Sharing our Spiritual Journeys
Saturday, December 28, 2024,
to Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Led by Ann Marie Snell, with other
participant workshop leaders

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This year-end retreat at Quaker Center will explore ways in which we record and share our spiritual journeys, including through story, memoir and art. Several program leaders and participant facilitators will offer interactive workshops guiding those present through some of these methods. We’ll also practice daily worship sharing in which we’re able to share our ongoing spiritual paths with one another in a small-group, worshipful setting. This will be a lightly programmed and unique year-end retreat.

Those who wish to arrive a day early on Friday, December 27th, will be welcome. We will not have meals or activities planned until the Retreat begins with registration on Saturday afternoon and dinner at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday.

As always, we’ll also spend time in fellowship, contemplation, and celebration, as we welcome in the new year together here under the redwoods. All are welcome. 

As many of you know, one of our scheduled program leaders, Judith Wright Favor, passed away last December. About this retreat, Judith wrote: “With hearts, minds, bodies and souls attuned to the Source of Love, we will write and speak from rich silence.” We intend to do just this, and trust that Friend Judith’s spirit will accompany us as we gather. Fortunately her co-presenter, Don McCormick of Grass Valley Friends Meeting, will be part of the retreat and will lead a workshop on writing spiritual memoir.

Ann Marie Snell will serve as a convener to help lead us through the retreat, as well as offer a collaborative project on Reflecting the Light through Nature Journaling. Other workshop and activity leaders to be announced.

Ann Marie is a graphic designer, artist and member of San Francisco Friends Meeting. Her passion for connecting with Creation through art has inspired a daily practice as well as workshops and classes that explore the intersection of faith and art and community for Friends and intergenerational groups.

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