Retreat Profile

Rowe Camp and Conference Center

Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Box 273, Rowe MA, 01367, 413-339-4954, www.rowecenter.org

Nestled in the beautiful Berkshires, Rowe Camp and Conference Center provides a small, intimate setting for year round weekend conferences with an exceptional array of teachers and workshop leaders, as well as summer camps for youth and for adults.

Programs at Rowe offer people the opportunity to learn new skills, discuss interesting topics, grow beyond their limits, explore, expand, and be nurtured. Our work-study sabbaticals and volunteer / internship programs allow participants to experience living and working as part of a small, intentional community. Private individual and group retreats are also available. Come to Rowe and retreat, relax, reflect, relate, and revitalize. Kindred Spirits: A Community Supporting Recovery and Self Discovery

August 21-26 We are all kindred spirits when we enter this world, with more similarities than differences, but somewhere along the way we get hurt, or we forget, and we become separated. The journey of Kindred Spirits is the joy of reconnecting with self, the natural world, and other human beings. With its roots in the 12-step recovery movement, Kindred Spirits Camp encourages authentic expression of feelings, acknowledgment of past pain, and a commitment to balance tears with laughter. Kindred Spirits Retreat

At the Kindred Spirits Retreat Gentling Yourself: Recovery from Sexual Abuse; A Body Awareness Adventure for Women Donna Robin Lippman January 6-8, 2006

Being gentle with yourself is not habitual for a woman coming to terms with the legacy of incest or rape. Learning to treat yourself lovingly expands your possibilities. During this empowering, down-to-earth weekend, we'll explore living safely, peacefully, and joyously in your body, and in your world.

Please bring a journal. Wear very comfortable clothing. Bring along whatever comforts you. Expect to share something you are very proud of; something made, something experienced, a story, your choice.

For nearly two decades, Donna Robin Lippman has been a leader supporting healing among sexual abuse survivors. Currently Donna offers individual and group work at the Incest and Rape Recovery Center . She also offers low-cost drop-in workshops for women survivors, among them the Healing Circle , the Healing Circle/Dissociation, Collage & Process and various topical workshops.