New Years: Open Heart, Peaceful Mind

NB: This workshop is NEARING CAPACITY. If you wish to register, please call the Registration Office at ext. 137 to be placed on the waitlist.

Enjoy an alcohol-free New Year’s Eve celebration, with hors d’oeuvres reception and home-cooked dinner, lively concert in the Barn, ice cream social, and midnight candlelight Meeting for Worship.

Relax into a time of serene rest and renewal. Open to the new year’s unfolding with a retreat that honors your heart, mind, and soul. Practice mindful meditation in the rhythms of daily life with sitting, walking, and eating meditation, as well as mindful dialogue. Savor sustained periods of silence, quiet reflection with poetry and stories by the fireplace, small and large group discussion, an afternoon in the art studio, laughter, a labyrinth walk, and deep relaxation. Restore your spirit and enter the new year with greater calm, clarity, and energy — and ways to sustain yourself in the coming year. Limit 20.

What People Are Saying:

“A space to heal, be held, and just rest!”

“Excellent alternative to the holiday hoopla.”

“Great mixture of indoor, outdoor time, large and small group time, video, poetry, and art. I love the variety of ways to learn.”

“This is the sixth time I’ve attended this retreat and it is always new… This is a period of genuine and personal reflection and renewal – a great way to start the new year.”

“Valerie guided us through her own personal sharing, small group sharing, and one on one helping us to find our core, take risks, and to listen to the quiet voice within.”

Leader(s)

Valerie Brown is a Courage & Renewal® Facilitator prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal. A consultant and principal of Lead Smart Coaching, LLC, specializing in leadership and mindfulness training, she is a popular retreat leader and author. She has written several books and four Pendle Hill pamphlets, most recently, Coming to Light: Cultivating Spiritual Discernment through the Quaker Clearness Committee (PHP #446). Ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh as a lay member of the Tien Hiep Order, she is also a member of Solebury Monthly Meeting (PA) and a certified yoga instructor. For more information about Valerie, visit www.leadsmartcoaching.com.

Financial aid may be available. If you are seeking funds to participate in this program, click to review and complete our Financial Assistance Application and a Pendle Hill staff member will follow-up with you shortly (please do NOT register online). Thank you for your interest.

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