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Grounding and Growing: A New Year's Workshop with the Enneagram with Chelsea Yarborough (via Zoom)
2022-01-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | NC
“Chelsea’s workshops bring the Enneagram to life! She helped me understand myself in new and important ways!”
– past workshop participant
As we step into a new year, we often are thinking about what we would like to let go of, pick up and envision for ourselves. The enneagram is a wonderful resource to think through your own habits and how you might continually move towards more peace and wholeness in your day to day. With all that’s going on, give yourself the gift of an exhale and time to really think about the foundational tools that will help you jumpstart your year. We look forward to seeing you there!
Leader: Chelsea Yarborough, MDiv, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, an ordained minister, a poet, and an Enneagram enthusiast.
Cost: $25, $15 for students. Sliding scale also available. Contact info@rcwms.org.
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Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, December - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-12-15 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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 15: The Gift in Beginning Again
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.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Art of Conscious Aging: A Group for Women
2021-12-14 11:30 - 14:00, 2021-11-09 11:30 - 14:00, 2021-10-12 11:30 - 14:00, 2021-09-14 11:30 - 14:00, 2021-08-10 11:30 - 14:00, 2021-07-13 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.

Flesh and Bones: Learning to Love this Body -- A Reading with Liddy Grantland (via Zoom)
2021-12-09 19:00 - 20:00 | NC
Please join us for a reading with Liddy Grantland from her new book, Flesh and Bones: Learning to Love This Body.
Grantland lives with a body that hurts all the time. During her final year as an undergraduate, she decided to write about chronic pain for her school newspaper. Her words, collected in this volume, tell an intimate and particular story of what one woman’s body is teaching her about love, loss, and justice. Grantland offers an honest and hopeful vision for what the world might look like if we all learned to love our flesh and bones: how our churches, schools, relationships, and politics could be liberated by an intersectional feminist ethic of embodiment. This collection insists that hurt and healing, grief and wholeness, fear and hope have never been mutually exclusive, and that the work of being present to the pain of our bodies and our world will set each one of us free.
These essays invite us to make beauty out of everything that hurts—
even when what hurts is our own selves.
—Jamie Lee Finch

In this brave, bold, embodied blessing of the world through words,
readers will discover a truth that will set them free.
—Rev. Dr. Luke Powery

Kind without saccharine, wise without preachiness, Grantland’s columns
are a journey in the spaces that elude easy answers.
—Melissa Florer-Bixler

About the Author: Liddy Grantland, born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, graduated from Duke University in 2020 with a degree in African American Studies and English. While at Duke, she wrote a biweekly column for The Chronicle called “Feel Your Feelings” that was about living with chronic pain and living with much more. Grantland currently lives in an intentional community in the DC area.

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.

Fabric Postcard Workshop with Kimberley Cartwright (via Zoom)
2021-12-05 14:00 - 16:00 | NC
Just in time for the holidays! Create a gift for yourself or for others!
Fiber artist, quilter, folk art painter and instructor Kimberley Pierce Cartwright is back with another workshop on creating unique quilted fabric post cards. In this workshop Kimberley will teach you how to make a one of a kind art piece perfect for mailing, gifting or displaying. Kimberley will provide a pattern and step by step directions or you may decide to freestyle your design.
Cartwright began quilting and painting in 2006 and understands quilt work to represent an abstraction of real life. She says of her work, “I have the power to create art in my life. I do that through my quilting. Sometimes I plan what I will do and sometimes I don’t. The result is always something I love. Everyone has the same power to create art in our own unique way.”
Fabric supply list:

Sewing machine in good working order
Iron
Scrap fabric in various colors (some medium weight fabric…denim, canvas etc. for quilt tops)
Light colored cotton fabric for backing.
Fabric glue (optional if you don’t have a sewing machine)
Newspaper or paper towels to use as backing for lightweight fabric
Thread, scissors, pins for securing fabric, and hand needles (optional)
Double sided Peltex for quilted postcards sewn on machine
Rotary cutter and a cutting board
Quilting ruler or ruler to cut straight edges

