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Come Home: A Retreat in the Mountains

Facilitator — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:45:13 +0000

Frank Rogers, Nancy Linton, and Doug Frank have spent the past seven years leading a beautiful retreat up in the Cascade mountains here in Southern Oregon. You live in cabins, spend mornings in silence, and Frank Rogers leads powerful spiritual exercises that help you recover your sense of God and self. There are two retreat [...]

“What’s Your Story?” Profile in Huffington Post

Facilitator — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:25:33 +0000

Craig Comstock wrote a nice article on the storytelling project Mark Yaconelli facilitates in Ashland, Oregon. There were a number of bullying incidents in Southern Oregon that involved some arrests. Mark led a storytelling evening on the theme “Bullying” and it became a way for the community to address the issue–particularly with stories from bullies as well as the bullied. [...]

The Power of Personal Storytelling: An Article for Austin Seminary Journal

Facilitator — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:22:56 +0000

Last fall I lead a workshop for the College for Pastoral Leaders at Austin Seminary on personal storytelling as a method of community transformation. Through narrative exercises, contemplative practices, and life story groups we explored ways in which personal storytelling could be used to heal shame, cultivate compassion, build inter-generational relationship, and create social transformation. The last [...]

Theology Pub- “Living Without Anxiety Within an Anxious World”

Facilitator — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:30:30 +0000

Pastor, youth worker, and social media expert Adam Walker Cleveland has started a creative series of events in Ashland (Mark Yaconelli’s hometown) called “Theology Pub.” Basically, he invites people to show up at a local downtown pub and listen to speaker present a few theological ideas (in about 10 minutes or less) then he breaks everyone into small groups, [...]

Compassion Training Open to the Public

Facilitator — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:33:55 +0000

The Center for Engaged Compassion Invites Participants in 9 Month Program in Radical Compassion The Center for Engaged Compassion has been commissioned by Prison Fellowship Canada to develop and facilitate a compassion formation program. This newly developed program facilitated by Frank Rogers, Andy Dreitcer, and Mark Yaconelli is now open to the general public. The program involves three, three-day retreats [...]