Scheduled Offerings for Small Groups
2008-2009 Calendar
Summer 2008
Freeing Money to Partner Your Dreams
Money talks, but what is it saying to you? What are the messages you got in your family about money? Instead of being caught in compulsive spending, debilitating indebtedness or fear of scarcity, learn how to use money boldly and wisely. Allow it to open up opportunities for abundant living, for service, for legacy planning, and for the realization of dreams. Optional extra offering: financial planning consults.
Breakfast Salon: 9AM - 12PM
Saturday, June 21, Twin Cities Site
Identifying Strengths Gained in Adversity
Rather than trying to forget or “get over” losses that have caused disappointment or sorrow, learn how to go through them in such a way that you may draw upon the strength gained from your experience of them. Learn to make all of your experiences count so that they become available as a resource for compassion and self-understanding.
Breakfast Salons: 9AM - 12PM
Saturday, July 19, Twin Cities Site
Making a Contribution in Life
Switch from a view of success based on achievement or failure to a view of life based on contribution, collaboration and gift. Watch anxiety disappear to be replaced by a sense of freedom and empowerment. Learn how to stop judging yourself and others so that you don’t edit out your best ideas and miss out on the gifts you could be giving and receiving.
Breakfast Salons: 9AM - 12PM
Saturday. August 9, ARC Retreat Center
Evening Ritual of Blessing and Meditation
The last Sunday of June, July and August, 6-7PM, join us for a Third Act Ritual of Blessing and Meditation in the homes of Twin Cities Third Act participants. This simple ritual will be nondenominational in emphasis and welcoming of everyone. Light refreshments afterwards.
Fall 2008
Enhancing Intimacy In Your Partnership
We will examine how to maintain, nurture and renew our partnerships. We will discuss stumbling blocks in new and long term relationships as well as opportunities and strengths. Topics include: Decision-making & Conflict resolution; Use of Money & Time; Sexuality & Intimacy; and Friendships & Spiritual Connection. Mixed couples in straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered relationships are welcomed.
Thursdays 7 - 8:30PM
October 9 - 30, Twin Cities Site
Exploring Your Spiritual Genealogy
Who are your spiritual forebears and where have they come from? What experiences shaped their worldview, their occupations, their relationships and their core values? How have you been influenced by them? What spiritual role models do you now have in your life? If you could interview someone living or dead to ask them something of importance to you, who would that be and why? We will create a spiritual family tree and scrapbook of those we are related to and those whom we have chosen as spiritual family to us. We will examine what we have inherited, what we would like to pass on and what we would like to leave behind.
Saturday, 9AM - 8PM & Sunday, 9AM - 12PM
October 11 - 12 at ARC Retreat Center
An Afternoon In Brazil
Benefit Concert for Third Act & ARC Retreat
Clea Galhano & Friends
Sunday, 2 - 4PM October 19
White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church
Cultivating Gratitude as a Spiritual Practice
Reduce anxiety and dissolve resentments by developing a daily discipline of gratitude. Watch how that changes your heart, your relationships and how you view life. Learn how to incorporate journaling, meditation, prayer, and ritual into your daily practice of gratitude. Study the remarkable relationship between happiness and gratitude and use gratitude to intentionally raise your happiness quotient.
Thursdays, November 6 - December 4,
6:30 - 8:30PM (Thanksgiving Off)
St. Martin’s Table, Minneapolis, MN
Year End Third Act Reunion:
Creating Your Own Holiday Traditions
Saturday, Dec 6 10AM - 2PM,
ARC Retreat Center
(No program fee)
Winter 2009
Discovering Your Gifts and Calling in Life
We will help each other identify our gifts, our core values and our spiritual purpose in life. We will explore images of God and examine their influence in naming and being named by the Sacred. We will examine where our gifts have taken us and where we want to go with them. We will examine what it means to be called to a specific task or vocation and what it means to pay attention to blessings in the common things of daily life. Participants will complete a Life Map that may serve as a spiritual guide for the third act of their lives.
Thursdays, Feb 5 - 26, 6:30 - 8:30PM
Twin Cities Site or
Saturday, 9AM - Sunday, 12PM, March 14-15
ARC Retreat site
Spring 2009
Creating Spiritual Home Makeovers
There’s no place like home, but every home deserves a little help! How do we want our home spaces to function so as to enhance the activities, interests and relationships that take place in them? How do we honor the past while living in the present? We will look at how to exchange unwanted clutter and blocked energy for beautiful spaces that help us live balanced lives and joyful relationships. We will learn basic principles of space design and how to create sacred space to help us in our home makeovers. Optional extra offerings: Ritual of Blessing for your home; home visit and customized assessment of your space by the Third Act Team.
Thursdays, April 2-30, 6:30 - 8:30PM (9th off)
Twin Cities Site
Optional Companion offerings:
Home Blessing Ritual and/or
Home Visit with Customized Assessment
Scheduled according to clients’ needs.
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