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Programs
The Enneagram, September 12
The Enneagram is a powerful and dynamic
system that gives insight into how the human
personality can serve as a pathway for
cooperation with grace that fulfills our
God-given potential rather than limits us to
self-serving or destructive patterns.
The Enneagram describes nine distinct and
fundamentally different patterns of
thinking, feeling, and acting. It tells what
motivates us, what basic coping strategies
we adopt to survive and thrive, and what
causes our relationships to flourish or
flounder. Each of the nine personality types
also provides a specific path for personal
development and enrichment, for discovering
one’s own highest qualities and
potentials.
 Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center has
established a relationship with the Arizona
Enneagram Association to offer a full
curriculum of Enneagram programs that
include introductory classes, special
workshops with renowned international
teachers, and on-going work in small groups.
All classes use the narrative inquiry method
and a variety of exercises and practices
designed to help participants develop their
capacity for self-observation. This approach
to understanding and exploring one’s
Enneagram personality type uncovers one’s
individual path of liberation from the
habitual and limiting ways of the human
condition, a path that leads toward personal
integration, better relationships and
spiritual freedom. Christians recognize and
experience the following of such a path as
their response to the indwelling presence of
God’s grace leading them toward the
freedom of redemption and the wholeness of
salvation.
Our offerings begin in September 2009 with
the Introduction to the Enneagram.
Introduction to the Enneagram
Carole Whittaker, PhD
Saturday, 9am-5pm
September, 2009
Tuition: $90, includes lunch, textbook and
workbook materials
This foundation course and prerequisite for
all of the continuing Enneagram programs
provides a thorough foundation for
understanding and working with the Enneagram
system. It describes the nine personality
types, how type is formed, the habits of
emotion and thinking, and the avoidances,
defense mechanisms and habits of attention
that hold each type in place. Methods
include teaching, exercises, and panel
interviews. The Enneagram Discovery
Inventory developed by Dr. David Daniels MD
will be used to assist participants to
identify their own Enneagram personality
type.
Carole Whittaker, PhD, earned a doctorate in
chemistry from UCLA and is an Enneagram
Teacher in the Narrative Tradition certified
through the Enneagram Professional Training
Program with Helen Palmer and David Daniels.
In addition to teaching the Enneagram since
1996, Carole has developed and coordinated
the presentation of an extensive curriculum
of Enneagram programs which help students
understand and move beyond their personality
type. Carole is an experienced educator
currently specializing in adult spiritual
formation. Click
here to register.
DISCOVER YOUR CALL ~ DEPENDABLE STRENGTHS® in Your
Congregation, January 25 - 27
Do you know folks asking the big questions—questions like “How do I know what I was created to be? Where are the places that I can make a difference in the world? Where can I experience a sense of belonging?”
“Discover Your Call” workshops use the Dependable Strengths® process to invite people to reflect on positive experiences from their lives, to tell their stories, and to discern together what God is calling them to be. Unlike most gifts-identification processes, “Discover Your Call” helps people to see how God calls them to ministry in their homes, communities, and workplaces, as well as in their congregations.
In this Train-the-Trainer course, you will learn how to lead “Discover Your Call” workshops in your own congregation. Combining brief lectures, individual exercises, and small group experiences, the course unfolds in two parts. In Part One, you will run through the workshop as a participant. Here you will learn to identify your unique pattern of dependable strengths and reflect on your own callings in daily life. In Part Two, you will learn how to plan for and teach “Discover Your Call” workshops for groups in your congregation.
Come and learn more about yourself and how to teach others to identify their core abilities, talents, and skills—their dependable strengths!
Seminar Leader: Sally Peters, Director,
Center for Lifelong Learning, Luther
Seminary
The class begins on the 25th at 8:00 a.m. and ends at
3:30 p.m. on the 27th.
Tuition: $250 plus lodging and meals.
We're offering a special lodging rate for this program - $50 per night per person for a solo room or $85 per night for a double occupancy room ($42.50 per person) Such a deal!!
Breakfast is $12, Lunch $14 and Dinner $16.
Registration Deadline January 9. Contact Hours: 20
(note—this is a partnership with the Center for Lifelong Learning at Luther Seminary,
St. Paul, MN and Spirit in the Desert)
Click here to register for this event
Process
Preaching Seminar, February
1 -3,
2010
Rev. Jerry Larson
Process
Preaching is a system for delivering sermons
freely without reading a manuscript or
simply speaking off the cuff. During the
seminar preachers learn how to convert their
written words to oral communication. This is
done principally by learning a certain kind
of oral rehearsal. Using this system,
preachers are able to deliver their sermons
freely using oral language to express the
meaning and ideas of the written text.
Students are asked to bring with them a
manuscript for a sermon on which they are
currently working.
Jerry Larson, D.Min., Luther Seminary, was a
parish pastor for 39 years. He retired in
2004 from
Calvary
Lutheran
Church
,
Edina
,
Minn.
, where he continues to serve as pastor
emeritus.
Begins at 1:30 on Monday – Concludes at 11
a.m. on Wednesday
Tuition is $195, plus lodging and
meals.
Lodging and meals: We’re offering a
special lodging rate for this program - $55
per night per person for a solo room or $90
per night for a double occupancy room
($45.00 per person). Breakfast is $12, Lunch
$14, Dinner $16.
This program is presented in partnership Kairos
at Luther Seminary.
