Art and Music By The Haw River
2022-07-09 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Location: A beautiful studio apartment in Saxapahaw, NC
Let’s go with the flow! Bring your favorite art supplies to capture the beauty of the Haw River. We will learn from one another and some people may be willing to share art supplies. Alison Weiner will be our host and will also provide some music. Have a summer day with art, friends, and music. Proof of vaccination and masks required.
Sponsors: RCWMS and mahaloArts
Cost: $100, a donation to the Sue Sneddon Art Fund. Bring your own lunch or yummy options will be available for purchase.
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Art of Conscious Aging: A Group for Women
2022-07-12 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-08-09 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-09-13 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-10-11 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-11-08 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-12-13 11:30 - 14:00, 2023-01-10 11:30 - 14:00, 2023-02-14 11:30 - 14:00 | via Zoom, Durham, NC, United States
During the pandemic Art of Conscious Aging is meeting via Zoom.
Contact info@rcwms.org to join the group.

After Roe: An Intergenerational Conversation (via Zoom)
2022-07-12 19:00 - 20:30
Join RCWMS executive director, Jeanette Stokes, and members of the RCWMS community for a conversation about what to do now that abortion is no longer protected as a Constitutional right. We’ll have time to grieve, share stories, and strategize about what to do next.

Cost: Free. Registration is required.

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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, July, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-07-20 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
July 20: What I Heard About My Hair
August 17: “Black Don’t Crack”, but What Had Happened Was…: Black Women and Aging
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for July below.
Register for August: HERE.
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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, August, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-08-17 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
August 17: “Black Don’t Crack”, but What Had Happened Was…: Black Women and Aging
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for August below.
Register for September: HERE. October: HERE. November: HERE. December: HERE.
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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, September, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-09-21 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
September 21: Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Women Living in Authenticity October 19: Finding a Flow: Moving Through Life’s Seasons
November 16: Protecting My Peace
December 21: Finishing Strong: Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Going…
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for September below.
Register for October: HERE. November: HERE. December: HERE.
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Making the Road As We Go: A Reading with Jeanette Stokes (via Zoom)
2022-09-29 19:00 - 20:00
Please join us for a reading with RCWMS Executive Director Jeanette Stokes, whose new book, Making the Road as We Go, is now available for pre-order.
The day Jeanette Stokes graduated from Duke Divinity School in 1977, she turned to some friends and said, “They’ll be sorry.” With only an inkling of what she would do next, she felt sure it would have something to do with women, faith, and social justice. A couple of months later, with the help of friends, she founded the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South (RCWMS), where she has served as Executive Director for most of the past forty-five years. In Making the Road as We Go she explores the path that led her from childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Smith College during the Vietnam War, to seminary at Duke Divinity School and ordination as a Presbyterian minister. In the book she reflects on her evolving relationship with the church and her development as a feminist devoted to an expanded vision of faith and spirituality. This vision—which she has created in concert with an ever-changing community—provides sustenance for the challenges of working for justice and living in an imperfect world.
Jeanette Stokes is the author of three collections of essays, 25 Years in the Garden, 35 Years on the Path, and Just Keep Going; three memoirs, Hurricane Season: Living Through a Broken Heart, Flying Over Home, and Following a Female Line; and a book on writing, Just Keep Going: Advice on Writing and Life. She is happier if she spends some time each week walking, writing, painting, and messing around in the garden.

Pre-order the book: HERE.
Please REGISTER for the reading by selecting a free ticket below. Registrants will receive both a receipt and a separate email with a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation. Please check your spam and/or promotions folder if you don’t receive one or both of these emails. We will also be sending Zoom link reminders just prior to the event.

Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating Prehistoric Night with MJ Sharp
2022-10-02 14:00 - 15:30
Join us for a virtual slideshow and discussion with MJ Sharp as she presents her photographic works-in-progress and discusses her attempts to recreate the experience of night at bronze-age megaliths. This work is part of her Fulbright Scholar Award work to investigate what we lose when we lose natural night and darkness to the ubiquity of contemporary light pollution.
Leader: The staff photographer for most of the 1990s for the Durham-based Independent, MJ Sharp is now a Lecturing Fellow at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. She was in residence at the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) in Cornwall for the 2021–2022 academic year. Learn more about MJ and her work here: www.mjsharp.com.
Cost: $10, $25, or $50. Proceeds to benefit RCWMS, in honor of our 45th anniversary year!
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Historic Stagville Tour - October 2022
2022-10-14 10:00 - 11:30
Join us for a tour of Historic Stagville, a state historic site in northern Durham County that includes remnants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. The Bennehan-Cameron family owned approximately 30,000 acres of land, and enslaved about 900 people on this property. Stagville protects a fraction of the land from that plantation, including original housing for enslaved people (1851), a massive barn (1860), and a Bennehan family house (1787-1799). Stagville is dedicated to teaching about the lives and work of enslaved people on the plantation.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join Stagville staff and other community members in learning more about Historic Stagville. The tour will begin at 1:00. Please allow sufficient time for the drive there.

Location: 5828 Old Oxford Road, Durham, NC. We’ll meet at the visitors center, which is the dark green building all the way at the end of the driveway. Everyone can park in the lot there to start. The address is 5828 Old Oxford, Durham, NC 27712. If folks are coming from Durham or Highway 85, once they are on Old Oxford Highway they should keep an eye out for a Merck construction site and big company entrance on the left– the site entrance will be the next driveway on the right. Look for a sign that says Historic Stagville and a gravel driveway with a wooden gate. If you pass Stagville Road on the left, you’ve gone too far!

Cost: $10/person. Additional donations to Stagville are welcome here.

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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, October, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-10-19 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
September 21: Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Women Living in Authenticity October 19: Finding a Flow: Moving Through Life’s Seasons
November 16: Protecting My Peace
December 21: Finishing Strong: Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Going…
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for October below.
Register for November: HERE. December: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Tree Songs: Braiding the Paths of the Labyrinth & the Celtic Tree Zodiac - 2 Sessions (via Zoom)
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:30
Please join us for a two-session online labyrinth retreat, Thursdays, October 20th & 27th. We welcome back Barrie Gibby, who will engage participants in a deeper understanding of the labyrinth by linking its quadrants and path to life phases and the Celtic Tree Zodiac.
Trees are the oldest living beings on earth and are more precious now than ever. How does their wisdom deepen our understanding of transformative life? Following the path of the labyrinth and practices of the Celts, how are we listening to the trees and learning from their profound and patient wisdom? What song is rising in the sap of your soul tree to share with the world? What can we do to take meaningful action for eco-justice in our interior and exterior landscapes to partner with the Mother?

In this two-part series, we gather as pilgrims to celebrate the beauty of your mystical Celtic birth tree and healing properties, identify your soul tree, and interweave the sacred feminine through the embodied spiritual practice of walking the labyrinth. The experiences of journaling, sharing
photos in a slide collage, honoring your Ogham (ancient Celtic alphabet) symbol, creating an altar, and singing with the trees (and Ruth!) to unfold a new path given to us by the ancients are all elements of this two- session mini-retreat.
Resources sent in advance. Open to all.
Dates: Thursdays, October 20 & 27, 2022.
Leaders: Barrie Carter Gibby is an educator, social justice activist, accomplished pianist, and theater director. As a member of the Veriditas Faculty (Worldwide Labyrinth Project), Veriditas Council and an Advanced Certified Labyrinth facilitator, Barrie finds sacred spaces everywhere.

Ruth Cunningham is a sound healing practitioner and was a founding member of the group Anonymous 4. She specializes in early music performance as well as improvisational sacred music from varied spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings. She works with individuals and groups on using the voice and music for healing and creating a spiritual practice using sound. With Anonymous 4, Ruth performed in concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and made thirteen recordings. She is a member of the core faculty for The Chartres Academy Wisdom School that meets in Chartres France each summer. Learn more about Ruth here.

