Community Engagement Opportunities
In the spirit of community, we're excited to share with you a few opportunities for connection and engagement over the next three months:
Community of Practice
Still Harbor is piloting a virtual Community of Practice and would like to invite YOU to participate!
This is a bound group that will serve as a communal space for practice of spiritual accompaniment and group facilitation that supports social justice work.
Intention: To gather to offer peer-to-peer accompaniment, to engage group work, to support each other in integrating spiritual care and social justice, and to cultivate connection in the Still Harbor community.
Details: Hour-long, biweekly sessions over 12 weeks (6 total) beginning in mid-November. This space will be held by James Mannion, Spiritual Care Intern (see bio below).
We are seeking to convene spiritual leaders to experience and provide feedback on this new offering.
Community Conversations
Would you be interested in engaging in open dialogue about your experience within the Still Harbor community?
Sign-up for a community conversation with Still Harbor’s Spiritual Care Intern, James Mannion (see bio below)!
Intention: Through these conversations we are seeking to hear about your hopes, needs, desires, challenges, and intentions, so that the voices of our community can better inform our organization’s ongoing strategic conversations. Plus it is always beautiful to simply connect!
Details: One-on-one, 30-minute phone or video conversation
Interested?
Simply indicate which opportunity you would like to join by Friday, November 6th. Also, feel free to ask any questions you may have!
*Please note that there is limited space for both opportunities.
Facilitator & spiritual Care Intern
James Mannion is currently Still Harbor’s Spiritual Care Intern. He served on the board for the last year and is taking a temporary hiatus for the duration of this internship. He is very much looking forward to rejoining the Directors in the summer of 2021. James is a facilitator whose approach to dialogue grows out of his experience practicing across religions as both a Buddhist and a Roman Catholic Christian. As a practitioner in the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, James has completed four years of residential training. He grew up visiting Weston Priory, a Benedictine Monastery in Vermont, and so Christian contemplative practice has been an important aspect of his life from an early age. James is an alum of Still Harbor’s Group Facilitation Immersion and he is currently an MDiv student in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He aspires to be a “Dialogue Chaplain,” a spiritual care professional who facilitates transformative group conversations for the purpose of healing systems of oppression and actualizing social justice.