Avila Center for Community Leadership, Durham NC We are excited to once again offer a retreat with Lama Rod Owens March 8-10. As the land around us awakens, we will settle into community practice, grounding ourselves in an awareness that helps us meet the world’s unraveling with clarity and compassion. A retreat allows us to […]
How to love ourselves and each other in a divided world This day retreat at Avila Center for Community Leadership will invite participants into one of the most challenging and […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about […]
Spring 2026 “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou What changes are you being called and invited to experience, explore, embrace, and embody in these seemingly turbulent times? How are you reacting or responding to the realities of change […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about the theme(s) for the day to introduce each session. Two sessions of silence (20 minutes) follow with a brief time of stretching in between. The time […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about the theme(s) for the day to introduce each session. Two sessions of silence (20 minutes) follow with a brief time of stretching in between. The time […]
NorthStar Church of the Arts, Durham NC Standing alone on a bare stage, Etty Hillesum speaks directly to the audience as she wrestles to write the life she is living--her loves, her work, her sense of humor, her knowledge of self in this moment in history. She loves much of her life in 1942 occupied […]
A weekend retreat with the words of Etty Hillesum, led by Susan Stein “Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about the theme(s) for the day to introduce each session. Two sessions of silence (20 minutes) follow with a brief time of stretching in between. The time […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about […]
Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 - 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about […]