Cost: $60. Sessions will be recorded for those with schedule conflicts.
Register below. Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.
This workshop is a natural extension of our programming, as RCWMS has been using its own 40’ x 40’ canvas labyrinth since 1998. For more information about RCWMS’s labyrinth programming history and current opportunities please visit Labyrinth Resources and scroll down to the video featuring RCWMS’ Jeanette Stokes.

Pandemic Burnout Support
2022-10-21 10:30 - 11:30 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Are you officially over this pandemic? Are you trying to get to the new normal but are just worn out? If you’re under 50 and these things ring true, let’s get together to connect, cry, laugh-cry, and provide mutual support as we process what it means to live in a pandemic changed world.
This in person gathering will focus on capacity-building, joy, and community hosted at the RCWMS office. Come as you are to our cozy space and we will shape this group together. Tea, coffee, and snacks will be provided. Geared towards folks under 50. All genders and sexualities welcome. Proof of vaccination required.
Cost: Free, but registration required.
Facilitators: Callie Swaim-Fox is an Anita McLeod Intern at RCWMS and a Fellow for Archives and Faith Programming at the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. Rebecca Welper is a writer, facilitator, and Director of Development and Special Projects at RCWMS.
Contact: rebecca@rcwms.org

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Survive Your Story: Expressive Writing for Release and Recovery with Shawna Ayoub (via Zoom)
2022-10-23 14:00 - 16:00
Difficult experiences can become lodged in our bodies in ways that impact us daily, and writing is a way to name, release and even recover from those experiences. Expressive writing allows us to make sense and meaning; to recraft the struggle and better reflect our truth. In other words, it supports you in surviving your story.
This course is structured in two parts. In the first, we come together as a group for a two-hour Zoom session to discuss the what and how of safe expressive writing practices followed by exercises and a take-home writing assignment. For the second part, you will connect directly with your instructor, if you choose, to share your writing and schedule a one-on-one, confidential response and conversation about your writing goals.
Leader: Shawna Ayoub is a brown, queer, Durham-based writer and instructor whose work prioritizes the engagement of difficult topics. After recognizing the personal benefits of writing for release and recovery, she has made her practice public for the last 12 years, offering courses independently as well as through the Center for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Verywell Mind, Survivor Lit, Exit 7, [wherever], The Archipelago, and The Manifest-Station.

