Events

With a special emphasis on Japanese, Chinese, and Middle Eastern poetry, this four-session workshop offers a chance to explore, read, and even try your own hand at poetry from outside of familiar European traditions. The class will include a look at tanka, haiku, and zuihitsu (“follow the brush”) from Japan, landscape painting and poetry from […]

Mark your calendar and plan to join us October 15-16, 2020  for the 9th annual Homegrown: NC Women's Preaching Festival. This year's preachers and presenters include Donyelle McCray, Chelsea Yarborough, Karen Ziegler, Nicole Williams, Margie Quinn, Chelsea Yarborough, Deborah Williams, Grace Hackney, and Angie Hong. Our Vision: We believe hundreds of clergywomen in North Carolina […]

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 stories we tell determine how we heal. Writing about our experience can help us to make order from what feels like inner chaos and shape our stories into a cohesive and healing narrative. Writing about difficult times allows us to bear witness to our experience in a balanced way, without avoiding the feelings and […]

In this final session of our fall Coffee and Conversation series with Lisa Baron we'll discuss Holidays During A Pandemic. Feel free to  join even if you didn't have a chance to be part of the previous sessions.  For many of us, the holidays this year will look very different than previous years.  Travel plans […]

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 […]

"I am trying to understand and own up to my whiteness. To stop wearing blinders. To untie this habitually unseen knot.This task requires attention to the voices of those I, without thinking, considered other. It takes breathing deep into the possibility that reality is other than I have imagined. My life different from the one […]

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 […]