Annual Men’s Retreat
The Spiritual Path for Men –
March 16-18, 2007
The
Personal Transformation and Courage Institute and Atlantic
University are pleased to co-sponsor another annual
men’s retreat in Virginia
Beach.
This year’s retreat will explore some of the universal challenges men
face on the quest to be whole. In an environment of support and confidentiality,
we will examine how to nurture our own creative imagination about what it
means to be men, living with courage and clarity in a confusing world.
The workshop course
for the three residential days will include daily meditations, dyad exercises,
group explorations of the issues raised by the book, Finding Meaning in
the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up, by Jungian therapist
James Hollis. We may also do some mandala work, as well as some group
time in nature (weather permitting). We will support each other to reconnect
with the source of our energy and power as men, and we will open ourselves
to what it means to have a more healthy relationship with our own courageous
strength to meet the unknown aspects of our future.
You
will have a chance to explore questions like these:
· What gives your life meaning right now?
· What do you foresee for the “second half of your life”?
· How
can you most creatively explore the tension between the husband/father
role and the hero role?
· What would your life look like if you surrendered much of the need
for control, security and predictability? What would courageous risking
taking look like in your life?
Practical Details
The
course will have limited enrollment in order to give personal attention
to each participant and in order to create optimal group dynamics. In
order to secure a spot, please be sure to pre-enroll with the Atlantic University registrar as soon as
you know you want to be part of this course. The course will be
held at a private home in Virginia
Beach.
You will register with
the Atlantic University registrar, who can be reached by calling 1-800-428-1512.
You will be enrolling in TS 572: Special Topics in Mentoring: The
Spiritual Path for Men.
For those who want to
make this into a longer course – either for academic credit in the master’s
degree program or as part of the Mentor Training program – you can enroll
in a longer version of the course that includes follow-up distance-learning
work. For those people, there will be two distance learning
modules to complete with Mark in the five months after March 18. Details
about that follow-up work will be distributed as a Study Guide on March 18,
and it will involve additional books to read and essays to write. Tuition
for master’s degree courses at Atlantic
University is $695. Those taking the full course
(i.e., including the follow-up distance learning work with Mark) as non-academic
studies toward the Spiritual Mentor certificate will have a tuition rate of
$495.
There is also the option
to take just the 3-day residential program – without distance learning
follow up work – for tuition of $295. In fact, this is the option
chosen most often by attendees for the last two years, so do not hesitate
to come just because you may not want to do the follow-up modules.
Course Leaders
Scott Sparrow
is a psychotherapist, fly fishing guide, author, and assistant professor
of Educational Psychology at the University
of Texas – Pan American, where he teaches graduate
courses in counseling. Before returning to his native state, Dr.
Sparrow maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Virginia Beach, where
he was a founding member of Atlantic University’s master’s degree
program in transpersonal studies (a program in which he still teaches via
distance-learning courses). He is author of Sacred Encounters with
Jesus and Sacred Encounters with Mary (both from Ave Maria
Press). His most recent book is Healing the Fisher King: A
Fly Fisher’s Quest.
Mark Thurston is an educator, psychologist, and author of 19 books about
personal spirituality. He is co-founder of the Personal Transformation
and Courage Institute, as well as serving as Director of Academic Affairs
for Atlantic University, where he teaches transpersonal psychology. His publications
include Soul-Purpose: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Destiny (St.
Martin’s Press) and The Essential Edgar Cayce (Penguin/Tarcher),
and most recently Willing to Change: The
Journey of Personal Transformation.
John Hishon
is an educator and engineer. He is working towards his master's degree in
social work at the University of Windsor in Ontario,
Canada. For the past four years he has been an
active board member of the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute,
and he now also serves as a course assistant and course co-leader.
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