Donna Carnes, a trained psychologist and survivor of major life trauma, has developed this four-part workshop for women who are open to exploring the relationship between the individual self, life trauma and resilience—all in the context of our current cultural surroundings. During the 90-minute sessions, members of this small group are invited to share their personal experiences and coping strategies, including "favorite things" such as food, music, books, storytelling, and spirituality. The guiding questions for these sessions are: What do we expect of ourselves? What do others expect of us? How do those expectations play out and shape our choices ...

Evolutionary Consciousness: Deepening Our Understanding of the New Universe Story This series will address the BIG questions participants bring about evolution, evolutionary consciousness, how the universe unfolded and continues to unfold. How do the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture together inform us? We will read Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness by Ilia Delio. Delio demonstrates that catholicity (small c) is a conscious awareness of how everything, all organisms from the single-celled to homo sapiens, forms one whole; catholicity is whole-making. Speaker Mary Ellen Gevelinger, OP has been a Sinsinawa Dominican for 55 years, serving for five ...