Cost: $100. Scholarships available. Please contact info@rcwms.org.
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Homegrown: NC Women's Preaching Festival 2022
2022-10-27 14:30 - 2022-10-28 15:00
Please join us October 27-28, 2022 for the 10th annual Homegrown: NC Women’s Preaching Festival.
This year we will sink our hands into the soil of the earth and our lives. As we highlight excellent preaching, hone our homiletic skills, and build community, we will excavate our life stories, those of the Bible, and those of the earth. In addition to the workshops, meals, sermons, and worship we will be offering field trips to sacred sites, including Bluestem Conservation Burial Ground and Historic Stagville and presenting our first ever preaching award.
This year’s preachers and presenters include Rev Dele, Rhody Mastin, Lisa Yebuah, Stephanie Workman, Yazmin Spearman, Ginny Tobiassen, and LaShauna Austria.
Our Vision: We believe hundreds of clergywomen in North Carolina are faithfully and creatively engaging in ministries where they proclaim the Word of God, week after week. In an ecumenical spirit of love and collegiality, we will lift up the voices of local clergywomen to encourage and inspire; share and learn; and to hone our craft. Together we will hear wonderful preaching from conference attendees and have time for casual group conversations on the art of proclamation in all its forms. We will pray, worship, and celebrate together.
In addition to an incredible line-up of presenters, we are excited about the gifts and wisdom, joys and challenges that each of you bring to this festival every year. In addition to the workshops and worship, we will offer several opportunities for being in communion with each other. Learning in community for two days is the heart of who we are. We hope you will plan to join us!
Learn more about the festival: www.ncwomenpreaching.com
Cost: $85 – Regular price ticket and help someone else attend
$60 – Regular price ticket
$25 – Limited income/student
Questions? Contact RCWMS: info@rcwms.org
Individual workshop registration details will be available once we finalize the schedule.
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Indigo Field Sneak Peek Author Chat with Marjorie Hudson (via Zoom)
2022-11-03 19:00 - 20:00
“Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, carthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget. In tightly compressed, poetic language, Hudson weaves a mesmerizing story of loss, injustice, and revenge conspiring to darken the human heart–and the redemptive and unexpected ways the light comes in.”
-Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of Bees
Join us for a sneak peek of her new novel, Indigo Field, with author Marjorie Hudson, in conversation with Georgann Eubanks.
In this eagerly-anticipated novel of moral reckoning, due out in March, 2023, the unjust outcome of a murder trial, and the chance accident that follows, result in a feud that raises the spirits of the dead forcing enemies to become allies in order to survive.
In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there.
When the colonel runs into her car, causing a surprising amount of damage, it sparks a feud that sets loose the spirits in the Field, both benevolent and vengeful. In prose that’s been called “dazzling” and “mesmerizing,” in the animated voices of trees and birds and people, in Southern-voiced storytelling as deeply layered as that of Pat Conroy, Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.
Author: Award-winning author Marjorie Hudson was born in the Midwest, raised in Washington, DC, and now makes her home in North Carolina. She is author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (stories) and Searching for Virginia Dare (history/travelogue), and her essays and stories plumb the depths of the human heart.
She lives on a century farm with her husband Sam and dog D], where she mentors writers and reads poetry to trees.
The reading is co-sponsored by RCWMS and McIntyre’s Books, an independent bookstore in Pittsboro, NC.
Cost: Free. Registration is required.
Pre-order the book: HERE.
Please REGISTER by selecting a free ticket below. Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, November, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-11-16 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
November 16: Protecting My Peace
December 21: Finishing Strong: Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Going…
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for November below.
Register for December: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Holiday Sale December 11, 2022!
2022-12-11 13:00 - 17:00
Holiday Sale
Sunday, December 11, 2022
1:00-5:00 pm
1202 Watts Street, Durham, NC

(Corner of Watts Street and Demerius Street.)
Handmade cards, books, jewelry, animals, paintings, etc. by:

B. J. Fusaro, Galia Goodman, Bryant Holsenbeck,
MJ Sharp, Jeanette Stokes, & TheTravelPenguin

Come by to visit, experience local artwork, and purchase great gifts. Jeanette Stokes will be signing and selling copies of her new book, Making the Road as We Go. Bring your neighbors, friends, and families. A portion of the sales proceeds will benefit RCWMS. Masks are required.

For more information, please email Jeanette Stokes at jeanette@rcwms.org.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, December, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-12-21 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.

December: Finishing Strong: Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Going…
January: On My Way ‘Home’: Finding My Tribe
February: It Takes (at least) Two: The Importance of Reciprocity
March 2023: We Overcome by the Word of Our Testimony: A Celebration of Us

Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for December below. Register for January: HERE. Register for February: HERE. Register for March: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Creating Mindful Intentions with Jen Johnson (via Zoom)
2023-01-12 13:00 - 15:00
Please join us for an inspiring afternoon that will support you in creatively dreaming your most heartfelt intentions into reality. We will explore your deepest longings using guided meditation and journaling. Then we’ll make a collage from whatever emerges to help you to remain mindful of what matters most to you. Make 2023 your year of expanding in ways that nurture a greater sense of happiness and inner peace. No experience with meditation, journaling, or collage making is required.
Supplies to bring:

A journal or paper
Pen
Poster board or any size blank piece of paper or construction paper – I love the 22 x 28 poster boards, but some people like 8.5 x 11, so any type and size paper will do
5 magazines that you love but don’t mind cutting up. Choose magazines that inspire you or make you feel good when you see the images and text
Scissors
Glue stick

