Resonance: Spiritual Formation in Community

Schedule for Spring 2003: Five meetings on alternate Wednesdays, April 9 - June 4, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
Leaders: Facilitated by David Parks-Ramage, Kevin Mann, and several special guests.
Location: Durant Assembly, at the corner of Durant and Dana streets in Berkeley, CA. Enter at 2340 Durant Ave., up the steps and through the double doors, then the first room on the left.
Cost: $20 for the series, payable at the first meeting (to defray expenses).
For registration information: click here
Childcare share possible - please indicate your interest when you register.
Resonance offers an approach to Christian spiritual life and community that is true to tradition yet open in spirit and content, embracing practices and readings from a variety of faith traditions. Through a series of workshops featuring spiritual exercises, reflection, and small-group discussions, Resonance participants will come to know intimacy as it is experienced in Spirit, and growth in a spiritual community open to the qualities of love, joy, peace, hope and faith.

Spring 2003 Workshops will include:

  • Work - your calling and contribution. (April 9 - Pat DeJong)
  • Grief - a journey that deepens our connection to the world. (April 23 - Julie Cedrone)
  • Family - practicing peace in relationships. (May 7 - Adam Blons)
  • Death - a movement of spirit. (May 21 - David Parks-Ramage)
  • Marriage - commitment in relationship. (June 4 - Michael Harvey)
David Parks-Ramage, Minister of Parish Life at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, is a Spiritual Director and Graduate of the Shalem Institute’s Program for Spiritual Guidance. David Parks-Ramage has grounded his work in Christian Spiritual Formation on more than thirty years of meditation practice, and practices based on the writings of Christian mystics including St. Therese of Avila and St. John of the Cross. Email: Dparks-ramage@fccb.org

Kevin Mann practices spiritual integration, or bringing the divine into everyday life. Over the past sixteen years he has concentrated on practices that emphasize opening to divine guidance; authentic relating; and spontaneous change through awareness, rather than willful effort. These practices are based on Christian principles and teachings, and enriched with compatible teaching stories, poems, and perspectives from other spiritual traditions. Email: jkmann@us.ibm.com

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