For All Retreats:

       Matthew Fox: Creation Spirituality, Liberation Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth

       Matthew Fox: Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations

 

Retreat One: The Via Positiva  October 21-23, 2011

       

       Primary Resources:

      Matthew Fox Original Blessing: Themes 1-10

      Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems Volume One

               

       Additional Resources:

       Robert Ellsberg: The Saint’s Guide to Happiness

       Pierre Pradervand: The Gentle Art of Blessing

       Clark Strand: Seeds from a Birch Tree, Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey

       Mary Oliver: all collections of her poems

       Barbara Brown Taylor: An Altar in the World

 

Retreat Two: The Via Negativa  January 20-22, 2012

      

       Primary Resources:

       Matthew Fox: Original Blessing: Themes 11-14

       Matthew Fox: Passion for Creation, The Earth Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart

               

       Additional Resources:

       Pema Chodron: When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice for Difficult Times

       Lama Surya Das: Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be, Lessons on Change, Loss and Spiritual Transformation

       Joyce Rupp: Praying Our Goodbyes

       Bernadette Roberts: The Path to No Self, Life at the Center

 

Retreat Three: The Via Creativa  April 20-22, 2012

      

        Primary Resources:

        Matthew Fox: Original Blessing: Themes 15-20

        Hildegard of Bingen and Matthew Fox: Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen

               

        Additional Resources:

        Matthew Fox: Creativity, Where the Divine and the Human Meet

        Matthew Fox: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works

 

Retreat Four: The Via Transformativa July20-22, 2012

 

        Primary Resources:

        Matthew Fox: Original Blessing: Themes 21-26

        Howard Thurman: Jesus and the Disinherited

           

        Additional Resources:

       Matthew Fox: A Spirituality Named Compassion

       Howard Thurman: With Head and Heart

       Andrew Harvey: The Hope

       Parker J. Palmer: Let your Life Speak

       Veronica Ray: Green Spirituality, Reflections on Belonging to a World Beyond Myself