Impasse Retreat
Living in a Time of Impasse
March 14-20, 2010 (Sunday, 7:00 PM through Saturday, 12:00 PM)
The future is unfolding in ways we could never have dreamed. We experience a church in crisis and a world in chaos. Structures, systems that have served us well in the past are no longer capable of moving us into the future. If you are experiencing struggle with other persons, unjust systems, situations over which you feel you have no control and which leave you feeling helpless and disempowered, this retreat experience will enable you to engage with your circumstances with wisdom and insight, as well as with other persons who have similar experiences.
Retreatants (limited to a total of 18) will enter into experiential processes rooted in communal contemplation and dialogue which invite personal transformation within this communal setting.
Nancy Sylvester, IHM is the founder and president of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, whose major program is Engaging Impasse: Circles of Contemplation and Dialogue. She is past LCWR President; past vice-president of her congregation, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Michigan; and a former researcher, lobbyist and national coordinator of NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby. Nancy is an author and well-known speaker having addressed diocesan conferences, university institutes, assemblies of women religious and major national and international conferences. Since 2002, she has provided a forum for persons to empower themselves through dealing with difficult circumstances, those that spiritual authors have named the dark night and impasse.
LIMIT OF PARTICIPANTS: 18 persons
The transformative nature of this process requires a safe space within which to engage each other, one's self and God. Saying yes to being par of this unique retreat indicates:
March 14-20, 2010 (Sunday, 7:00 PM through Saturday, 12:00 PM)
The future is unfolding in ways we could never have dreamed. We experience a church in crisis and a world in chaos. Structures, systems that have served us well in the past are no longer capable of moving us into the future. If you are experiencing struggle with other persons, unjust systems, situations over which you feel you have no control and which leave you feeling helpless and disempowered, this retreat experience will enable you to engage with your circumstances with wisdom and insight, as well as with other persons who have similar experiences.
Retreatants (limited to a total of 18) will enter into experiential processes rooted in communal contemplation and dialogue which invite personal transformation within this communal setting.
Nancy Sylvester, IHM is the founder and president of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, whose major program is Engaging Impasse: Circles of Contemplation and Dialogue. She is past LCWR President; past vice-president of her congregation, the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Michigan; and a former researcher, lobbyist and national coordinator of NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby. Nancy is an author and well-known speaker having addressed diocesan conferences, university institutes, assemblies of women religious and major national and international conferences. Since 2002, she has provided a forum for persons to empower themselves through dealing with difficult circumstances, those that spiritual authors have named the dark night and impasse.
LIMIT OF PARTICIPANTS: 18 persons
The transformative nature of this process requires a safe space within which to engage each other, one's self and God. Saying yes to being par of this unique retreat indicates:
- a willingness not to rush to premature action
- an openness to one's own and the other's wisdom and insight
- a willingness to be vulnerable and to be changed
- a trust in the power of God
- courage to come to know in new ways
- courage to risk new ways of being and acting
We invite you to prayerfully consider this special and rare opportunity.
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Cost: $775.00 (Includes overnight accommodations & all meals)
