Formation

Wholly Foolishness – Christine Havens

Christine specializes in using play, creativity and spirituality to generate safe spaces in which people might get out from under the weight of fear to connect with each other through the Holy Spirit.

Biblical Storytelling – Kathy Culmer

Kathy helps people connect with scripture in a personal – and in some cases transformative way – through hearing, learning, telling, and making personal connections to Biblical stories.

Musical Improv & Spirituality – The Rev. Will Parker

Will leads workshops and retreats exploring the intersection of spirituality with musical and theatrical improvisation. He helps groups explore the overlapping elements of improv and the art of loving in a low-stakes environment that enables trust, courage, and vulnerability.

Songwriting & Storytelling – Kelley McRae

As a songwriting teacher and gathering maker, Kelley facilitates spaces where people reconnect to and share their sacred stories in order to create communities of compassion and courage.

At the Formation Leadership Retreat, we will explore several themes of Sabbath as an approach to formation leadership that will allow us to offer more deliberate forms of discipleship in our contexts. These themes are:

En el Retiro de Liderazgo de Formación, exploraremos varios temas relacionados con el Sabbat como una manera de enfocar el liderazgo en la formación, que nos permitirá ofrecer formas más intencionales de discipulado en nuestros propios contextos. Estos temas son:

• Prayer and Healing
• Contemplation and Seed Casting
• Belonging Without Othering
• Skillful Facilitation
• Bridge Building and Deliberation

• Oración y Sanación
• Contemplación y Siembra de Semillas
• Pertenencia sin Exclusión
• Facilitación con Sabiduría
• Creación de Puentes y Deliberación

Through these themes, we will tease out what it might mean for our leadership skills and practices to consider Sabbath as extravagantly counter-cultural. The flow of the retreat will focus on healing, seed casting, and skillful facilitation. As we practice together, we will re-imagine ways to cultivate generosity and compassion in our people and inspire them to finally and truly come alive into the aliveness of God.

A través de estos temas, exploraremos lo que podría significar, para nuestras habilidades y prácticas de liderazgo, considerar el Sabbat como algo extravagantemente contracultural. El ritmo del retiro se centrará en la sanación, la siembra de semillas y la facilitación con sabiduría. Mientras practicamos juntos, reimaginaremos maneras de cultivar la generosidad y la compasión en nuestro pueblo, e inspirarlos a que, finalmente y de verdad, cobren vida en la vida misma de Dios.