Wilderness Spirituality: Finding Our Way Through a Changed World

A Zoomed Retreat of Gathered Women
Offered by the Women’s Ministry of the 
Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande

November 20, 2020 (7-8:30PM, MST)
November 21, 2020 (9AM-4PM, MST)

There is the wilderness that lies just outside the borders of our civilized communities, and there is the wilderness that lies within our personal lives, as change on many levels hauls us into a new relationship with our own lives. This past year has been a huge wilderness time in our world. We need to learn new ways of orienting ourselves when all the old maps are shredded.
This retreat is an invitation to enter wilderness with others who also have been impacted by the wild places around us.
· How do we find grounding when so many foundations are shaking?
· How do we reclaim our common humanity when so many things that have described what it is to be human are no longer available to us?
The wonder about wilderness, however, is that it is the perfect place to remind us of what really matters, and that we can still reclaim joy. There are practices learnable in wilderness times which actually strengthen and deepen us to move ahead with our lives as they are now, and show us how we are still at home in our new selves, rooted in the Holy.
Using guided conversation, poetry, images, silence, music, and movement, this will be a real retreat, not a conference of talking heads.
We will BE community, speak deeply, listen intently, share intimately, sing, even eat together on line. It will be as close to a gathered community as we can create.
Participants will be able to do some preliminary work before we gather together over Zoom to deepen our inner work upon which we will build together.
 

Leading the retreat is the Rev. Carolyn Metzler. Formerly the Spiritual Director for the Living School for Action and Contemplation, Carolyn is a retired priest. She lives in wilderness next to the Cibola National Forest in Datil, NM, where she writes, weaves, prays, explores, and offers hospitality through AirBNB in her yurt.

 Registration is $10 to enable Women’s Ministry to offer scholarships and an honorarium, as well as minor incidentals. If you need a scholarship, contact Cindy).

Please register via PayPal below, or email Cindy. You can download the flyer to share with friends. 

You will receive the pre-retreat preliminary work sheet after you register. Around Nov. 14, you’ll receive suggestions to help set up a sacred space for the retreat.

Please plan to be present for the entire retreat, just as you would an in-person event.