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KINDNESS AND TRUTH: WHAT COMPASSIONATE LIVING GIVES AND REQUIRES
Women’s Fall Contemplative Retreat with Carolyn Foster
SEPTEMBER 18-20, 2009
Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael
We often think of kindness as soft and gentle and truth as blunt, even confrontational. But the two are intertwined, and neither is one-dimensional. The practice of kindness backs up caring with honesty and is never sentimental. The practice of truth-telling balances directness with discernment and is never assaultive. While both these practices are demanding, they are the answer to the violence, confusion, and negativity around and within us. Together they teach us compassionate living. Going away on retreat restores our strength so we can practice kind and truthful responses when we are back in our work and home lives.
Santa Sabina Center offers retreatants gracious hospitality, beauty, and a refuge for contemplation and renewal. Whether you want to be cozy inside or clear your mind in nature, the house, courtyard, and gardens offer dozens of places for letting go into serenity. Scheduled program times alternate with free time for hiking, napping, playing in the art center, reading, or lying in a hammock. The silences and conversations are as healing a diet as the good food.
Register by calling my voicemail, (510) 484-3078 on or after Monday, June 29. You may reserve for yourself and a friend with one call or have a friend call for you if you’ll be out of town. Last resort: e-mail me at cjf@creativechoices.net. Sometimes people assume calling late won’t work, but whenever you get this or get around to deciding, call anyway. The cost of the retreat is $290 for a double room, $340 for a single room. This includes lodging, program, and six meals, from dinner Friday night through lunch Sunday.
Come inaugurate autumn with the fierce blessings of kindness and truth!
To receive email or regular mail notification of details of this retreat and how to register, go to the contact page and call or email Carolyn with your request.
