Retreat (September 2025)
Our Three-Year Life Cycle
We are entering a three-year cycle:
- Year 1: Taking Stock — Lifelines (2025 retreat)
- Year 2: Being Present — Engaging In Life (2026 retreat)
- Year 3: Planning Ahead — Visioning Life (2027 retreat)
Advance Work for Taking Stock (Optional)
To get ready for the retreat, draft a list of moments in your life that changed everything. Perhaps it was meeting a person or learning a lesson, a joy or a hardship — but, whatever it was, from that moment, things were going to be different from now on.
At the retreat, I will give you an 11″ x 17″ sheet — and have a big box of pens, pencils, markers and crayons — for you to make a timeline of these events. We will — in small groups, or in the plenary — present our lifelines.
If you have done this before, even recently, do not start with your previous lifeline. Start fresh. Things — especially how we see them — have changed.
I have emailed you an example: a video of me presenting my lifeline. Please let Monica or me know if you want us to resend the link.