Upcoming: Reconnecting To Life - 6th Annual Residential Retreat
Published by Patrick September 10th, 2007 in Conventions/Conferences, House of Labour Tags: conference.Dear friends,
Once again we are offering our retreat over the Remembrance Day weekend, amid the 400 acres of the North Vancouver Outdoor School and the returning Chum salmon. This is a precious opportunity for reflection and renewal. For cost reasons, it is likely the last time we will offer the retreat in this very special location, so if you have been thinking of coming this is the year! - For the earth, Jackie Larkin
Reconnecting To Life - 6th Annual Residential Retreat
Friday, November 9- Monday, November 12, 2007
Squamish, British Columbia (about 1 1/2 hours north of Vancouver)
with Jackie Larkin and Maggie Ziegler
Scholarships Available
This popular annual retreat on the banks of the beautiful Cheakamus River, north of Squamish, welcomes everyone who cares about our planet. It is an opportunity to explore our relationship to our troubled world and to move through our defenses and our distress to find refuge and renewal in our own hearts, in nature and in community.
No solutions or answers will be offered; rather, the workshop provides an environment in which we can draw on our collective experience to find ways forward which are heart-felt, thoughtful and sustainable.
An intensive and safe group process involving interactive exercises, creative processes, ritual, discussion, and silent reflection will enable us to:
- Touch our true thoughts and feelings and come home to our place in our interconnected and interdependent world
- Deepen our awareness of ourselves as part of nature
- Examine the relationship between environmental and social justice concerns
- Strengthen our desire to participate in protecting all life
Jackie Larkin and Maggie Ziegler are active in labor, social justice and environmental movements. Jackie, formerly an educator with the BC Nurses Union and Maggie, a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, both work as educators and facilitators. For over five years they have been have been co-facilitating Reconnecting to Life retreats. Their work, inspired by the writings and mentoring of Joanna Macy - eco-philosopher, activist and workshop guide - also integrates a wide range of diverse experiences and influences.
“The process enabled me to transform pain and anger into energy and hope and personal action. Thank you.” Community activist
“The retreat was fantastic! The atmosphere was very open, the work was deep, rigidity was totally absent, and the last evening was explosive fun!” Volunteer, David Suzuki Foundation
“In my passion to bring people together for change, I deplete my own resources. At the retreat I regained my own balance and remembered that what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Executive Director, Labour Environmental Alliance Society
LOCATION: North Vancouver Outdoor School, Paradise Valley (north of Squamish), BC
COST: $440.00 - $25 discount for registration prior to August 31st
ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND GENERAL INFORMATION:
Contact Jackie at jlarkin@gddc.com or Maggie at mziegler@saltspring.com
TO REGISTER:
Send $200 deposit, payable to Susan Davidson, retreat manager
1374-256 Street, Aldergrove, BC, V4W 2J4
(Susan can be reached at glorious@portal.ca or 604-857-1400)
Please include the following:
Name/ address/ phone/ email
Special needs (dietary or other)
Whether you can offer a ride or require a ride
Participants must commit to attending the full retreat:
Friday, November 9th: registration from 11am; retreat begins at 2pm.
Monday, November 12: retreat ends at 1pm with lunch to follow.