UNLEASHED AND UPLIFTED
A “Changing the Narrative” Retreat for women/fem identified rostered and lay leaders and seminarians.
The Bible celebrates gifted and passionate women in multiple roles. We are entrepreneurs and executive leaders, like Lydia. We are multi-media creatives and space-holders for mindfulness and dynamic self and group expression, like Miriam. We are prophets and strategists, like Deborah and servant leaders, like Phoebe. All of which takes discernment, inspiration, and energy – which can be in short supply with the loads we carry and the challenges that surround and move into our communities.
You are invited in your blessed and sacred – and quite possibly searching, burned-out, or seeking solidarity – full self to a continuing education retreat with an emphasis on CONTINUING. How can we bring fresh energy, dynamic creativity, and healing compassion in a sustainable and joy-filled way to a congregation, organization, or neighborhood in active struggle or suffering from flat-out exhaustion?
We will focus on practical, realistic, and achievable techniques to combat burnout in ourselves and to work with staff, teams, volunteers – each mini-toolkit inspired by women leaders in the Bible; their audacious hope, the power of their shared stories, their spiritual practices, and their networks of support. We will explore, accompanied by both social worker-turned-pastor, the Rev. Carla Christopher and licensed counselor, Kimberly Tribbett, the Biblical and evidence-based community applications of trauma-informed care, strategies for building belonging, developing intersectional partnerships and resourcing relationships, and spiritual care coaching through accessible, creative practices.
Come prepared to receive a loving invitation to release what has been holding you back, the reclaim your story in an affirming space, to dwell in the subtext of Biblical stories that affirm our strength and faith even when navigation the hard stuff, and to go forth inspired, renewed, and accompanied by joyful sisterhood.