Oasis - A Day Apart: Enrichment for the Spiritual Director

A Day Apart: Seasonal Peer Group Retreat Days

Network and Nurture Days for the Enrichment of Spiritual Directors

Location:
Creek Haven Retreat
278 Creek Drive,
Halifax, Pa. 17032
http://creekhavenretreat.com/

Facilitators: Melissa Stock, and others

Melissa Stock: Melissa has three grown children and three grandchildren. She received her training at Oasis through Spiritual Direction for Spiritual Guides, Years I and II. She received additional training and deepening in Ignatian spirituality from the Kairos School of Spiritual Formation. Melissa enjoys the arts, reading, camping, and especially being out of doors for any reason.

Marjorie McNaughton (assisting on Jan. 25th session), MSS, LSW, holds a bachelor's degree in art and theater and a master's degree in clinical social work. She has worked in the visual and performing arts, in teaching and community education, as a non-profit development director, and as executive director of Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity.
After completion of her master's degree she was employed as a clinical therapist in a hospital psychiatric unit and is currently in private practice at Weigel Counseling Associates in Willow Street, PA.
She is in her second year in the Oasis Ministries SDSG program and has begun Reiki training. Marjorie is married and she and her husband have four children and seven grandchildren.

Retreat Fee:
$50 per day or $75 per overnight

For each retreat, anyone there the night before is welcome to join us for Compline or simple chanted prayer together at 8:45 PM.

Group Size Limited:
Day gatherings: limited to 20 participants
Overnight: only 3, single occupancy rooms available. First come/first served.

TO REGISTER: contact Betsy Keller at 717.737.8222; betsykeller@oasismin.org

At their core, these retreat days are for spiritual directors to have a chance to network, nurture and be renewed.

If you are a practicing spiritual director you are welcome to attend any and all retreat days.

In general, the structure of our time together (10 AM until 4 PM) is to offer a day of peer process, discussion around spiritual direction issues & readings, some prayer together, and a hot lunch.

We desire to keep a spacious, contemplative feel to the day.

For those folks desiring more time to network and enjoy the beautiful space (plus fully stocked kitchen), there would be an option extended for pot luck supper and an overnight at Creek Haven the evening before the enrichment day, first come/ first served. (breakfast on your own)

Gatherings

Theme:
Archetypes for Spiritual Directors
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Prayer in common, peer process or retreat space, sharing around the circle of participants, hot lunch

Discussion of the article "Archetypes

and Spiritual Direction: the Spiritual Director as Sovereign, Warrior, Seer, and Lover" from Presence (June 2006 issue, Vol 12, no. 2, pp. 48-55. Copies available upon request.)

We will view and discuss the short film, "Tonto Woman"

Arriving the night before?
5:00 p.m., Monday (9/26) - networking, potluck dinner with overnight option, first come, first served.

Theme:
Art and Spiritual Direction
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Prayer, discussion, peer process or retreat space, sharing

We will watch a film on the art work and spiritual journey of Meinrad Craighead.

Readings for this session to be announced.

Arriving the night before?
5:00 p.m., Tuesday (1/24) - potluck dinner, overnight option etc. - as above

Theme:
SDI Conference Exploration
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Several directors who have been to the SDI conference in April 2012 will present something from their experience at the conference. Please contact the Oasis office if you have handouts or other resources you would like to share.

Arriving the night before?
5:00 p.m., Monday (5/7) - networking and potluck, overnight option, etc. - as above