Presenter Susannah Crolius, M. Div.

This February retreat arrives just before Lent begins. Might this time away in quiet, gentle reflection be soul preparation for the rigorous journey of the Lenten season? In a fractured and grief-stricken world, might this be a needed gift to yourself for deep listening and grounding?

Over the course of our time together, Susannah will guide us through Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief: Everything We Love We Will Lose, The Places That Have Not Known Love, The Sorrows of the World, What We Expected and Did Not Receive, Ancestral Grief.  We will gather mornings and venture inward, exploring one of the Five Gates. The afternoon will be open space for your own deeper explorations before gathering again in the late afternoon to share what is emerging for us.

I will have notebooks for writing (or bring your own journal). Art supplies will be available for the week to accompany you if you so desire.

$595 | PRIVATE BEDROOM WITH BATH

$490 | PRIVATE BEDROOM WITH HALL BATH

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Susannah Crolius, M. Div. (she/her/hers) is a spiritual director/companion, workshop and retreat leader, artist and writer  For ten years, she was the founder of art + soul, a local incubator space intersecting the creative process and spiritual inquiry. Susannah is a member of Spiritual Directors International, the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and is certified as a Spiritual Literacy and Transformative Practices facilitator through with the organization Spirituality and Practice (www.spirituality and practice.com)

  An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ for over 25 years serving congregations and hospices as Chaplain, Bereavement Coordinator and Death Educator, Susannah chose to step away from denominational identity and institutional ministry to explore more generative and contemplative forms of spiritual community and practice.
 
  Susannah’s own spiritual practice is creating altars and shrines from found objects and making contemporary icons. She lives in Western Massachusetts in a house from 1812 with her partner Thom and their rescue dog, Lucy