This retreat centers on Mark Nepo’s new book, You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: The Net of Friendship. New York Times best-selling author, poet, and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo 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 these 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.
