Program

Awakening 1

Awakening the Creative Spirit:

Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors in the Expressive Arts

November 7-12, 2010

Program is FULL

We will be posting dates for 2011 by mid-September

(workshop will be offered in both Michigan and the Northwest)

email Christine to be added to the waiting list – Christine@AbbeyoftheArts.com

with Betsey Beckman, MM & Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE

at St. Andrew’s Retreat House in Union, WA on the Hood Canal!

A five-day experiential intensive exploring tools for integrating the ARTS and IMAGINATION into spiritual direction and other healing ministries.

Our encounters with the holy are rooted in symbol and image and speak the language of dreams. Spiritual direction tends to these encounters and can be deeply enhanced by tools that invite listening to and engaging the inner symbolic life. The focus of this program is on developing the skills of working with the arts and imagination to deepen the work of spiritual direction.

Together we will explore how the healing power of such tools as guided imagery, body awareness, dream work, ritual, poetry, journal writing, visual art, movement, song, and storytelling enrich our own spiritual lives and our work in spiritual direction by giving us access to another language with which to encounter the divine presence within. Participants will develop comfort and skills in using these tools. The program consists of didactic input and time for discussion and reflection on how we see using the arts concretely in our work as spiritual directors.

Also appropriate for counselors, chaplains, teachers, pastors, and others in soul care ministries who want to integrate the arts into their work.

Absolutely no previous art experience necessary — only a willingness to awaken the creative spirit within!

Total Program Cost is $1500 which includes all instruction, art supplies, room, and meals.