The last few years have been so hard. We’re exhausted, stretched, frayed. Many of us have been re-evaluating our lives, our relationships, our careers. We yearn for… healing, clarity, beauty – even in the midst of brokenness.
Especially in the turbulent times in which we live it’s all the more crucial that we renew our spirits and reconnect what we do with who we are.
The poet John O’Donohue notes that “when we experience beauty, we feel called.” How might brokenness and beauty together help us to live more fully into who we’re called to be, and what we’re called to do?
“Brokenness and Beauty in an Undivided Life” is a rare opportunity to explore your own most profound questions of identity and purpose, and to renew your capacity to live, work, and lead from a place that’s firmly grounded both in the realities of these challenging times and in your most authentic self.
Please join artist and educator Angela Waseskuk and Courage @ Renewal® facilitator Chris Johnson for this life-giving retreat, Saturday, October 22, 9 am – 4 p.m. at Three Pines Farm, Cedar Falls, Iowa. This Courage & Renewal® gathering will help you to:
- Explore your sense of identity, purpose, and calling in light of the terrain we’ve traveled through the pandemic, and with an eye toward what might want to emerge in the next steps of the journey.
- Recognize and celebrate the gifts of beauty in the world and in our lives.
- Deepen your understanding of the generative tension between brokenness and beauty.
- Ask open and honest questions that can reveal new depths of insight and wisdom.
- Be held by a remarkable community of support, inspiration, and positive relationship.
The day will include a nourishing mix of solitude and silence, conversation, and opportunity for reflective practice (writing, drawing, movement…) as well as times to pause for lunch and refreshments. It will be grounded in your own experience and fueled with insights from poets, scholars, artists, naturalists, musicians, and various wisdom traditions. Strictly confidential practices of deep listening, discernment, and mutual support will be a key component.
Facilitators: This program is co-facilitated by Courage & Renewal Facilitator Chris Johnson alongside Angela Waseskuk, a painter, sculptor and dimensional artist who is developing her art practice as a Red House Studio artist through the Hearst Center in Cedar Falls
The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
