Pacific Northwest Chapter 2025 Spring Retreat
Sunday, March 30 to Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Rainbow Lodge, 46820 SE Mt Si Road North Bend, WA 98045
Our Spring Retreat brings our chapter back to Rainbow Lodge (recently remodeled) for the first time in almost 20 years, I think. We will be meeting Sunday, March 30 to Weds, April 2.
UPDATE, January 31,2025:
We have made a change to our registration form, to reduce difficulties in receiving both the registration and payment. The payment information will now be sent to you automatically, as soon as you hit 'Submit' at the bottom of the registration form. The deadline for registration Feb 28.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/eS6KbYnRYfR4sR5x6
If you have questions, concerns, or difficulties with the form, please contact our Registrar, Michael Walker (contact information on PNW Chapter webpage)
Nationally and globally, we have entered into what Francis Weller refers to as The Long Dark, a time of hardship, decline, and falling apart. In times such as these, our capacities for moving into the territory of grief, and for working with our own experience of grief – personal, collective, and planetary – is essential. This is especially true for those charged with spiritual leadership.
Our program for the Spring 2025 Professional Days will be led by grief mentors Cristina Manzoni, Reve Shannon and Peter Jabin, who regularly facilitate weekend-long grief ritual retreats informed by the communal grief practices of the Dagara of Burkina Faso, as brought to the U.S. by Sobonfu and Malidoma Some and adapted by ritualists Francis Weller, Therese Charvet, Laurence Cole, and others.
Our program will be an abridged version of the weekend intensive experience, facilitating a deep dive into each of Weller’s Five Gates of Grief utilizing practices of coherence – chanting, poetry, writing exercises, small and large group sharing, as well as some didactic content. Our time together will culminate in a ritual practice designed to open us into an experience of communal grieving. A parallel online experience is also being planned for those who cannot attend in person.
Facilitators
Peter Jabin, M.Div., LMHC is a pastoral psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle. He is also a Diaconal Minister in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church. Currently, his clinical work is focused on the intersection climate crisis, the legacy of colonialism & systemic racism, and grief. Peter has facilitated group spiritual direction and grief process groups, in addition to his work with individuals.
Cristina Manzoni, MA, CCC, FT, is a Palliative Care/Hospice Chaplain. She holds a Fellow in Thanatology: Death, Dying & Bereavement and certifications in Compassionate Bereavement Care, Spiritual Direction, End of Life Doula and as Clinical Chaplain. She offers spiritual counseling and grief support services in Port Townsend.
Reve Shannon, Grief Mentor, has extensive personal experience with loss and deep grief work. He has trained in gestalt based individual and group work while at the Associates for Human Resources of Massachusetts. He is active in Playback Theater, a form of building community through the telling and acting out of our personal stories.
