our retreats
Retreat, reflect, restore…but in relaxed ambiance and conversation with a small group of others at the newly created Spent Dandelion Monthly Retreats!
Over a spread of three days and two nights, we will savor good conversation, delicious cuisine, and wide and varied North Shore offerings.
Each retreat, while different in teachings, is uniform in cost and cancellation policy and follows the same general schedule.
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February 2019
Hygge Hospitality: The Art of Welcome in an Age of Rancor
Whatever else a person can say about this day and age, it isn’t an era of gentleness of spirit. So during these gathered days, it seems appropriate to explore and deepen habits of hospitality, in joyful defiance of general societal crankiness. We’ll discover ways to welcome, reasons why people crave welcome, whether there are suspect motivatons to welcome, how to welcome with one’s own style and context, and, given the Scriptural call to welcome even the stranger and the enemy, whether…
Find out more »Love, Me and Love Me. Loving Another and Loving Self
Even if you are a romantic it can be quite difficult to figure out how to balance love for another and love for self. Sometimes, even in more or less healthy relationships, it can be difficult to understand where the lines between Other and Self are even drawn. If a break-up does occur, a person is sometimes left wondering what, if anything, can be healthily salvaged of the relationship in any sort of continual way to honor both the love…
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