part of mindful practices |