About this Retreat
Lois Huey-Heck has been living with sleep-interrupting questions about life, death, and the mystery of a cosmos-without-end since elementary school. She says, “In this season, it’s the fragility of Earth and human communities that’s keeping me up at night. I have so much grief for the Earth herself and for the most vulnerable of Creation, which is most of us now. Offering “Wisdom for Times Like These” is my response to a personal need to dive deeply into fear, sorrow, and anger where I encounter a living Wisdom that is equal to the precariousness of our times. I am committed to find and co-create communities that are Love in a world that needs wisdom, faith, realism, and resilience now more than ever.”
Lois was with Wood Lake Publishing for 29 years. She was a program mentor in the Pacific Jubilee SoulGuiding program and was director of spiritual nurture at Naramata Centre. Lois offers spiritual accompaniment to her household that ranges in age from five to 82. She also offers individual spiritual direction and online retreat leadership — all in the hope of wholeness.
Read about Lois'
spiritual direction practice here.
The Reverend Doctor Murray Groom is an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada. Retired from parish ministry, he now exercises his vocation as a spiritual director/soul guide. He regularly conducts extended retreats into Silence at Bethlehem Centre in Nanaimo and at Naramata Centre in the Okanagan Valley. His prevailing interests include the role of the guide on pilgrimage, the interface of the wild with the tame, the wisdom of global mythologies and the well-being of his family. When not travelling with his wife Susan, he lives in the South Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island.
Learn about Murray’s
spiritual accompaniment practice.
Grainger Brown is a licensed marriage family therapist (since 1985) and spiritual director living in Sacramento, California. Grainger completed the Pacific Jubilee Program in 1998 and then was on staff for six years. He has a spiritual direction private practice and works part-time as a psychotherapist for a large national hospital chain. The marriage between psychotherapy and spirituality is of special interest to Grainger.
Details of this retreat
In times like these, how do we find solid ground on which to place our feet and clear vision to see things as they are? What deepens our connection to truth? What gives us the courage to face a reality we would rather not see in a time known as ‘the post truth era’? How do we not succumb to avoidance or despair so that we may bear witness? And how then do we continue to choose for Love?
During three evenings in September, we will look at the deeper nature of truth through embodied practice, chant, lectio/audio/visio divina, and prayer. These contemplative practices will be interwoven with Silence. A wisdom teaching about the essential nature of truth will be followed by personal reflection and a hosted conversation.
In a time when the news can be profoundly unsettling, let us put down roots into the ancient soil of wisdom. Let us lean into connection with kindred souls and be sustained by Spirit. We need individuals and communities willing to be “true” in times like these.
*We will be joined by Murray Groom on September 10 and 24 and Grainger Brown on September 17.
This event is offered through the partnership of
Pacific Jubilee and Naramata Centre
Bursary funds are available through Naramata Centre.
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