Leader: Kimberley’s work evokes emotion through her distinctive use of color and includes abstract caricatures, acrylic paintings, and mixed media embellishments. She also creates dolls and works on paper and canvas. Her love of color punctuates her use of very simple designs. She has taught classes in quilting and sewing. She has shown her work locally and around North Carolina, and it has also appeared in the international magazines Quilting Arts and Quilt Mania.
Purchase Kimberley’s new book Fabric Post Card Cat/Dog: HERE
Cost: $50
Register below. Participants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, November - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-11-17 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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 17: Living and Loving Out Loud: Black Girl Magic
December 15: The Gift in Beginning Again
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 December: HERE.
Register for November below.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Practical Practices for the Nine Enneagram Types
2021-11-16 09:30 - 11:30 | NC
In this two-hour workshop, participants with some familiarity with the Enneagram are invited to bring their questions about the Enneagram along with an openness and desire to grow.
Our time together begins with a period of questions and comments related to the Enneagram System. Participants are invited to bring questions that are emerging from their personal work with their Enneagram type. From there, Sandra will offer suggestions and practices for “loosening the grip” of our Enneagram type and name some of the physical clues we may notice that indicate we’ve gone on automatic.
This work with the Enneagram Map is complex and as we deepen our awareness we begin the shift from automatic living to a full and authentic life.
Leader: Veteran teacher Sandra Smith is certified in the Narrative Enneagram and is a mentor for candidates certifying to teach. For over 20 years, Sandra has taught basic and advanced Enneagram workshops, offered organizational trainings and engaged in individual spiritual direction sessions. She co-hosts the podcast “Heart of the Enneagram” which is heard in over 80 countries. Learn more about Sandra’s work at AlchemyWorksEvents.com.
Cost: $45
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Letters from Old Screamer Mountain: A Reading with Melanie Morrison (via Zoom)
2021-10-28 19:00 - 20:00 | NC
RCWMS is honored to invite you to a reading with Melanie Morrison from her new book, Letters from Old Screamer Mountain. The reading is sponsored by RCWMS and EVERYbody Reads, Books and Stuff, an independent bookstore in Melanie’s hometown of Lansing, Michigan.
In 1939, when Melanie Morrison’s mother, Eleanor, was eighteen, she spent a winter weekend at the home of Lillian Smith on Old Screamer Mountain in North Georgia. Smith was a white Southern author who wrote scathing critiques of white supremacy. That weekend was an unforgettable turning point in Eleanor’s young life as she and her college friends stayed up late listening to Lillian read from her manuscripts and talk about the shriveled-up heart of whiteness.

Seven decades later, in 2012, Melanie made a pilgrimage to the Lillian E. Smith Center to write about the intergenerational legacies of lynching and how that reign of terror remains largely unacknowledged by the descendants of its white perpetrators.

From the mountain, Melanie wrote letters to her mother describing the avalanche of emotions and epiphanies she was experiencing. Letters from Old Screamer Mountain is an intimate testimony to the power of intergenerational legacies and the urgency to write what must not be forgotten.
Melanie S. Morrison is the author of four books, including Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham. Morrison is a seasoned racial justice educator, speaker, and author with thirty years experience designing and facilitating transformational group process. Author’s website: melaniemorrison.net.

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.

