1142 Ventura Dr.
Brooklyn
MI 49230
Wrestling with Patriarchy: What is Healthy Male Spirituality?
This is a 2-night, retreat exploring how men have absorbed and incorporated the centuries old thinking and the cultural constructs and constraints of Patriarchy. We will try to see how this has affected our personality/ego and silenced our awareness of meaningful spirituality and to help us to break open our own inner anima. We may get a glimpse of what real male spirituality looks like…
When: Friday, May 13 at 7pm to Sunday May 15th, 2022 at 11am
Where: Holley Family Village, located at De Sales Center, Brooklyn, MI
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“Only when [humanity] feels [itself] responsible for the future can [we] have hope or despair, but when [humanity] thinks of [itself] as a passive victim of an extremely complex technological bureaucracy, [humanities] motivation falters and [it] starts drifting from one moment to the next, making life a long row of randomly chained incidents and accidents.”
-THE WOUNDED HEALER, by Henri J. Nouwen
WHY ATTEND?
As we move away from the first anniversary of the attempted insurrection of January 6th, 2020, we should not fail to notice the greater majority of participants were male, men of every age level – angry men. We saw the enormous shadow energy that was generated that day – “What we don’t transform, we transfer.” If we are on an authentic spiritual journey, it is our duty to be ever more deeply awakened to our own shadows and understand where it may be leading us unaware. This retreat hopes to help with that exploration.
Our Retreat Leader:
Mike Whitman – Mike has been involved with the Illuman of Indiana-Michigan chapter in its earliest formation when it was still MALES of Indiana/Michigan. He has led retreats and been part of the leadership teams on other retreats in the chapter and in his many years working in faith formation and youth ministry. He chose this retreat topic from his growing awareness of both his white privilege and male privilege. He hopes he can both grow from this retreat and bring some experience and wisdom to use in it. Mike also serves as Co-Convener of our Illuman of Indiana-Michigan Chapter.
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