This calendar is in two parts.
Part 1: RCWMS events
Part 2: Other events of interest

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Part 1 - RCWMS Events

April 17-20, 2008 Learn more
WISE CHOICES: A Retreat for Women Over 50
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
Leaders: Anita McLeod & Margie Hattori
Cost: $500 for a single, $475 for a double
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, www.rcwms.org

April 26, 2008, 10:00 am-12 noon
A Morning Conversation with Meinrad Craighead
The Stone House, Mebane, NC (about 30 minutes from Durham, NC)
RCWMS is offering a rare opportunity to meet and talk with artist/mystic Meinrad Craighead about her work and the Divine Feminine. Meinrad doesn't travel much any more but is making a stop-over in Durham on her way to Spain. For more about Meinrad and the documentary, see www.Meinradproject.org
Cost: Suggested donation of $25
RSVP: Amy Kellum, 919/418-4000 or ak@meinradproject.org 

April 28-May 3, 2008
BARCELONA AND MONTSERRAT WITH MEINRAD CRAIGHEAD
The Meinrad Craighead Documentary Project invites you to join RCWMS and artist Meinrad Craighead for a week in Spain.
Contact: Amy Kellum, ak@meinradproject.org

May 2-9, 2008
A WEEK OF QUIET AND WRITING FOR WOMEN Learn more
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
RCWMS has reserved Pelican House, the retreat house on the beach at Trinity Center, for an unstructured week of writing for women. Please come for the whole week.
Cost: $660, includes room and meals
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

June 13-15, 2008
TARA AND THE BLACK MADONNA: A Weekend Retreat at the Beach Learn more
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
During this retreat, we will focus on the history and legends of the Black Madonna and explore her connections to Kali of India and Tara the female Buddha of Tibet. There will be plenty time to meditate or relax by the water’s edge.
Leader: Rachael Wooten
Cost: $400, single; $375 double room (includes meals)
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

September 18-21, 2008 Learn more
A MEDITATION RETREAT: with Therese Fitzgerald & Wendy Johnson
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
Theme: Wisdom and Compassion in the World
This retreat will include periods of sitting meditation, indoor walking meditation, writing sessions, outdoor walking meditation, silent meals, yoga, and focused discussion groups, as well as ample time for rest, reflection, and being in nature. Daily Dharma talks will reflect on the Buddhist teachings. Recommended for both beginning and experienced meditators, this retreat will be conducted in partial silence.
Leaders: Therese Fitzgerald is director and teacher of Dharma Friends, based on Maui, Hawai‘i. She has decades of Dharma practice at the San Francisco and Tassajara Zen Centers and then with Vietnamese Zen monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, who ordained her as a Dharma teacher. Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. An ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center, she was one of the founders of the farm program at Green Gulch Zen Center. She is the author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World.
Cost: about $500 including room and meals, scholarships available
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

September 26-October 3, 2008 Learn more
A WEEK OF QUIET AND WRITING FOR WOMEN
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
RCWMS has reserved Pelican House, the retreat house on the beach at Trinity Center, for an unstructured week of writing for women. Please come for the whole week.
Cost: $660, includes room and meals
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

October 16-19, 2008
WISE CHOICES: A Retreat for Women Over 50
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
This retreat will focus on silence and writing.
Leaders: Anita McLeod & Margie Hattori
Cost: $450 for a single and $425 for a double
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, www.rcwms.org

Part 2 - Other Events of Interest

March 28-30 2008
HerSTORY 2008
Massanetta Springs Conference Center, Harrisonburg, VA
Theme: Women Who Testify--Proclaiming the Gospel in Our Own Voice
A feminist perspective on the testimonies of biblical and historical women can offer hope and vision.
Keynote speaker: Anna Carter Florence, Columbia Theological Seminary
Contact: Sally Robinson, sallyorob@ntelos.net 540-377-9296, or Jean Rodenbough, jrodenbough@bellsouth.net, 336-282-4222 

April 6-11, 2008
GRACE IN STILLNESS: A Biodynamic Approach to Bodywork
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
We will work from the Intelligence and not the Intellect, laying aside technique-based therapies to reveal the body's Inherent Wellness. We will use discussion, bodywork and process work to work with what is arising in the moment.
Leaders: Pat Donohue and Sherry Phillips, Craniosacral Therapists and approved Continuing Education Providers (CEUs available.)
Cost: $1,050 (includes single room and meals)
Sponsor/Contact: Pat Donohue, 919-834-1035, patdonohue@nc.rr.com, or Sherry Phillips, 305-872-4766, shoeyles@bellsouth.net

July 21-24, 2008
Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology
The University of Winchester, England
http://www.bisft.org.uk/