Jan. 24 Voice as Healing Catalyst. Rev Rhetta Morgan
will share about her journey to discovering the power of song and sound, for self-healing and community-making, especially in challenging times such as these. Rev. Dave Perkins leading.
Rhetta Morgan has been gathering tools for healing and inspiration over a lifetime. Whether singing, praying, writing poetry, facilitating or sermonizing, the Rev passionately encourages spiritual practices such as cultivating hope and proclaims connection as a pathway back to a sense of enough-ness. Rhetta is the founder of Ecclesia Spirit, the evolution of Ecclesia Spiritual Center which offered innovative spiritual gatherings for a decade. She offers the groundbreaking Inner Voice Process which is a spiritual approach to vocal training, along with a host of circles, workshops and gatherings focused on a range of healing themes. She is a sought-after guest speaker and singer on zoom currently. Other kinds of work include:
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Facilitator for the Anti Defamation League
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Creator and facilitator of ‘Bless the Night’ and ‘Ground, Heal, Ignite, both workshops presented at Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat and Conference Center
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The Power of Love, day long retreat designed for the Center for Contemporary Mysticism
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Re-Unioning, A Spiritual Practice for Our Time, a conversational program, Center for Contemporary Mysticism
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Guest faculty member at the School of Sacred Ministries, Pebble Hill Interfaith Church
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Co facilitator for the Unitarian Universalist 18 month continuing education program for ministers, Beyond the Call
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Featured in the movie, Grounded While Walls Fall, directed and produced by Zein Nakhoda & Rhetta Morgan
PLUS, on Feb. 28 Ramananda John Welshons,
who will be returning with the theme, “The Inevitability of Change: The Power of Acceptance.” He will offer a talk and guided meditation that deals with our ability to embrace – rather than resist – change. In Buddhist philosophy, change is seen as an inevitable aspect of life. Our happiness is facilitated by how well we adjust to that inevitable change.
Our bodies are constantly changing. Our environment is constantly changing. Our thoughts and moods are constantly changing. Our world is constantly changing. Suffering is created by our resistance to change and our disappointment about efforts to create change when those efforts don’t seem to be producing the results we seek.
We will look at the philosophical frameworks that are utilized in the East to better understand the inevitable changes in life and to let go of the suffering we create for ourselves when things don’t change . . . the way we want them to. We will learn that “acceptance” is not an expression of passivity, but – rather – an expression of active engagement with life . . . and with Reality.
