Workshops and Retreats​


I hope you realize that the work you do is life changing.   - Jane

I especially appreciate spending a weekend, day, or half-day with a group.
​Below find some information about the kinds of retreats and workshops I have led.
Retreats 
For churches, denominational gatherings, retreat and conference centers, and campus ministries, here are titles of some of the retreats I have led:
  • Listening to Your Life: A Vocational Retreat
  • Economics, Justice, and Simplicity
  • Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
  • Widening our Circle of Compassion: Riches of Simplicity for Faith, Earth, and Justice
  • Listening to our Lives
  • Choose Life: A Retreat on Simply Living

And titles of retreats I'd like to lead!:
  • Congregations: Greening, Embodying Justice, and Listening to the “Other”
  • Transformative Faith in the Anthropocene
  • Falling in Love Again: Biophilia ​
Workshops
For universities and colleges, for churches, retreat and conference centers, and campus ministries—these workshops can vary from 45 minutes to a full day.  Following please find representative examples of workshops I have led:

  • God's Economy and the Call to Sustainability—at the World Council of Churches' Eco-Justice Gathering for Young Adults, Durban, South Africa
  • Food, Faith, and Ecology: A Call to Justice and Sustainability—in Faribault, Minnesota
  • Congregationally Supported Agriculture: CSAs and Churches—Portland, Oregon
  • Food and Faith: Toward a More Simple, Sacramental, and Just Way of Life—Presbyterian Peacemaking Conference
  • Greening Congregations, Reducing Carbon Footprints—presented at numerous locations
  • Living the Jubilee in Everyday Life—Episcopal Church's Jubilee Conference, Kanuga, North Carolina
  • Economics as if Life Mattered—presented at numerous locations
  • The Spirituality of Simplicity—Bay Area Voluntary Simplicity Conference