LUTHERHOSTEL
2010
March 7 - 12, 14 - 19
How
Do You Spell Life?
…
Abundant, Authentic, Eternal
Our
discussion and reflections about community
will be strongly influenced by the Gospel
of John.
John
has been called the gospel in which a child
can wade and an elephant can swim. First
time readers and life time scholars find
Life in these waters. Here all manner
of people--women and men, Jews,
Samaritans, Romans and Greeks, the
outsider, the insider, the dense, the dying, and
the daring--are welcomed into a community of
servant-friends whose home is in the heart
of the Word made flesh. This community of
the Beloved welcomes us to a vision of
Life--authentic, abundant, and
eternal--lived here and now for the sake of
the world God so loves.
Come
to Spirit in the Desert and celebrate
community.
In addition to the invigorating
discussions with Susan, Mary Preus and Tom
Witt will again share their musical gifts
with us.
As
always, there will be plenty of time for
rest, play, excursions, museums, soaking in
the hot tub, laughing and opportunities for
conversation … in other words, building
community.
 Susan
Briehl, a Lutheran pastor since 1981,
has served as Director of Holden Village, a
Lutheran center for renewal in the North
Cascade Mountains of
Washington
State, campus pastor at
Pacific
Lutheran
University, and pastor of Our Saviour's Lutheran in
Bellingham,
WA. Currently, she is a member of the
Indiana-Kentucky Synod (ELCA), called to her
work with the Valparaiso Project on the
Education and Formation of People of Faith.
She serves as the Distinguished Professor of
the Art of Ministry at Wartburg Seminary,
Dubuque,
Iowa, where she teaches when they need her.
Susan's
work includes a devotional book for families
with children, Come Lord Jesus: Devotions
for the Home (Augsburg Fortress,
1996), two chapters co-authored with her
daughters in Way to Live: Christian
Practices for Teens (Upper Room, 2002),
and, with Marty Haugen, Turn My Heart: A
Sacred Journey from Brokenness to Healing
(GIA, 2003), a resource for those who are
suffering. On
Our Way: Christian Practices for Your Whole
Life, a book for young adults will be
published in January 2010 and a bible
study of the Lent and Easter texts from the
Fourth Gospel, That You May Have Life:
Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of John (GIA)
Her
hymn texts include: "Holy God,"
"Bread of Life from Heaven," “By
Your Hand”, "The Blameless
Lamb" and
“Once we Sang and Danced.” Susan and
Marty Haugen have written Santo: A
Bilingual Communion Rite (GIA 2002) and Unfailing
Light: An Evening Setting for Holy Communion
(GIA, 2004).
Mary Preus is a singer, song leader and choir director, currently directing music at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. She presents and leads workshops on enlivening Christian worship, focusing on the role of the song leader. Mary is a co-founder of the group Bread for the Journey. She is the worship coordinator for the ecumenical Community of St. Martin, in Minneapolis, MN.
 Tom Witt has been keyboardist, worship leader and song leader for a wide variety of Lutheran and ecumenical church events. He has expertise in worship planning and leads workshops on music, liturgy and contemporary society. Tom serves as a worship and music consultant for the ELCA's Division for Global Mission. He is a co-founder and currently serves as staff for Bread for the Journey, a musical and worship-leading ensemble. He has released a recording of his own instrumental improvisations on hymns in the Lutheran Book of Worship, entitled Dusting Off the Green Book.
Both Mary and Tom are part of a team of teachers, along with Marty Haugen, Susan Briehl and Dan Erlander, called Living Liturgy
(www.livingliturgy.com), offering workshops on music and worship in the church. Their recordings with Bread for the Journey can be found at the website:
www.bfjmusic.com.
The fee for Lutherhostel, which begins with dinner on Sunday evening and ends after lunch on Friday, is
$600 per person and includes room (5 nights, double occupancy), all meals, all events and all field trip expenses. Space is limited so early registration is recommended.
$350 Commuter Rate includes most meals.
Registration Deadline - February 25
$200 registration required
RETREAT TO THE DESERT . .
. . . Whenever your need it most.
Come away to Spirit in the Desert for a one day or overnight individual retreat. You may come with your own prayer material and/or request spiritual direction.
The center's facilities are available to you:
• Swimming pool/spa
• labyrinth
• chapel
• outdoor settings
Choose a date and time that works for you and check with us about availability. Have a couple of options in mind when you call or write in the event the center is full.
Private Retreats
A private retreat gives you time away form the hustle and bustle of everyday life, time solitude, renewal and reflection. Bring your own material for reading, reflecting, or journaling.
Directed Retreats
A directed retreat includes spiritual direction in your schedule, with a skilled director trained in assisting people in paying attention to the presence of God in their lives.
One week’s notice is required to process requests for spiritual direction and overnight.
If you have ideas for programs, please email or call Paul at the Center.
FEES & REGISTRATION: Registration is required for all Spirit in the Desert Programs. Full payment of program fees (& housing if appropriate), except for Lutherhostel are due at the time of registration. Our secure web credit card payment procedure is a handy way to pay your fee. You can also call us to make a credit card payment or you can send in a check. Registration is completed when payment is received.
CANCELLATIONS:
A full refund will be granted if Spirit in the Desert is notified of a cancellation in writing (email, fax or postal mail) at least
4 weeks prior to the event. If the cancellation is received less than
4 weeks prior to the event, 25% of
the registration will be refunded or credited to a future event.
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