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Awakening the Creative Spirit:

Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors

*November 7-12, 2010* – Program is FULL

2011 Dates will be announced here soon – email Christine@AbbeyoftheArts.com to be notified

PROGRAM COST: $1500 includes all instruction, art supplies, room for 5 nights, and meals.

We limit the number of participants to create an intimate and safe setting.  Each person will have their own room – the rooms come with a variety of bedding configurations and have shared baths.  There are two handicapped accessible  rooms with their own private baths on the main floor which are assigned by medical need.

Minimum 8 / Maximum 10 participants.

Click on Registration Link to Sign Up!

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

During this participants will

• participate in several different experiential expressive arts experiences including poetry, visual art, movement, storytelling, music, and song
• develop comfort with engagement of the arts and identify their growing edges
• reflect on these experiences in the context of spiritual direction, retreat work, and other soul care contexts
• identify a variety of applications for the arts to spiritual direction and other formation settings and develop tools and practical skills in engaging the expressive arts as forms of prayer and contexts for sacred encounters
• tend to the creative process itself and reflect on what it has to reveal about the spiritual journey
• deepen their own experience of the arts and spirituality and be able to articulate some of these connections between creativity and formation work, both for themselves and for the persons with whom they work
• develop foundations and language for bridging the expressive arts and spirituality

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SESSIONS OVERVIEW:

We begin our intensive by creating a safe and sacred space for our learning community to dive deep into the material on both a personal level, as well as to reflect on how the arts might be in service to those with whom we work.

Each day we will explore a particular expressive arts modality in greater depth, providing foundations for the work, expressive arts theories, practical applications, handouts, and experiential exercises. We will also move from the focus modality of the day into other art-forms as a way of exploring the expressive arts connection — as we move from one art form to another, our insights about ourselves and the sacred deepen. We also move from more structured experiences to experiences with more freedom to cultivate comfort with each art-form.

Each day will also include ritual, prayer, sharing with partners, and large group discussions to help process the experience and learn from each other as well as gain input from facilitators. During this five-day intensive, there will be a minimum of 30 hours of instruction and hands-on exercises.

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Please feel free to contact Christine at Christine@AbbeyoftheArts.com

with any questions you may have.