Retreats

One of our deepest concerns and commitments has been to provide opportunities for reflection and renewal for long-time activists for peace and justice. When the Veterans visit us in Denver, we try to accommodate them with warm hospitality and comfortable surroundings. And at various times we have coordinated and/or faciliated intergenerational retreats that bring together people from various communities who are working for social justice. The retreats generally offer an opportunity for sustained collective conversation as well as meditation, bodywork, relaxation and recreation.

Among the retreats we have organized or led are:

• A series of "Spirit and Struggle" summer retreats for African American faith-based activists, held at various sites in the state of Colorado. (These particular retreats were conducted in the early 1990s, prior to the founding of the Veterans of Hope Project.)
• An intergenerational activists retreat that brought together a multi-cultural group of seasoned workers for compassionate social change and younger counterparts. This retreat was held at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan
• A multicultural retreat on Youth, Activism and Arts held at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan
• A Lenten retreat series for members of the Calvary Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado.
• Religious education retreat for the First Methodist Church of Arvada, Colorado.
• Positive Futures Network Retreat (senior facilitators) for peace activists following the events of September 11, 2001, held at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Retreat on resources for personal and social transformation from the African American freedom movement held at the Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center, Wallingford, Pennsylvania.