Water: Healing
Any change shakes us up. Massive change can bruise us and leave us deeply wounded. When the change you’re navigating is at the tectonic level, that is, it seeks to reorient your worldview and your self-definition, the impact can be devastating. And not just to you personally. As progressives, the work we do can threaten the very institutions we believe are integral to the human quest for meaning, justice, and right relationship. Often, our healing begins with our recognition of just how wounded we have been.
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Progressive Personalities
Building a Progressive Christian community is a daunting task. One challenge in creating true community is the presence of four distinct personality types; left unrecognised, these innate differences are often a major contributor to misunderstandings, conflict, hurt feelings, and missed opportunities.
In this workshop, we will explore the specific values that drive the four personality types of the individuals who comprise our communities, what each type expects in community, their comfort levels with change, and how we can create community that supports each of their needs.
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Progressive Roman Catholics
Join Marie Bouclin, an ordained Roman Catholic priest, as she discusses the call to ministry that she is living out in a faith that has often denied women the opportunity to lead and share their gifts within a patriarchal system.
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“Losin’ my Religion and Finding my Soul”
After years of being immersed in the waters of fundamental Christianity, Trisha Bower rose to the surface of her spirituality, finding that liberation of the soul and heart come at a cost. Discussing the loss of theological ideologies in her life married with the deep-seated question of “what if?” Trisha takes us down her individual path of self-discovery and reveals how loss can be as transformative as we allow it to be. “
