Appreciating People is running a retreat in the beautiful surroundings of the Windermere Centre in the Lake District, alongside our Appreciating Church partners. In Living the Appreciative Spirit, the three-day course will playfully explore the practice of living appreciatively. We will co-design and co-create our event together, each bringing our ideas to the theme of living appreciatively, with lots of space for you to share your creativity in images, words, dreams and activities. You will have the opportunity to explore:
• The principles of AI and how a deeper understanding of them can assist us as AI practitioners.
• Ways of working skilfully with the concept that, through our choice of words, we largely create the world we later discover
• The power of creativity in all its forms
It is for experienced and aspiring appreciative inquiry (AI) practitioners who enjoy using AI in your daily life.
The fee includes three nights’ full board and retreat resource, with a maximum of 25 places available. The event begins with dinner, followed by an evening introduction session and ends after lunch on the fourth day. There will be time to enjoy the wonderful scenery, so bring suitable footwear and clothing if you want to do some local walking.
When your world moves too fast
And you lose yourself in the chaos,
introduce yourself
to each colour of the sunset…
Find yourself in the appreciation of life.
Christy Ann Martine
The Appreciating Church project developed from an AI Essentials event we ran for the United Reformed Church at the Windermere Centre in March 2014. Having grown into a multi-denominational group, Appreciating Church is now and book and website – you can read more here: www.appreciating.church.
Appreciating People co-founder Suzanne Quinney will lead the retreat. She has developed a range of practical applications of AI, while also deepening and exploring her own spiritual practice, which she began while living and working in the Findhorn community in 1994 (www.findhorn.org). Suzanne values deeply the creative and poetic; explores ways of including nature in spiritual practice; and is looking forward to sharing your expressions of these in this retreat. If you have questions, please contact Suzanne by email.
Situated in the Lake District of north west England, the Centre is committed to offering radical hospitality and spiritual adventure on behalf of the United Reformed Church. The comfortable en-suite accommodation is matched by hotel quality meals made from local produce.
Cost for the retreat and accommodation and full board is £479 (with a non-returnable deposit of £100). Click here to download the Windermere retreat flyer…
Please note that the retreat has been postponed until later in the year. Please get in touch for more details…
Gratitude therefore takes
nothing for granted, is never
unresponsive, is constantly
awakening to new
wonder, and to
praise of the
goodness of God.
Thomas Merton, mystic and monk
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