- Date: July 26, 2025
- Time: 10 am – 5 pm
- Place: Ardmore United Methodist Church – 200 Argyle Road, Ardmore, PA 19003
- Cost: $170.00 ($150 if 2025 Dues Paid)
- Snacks included, bring your own lunch.
- Please bring your Journal.
- Questions or Concerns: Email Eric Hoffman
About Graduate Workshops: We will create a space of safety and support within which we can challenge ourselves to be real, to stretch and to connect. With old and new experiential exercises, opportunities for feedback, Arc time and support for setting new intentions, this graduate workshop will remind us of the value of EE and the graduate community.
About the this One Day: The Theme is Forgiving and Letting Go.
We begin in the EE workshop to work on letting go of the wounds we have experienced in our past. This work, as we have come to understand, is not simply a matter of deciding. I can set the intention to forgive or let go of my disappointment, resentment or anger, only to find it persisting. It’s easy to give up, but then we carry the burden and hamper our future. What else can we do? In the workshop, we learned and practiced some techniques for this work, but it’s easy to forget or to get discouraged. This graduate workshop offers an opportunity to review and expand our toolkit for leaving the past in the past and reclaiming our energy for the future we want to create. Of course, as many of you have said, one of the hardest parts of this practice is forgiving ourselves, and we’ll take time to give this special attention.
All of us, being human, carry along with us the charge of pain, disappointment, shame, guilt, anger, sadness and whatever else we have associated with difficult events in our lives. The wounds continue to affect us, sometimes in ways we are conscious of, and sometimes in ways we don’t explicitly connect with our history. So, part of our work in midlife is to free ourselves from the burden of these wounds and the charge they carry. Of course, that is easier said than done, but part of the process is acknowledging the existence of what we carry. That is easier when we see we are not alone, when we see and hear from others that,like us, they struggle with their burdens.
You are invited to join us for a day of exercises, discussion and connection with other EE grads, building on our EE experience and working to leave at the end of the day with our burdens lightened.
As always, this graduate workshop will build on our shared experience in EE, using old and new exercises, discussion and Arc time to extend what we have done in EE. All EE grads are welcome I hope you’ll join us.