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SUMMARY:Creative Journaling: Courage To Be Kind (2026 Summer Week 2 adult program)
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummer at Sorrento Centre – Week 2, August 2 – 8\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour summer week features an array of activities, including The Welcome BBQ, The “Courage To Be Kind” Creative Journaling program, Continental Breakfast, Day and Evening Activities, Worship and Music, Yoga, and Beach Access. Additionally, we will conclude the week on Friday with an afternoon Eucharist and Farewell Dinner.\n\n\n\nCheck-in is available from 4:00 pm on Sunday, August 2, followed by the Welcome BBQ at 5:30 pm. The “Courage To Be Kind” Creative Journaling program runs weekdays from 9:45 am to 12:15 pm. Check-out time is 10:00 am on Saturday, August 8.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to check out the schedule for weeks 1, 2, and 3\n\n\n\nclick here to see all of the summer programs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpace is limited!\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Enchanted Gift for you from the B.C. Bishops!\n\n\n\n\nThe Young Adult Endowment Fund\n\n\n\nIf you are a Young Adult (19 – 39 years of age), and are registering for a Program (including Stay & Play) during the Summer Weeks 1, 2, or 3, you can receive $350 applied to your registration!\n\n\n\n*Funding will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. \n\n\n\nFunding is limited – be sure to register right away!\n\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_488cec-f9 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_488cec-f9 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourage To Be Kind\n\n\n\nGiven the current state of the world, a focus on kindness seems like an ineffective gesture. But kindness is a universal language that can bring people together regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, status, and identity. \n\n\n\nI don’t think the saying “kindness makes the world go ‘round” came about without reason. Kind people know that life is hard, messy, and complex. Yet they understand that people are doing their best with the tools, resources, and experience they carry. \n\n\n\nCharles Glassman captured this by saying, “Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” \n\n\n\nLet’s explore the possibilities kindness affords us. We may never know just how big an impact our acts of kindness have on someone else. But we know that kind humans doing kind things are exactly what this unwell world needs more of.\n\n\n\nKindness is Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre’s theme! We will explore it over the two weeks. These classes are not hinged, nor do they repeat the same material so come to Week One or Week Two or both!\n\n\n\n In Creative Journaling, a theme is presented, and participants are invited to use words, imagery and a variety of mixed media techniques to unearth, explore and record their unique responses, thoughts and emotions. Participants are united in hope, support and camaraderie as they uncover their inherent creativity.  A safe and creative space is born where negativity is banished leaving only room for meaningful connection, self-expression and healing.\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_e98142-6d .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_e98142-6d .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKathie MacDuff is an artist, graphic designer and journalist who captures her artistic passions within her signature program, Creative Journaling. For the past 30 years, she has been teaching creative journaling as well as courses in watercolour, mixed media and a wide assortment of paper arts.She is the Expressive Arts consultant for Wellspring Alberta, where she’s been a regular facilitator offering varied courses over the past sixteen years in person and on Zoom. She was a forerunner instructor with the Tom Baker Cancer Center, leading to the establishment of their Medicine in Art initiative and was involved in a year-long research program with the Primary Care Network Pain Clinic, studying the effects of creativity on pain and depression.She facilitated classes at the Good Shepherd Art Studio in Calgary since its inception in 2006 to 2022, when she relocated to Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre in British Columbia to become the Associate Director.Her vision is to facilitate creative experiences that encourage connections, validate emotions, and nourish the soul. She finds fulfillment of these goals thanks to the wonderful people she gets to hang out with!\n\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_975529-ba .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_975529-ba .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_4a9f5d-fe .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14650_4a9f5d-fe .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n\n\nKindness 2026 – Learn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.kb-gallery-id-14650_d26913-d2 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-14650_d26913-d2 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-14650_d26913-d2 .kb-gallery-ul.kb-gallery-type-mosaic .grid-pattern-container{grid-auto-rows:150px;grid-gap:10px;gap:10px;}
URL:https://sorrentocentre.ca/events/creative-journaling-courage-to-be-kind-2026-summer-week-2-adult-program/
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