April 2020
Integrity: Remembering Who We Are
Poet Charles Bukowski asks, “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” In this guided writing session, you are invited to consider what it might mean to live out the truth of who we are and what we believe especially in troubled times. I will be experimenting with offering this program on-line using Zoom. To receive information about participating, an online RSVP is required.
Find out more »Crossing and Blessing Our Thresholds: a 4-part series
Every year brings changes, but sometimes the changes are larger and more challenging than others. If you are crossing a significant threshold in your life – a change in relationship, work, home, roles, identity or abilities – this four-part Threshold series offers a facilitated group experience for exploring personal thresholds, chosen or unbidden. In a supportive small group led by Karen Hering, participants will reflect on a current threshold in their lives while accompanying others in crossing their thresholds. Using conversation,…
Find out more »May 2020
Writing on the Threshold
A threshold, whether physical or emotional, personal or shared, is a place of great vitality and exchange, where new greets old, where outside meets inside, where stranger crosses over to become friend. This session invites you to explore the thresholds in your own life as places of heightened awareness and possibility. Free but RSVP by email requested. (Note: this one time writing session is related but distinct from the annual Thresholds series at Unity Church-Unitarian, for which advance registration and…
Find out more »July 2020
Summer Writing Retreat: Writing to Wake the Soul
This summer writing retreat, led by Karen Hering, is for both experienced and emerging writers. Designed for writers of fiction, memoir, poetry and other forms, it offers an invitation to take time and make space for your own writing. We’ll explore practices and tools that can open our hearts and minds as writers and awaken the healing power of words and story for us and for our readers.The retreat includes: personal time for your own writing projects; optional daily guided…
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