Playing and Praying with Clay
With Denise Griebler
October 22 - 24, 2024
Potter, sculptor, philosopher MC Richards said, “It’s not pots we are making, it’s ourselves.” Come to the mountain at the height of Autumn colors. Take some clay in your hands and listen to your life. Listen to the wind and leaves. Walk the stony paths. We’ll listen and wonder and create as we reflect on our lives and our place in family of things. Along the way we may encounter wonder, grief, gratitude, and a sense of coming home to ourselves.
No need to worry about being an artist or having any previous experience with clay! We’ll share poems and stories, have time for silence and writing, wilderness wandering, a walk through neighboring Columcille Megalith Park and Labyrinth. And we’ll give ourselves to the shaping of clay as reflection and offering.
Leader
Denise Griebler is a potter and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, with long history as a human rights and social justice activist, pastor, potter and retreat leader. Denise trusts and cultivates the connections between nature, spirituality, creativity, beauty, justice and joy. In the 1980’s Denise was an organizer in the Sanctuary Movement where she met and worked closely with Corinne Peterson. In 2005, Denise’s husband was diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer. After his death, Corinne became her mentor and spiritual companion, exploring the use of clay in working through grief.
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