You Don’t Have To Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
A weekend retreat and book signing with Mark Nepo
Rescheduled - Friday, January 24 – Sunday, January 26, 2025
Single occupancy $565, Double occupancy $515
(includes an ensuite bathroom and all meals from Friday dinner through Sunday breakfast)
Commuter $365
(includes Friday dinner, Saturday lunch & dinner)
Registered participants will receive a copy of Mark’s book at check-in to be autographed by the author at Sunday’s books signing.
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“A friend may be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
About this offering
This retreat will center on Mark’s new book, You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship (St. Martin’s Essentials, July 2024). Our time together will explore the gift and spirit of friendship, for friendship is indispensable. We may discover our dearest friends in the dark labyrinth of seeking truth together. Or, in a moment of feeling vulnerable, we may feel safe in the care of some trusted other. We often come upon our deepest friends when taking the long way home, when forced to put down our differences, when humbled to admit that we haven’t a clue where we’re going or how to get there. In the raw and tender space of such honesty, the net of friendship is woven. In fact, the root of the word friendship means “place of high safety.”
Throughout the weekend, we will look closely at the discovery of our kinship, the nature of friendship, the inevitable trials by which our bond is strengthened or broken, the acceptance of our humanness, and the conduit that lasting friendship becomes to the larger forces of life.
“After a lifetime of trying to be a good friend, I feel called to affirm the spirit of friendship, to praise what it takes to love another well, and to better understand how friendship helps us live. So Come. Walk with me as we listen for how the spirit of friendship opens us to each other. Until we find the place of high safety where the most tender among us can show who we are, so we can come alive together, and affirm to each other that you don’t have do it alone.”—Mark Nepo