Approaching Intuitive Collage in 3 Steps with Jeannette Brossart (via Zoom)
2021-10-24 14:00 - 15:30 | NC
You might ask yourself how making a collage can be intuitive and organized at the same time. Artist Jeannette Brossart uses collage as a creative jumpstart for making other art and is always surprised and inspired by the results. Since she doesn’t like to draw and paint, she keeps a collage journal. Her “anything goes” intuitive process provides her with an abundance of questions and possibilities: where to start, what to use first, what does she feel like doing. Using a 3-step framework makes it easy to adapt to your own artistic and creative strengths. For example, Jeannette has created pages and pages with just images and text from National Geographic magazines. This workshop will encourage participants to use papers full of color and texture that might be sitting on your desk, bits and scraps of treasures you can’t bear to part with, or parts of your own journal musings or letters from others.
Join Jeannette Brossart for some collage fun. She will be working in real time alongside you. This class will spend some time on material selection. Please have magazines, paper scraps, etc. available. You don’t have to cut anything out ahead of time, we recommend making copies of any materials you do not want to damage. After the material selection process, we’ll move on to assembly/composition and then reflection/sharing as desired.
Materials needed:
Wide variety of images/text: magazines (OLD NAT GEOS are great for this! scrap papers, ephemera, repurposed art, journal pages, newspaper clippings, etc.
TIP: make copies if you do not want to use originals!
Adhesive and applicator: Mod Podge is preferred, but most white PVA/dry clear glues will work if you water them down. Foam or wide paintbrush will work OK for glue.
Base item to stick to: wood, cardboard, or double page thickness in an art journal works too.
Recommended extras: wax paper, scissors, baby wipes for hands/glue drips
** we won’t be using wet media like paint, marker, etc. in this class, but you can modify to add BEFORE the top layer of Mod Podge as you like.
Leader: Jeannette Brossart is a professional mosaic artist, public artist, and teaching artist in Durham, NC. Creative reuse is important to her and is reflected in her work which can be viewed at www.mothernaturemosaics.com
Cost: $45
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Registrants will receive both a receipt and a separate email with a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation. We will also be sending Zoom link reminders just prior to the event. Please check your spam and/or promotions folder if you don’t receive one or both of these emails.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, October - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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.
October 20: The Magic in Being Multigenerational
November 17: Living and Loving Out Loud: Black Girl Magic
December 15: The Gift in Beginning Again
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
December: HERE.
November: HERE.
Register for October below.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Heart Centered Mindfulness with Jen Johnson (via Zoom)
2021-10-20 12:00 - 13:30 | NC
Back by popular demand! On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, please join us for a mindfulness class with Jen Johnson.
Heart centered mindfulness practices can help us to soften the body, open the heart and reconnect with a sense of peace and ease. Heart centered practices have also been shown to increase positive emotions such as love, joy, gratitude, contentment, hope, and awe. Jen will guide you in a heart centered practice and a journaling reflection about your experience to help you imagine how you might integrate this practice into your life.
Leader: Jen Johnson, MS, MS, MFA, LCMHC is a mindfulness teacher and counselor offering an integrative approach to mind body healing and creative awakening. She offers individual coaching and therapy and offers webinars on mindfulness and creativity worldwide. Learn more about Jen here.
Cost: $25
Register below. Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation

Historic Stagville Tour - October 2021
2021-10-19 13:00 - 15:00 | NC
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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Bitter Magic: A Reading with Nancy Kilgore (via Zoom)
2021-10-10 15:00 - 16:00 | NC
We are excited to host Nancy Kilgore on Sunday, October 10, for a reading from her new novel, Bitter Magic. Inspired by the true story of the witchcraft trial of Isobel Gowdie in 1662, a chance encounter leads teenaged Margaret into the circle of Gowdie, a “cunning woman” who practices magic and travels in the fairy world. But Scotland is aflame with wars over religion–English against Scots, Catholics against Protestants–and in the Scottish Highlands the witch craze is at its height.
“Kilgore paints a world in conflict between folkloric beliefs of fairies and magic—views held by the common folk and by many in the upper class—and adherence to Presbyterian beliefs and practices…the reader comes to understand how different beliefs coexisted and which beliefs benefited those in power. Additionally, the novel has a number of feminist threads, illustrating injustices the female characters face and the ways they seek to be masters of their own fates. All of this is set amongst the lush green and rocky scenery of a seaside village filled with fairies.” – Rebecca Welper, RCWMS. For more of Rebecca’s review, visit our blog.
“Based on the life story of a confessed witch, Nancy Hayes Kilgore’s engrossing historical novel Bitter Magic concerns a teenager with a dangerous interest in magic. Ample details about the religious and political landscape of 1660s Scotland enliven the text, including around the struggle for dominance between Catholics and Protestants, and the emerging importance of rationality in religious discourse. Characters discuss the crimes committed by witches, their hardships, and the glaring inequities in wealth distribution among people who were supposed to be equal in the eyes of God.” – Foreward Review.
Kilgore lives and writes in Burlington, Vermont. Formerly a parish pastor (Presbyterian and Congregational,) she has been been writing fiction and essays and practicing as a pastoral counselor (psychotherapist) for over twenty years. Kilgore’s 2011 novel Sea Level was published by RCWMS.
More info and order the book: HERE.
Please REGISTER by selecting a free ticket below. Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Prompt by Prompt: Writing and More Writing with Carol Henderson - 8 sessions (via Zoom)
2021-10-07 12:00 | NC
In this generative writing workshop, taking place over eight sessions, we will write in response to carefully selected prompts–two, maybe three, each session. As with all the prompts Carol offers, you can run with them literally or go wherever your thoughts and feelings take you. We will have time for a few readings during each session. Come prepared to write a lot, to go deep, and to be surprised. Open to writers of all levels and genres.
Dates: Thursdays October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18; & December 2.

