Adelynrood's 2025 Summer Program Lineup
Seeing As Spiritual Practice
July 18-20, 2025
Participants will be led in the practice of holy seeing, and understanding sight as a vital spiritual act, a Franciscan virtue that allows us to encounter our world with tenderness and empathy. Through group discussions, silent contemplation, and guided exercises in writing, drawing, or photography, participants will experience holy seeing as a way to open eyes and hearts to beauties that are often overlooked, and to scenes of suffering from which eyes are instinctively averted.
Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker is a longtime liturgical artist and theological educator.
Life Story Writing SOLD OUT!
July 23-25, 2025
Experience a three-day program focused on reviewing life so far. We will excavate long-forgotten memories, explore our life choices, and reacquaint ourselves with our own stories. Writing in response to prompts, we will recall challenges and joys, ponder roads taken and not taken, and consider some who’ve guided and inspired us along the way. Leader-led, with ample time for writing and always-optional sharing, our writing will trigger surprises, laughter, and unexpected insights. No previous writing experience required. Story is really all we have of ourselves. Anne Lamott says, “You’re going to feel like hell if you wake up one day and you never wrote the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart: your stories, memories, visions and songs, your truths, your version of things, in your own voice.”
Nancy Rose-Weeber, MFA, MST, RN is an award-winning fiction writer, essayist, literary consultant, developmental editor, and former editor of the literary journal Peregrine.
SOLD OUT! Email reservations@adelynrood.org to be added to the wait list.
School for Spiritual Direction – Seeing the Diversity in Human Persons
August 4-8, 2025
This session invites participants to examine the ways in which biases shape our responses without our being aware of them and how we can cultivate openness through our spiritual practices. Our presenters will offer tools that can be used with any population, including dream work, exploration of archetypes, and the effects of trauma and addiction. The practicalities of ethics and developing a spiritual direction practice will also be addressed.
Anne Ritchings, SCHC, MA, MSLS, MDiv is an Episcopal priest with 30-plus years of experience in spiritual direction. Tracey Clarkson is an active Unitarian Universalist in Portsmouth, N.H., where she has lived for over three decades and has been working her dreams for almost as long. Dr. Kathleen Hope-Brown, DMin is affiliate faculty at Virginia Theological Seminary and DeSales University, where she teaches spiritual direction and spirituality studies.
Discover Your Inner Voice: A SoulCollage® Experience SOLD OUT!
August 6, 2025
Discover the transformative art of SoulCollage®, an expressive practice designed to help you tap into your intuition, creativity, and inner wisdom. In this one-day workshop, you’ll create unique collage cards by blending powerful imagery with personal insight. Guided by the principles of SoulCollage® as developed by Seena Frost, you’ll learn techniques for crafting and interpreting your cards through journaling and small group discussions, allowing them to reflect and guide you on your life journey. By the end, you’ll have a few completed cards to start your own personal deck, offering a visual journal that connects you with your soul’s wisdom. No artistic experience required—just bring an open heart and a curious mind.
Susan Nutting is a self-taught mixed media artist and certified Zentangle teacher who discovered her passion for creative expression in 2010.
SOLD OUT! Email reservations@adelynrood.org to be added to the wait list.
I Have The Light of Freedom: Tell Me How Did You Feel When You Came Out of the Wilderness
In short, we are called upon to free ourselves from the imprints, yearnings and appetites socialized into us by the ruling elites who use all of their power and resources to strip us of our authentic selves who are born with the spirit of God in us, to recreate us in their own image.
Within this context, freedom is a contested territory for which we all must struggle. However history determines nature and dimension of struggle to come out the wilderness. None of us are exempt from the toxins.
Ruby Sales, born in Jemison, Alabama, on July 8, 1948, suffered many hardships during the civil rights movement but was not discouraged. She has spent her adult life working in philanthropic endeavors.