Leader: Jen Johnson, MS, MFA, LCMHC is a mindfulness teacher, therapist, photographer, and writer offering an integrative approach to healing and creative awakening. Learn more about Jen here.
Cost: $30 – 45. Choose the price that fits your budget. Scholarships available. Contact info@rcwms.org.
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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, January, 2023 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2023-01-18 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
January 2023 – On My Way ‘Home’: Finding My Tribe
February 2023 – It Takes (at least) Two: The Importance of Reciprocity
March 2023 – We Overcome by the Word of Our Testimony: A Celebration of Us
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for January below. Register for February: HERE. Register for March: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

A Reading by Mary Rocap from her memoir, 1104 Broad Street (via Zoom)
2023-01-26 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for a reading from her new memoir, 1104 Broad Street, with author Mary Rocap, in conversation with Georgann Eubanks.
In 1973, freshly graduated from Duke University, Mary Rocap, along with two people she barely knew, opened a vegetarian restaurant in Durham, NC: Somethyme at 1104 Broad Street. This book is both her story and the history of the restaurant and the one that would follow, Seventh Street. It is also an attempt to look back and try to make sense of what they did and did not accomplish. While the food was central, it was never just about food, it was also art and politics, culture and community. And it was 18 years of Rocap’s life.
Mary Rocap is a singer/songwriter, author, bread baker, quilter and fabric crafter, collagist, and stargazer. Recently retired, she is enjoying living at a more graceful and measured pace allowing for time to attend to what captures her attention.

Cost: Free. Registration is required.
Order the book: HERE, or email maryrocap@maryrocap.com for a signed copy. Books are also available for purchase at Vaguely Reminiscent, 728 9th St, Durham.
Please REGISTER for the reading by selecting a free ticket below. Registrants will receive both a receipt and a separate email with a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation. Please check your spam and/or promotions folder if you don’t receive one or both of these emails. We will also be sending Zoom link reminders just prior to the event.

Threshold Path of Imbolc on the Labyrinth: with Barrie Gibby (via Zoom)
2023-01-31 19:00 - 20:30
In celebration of Imbolc on Feb. 1, that powerful Celtic Fire Festival between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, let’s light our “inextinguishable fire” on this eve, in honor of Brighid/Bride/St. Brigid, the ancient goddess-turned-saint, who brings us together under the Great Oak to cross seasonal thresholds of our lives. In this “thin place” time of emerging light, when life is quickening beneath us, we take stock of what to leave behind and remember our own ancestors who gather at our hearth. What is the wisdom of Imbolc and Brigid that we can embrace in our “blue cloak” to carry forward?
Thresholds onto the path, the turns and center place of the labyrinth will be the desk-size meditation platform to walk and culminate our time together (downloads included). Rituals, Celtic stories, labyrinth background and some deeper dives into this thin place will accompany the evening. Instructions for Brigid’s reed cross sent in advance.
Resources sent in advance. Open to all.
Leader: Barrie Carter Gibby works on the creative edge between the branches of words and movement expression. An educator, social justice activist, accomplished pianist, theater director, and labyrinth facilitator, she facilitates retreats to an international audience on a variety of themes. As a member of the Veriditas Faculty (Worldwide Labyrinth Project), Veriditas Council and an Advanced Certified Labyrinth facilitator, Barrie finds sacred spaces everywhere.

Cost: $40. Sessions will be recorded for those with schedule conflicts.
Register below. Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.
This workshop is a natural extension of our programming, as RCWMS has been using its own 40’ x 40’ canvas labyrinth since 1998. For more information about RCWMS’s labyrinth programming history and current opportunities please visit Labyrinth Resources and scroll down to the video featuring RCWMS’ Jeanette Stokes.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, February, 2023 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2023-02-15 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
February 2023 – It Takes (at least) Two: The Importance of Reciprocity
March 2023 – We Overcome by the Word of Our Testimony: A Celebration of Us
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40
per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
Register for February below. Register for March: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.
