Mark Nepo is excited to be offering a special week-long journey on a River Cruise in Belgium. The small group will embark from Ghent and meander through the waterways of Belgium to Halle near Brussels. With the abundance of cultural riches concentrated on the canal banks, you’ll discover the characteristic cities, exciting sites, and unique flavors only Belgium can offer.
This retreat will center on Mark’s latest book, You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship. In the time together, you will explore the gift and spirit of friendship, for friendship is indispensable. You may discover your dearest friends in the dark labyrinth of seeking truth together. Or, in a moment of feeling vulnerable, you 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.”
In your sessions, you will look closely at the discovery of kinship, the nature of friendship, the inevitable trials by which bonds are strengthened or broken, the acceptance of 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 journey with me as we listen for how the spirit of friendship opens us to each other, so we can come alive together, and affirm that you don’t have do it alone.” – Mark
