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March 2023

Healing Loss Through Conscious Grieving and Writing – WAITLIST ONLY

March 10, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - March 12, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center, 167 Neck Road
Madison, CT 06443 United States
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$375 – $425

How do we heal from loss? We grieve. Our bodies, minds and hearts are created to process loss of all kinds through a sacred journey of grieving. A significant resource on that journey is writing….putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) opens our heart in new ways and supports our desire to heal. This 2 night overnight retreat will offer a safe space for reflection, writing, sharing and stillness. As you give voice to your loss and allow time for your grief, you take brave steps toward hope and healing. No writing experience is necessary. REGISTER HERE

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“Healing Loss through Conscious Grieving and Writing” – RESCHEDULED – WAITLIST ONLY

March 10, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - March 12, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center, 167 Neck Road
Madison, CT 06443 United States
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  How do we heal from loss? We grieve. Our bodies, minds and hearts are created to process loss of all kinds through a sacred journey of grieving. A significant resource on that journey is writing….putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) opens our heart in new ways and supports our desire to heal. Due to the presenter's bout with Covid, this 2 night overnight retreat has been rescheduled and will offer a safe space for reflection, writing, sharing and stillness. As you give voice to your loss and allow time for your grief, you take brave steps toward hope and healing. No writing experience is necessary.

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Loss and Grief, Healing and Hope

March 21, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center, 167 Neck Road
Madison, CT 06443 United States
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A private, three session healing space, designed and offered for the Sabbaticals at Mercy by the Sea, will take place on March 21, March 28 and April 4, 2023. These religious women come to the healing spaces on Long Island Sound to attend to the transitions, loss and renewal that this season of their religious life asks of them. Part of a 6 week experience, each session is created to offer a safe, contemplative space to learn more about Grief as our ally, share personal wounds and losses, and encounter the Divine's ongoing presence and love.

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April 2023

The Path of Conscious Grieving

April 1, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Holy Family Retreat and Conference Center
$75.00

Our contemporary times have added a significant context of loss to our daily life experience. We learned that loss weaves its way through our lives in many forms, some are acknowledged, many are not. Grief, our companion and ally, guides both our personal and collective journeys in the Land of Loss, leading us toward healing and hope. This day of prayer and reflection will create space for content, sharing, ritual and silence - all valuable resources for a path of conscious grieving. Together, we will create and name moments of respite, glimmers of healing and offer permission to grieve. REGISTER HERE

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Permission to Grieve

April 15, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Center for the Spiritual Journey, 880 Main St.
Chatham, MA 02633 United States
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$120

We experience loss in our personal lives as well as in the world around us, sometimes we need a little assistance. Grief, our ally in the Land of Loss, helps us find our way to healing. This day of prayer, reconfigured from two separate sessions, will provide a deeper understanding of our human response to loss. We will hear more about resources in the Land of Loss, and spend some quality time with one of them, writing. Together, we will companion one another and heal as Conscious Grievers. Lunch plus snacks will be provided.

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May 2023

7 day Directed Retreat – waitlist only

May 28, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - June 4, 2023 @ 11:30 pm
Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center, 167 Neck Road
Madison, CT 06443 United States
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$780

  WAITLIST ONLY Withdraw from the busyness of life, and enter more deeply into relationship with God. Find opportunities for solitude, silence, and prayer, and a daily meeting with a trained spiritual director. An atmosphere of silence is maintained for the duration of the retreat. Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center, set along the shores of Long Island Sound, is home to diverse eco-systems and wildlife. We seek to inhabit this ground with reverence, humility and joy, and to continually learn from its wildness, wisdom and beauty.  In this welcoming atmosphere of simplicity and beauty, we offer a portal into a deeper reality and opportunities to explore a new way of being. Mercy by the Sea’s experiential programming fosters contemplative practice, challenges participants to holistic growth in an accepting environment, and manifests a commitment to social justice.  We extend a hospitality and spaciousness that nurtures right relationship with the Sacred in self, others and creation. All are welcome. No exceptions. We have been preparing for your arrival.

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October 2023

Hope in the Land of Loss

October 7, 2023 - October 8, 2023
Genesis Retreat and Conference Center, 53 Mill St
Westfield, MA 01085 United States
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  We have learned that loss weaves its way through our lives in many forms, in our personal story and in our shared lives.  Some losses are acknowledged, many are not. Grief, our companion and ally, guides both our personal and collective journeys in the Land of Loss, and leads us toward healing and hope. This overnight retreat will create sacred space and nourish tender pathways toward healing and hope. The host for this retreat, Genesis Retreat House, is sponsored by the Sisters of Providence and is located in Westfield MA, As stated on their website, "Each of us is a seed of God that is meant to grow into the likeness of God. Genesis Spiritual Life and Conference Center is a place where the seed can be nourished towards full maturity."

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Healing Loss – through Conscious Grieving and Writing

October 14, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - October 15, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center, 229 E Litchfield Rd
Litchfield, Connecticut 06759 United States
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How do we heal from loss? We grieve. Our bodies, minds and hearts are created to process loss of all kinds through a sacred journey of grieving. A significant resource on that journey is writing….putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) opens our heart in new ways and supports our desire to heal. This 1 night overnight retreat will offer a safe space for reflection, writing, sharing and stillness. Together, we will give voice to loss and allow time for grief, together we take brave steps toward hope and healing. No writing experience is necessary. For more information and to register, Click Here.

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Hope in the Land of Loss – Covenant Community Members

October 19, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Our human experience includes many forms of loss: quite personal and communal response to death, non-death losses in any lifetime, change in identity, wider scale loss through Earth's climate change and national discord. Loss is a constant in our lives, grief, it turns out, is our ally in the Land of Loss. Grief guides and enables us to navigate the pathways, and leads us into healing and hope. This two hour session will include specific bereavement theory, prayerful presence and insight and a gentle reminder of self-compassion during such important travels.

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November 2023

6-Night Silent Directed Retreat

November 12, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - November 18, 2023 @ 2:00 pm
Genesis Retreat and Conference Center, 53 Mill St
Westfield, MA 01085 United States
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$670

A Silent Directed Retreat is designed to provide time and space for prayer and solitude, deepen discernment, and listen to the whispered song of spirit. You may wish to review the events and relationships in your life and reflect on how they relate to your connection with God. You will meet with your spiritual director once a day and they may make suggestions for further reflection (prayer, Scripture, poetry, imagery, etc.) based on the questionnaire you will submit before the start of the retreat. A retreat at Genesis, with its peaceful, contemplative spaces and 19-acre Providence Arboretum, will open your heart to do the profoundly personal work of living and breathing into your spiritual journey and feeling the presence and action of God in your life. This is a silent retreat. Check-in begins at 3:00PM and supper will be served at 6:00pm. The retreat will begin after supper. Silence will begin at that time also.

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