Resilience and Soul Work: Cultivating Courage to Create Inclusive Cultures

During this retreat, we will immerse  ourselves in the writings of adrienne maree brown, Grace Lee Boggs and  bell hooks to examine their personal strategies to meet inter-personal  challenges and transform social contexts from ones that limit to ones  that expand opportunities for growth. Our explorations will be further  supported by poetry and other artistic works to help us explore the  relationship between resilience and transformative justice. The goal of  our time together will be to explore strategies to deepen our commitment  to live authentically and to expand our capacity to undertake  challenges to transform cultures to become more just.

GilChrist  Retreat Center, located on 67 acres of rolling hills, meadows, and  forest, is intentionally designed to foster meditation, contemplative  practice, and engagement with nature. We will fully engage our  surroundings to help us craft strategies for creative engagement and  personal resilience to embolden leadership, strategic patience, and  action to…