Compassionate Conversations: Growing Into Forgiveness- an Interfaith Spiritual Retreat

Compassionate Conversations: Growing into Forgiveness-an interfaith spiritual retreat

led by Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi, Rabbi Diane Elliot, and Pastor Steve Harms

All the major spiritual traditions value the quality of forgiveness alongside those of compassion and loving-kindness. But what is forgiveness? How is it possible to forgive those who have harmed us, and does forgiveness mean we just accept situations passively and condone harm? What is the role of forgiveness for those who feel called to social justice activism? How can we forgive ourselves for the harm that we have done?

Forgiveness is a practice, and a process. Without forgiveness, it can be difficult to open our hearts fully to others, and to ourselves.

In this retreat, the fourth in the annual “Compassionate Conversations” series, Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi, Rabbi Diane Elliot, and Pastor Steve Harms serve as your guides while, together, we mine the wisdom of three spiritual traditions—Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism. Each path offers a wealth of teachings and practices to help us refine our moral compass and grow the awareness, consistency, creativity, and kindness we need to meet the spiritual and practical challenges of our times. Our time together will include meditation and movement, singing and prayer, textual study and sacred ritual, focused conversation, art-making, silence, and rest.