RCWMS

Survive Your Story: Expressive Writing for Release and Recovery with Shawna Ayoub (via Zoom)
2022-10-23 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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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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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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.
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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, 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.
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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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Art of Conscious Aging: A Group for Women
2022-10-11 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-09-13 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-08-09 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-07-12 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-06-14 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-05-10 11:30 - 14:00, 2022-04-12 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.

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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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.

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.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

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.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

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.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

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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Art and Music By The Haw River
2022-07-09 09:30 - 16:30
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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South of Heaven - A Reading by Patti Meredith (via Zoom)
2022-07-06 19:00 - 20:30
“With an impeccable ear for dialogue, an artist’s eye for detail, and deep understanding of the push and pull of family, Meredith gives us South of Heaven—a celebration of growth and survival when confronted by mistakes and denial and, ultimately, how people can be transformed by acceptance and the astonishing surprises we should all be looking for. A beautiful read!”
-Darnell Arnoult, author of Sufficient Grace and Galaxie Wagon
Join us for a reading with Patti Meredith from her debut novel, South of Heaven.
South of Heaven, set in Carthage, North Carolina in 1998, tells the story of two middle-aged sisters stuck under the same leaky roof as their secrets become front-page news.
Miscommunications and slights, real and imagined, threaten to keep Fern and Leona divided but the inexplicable bond of family, a widowed preacher in search of his own lost faith, and an unlikely business venture deliver rescue. South of Heaven is a testament to second chances and unexpected consequences.
Author: Patti Meredith grew up in Galax, Virginia. Most of her stories are set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but her debut novel, South of Heaven, takes place in the North Carolina Sandhills where her family’s roots run deep. Meredith worked for many years at UNC-TV on the long running program, North Carolina People with William Friday. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis. Her stories have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, and Mulberry Fork Review.
Order a copy of the book HERE.
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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, June, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-06-15 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.
June 15: The Power in Giving Ourselves Permission
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 June below.
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Mindfulness for Healing from Stress and Burnout with Jen Johnson (via Zoom)
2022-06-09 12:00
Back by popular demand! On Thursday, June 9, from 12:00 – 1:15 pm EDT, please join us for a mindfulness class with Jen Johnson.
Practicing mindfulness can promote mind body healing from stress, anxiety, and burnout. Learn how to handle difficult times with greater ease and cultivate inner calm, compassion, and resilience. Please join us for a session of guided meditation for healing. For beginning and advanced meditators.
Leader: Jen Johnson is a mindfulness teacher, coach, and therapist teaching meditation for healing, creativity, and resilience. Learn more about Jen here.
Cost: $30
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Flash of Silver: Writing Workshop with Laurel Ferejohn - June, 2022 (via Zoom)
2022-06-05 13:00 - 16:00
SOLD OUT! Flash: it’s crystalline and compelling. Many literary journals look for it, many writers want to know what it is and how to write it. In this three-hour online workshop for beginning to seasoned writers of memoir or fiction, you’ll learn about the form that stands proud in its brevity and that can boost all your other writing. Enjoy creating to prompts, with readings and discussion. And enjoy a virtual gathering in celebration of our diverse experience of creativity and resilience. Ahead of class, the instructor will email examples of flash fiction and memoir (including one in-the-making!) and a list of thirty or more flash-friendly journals to read and to submit to.
Cost: $25
Leader: Laurel Ferejohn is a writer and independent editor with publications of flash fiction, flash memoir, a Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize–winning short story, essays, and poetry. She’s a believer in the power of writers coming together.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, May, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-05-18 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.
May 18: Being and Becoming Better
June 15: The Power in Giving Ourselves Permission
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. Sign up for one or each remaining session in the series.
Register for May below.
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June: HERE.
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To Taste Life Twice: Writing the Personal Essay with Allison Kirkland (via Zoom)
2022-05-10 19:00 - 20:00
SOLD OUT! Forget those stodgy 5 paragraph formats you learned in high school, or the college entrance essays you were forced to write for admissions. Essay comes from the french word essayer, which quite literally means “to try.” It is one of the most expansive and delightful literary forms. In this collaborative and generative class we are going to read some great essays, talk about what makes them sing, and then work with prompts to generate some of our own. We’ll talk about voice, style, characterization and how to make the personal universal.
Leader: Allison Kirkland is a recent recipient of the Ella Pratt Emerging Artist Grant from the Durham Arts Council! She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School in New York City, and teaches workshops all over the Triangle. One workshop participant noted that “Allison has an uncanny ability, or else a well honed one, to pull out words you didn’t know were in your head.” You can learn more about Allison here.
Classes will take place on May 10, 17, 24, & 31.
Cost: $100. Includes all four sessions.
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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, April, 2022 - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2022-04-20 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.
April 20: Connecting the Dots from Me to Me
May 18: Being and Becoming Better
June 15: The Power in Giving Ourselves Permission
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. Sign up for one or each remaining session in the series.
Register for April below.
Register for
May: HERE.
June: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Labyrinth Pilgrimage: Walking With Trees & Celtic Practice (via Zoom)
2022-04-14 19:00 - 20:30
Join us for this two-session online labyrinth retreat on April 14th & 21st. We welcome Barrie Gibby, who engages participants in a deeper understanding of the labyrinth as a tool for healing and renewal as well as a companion on the journey to the divine within. Partnering Celtic Spirituality with the sacredness of trees, this labyrinth experience embodies our prayers, reawakens our hearts, and honors the feminine creative spirit.
The Celtic culture highly reveres the sacredness of all beings in balanced relationship. Trees especially are a profound part of that bondedness of harmonious life. As pilgrims in these uncertain times, we will explore life phases of trees and women, then walk (with our fingers!) among the four quadrants of the medieval labyrinth, shifting our focus to the vigilant path of a just “tree community”.
You are invited to an online embodied journey that includes rituals, journal prompts, the arts, contemplative labyrinth walks and expanded imaginings. Downloadable labyrinth designs can be followed with a finger or a stylus. Resources sent in advance. Open to all.
Dates: Thursdays, April 14 & 21, 2022.
Facilitator: 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: $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.