Cost: $160 (sliding scale available, contact info@rcwms.org)
Leader: Carol Henderson is a writer and workshop leader. More about Carol here.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Quilts, Quilting, and Soul with Jereann King Johnson (via Zoom)
2021-10-03 14:00 - 15:00 | NC
Jereann King Johnson slept under and pieced quilts as far back as she can remember. Her early discovery of and fondness for textiles and textures flourishes still.Her quilt making is inspired by ethnic designs, works of art, nature, personal stories, history, as well as traditional quilt patterns.

For her, quilting is a dynamic metaphor for living, for community development, and for creative expression — putting pieces, often time discarded pieces, together to make something new.
Join us for Jereann’s presentation as she shares the magic of quilts and quiltmaking in her life. Prepare to learn and be inspired.

Leader: In collaboration with several North Carolina quilters, Jereann helped to launch the African American Quilt Circle in 1997 and the Heritage Quilters in 2001. As a fiber artist, she finds inspiration from all dimensions of life, love, and joy.

Cost: $10

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

Historic Stagville Tour - September
2021-09-21 11:00 - 13:00 | NC
Editor’s note: The September Stagville event is now sold out. Please register now to join us in October if you are able.
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 11:00. Please allow sufficient time for the drive there.

Location: 5828 Old Oxford, Highway, Durham, NC

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

Register below.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, September - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-09-15 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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 15: Sowing Seeds, Reaping Gardens
October 20: The Magic in Being Multigenerational
November 17: Living and Loving Out Loud: Black Girl Magic
December 15: The Gift in Beginning Again
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:
October: HERE.
November: HERE.
December: HERE.
Register for September below.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Poetry Across Borders with Linda Ehrlich - 4 sessions (via Zoom)
2021-09-13 19:00 - 20:00 | NC
Let’s explore Japanese, Chinese, and Middle Eastern poetry from earlier centuries! This four-session workshop, on September 13, 20, 27 & October 4, 2021, from 7 – 8 pm, offers a chance to read, and even try your own hand at poetry from outside of familiar European traditions. The class will include a look at landscape painting and poetry from China, tanka, haiku, and zuihitsu (“follow the brush”) from Japan, and ghazals from the Persian/Urdu tradition. There will be a particular focus on women poets, and on the ties between poetry and the visual arts. For our final class, let’s look at contemporary Asian poets to appreciate their ties to tradition and their experimentation with form. Each class will include informational talks, break-out sessions, and readings. We’ll also have a class Blog for sharing your writing (for those who so desire). An optional group visit to the Asiatic Arboretum at the Duke Gardens is another possibility.
Leader: Currently a visiting faculty member at Duke in the History Department, Linda Ehrlich, Ph.D, has more than 25 years experience teaching and writing about world literature, cinema, and theatre. She has spent years in Japan and southern Europe, and has travelled extensively in other parts of Asia and the Middle East. She has a new collection of writings inspired by the Japanese Noh theatre (Yamamba’s Mountains). Her latest book is on The Films of Kore-Eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Learn more about Linda here.

Cost: $40 (includes all sessions)

