Learning to Navigate The Mobius Strip of Money
A Retreat for Courage & Renewal Facilitators and Non-Profit Fundraisers
November 3-5, 2017
Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center
Bangor, Pennsylvania
To navigate the Mobius strip of money with grace and understanding, people need to
examine their attitudes about money and where those attitudes originated. Money plays a
strong role in our inner and outer lives, usually operating below the level of our complete
awareness.
Money creates a certain kind of anxiety that makes talking about it something most
people would rather avoid. This retreat is expressly designed for anyone who wishes to
identify and transcend the psychological and spiritual obstacles that prevent us from
being able to ask others to support our passion and our work. We will use Scottish
Storyline, autobiography, and relationship building to improve our skills as fundraisers.
This will be a hands-on activie exploration of our relationship to money. Come prepared
to reflect, laugh, squirm, breathe, and ultimately live into a healthier relationship with
money in your life.
“The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
WHEN AND WHERE
The setting for this retreat will be the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, PA.
The retreat will begin with dinner at 6:00 on Friday, November 3, 2017 and end after
lunch on Sunday, November 5, 2017.
COST AND REGISTRATION
The registration fee is $550 and includes double occupancy room, board and tuition.
There is the possibility for some scholarship money if needed.
RETREAT LEADERSHIP
Jeff Creswell [email protected] has been facilitating Courage & Renewal® retreats
since 2000 for clergy and congregational leaders, educators and cross-professional groups.
He was a classroom teacher in Portland, Oregon for 32 years, and is an educational
consultant sharing the Scottish Storyline method with educators. He is a member of
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral where he sings in the choir. He and his wife, Caryl enjoy
spending time with their blended family of eight children and three grandchildren.
Megan LeBoutillier [email protected] is an artist and writer who has been
involved with Circle of Trust from their inception in 1996. Prepared by The Center for
Courage and Renewal to be a facilitator in 1999. As a Kirkridge Courage Fellow from
2015-2017 Megan studied fundraising practices, wrote a workbook for Courage
facilitators and interviewed philanthropists so that fundraisers could hear their voices and
learn about who they are at heart.
Patti Smith [email protected] facilitates retreats for the Center for Courage &
Renewal and serves on the board of the Center for Biography and Social Arts. She is a
former Waldorf teacher currently working in large urban high school districts to increase
graduation rates and life opportunities for students. She is the co-editor with Signe
Schaefer of More Lifeway’s, a book on family growth and development.
Registration will be handled by Kirkridge Retreat Center.
If you have questions please e-mail Megan LeBoutillier.