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SUMMARY:Cancer Writing Circle- Week 5
DESCRIPTION:Join a weekly gathering of fellow travelers undergoing treatment for cancer to write to prompts provided for timed intervals. No writing experience is necessary. This series is designed to provide a supportive environment to develop a creative practice of reflective writing. While we will talk about the writing and our experience of writing\, this is not a writing class or a cancer support group. That said\, participants are likely to gain greater clarity regarding their life experiences and our writing is likely to improve with practice. \nThe structure and format of the series is informed by James Pennebaker’s Write to Heal and Suleika Jaouad’s bestselling book\, The Book of Alchemy\, both of which affirm the power of writing to heal. There is no requirement to purchase these books to participate. However\, reading these authors will provide you with a deeper context for the prompts and may inspire you to dig deeper.  \nThis circle is inspired by Brenda Ulyend’s book\, If You Want to Write\, which posits everyone is a writer. No one will be required to read or share their work. Volunteers will be invited to share excerpts of their writing every session.  \nSix Mondays in a row beginning on October 6\, 2025. \nFacilitators: Chris McLeod is a writer living with metastatic breast cancer who is eager to create a community of cancer patients interested in developing a writing practice. RCWMS trustee Liddy Grantland is a writer\, published author\, and a social work student living with metastatic breast cancer.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/cancer-writing-circle-week-4/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hope is a Verb: Spiritual Grounding for Changemakers (POSTPONED)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Rockin’ Horse Farm in Siler City\, NC for Hope is a Verb: Spiritual Grounding for Changemakers: A Weekend Women’s Retreat to Feed your Soul. \nWhen the Work Feels Heavy\, Hope Becomes Essential\nAre you a changemaker feeling overwhelmed by today’s challenges? When progress is blocked and the forces of harm seem stronger than ever\, it’s natural to struggle with frustration and even burn-out. But what if hope isn’t something that happens to us—but something we actively practice? \nRediscover Your Spiritual Foundation\nThis weekend retreat offers changemakers a chance to reconnect with the deeper sources of resilience available to us all. Join us to explore how spiritual practices can help us stay grounded and embody hope in a world that sometimes feels hopeless. \nWho Should Attend\nThis retreat welcomes all changemakers: \n~ Mission-driven professionals and nonprofit leaders\n~ Activists and organizers\n~ Artists using creativity for social change\n~ Community volunteers\n~Engaged citizens \nIf you would find meaning in strengthening your resilience in these uncertain times\, this retreat is designed for you. \nWhat You’ll Experience and Share \n~ Connection to nature and other changemakers on a beautiful 90-acre farm\n~ Practical tools for cultivating hope as a daily practice\n~ Spiritual practices for staying grounded to maintain your energy and commitment to your important work \nTransform Your Relationship with Hope\nLeave this weekend with renewed energy\, deeper spiritual grounding\, and practical tools for embodying hope—not despite the challenges\, but because of your unwavering commitment to a just world. \n\nLocation: Rockin’ Horse Farm\, Siler City\, NC \nCost: $400\, includes retreat programming\, lodging\, and meals \nRetreat Leaders: \nMaria Kingery has been leading retreats for impact-driven entrepreneurs for more than a decade. Through 360Impact\, she helps changemakers build the resilience needed to create lasting impact in an uncertain world using her “Lead with Love” framework. In 2001\, she co-founded one of the Southeast’s first clean energy companies\, scaling it to a thriving B Corp before selling the company to seven long-time team members in a values-driven succession that centered their shared mission over maximum profit. \nBonny Moellenbrock\, a certified spiritual director\, helps clients integrate their deepest values into their lives\, initiatives\, and business strategies\, supporting the shift toward a life-affirming\, regenerative economy. Bonny spent over two decades directing capital toward social and environmental impact through her work with nonprofits\, social enterprises\, and impact investors. She led Investors Circle for seven years\, guiding a network that has channeled over $275 million into more than 350 enterprises creating positive change.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/hope-is-a-verb-spiritual-grounding-for-changemakers/
LOCATION:Rockin’ Horse Farm\, 705 Glosson Rd\, Siler City\, NC\, 27344\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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SUMMARY:Remembering Those We Miss with Shawna Ayoub
DESCRIPTION:Writing letters can be a heartfelt way to express our love and celebrate the relationships we’ve shared. Letters can help us preserve important memories and stories\, confront unfinished business\, and expose ourselves to things we may be avoiding. This is especially true when we are writing to those who are gone from our lives\, whether they have passed on or passed on us. \nIn this workshop\, we will come together to examine our grief through the epistolary form. In a safe and supportive space\, we will write letters to those we have lost as an act of self-care.  \nWriters will take home a packet of writing examples  as well as prompts\, and can contact Shawna for written feedback within two weeks of this workshop. \nLeader: 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 15 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.  \nCost: $35 or $50. Scholarships available. (Contact info@rcwms.org.) \nRegister below. Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation. \n*Community members who would like to donate scholarships may do so at rcwms.org/donate.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/remembering-those-we-miss-with-shawna-ayoub/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, Durham\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:House Concert with Courtney Ariel Bowden
DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy acoustic music and storytelling from singer-songwriter Courtney Ariel as we gather together and raise funds for her upcoming album\, which is inspired by (among other things) loving and being loved by Black women. The show will take place at a private home in Durham\, NC. The exact address will be provided after registration. \nCourtney Ariel Bowden is a songwriter and writer who thinks about the impact of Black women’s friendship-making and relational healing. Having grown up in Southern California\, she graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in English Literature and from Vanderbilt Divinity School with an MDiv and concentrations in Religion\, Art & Contemporary Culture and Religion\, Gender & Sexuality. An artist-scholar\, Courtney Ariel currently pursues work at the intersections of artmaking\, accompaniment\, and research\, as a doctoral candidate. \nHer public-facing advocacy writing has been featured by Sojourners (Sojo.net)\, CNN\, The Tennessean\, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her original music can be found on streaming platforms\, including songs she has co-written (Alex Blue’s “May It Change You\,” 2024)\, and that she has written (Alex G’s “I Won’t\,” 2020). A novice but enthusiastic watcher of birds and trees in the Southeastern region of the U.S.\, Courtney Ariel still holds the swaying palms of Southern California\, the lull and roar of the pacific ocean\, at the core of her being\, always. \nIn lieu of charging admission\, you are invited to donate to the crowdfunding campaign for Courtney Ariel’s upcoming album. Join us for an unforgettable evening of music\, community\, and togetherness. \nLight refreshments will be provided. For questions about the house concert or accessibility\, please contact info@rcwms.org. \nNOTE: If the event is SOLD OUT\, email info@rcwms.com and ask to be added to a waiting list. If a spot opens up\, we’ll be in touch with you.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/house-concert-with-courtney-ariel-bowden/
LOCATION:A private home in Durham\, NC
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SUMMARY:Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care\, with Kim Gaubault - November 2025
DESCRIPTION: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. \nNovember: Giving Thanks: The Grace for Failing Forward \nDecember: Laying Aside Every Weight: The Art of Shedding \nRegister for November below. \nLeader: 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.” \nCost: $10\, $25\, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
URL:https://rcwms.org/event/ministry-of-black-womens-self-care-with-kim-gaubault-november-2025/
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