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Ever Consider a Personal Retreat for Yourself? The winter months call us to quiet and reflection and inner knowing. The Bethlehem Retreat Centre, situated in a wooded acreage on Westwood Lake against the backdrop of Mt. Benson, is a place of quiet, reflection and rest and offers a beautiful, peaceful, and natural environment. Did you know that you can reserve a place for a personal retreat (includes lodging and meals) away from the busyness of life with opportunities to walk the labyrinth, explore the wooded trails, or take time to reflect and listen with the ear of your heart? Everyone is welcome regardless of spiritual tradition and a listening ear is available on request. Call (250) 754-3254 or email bethret@shaw.ca today for more information. |
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Enneagram " A Spiritual Journey " February 11 to 12, 2012 9am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday How does our personality growth join with our spirituality to bring wholeness in our Being? " Who am I created to Be? " With this ancient spiritual map let us navigate through our inner experience in a way that deepens, enriches and moves us beyond our familiar territory. In preparation for this course please read: The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram by Sandra Maitri and Facets of Unity by A.H. Almass - All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise person who can learn about one thing from another - Plotinus |
 Mary Ann Gisler had her Masters degree in Social Work and Theology, a Bachelors degree in Education and is a Hurley/Donson certified Enneagram teacher with many years of experience teaching Enneagram workshops. For this course participants need to have taken an introductory course or have extensive reading knowledge related to the Enneagram. Suggested donation: $250 for live-in weekend $175 for commuters Early Bird
Registration: Pay by January 20
Receive a 10 % discount To register contact the BRC 250-754-3254 or email bethret@shaw.ca |
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~ a Widening Embrace May 18-21,2012 Friday evening 7 pm until Monday afternoon 2 pm As the moon wanes and spring waxes, we gather to sing among trees, beside water, in the community of life found at Bethlehem Retreat Centre. Green spreads its promise . . . we marvel and sing. Remembering, imagining, dreaming, we sing our way into a new humanity, one species among the many. We reflect in silence, communal sharing, and ritualized moments. We sing and create our circle of gratitude, purpose, celebration. Saturday night is community night. Participants bring songs, poetry, stories, and dance to share. $400 per person, includes accommodation and meals during the retreat. Registration deadline: April 18, 2012 To register contact the BRC 250-754-3254 or email bethret@shaw.ca |
Carolyn McDade, for four decades, has gathered women to sing music that affirms, nurtures, and sustains our deeply personal as well as communal lives. Songs interweave integrity, social vision, and planetary wholeness. Hundreds of women have participated in these programs. Fifteen taping projects have brought women together to sing the mystical that rattles our bones and stirs our hearts . . . to sing our vision for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world. The latest is Widening Embrace, a year-long project of singing, meditation, reflection, and the arts. Sung by women from ten regions of North America, songs arise from the energies of Creation, Earth, Universe, pulling us deep into the learning fields of forest, water, sky, stars. 
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| The Enneagram
Breakthrough September 15 and 16, 2012 9am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday - An introduction to the Enneagram - How can I be my best self ? Everyone who begins to explore human behavior becomes aware of the beauty and the mystery that permeates the personality of every person. These two days will explore an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of our personalities. Balance, healing, growth and transformation are the yearning within each person wishing to be part of building a peaceful world. All who have ever questioned the meaning of their own life are invited to join together on the wonderful and passionate journey of soul amking through the Enneagram. |
Mary Ann Gisler had her Masters degree in Social Work and Theology, a Bachelors degree in Education and is a Hurley/Donson certified Enneagram teacher with many years of experience teaching Enneagram workshops. Suggested donation: $250 for live-in weekend $175 for commuters Early Bird Registration: Pay by August 25 Receive a 10 % discount Registration deadline: August 31, 2012 To register contact the BRC 250-754-3254 or email bethret@shaw.ca |
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Compassion - Cultivating a
boundless heart October 26, 7pm to
28, 2pm, 2012
This
weekend will explore our understanding of
compassion, how it is cultivated and what
obstructs our capacity to embody compassion. Spiritual
traditions invite us to see the challenges and
joys of life as opportunities to cultivate
kindness, understanding, balance and compassion. In a
world so beset with suffering and estrangement
compassion is deeply needed; in the midst of the
uncertainties, fear and struggles of our own
lives and hearts, compassion is equally needed. The
weekend will include times of silence, periods
of teaching and reflection and formal meditative
practices looking at the ways that the
compassion we long for can be cultivated and
embodied. |
 Christina Feldman
has been teaching insight meditation since 1976
internationally.
She is co-founder of Gaia House and a
guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation
Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is
the author of a number of books including
Compassion - Listening to the cries of the
world. $350 for live-in weekend Registration
deadline: September 26, 2012 |