Does your profession involve caregiving? Are you a nurse, therapist, physician, psychologist, clergymember, religious worker?
Are you a community organizer, a teacher, an activist?
If so, this is probably a reality in your daily life:
Note: we have changed the start date from July 17 to July 18.
While
Taking Care of Others
Join us!
Saturday, July 18-August 20, 2015
a confidential online group
combining
support, story-telling, and resource sharing
with assistance in
simple practices in spirituality and health.
If you have 15 minutes a day, even just every few days, you can participate in and benefit from this group.
This online experience is structured to allow for erratic schedules and a variety of demands on time. Like other online retreats an classes.
You can follow regularly or just "dip in" according to your needs, your schedule, and your caregiving and self-care commitments.
If you follow the retreat with some regularity, it will be one kind of experience. If you dip in or just follow one thread, it will be another kind of experience. Neither is better or worse. Either can be helpful.
This online program is held on a closed blog which is not searchable on the Web. Group leader and participants commit to confidentiality and the creation of a safe, supportive space.
Every week will feature four ongoing conversations:
* Sharing stories * Sharing resources * Sharing practices *
* Gifts, gripes, and gratitude *
Group members can participate in those four ongoing forums
as they wish and on their own schedule.
as they wish and on their own schedule.
Time
Feelings and emotions
Relationships
Relationships
Love and work, community and solitude, shifting ecosystems and sense of self.
Prayer and/or spiritual practice
Persons of any and no religious affiliation are most welcome.
Participants' affiliations and practices will be respected and incorporated.
Health and healing
Prayer and/or spiritual practice
Persons of any and no religious affiliation are most welcome.
Participants' affiliations and practices will be respected and incorporated.
Health and healing
An optional 6th week (August 21-27) after the formal end of the group will be available for those who wish to have more community time and/or to take part in shaping an ongoing online support group.
This group will offer a safe and supportive atmosphere. It will not encourage competition: this is not about who takes better care of oneself or who is stretched more thin or can carry greater burdens. Each of us has a life worthy of care and respect. Together we will tell stories, share resources, practice simple ways of staying healthy and sane, and welcome the opportunity to be with others who understand the demands (and rewards) of caregiving.
Please note: This online program is led by an experienced and trained pastoral minister, retreat leader, educator, and group facilitator who observes professional standards of confidentiality and care for personal boundaries. It is not a psychotherapy group. It is not the same as, or a substitute for, professional mental health care by a licensed practitioner. It does not and cannot offer formal diagnoses of conditions or illnesses.
This program is designed and facilitated by Jane C. Redmont, M.Div., Ph.D. (cand.). Jane has four decades of experience in ministry in in campus, parish, urban, and diocesan contexts. A theologian and writer, she has taught at the college and seminary levels and has a private practice in spiritual direction. She designed and led her first "Taking Care of Ourselves While Taking Care of Others" retreat, a day-long gathering, for the members and friends of the Catholic Worker community at Boston's Haley House in 1984.
Jane is a Congregational Consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. She practices Iyengar Yoga, prays in community at Boston's Emmanuel Church, and preaches about once a month at Trinity Episcopal Church, Canton, Mass. She lives in the city of Boston and currently spends a good deal of time and energy on the care of her 96-year-old parents, who live in a retirement community in the Boston suburbs. She enjoys farmers' markets, music, meals with friends, solitude, and sleep. For more information about Jane, see here.
Registration
Registration will remain open through the first couple of days of the program, but please note that cost is lower if you register early!
To register, please e-mail your intention to take the retreat to Jane Redmont.
Cost
$95 if you register by the end of the day Friday, July 10.
$110 if you register between Saturday, July 11 and Monday, July 20.
The program begins July 18, but we will accept latecomers.Payment
Some discounts are available for those in financial hardship. Talk to me.
Payment is non-refundable and due upon registration, by check or online electronic payment.
If you prefer paying by check, I will send you the mailing address when you write me to register.
If you prefer to pay online by credit card or PayPal, please click the button below to pay via the Redmont Retreats secure PayPal account. Note: you don't have to have your own PayPal account to use this secure online payment method. It will accept credit cards.
Interested in other online experiences?
Summer online retreats are listed here.