Dates: September 13, 20, 27 & October 4, 2021

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

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, August - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-08-17 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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: I Am…So We Are…
September 15: Sowing Seeds, Reaping Gardens
October 20: The Magic in Being Multigenerational
November 17: Living and Loving Out Loud: Black Girl Magic
December 15: The Gift in Beginning Again
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:
September: HERE.
October: HERE.
November: HERE.
December: HERE.
Register for August below.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, July - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-07-20 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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 – Finding Our Way or Forging Our Way: We’re Gonna Make It!
August – I Am…So We Are…
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 July below.
Register for August: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Fabric Postcard Workshop with Kimberley Cartwright (RESCHEDULED)
2021-07-11 14:00 - 16:00 | NC
NOTE: This event has been rescheduled. We will likely offer it again in late fall, in time to create gifts for the Holidays. Keep an eye on our website for further information.
Back by popular demand! Fiber artist, quilter, and instructor Kimberley Pierce Cartwright is back with another workshop on creating unique quilted fabric and paper post cards. In this workshop Cartwright will teach you how to make a one of a kind art piece perfect for mailing, gifting or displaying. Kimberley will provide a pattern and step by step directions or you may decide to freestyle your design. If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can use fabric glue. You may also participate using paper instead of fabric.
Leader: Kimberley Pierce Cartwright began quilting and painting in 2006 and understands quilt work to represent an abstraction of real life. She says of her work, “I have the power to create art in my life. I do that through my quilting. Sometimes I plan what I will do and sometimes I don’t. The result is always something I love. Everyone has the same power to create art in our own unique way.”
Cartwright’s work evokes emotion through her distinctive use of color and includes abstract caricatures, acrylic paintings, and mixed media embellishments. She also creates dolls and works on paper and canvas. Her love of color punctuates her use of very simple designs. She has taught classes in quilting and sewing. She has shown her work locally and around North Carolina, and it has also appeared in the international magazines Quilting Arts and Quilt Mania.
Fabric supply list:

Sewing machine in good working order
Iron
Scrap fabric in various colors (some medium weight fabric…denim, canvas etc. for quilt tops)
Light colored cotton fabric for backing.
Fabric glue (optional if you don’t have a sewing machine)
Newspaper or paper towels to use as backing for lightweight fabric
Thread, scissors, pins for securing fabric, and hand needles (optional)
Double sided Peltex for quilted postcards sewn on machine
Rotary cutter and a cutting board
Quilting ruler or ruler to cut straight edges

Paper supply list:

Magazines, picture books or other images
Scissors for cutting paper
Rotary cutter (optional) you can use scissors to cut
Cutting mat (optional)
Embellishment that can lay flat (fabric, ribbon, lace, glitter etc.)
Adhesive (glue stick, mod podge, crazy glue or hot glue)
Ruler
Cardboard from a cereal box or other packaging with similar light weight (make sure you have enough for at least four 4×6 inch cards.)
Fine-tipped marker to make marks and to sign the back of cards

Purchase Kimberley’s new book Fabric Post Card Cat/Dog: HERE

Historic Stagville Tour
2021-06-29 09:00 - 11:00 | NC
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 9:00. Please allow sufficient time for the drive there.

Location: 5828 Old Oxford, Highway, Durham, NC

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

Register below.

Mindful Writing for Transformation with Jen Johnson
2021-06-17 12:00 - 14:00 | NC
This workshop explores mindful writing as a practice of deep listening and writing for transformation. The afternoon will consist of writing activities to inspire you and support you in accessing inner wisdom and shifting your perspective. 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. When we make time for deep listening to the stories inside that want to be told, we open the door to restoring a sense of inner wholeness. Bring your pen and a journal. This workshop is for writers and non-writers.
Leader: Jen Johnson is a mindfulness teacher, therapist, photographer, and writer offering an integrative approach to mind body healing and creative awakening. Her writing has been published in book chapters, magazines, literary journals, and professional training manuals. Jen offers online coaching, therapy, and workshops. More about Jen here.
Cost: $35
Register below. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Ministry of Black Women's Self Care, June - with Kim Gaubault (via Zoom)
2021-06-15 19:00 - 20:30 | NC
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 – How Do You Spell Freedom?: Liberating Our Minds to Liberate Our Lives
July – Finding Our Way or Forging Our Way: We’re Gonna Make It!
August – I Am…So We Are…
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 June below.
July: HERE.
August: HERE.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

The Gifts and Challenges of the Enneagram Types in Relationships - with Sandra Smith (via Zoom)
2021-06-09 10:00 - 12:30 | NC
All of us experience healthy relationships in our lives. How are we engaging and what, exactly, are we doing to support relationships working well? In other relationships, we find ourselves repeating patterns that limit our full relational potential. The emotional maturity necessary for our primary relationships is cultivated by our willingness to be aware, honest, and intimate with ourselves. Healthy relationships emerge when we can be present with what is in ourselves and in the other.
During our time together we’ll explore each type’s relational gifts that support healthy relating and patterns that derail relationships. Self-reflection and type groups will support our learning process.
Leader: Sandra Smith, MDiv, is a certified Enneagram teacher in the Narrative Tradition who consults and teaches throughout North America. Learn more about her work here.
Cost: $35
Register below.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.
