Grounded in the Source of all creation the Spirituality Network seeks
to cultivate awakened lives through contemplation and action.
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May 2018 Newsletter
In this edition:
Living Faith Awards Breakfast ~ Wellstreams Applications ~ Silent Directed Retreat
Shared Insights from SDI Conference: Vision of Connection and Hope
Art, Poetry, and Community Announcements
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2018 Living Faith Awards Breakfast
Thursday, May 24, 2018, 7:45 am - 10 am
held at the Jewish Community Center
Living Faith Awards honor individuals who create
a more hopeful, peaceful and faith filled world. It is an honor for us to celebrate these remarkable individuals whose faith is both
lived and alive
in ways that inspire and challenge us.
This year's Living Faith honorees are:
John Cantrell, Jamie Hobson, Jim Kearns, Rita Kearns, Fred Rieser II, Connie Warren, and Butch Zurbriggen
2018 Special Awards:
Alvin R. Hadley Social Justice Award: Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith The
Interfaith/Multicultural Award: Karen Dawson
Hope for Today Award: Patricia Gibboney
Hope for Tomorrow Award: Steve Walker
Reserve your space at the table
Registration fee: $35
includes full hot breakfast and awards program
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2018 Living Faith
Awards Breakfast
Keynote Address:
Lama Kathy Wesley,
the practice coordinator of
Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling Meditation Center
read more below
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Living Faith Awards Breakfast Keynote Address from
Lama Kathy Wesley of the
Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling Meditation Center
Kathy has been a student of Khenpo Karthar Rinoche for over 40 years. Now, as a lama (dharma teacher) she serves as the resident teacher at Columbus Karma Thegsum Choling and travels to teach at other buddhist centers across
the country. We are delighted that she will offer our keynote address at this year's Living Faith Awards.
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Discernment, Contemplation
and Deep Community
The Wellstreams Program of Spiritual Formation
and the Art of Spiritual Direction
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APPLICATION DEADLINE:JUNE 1, 2018
FOR NEXT CLASS BEGINNING IN AUGUST 2018
Application packet available
HERE
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Wellstreams is open to adults who wish to discern a call to companion others on their spiritual journeys. We look for those individuals who can demonstrate the ability to reflect deeply on their own
life experience and have the capacity to articulate their own theological or spiritual tradition. Many who have sought this program have had others affirm their spiritual gifts of presence and prayer. With intentional discernment woven throughout the program,
it is not necessary to know beforehand how you may put your Wellstreams learning to use, it is only necessary to be open to the mystery and movement of God’s Spirit. Accepted applicants are required to be in spiritual direction, meeting regularly (every 4–6
weeks) for the duration of the program. (If you do not have a spiritual director we can help—see
our Referral Service.)
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Insights from the Spiritual Directors International Annual Conference in St. Louis, April 2018: Seeking Connection
from the Enneagram Intensive Workshop:
“Until we can touch and kiss and heal our own wounds, we will continue to tear open the wounds of others. In asking the Sacred questions that draw us near to our original wound, we expand our awareness so that in our presence others can be themselves.”
~ Hurley and Dobson, "My Best Self"
from Rabbi Amy Eilberg's session: Seeking Connection with the Political Other:
The process of moving from enemy to friend involves "the movement from the heart and mind closed in fear and wounding to a state of openness and curiosity about another human being." Healing requires the recognition that we are all interconnected. The
pain of one is the pain of all.
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Mitakuye Oyasin:
"We are all relatives."
"We are all connected."
~ Lakota Tradition
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(c) Hubble
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Thy Light is in All Forms
Thy Light is in all forms
Thy Love is in all beings
~ Sufi Tradition
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Rest, Relax, and Refresh your Spirit
The Wellstreams Program is pleased to announce
A Silent Directed Retreat
Sunday evening, August 12 through Saturday afternoon, August 18, 2018
at the St. Francis Spiritual Center in Tiffin Ohio
This retreat in silence is a time for BEING instead of DOING.
Our daily rhythm invites slowing down, resting, and deepening prayer. As you allow your inner “chatter” to recede into quiet, the still small voice of God becomes more accessible.
Fee: $600 Includes private room, all meals, and daily spiritual direction.
with $100 non-refundable deposit NO LATER THAN JUNE 30, 2018.
The balance will be due on or before August 1, 2018.
Space is limited and registrations are made in order received.
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From our friends in the community...
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Journeys of Compassion: A Response to Life’s Challenges and Opportunities
Friday June 29, 7-9pm & Saturday June 30, 9am-4pm
Martin de Porres Center 2330 Airport Dr. Columbus OH 43219
Join Rick Hatem and Mary van Balen for an evening of reflection and a one-day retreat exploring journeys of compassion. Saturday’s retreat will complement the Friday evening reflections, but both sessions are complete in themselves.
Fee: $90 for both days; $20 Friday only $85 Saturday only; includes lunch on Saturday.
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SAVE THE DATE!
Our Friends at the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio announce their
2018 Annual Main Event Dinner
Sunday, August 19, 2018, location and time TBD
Featuring Ms. Rachel Brown
(2014 Genocide Prevention Fellow of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) speaking on
“Countering the Impact of Inflammatory and Dangerous Speech.”
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