Ecumenical Holy Week Labyrinth Walk at Binkley Baptist, 2022
2022-04-10 16:00 - 2022-04-15 18:30 | Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Walking a labyrinth is an ancient spiritual tool for reflection. The 40’x40′ labyrinth laid out on the floor of the Sanctuary is a replica of the labyrinth found on the floor of Chartres Cathedral. Prayer stations on the perimeter provide resources for those who walk.
Sunday, April 10: 4:00-6:30 pm
Monday, April 11 – Thursday, April 14: 9:00 am – 6:30 pm. Guided walks available at 1:00 pm each of these days.
Monday, April 11 ~ Peace in Our World w/Mary Ellen McGuire
Tuesday, April 12 ~ Creation-Earth Care w/Cely Chicurel
Wednesday, April 13 ~ Racial Justice w/Deneane Sutton & Stephanie Ford
Thursday, April 14 ~ Grief & Loss w/Marilyn Jacobson
Friday, April 15: 9:00 am – 1:30 pm
Free and open to the public. Please wear clean socks.
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, events@rcwms.org
Sponsors: Several Chapel Hill churches

LUNCH BREAK "PLAY" DATE: A Writing Workshop (via Zoom)
2022-04-07 12:30 - 13:30
The play’s the thing! Join us for this two-part interactive workshop, taking place on April 7 & 21, and learn how to write a 10-minute play. We’ll look at examples of this short form and try our hand at it. Then we’ll share our work with each other in a supportive environment. Let’s get creative, play around, and enjoy ourselves! Open to writers of all levels.
Leader: Rebecca Welper, MFA, has a master’s in playwriting from the Catholic University of America. Her 10-minute and full-length plays have been performed in New York, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina.
Cost: Sliding scale. $25, $50. Must be able to attend both sessions.
Register below.
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Labyrinth Walk at Duke Chapel 2022
2022-04-05 10:00 - 20:00 | Duke Chapel, 401 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, 27708, United States
After a two-year hiatus, RCWMS welcomes the opportunity to share our labyrinth again with Duke Chapel.
The labyrinth will be available to walk on Monday, April 4, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm and on Tuesday, April 5, from 10:00 – 8:00 pm.
The labyrinth, a 40-foot circle containing a winding path, is an ancient spiritual practice of meditation and self-centering found in religious traditions from around the world. This labyrinth is a copy of the labyrinth in the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France from around 1220.

“Walking the labyrinth is a wonderful way to set aside some time for quiet retreat, unwind and listen for our deepest wisdom,” explains RCWMS Executive Director Jeanette Stokes. “While physically engaged in following the curving path, the mind can be free to rest or focus on a particular thought or issue, and the heart can be free to listen for the leading of God. The labyrinth is a wonderful container for our hopes, questions and concerns. As we walk, new insights often arise.”

Plan to allow about half an hour for your labyrinth walk. Please wear clean socks. The event is free and all are welcome.
