Embracing Radical Acceptance: Learning a Relational Model of Faith

Participants will learn how to become more authentic and less performative in all areas of life. The retreat includes education, prayer, discussion, and reflection.

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Using Jesus as a model of radical acceptance, participants will -

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• Explore how our learned performative behavior has limited our ability to love God, love our neighbors, and love ourselves.
   

• Explore new ways of communicating with radical acceptance.
   

• Explore how colonization and capitalism have shaped us to prioritize production, and how this has deformed our authenticity in relationships.
   

• Explore how an assumed fear of punishment drives our behavior, and how radical acceptance can free us from this fear.
   

• Explore how radical acceptance can liberate us from systems of oppression that limit our personal relationships.
   

• Explore how practicing radical acceptance challenges traditional ideas of judgement, inviting us to a new understanding of ourselves and of the world.
   

• Explore how radically accepting ourselves and others can free us to deepen our lives of faith.

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Typical Embracing Radical Acceptance Retreat Agenda:

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• Day 1 - 

  • Welcome and Overview​

  • Introduction to Nurture, Play, Structure

  • Compline
     

• Day 2 - ​

  • Morning Prayer​

  • What Is Radical Acceptance? 

  • Why Is Radical Acceptance Difficult? 

  • Noonday Prayer

  • Why Is Radical Acceptance Christian? 

  • How Do We Practice Radical Acceptance? 

  • Seeking Joy Together (Play Time)

  • Compline
     

• Day 3 - ​

  • Morning Prayer​

  • Learning our Unique Interdependence

  • Eucharist 

  • Dismissal