Weekend Conference Intensive

One said, "I just love to talk about thealogy." 

The other said, "I'm not interested in theology.  I just like to talk about the Gods."

Truth is, we are all theologians, from the agnostic who claims there may or may not be a goddess, to the fundamentalist who claims knowledge of the one true God-concept.  The only real question is, will we be thoughtful or careless thea/ologians?

Come raise up the skin, the muscles, the blood and the bones of your true self.

Reflect carefully on your thoughts, your experiences, your feelings, your traditions and your communities. Learn to express your beliefs in an academically- credible way, one that equips you as Pagan clergy.

Experience a long weekend of small-group learning in a retreat setting in beautiful rural Western Massachussetts.

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Strongly recommended as complement to Being Thea/ologically summer semester course, which gives credit for intensive attendance.

Thank you to our sponsor

 Azure Green!

Cynthia Jane Collins, M.Div., M.S.

group facilitator-instructor

Cynthia Jane Collins, M.Div., M.S., is a founding member of Silver Cauldron Coven (est. 1994), a teacher, an artist, a writer and a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. "Thea" is an active interfaith chaplain at the University of Southern Maine, and serves on the board of directors of several interfaith and charitable organizations in Maine.  Her publications include "Recovery Spiral," a Pagan alternative to the traditional 12-step programs, "Building A Magical Relationship: The Five Points of Love," with Jane Raeburn.  Thea confesses that she enjoys apologetics, hermeneutics and homiletics, though she often does them in private and washes her hands afterwards.  She is the grandmama of Gretchen Alexandra, willing servant of various fourfoots, and Nap Goddess of the East Coast.

What have you experienced when it comes to the Gods, Spirit, Deity? What do you know that you know? What do you sense and what do you think? How is it the same, or different, for you as an individual, a part of community, a being in the world? What, then, do you do, believe, and value? And what preconceived notions, which no longer apply, are operating? What questions inform your curiosity? How can you use your insight, your questions and your scholarship to be of service?

Comfortable indoor dormitory accommodations, shared meals.

$200  Intensive registration

$195  Dorm lodging and all meals

$165 Tenting and all meals

$90 All meals, no lodging

$150  Intensive registration for second in family

Open to all, including Cherry Hill Students, both matriculated and continuing education, as well as guests. Fulfills one of the required two intensives for matriculated students. 

As space is available, participants are invited to bring non-intensive participating spouse or significant other with them for cost of lodging or tenting and meals.

Strongly recommended as complement to Being Thea/ologically summer semester course.

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Schedule for the Weekend:

Thursday arrive Middlefield, MA, in afternoon (directions to private home will be provided after registration).  Dinner together, visit and greet late arrivals.

Friday and Saturday full days.  Sunday morning closing ritual, lunch, depart 1:30.

Activities will include discussion, writing, reflection time, craftmaking, song, ritual.

From previous intensives:  At beautiful Camp Salamander in California, above; pre-Pantheacon, below right and classroom scene underneath, pre-Merry Meet in Massachussetts, below left.