Cultivating Love & Trust in Times of Change Retreat at Prairiewoods (in person)

Change is rumbling in the ground beneath our feet. Growing conflicts, major elections and shifting weather patterns—as well as turns in our personal lives—all remind us that we are living in stormy transformative times of uncertainty. We need one another in new ways, and we need renewed capacities for love and trust. This weekend retreat with author Karen Hering at Prairiewoods (120 East Boyson Road in Hiawatha) is for all who wish to gather on the cusp of change to deepen our understandings and practices of giving and receiving a liberating love, of becoming trustworthy and trusting others, and of gaining skills to strengthen and sustain relationships we can rely on in the midst of change. We’ll draw from the wisdom of bell hooks, James Baldwin, Sharon Salzberg and others, engaging guided reflection with writing, silence, conversation and embodied practices. Led by Karen Hering, author of Trusting Change and facilitator of Threshold Times on Substack, the retreat will offer an experience and exploration of joy, creativity, love and trust. Karen is a writer and teacher who has been immersed in the work of words for most of her life. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and author of Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within and Trusting Change: Finding Our Way through Personal and Global Transformation, published in 2022. As a consulting literary minister based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Karen leads guided writing sessions, retreats and programs about living well in the midst of change in community, congregational and workplace settings, and online. She also serves as a companion and guide for people and organizations on the threshold of significant change. Her writing has appeared in literary journals, periodicals and meditation anthologies. The cost of this weekend retreat is $255 and includes presentations, Friday and Saturday lodging, and Saturday breakfast through Sunday lunch. The commuter fee is $180 and includes presentations, Saturday lunch and dinner, and Sunday lunch. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.