Avila Center for Community Leadership, Durham NC We are living through an apocalypse, a period of deep truth unveiling. This revelation seems overwhelming especially as it calls into question our participation in social systems that perpetuate violence, including racism and white supremacy. Through skillful practice, we can meet these challenges, remember who we are, and […]
How Do You Keep the Music Playing? In the midst of changes, challenges, and choices, how do you keep the music of your heart alive? How do you allow your soul to continue to sing out its deepest longing in a world that often seems, gone mad? We will gather as beloved community and share our hearts’ songs through meditation, sharing our stories, labyrinth […]
Clergy Together for a Day of Re-Creation, Song, and Joy Location: Avila Center for Community Leadership, 711 Mason Rd, Durham, NC 27712 This will be the second of three gatherings in 2025 with the intent of providing helpful space and time for clergy conversation and camaraderie. Retreat facilitators: Lois DeloatchMusic Artist; Senior Fellow, Self-Help […]
Join us for Flow of Community, a weekend workshop focused on building community through guided movement, conversations, and meditation. The workshop will be led by Tony C. Johnson, Choreographer, Activist, Mercy Associate at Sisters of Mercy, Founder of My Neighbor Ministries, and Ambassador for the American Dance Festival. Together, workshop participants will discover ways to […]
Seasons Within is a quarterly retreat series to celebrate the equinox and solstice sponsored by Peace Hill at Avila. Join us for a day of renewal and deep inner listening as we […]
Location: Avila Center for Community Leadership, 711 Mason Road, Durham NC 27712 You are invited to Telling Our Stories: Blessings and Trials, a time of retreat and reunion, honoring the […]
Quandaries & Conversations for Clergy Location: Avila Center for Community Leadership, 711 Mason Rd, Durham, NC 27712 “I know that compassion is all out of fashion and anger is all […]
A quarterly retreat series in 2024 to celebrate the equinox and solstice - sponsored by Peace Hill at Avila.
A quarterly retreat series in 2024 to celebrate the equinox and solstice - sponsored by Peace Hill at Avila.
Participants will come together to hold a space for each other where we can stop, breathe, enter the stillness, and experience the moment-to-moment awareness that can lead to healing and wholeness. We will open to these possibilities through the use of meditation, prayer, nature walks, noble silence, reflection, music and other methods. Breathe. Let go. […]
Participants will come together to hold a space for each other where we can stop, breathe, enter the stillness, and experience the moment-to-moment awareness that can lead to healing and wholeness. We will open to these possibilities through the use of meditation, prayer, nature walks, noble silence, reflection, music and other methods. Breathe. Let go. […]
Participants will come together to hold a space for each other where we can stop, breathe, enter the stillness, and experience the moment-to-moment awareness that can lead to healing and wholeness. We will open to these possibilities through the use of meditation, prayer, nature walks, noble silence, reflection, music and other methods. Breathe. Let go. […]
