Waiting in Darkness,
Carrying the Light:
Transition, Loss, Grief and Healing

An Advent Spirituality Retreat
at Rolling Ridge
With Janelle Rhorer and Jackie Sabath
Friday December 5 -
Sunday December 7, 2008

As the season of darkness expands, the Light shines even brighter. If you are searching in darkness for the Light, struggling with a transition or loss of any kind, join us for an Advent weekend to be still, to listen, to engage your story, to hold both joy and sorrow in the Light of compassion and communion. In the sacred space of near-winter forest we will work with the transformative process of grief — the mystery of holding fast and letting go — through story, silence, readings, music, art and the beauty of the natural world. And perhaps we will glean insight about the gift in that box full of darkness.

Participants are welcome to arrive at the Retreat House between 5 and 7 pm on Friday night. Dinner will be served at 7 pm. The retreat will end with lunch on Sunday. Cost for the weekend is $100. Scholarships are available. Send a $25 deposit to reserve your space. Checks should be made payable to Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community (RRSRC) and mailed to Jackie Sabath, 129 Jubilee Lane, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425. Please let us know if you have any special dietary or other needs. For more information call or email Jackie Sabath at 304-261-2653, jsabath@rollingridge.net.

Janelle Rhorer is a Pastoral Counselor in-training at Loyola College and has been coming to retreats at Rolling Ridge for several years.

Jackie Sabath lives and works at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community and is a licensed Pastoral Counselor in WV and MD.

Transparency to the Divine:
Contemplative Tissue Collage

Rolling Ridge Meditative Arts Retreat
October 10-12, 2008
Friday Evening - Sunday Afternoon
Hosted by Rolling Ridge
Study Retreat Community
Harpers Ferry, WV

Artists as varied as O'Keeffe, Picasso, Matisse, and Ezra Jack Keats have used the medium of tissue collage to convey brilliantly colored images. However, tissue collage evokes an amazing creative response in people who do not consider themselves artistic. Creating tissue collage in the context of a retreat experience will aim not at making images but rather at bringing transparency and consciousness to our spiritual experiences. We invite you to a soul-stirring weekend amidst the beautiful mountain wilderness of Rolling Ridge.

Retreat leader Rev. Georgia DuBose studied tissue collage and participated in workshops with the late Jungian analyst, Edith Wallace, M.D., from 1976 until 1998. Though using the same material technique as Dr. Wallace, Georgia, an Episcopal priest, leads her workshops to help others connect with their spiritual being rather than this being an analytical process. She often incorporates into the collage method the ancient contemplative prayer practice of scripture reading, Lectio Divina. In sacred silence, working individually but in the same studio space, retreatants will create a series of collages using the tissue paper and glue solution application technique that Dr. Wallace perfected and have ample time for quiet reflection and journaling.

For more information and to register: visit www.rollingridge.net or call/email Trish Stefanik at 304-725-4301/tstefanik@aol.com.

Participants are welcome to arrive at the Retreat House between 5 and 7 pm on Friday night. Dinner will be served at 6:30. The retreat will conclude with lunch on Sunday. Cost for the weekend is $100 (which includes materials, lodging, and meals). Space is limited. Please send a $25 deposit (or the full amount) to reserve your space. Checks should be made out to RRSRC and mailed to RRSRC, c/o Oct 08 Med Arts, 186 Tupelo Lane, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425. Registrations should include any dietary or special needs.

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