Well-Being Retreat
Well-Being Retreat offers a unique opportunity to explore wholeness through a spiritual, health, financial, and vocational lens. Well-Being Retreat 2024 was held Aug. 19-21 in Montreat, North Carolina.
Well-Being Retreat can help you become more deeply rooted in your life and ministry. This annual gathering is sponsored by the Board of Pensions, in partnership with the Presbyterian Foundation.
Well-Being Retreat 2024
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More than 80 active and retired ministers and employees of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), spouses, and surviving spouses gathered at Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina for Well-Being Retreat 2024.
This year’s theme, Selah: A Season of Reflection, was a beckoning for attendees to pause, to breathe, and to listen.
This year’s retreat offered contemplative practices, enriching workshops, and soul-nourishing experiences that inspired and promoted life balance. Each encounter was curated to cultivate well-being through reflection and serenity, and to provide the sacred space to connect with the divine within and around us. Attendees were invited into the stillness to release their burdens, refresh their spirit, renew their purpose, and refocus their perspective.
As the psalmist urges, “Be still, and know that I am God!” (Psalm 46:10 NRSV).
Workshop topics and presenters
The retreat featured the following sessions and presenters: Singing to Center the Body and Soothe the Soul, by Paul Vasile; R.E.S.T. as Radically Engaged Solitude Time, by Dawn Geschiere; and Sabbath for Clergy Couples, by Julie Anderman of Artos Retreats.
Other sessions included Are You Mindful or Is Your Mind Full? and Journey to Financial Healing and Abundance.
“I learned that I need to slow down and be still. Listen more closely to hear God’s whispers of love, hope, encouragement, forgiveness, and grace.”
— Well-Being Retreat participant