Berakah - Summer Retreat Programs

SUMMER AT BERAKAH

Guided Retreats

Directed Retreats

Private Retreats

Day of Enrichment

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Guided Retreats - 2008

June 22 - 28, 2008	$400 Deposit - $50
*Conversion: Growth through the Cycle of Life*
Don Bisson, FMS
Conversion is a life long process of becoming our True Selves before God and others. We are born for conversion of heart and transformation of being. This guided retreat will integrate Christian and Jungian material by inviting a conscious connection to individuation through the aging process, confronting the shadow, cycles of letting go and facing our aloneness.

July 6 - 12, 2008	$400 Deposit -$50
*Rediscovering the Feminine in God and in Ourselves*
Helene Cote, p.m. & Kim LeNguyen
Over the course of the centuries, women's unique spiritual experiences have often remained invisible, or have been expressed in language and symbols that are far more masculine than feminine. This retreat will be an opportunity to reclaim and reconnect with what has been lost: the feminine face of God and our own femininity. There will be one conference/reflection a day and an art process using mask-making and watercolor to integrate and express our authentic selves. Opportunities for individual sessions will be available.

July 14 - 20, 2008	$400 - $375 Deposit - $50
*Living Christ Jesus: Values & Virtues for Everyday Life*
Rosina Bechard, FCSCJ
To be a disciple of Jesus means that each day we learn and live Jesus, that each day we learn and live the values and virtues Jesus so eminently preached and lived. Thematic prayers, input and reflection will open some values and virtues rooted in the Gospels so that these values and virtues might become more deeply integrated into one's ordinary, everyday life.

July 22 - 28, 2008	$400 - $375 Deposit -$50
*Images of Jesus*
Mary Schneiders, OP
Since Jesus is the central figure upon whom our Christian faith is built, a true understanding of who he is is essential to our Christian identity and way of life. This retreat will focus on a variety of images found in the four gospels that witness to the one Jesus, as well as some contemporary images that can help to enrich our relationships with him.

Directed Retreats - 2008

June 22 - 28, 2008	Pauline Plante, CSC	$400 - $375 Deposit - $50
July 6 - 12, 2008	Mary Schneiders, OP	$400 - $375 Deposit - $50
July 14 - 20, 2008	Pauline Plante, CSC	$400 - $375 Deposit - $50
July 22 - 28, 2008	Pauline Plante, CSC	$400 - $375 Deposit - $50

Private Retreats - 2008

Private Retreats are possible whenever rooms are available during the retreat schedule.

$45/ day
Deposit - $50

Day of Enrichment

Nov. 8, 2008
(10:00 - 3:30 p.m.)

Presenter: Helen Cote, p.m.-- Retreat Facilitator and Workshop presenter
Theme: "Weaving a Spirituality of Wholeness and Hope"
"I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us." Anne LaMott

ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE: Arrival time is after 4:00 PM on opening day. A light supper will be served at 5:30. Retreat begins at 7:00 PM. Departure is after the noon meal on the closing day.

TRANSPORTATION: Transportation to Pittsfield is available by taxi from the Manchester Airport and/or from the Concord Bus Terminal.

Looking Forward

June 21 - 27, 2009 Barbard Fiand, SDNdeN Nurturing Hope: Living the Christian Vision