Thank you for your interest in learning more about WAYfinding! WAYfinding is open to all faiths and secular perspectives. In fact, we think exploring the big questions amid diversity is key to helping us grow in love.
We offer three, group-based 8-week rounds - fall, winter, spring. To read details about and sign up for our winter and spring rounds, scroll down.
Most of our groups have 7-10 people and meet for 2 hours each week. Our groups meet in homes because it's comfortable and allows us to offer time for breathing/meditating/praying.
Spring Round 2019
The spring round begins the week of April 15th and ends the week of May 27th (7 weeks). Check out the topic and cost details below. Sign up here.
“‘Darkness’ is shorthand for anything that scares me — either because I am sure that I do not have the resources to survive it or because I do not want to find out. If I had my way, I would eliminate everything from chronic back pain to the fear of the devil from my life and the lives of those I love. At least I think I would. The problem is this: when, despite all my best efforts, the lights have gone off in my life, plunging me into the kind of darkness that turns my knees to water, I have not died. The monsters have not dragged me out of bed and taken me back to their lair. Instead, I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”
A month or so ago, a fellow WAYfinder sent me Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark. What a gift this book has been to me. Such a gift that I’ve decided, this spring round, to share it with all of you. Each week we’ll gather to discuss a chapter or two, as well as (as always) engage in a spiritual practice and “check in” with one another. Read a beautiful description of the book below and then sign up to join us for conversation and connection this spring.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all that is evil and dangerous with darkness. Doesn’t God work in the nighttime as well? In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Taylor asks us to put aside our fears and anxieties and to explore all that God has to teach us “in the dark.” She argues that we need to move away from our “solar spirituality” and ease our way into appreciating “lunar spirituality” (since, like the moon, our experience of the light waxes and wanes). Through darkness we find courage, we understand the world in new ways, and we feel God’s presence around us, guiding us through things seen and unseen. Often, it is while we are in the dark that we grow the most.
With her characteristic charm and literary wisdom, Taylor is our guide through a spirituality of the nighttime, teaching us how to find our footing in times of uncertainty and giving us strength and hope to face all of life’s challenging moments.
GROUPS
All groups will rotate facilitation. Newcomers (and those for whom facilitating will produce crippling anxiety ;)) are not asked to facilitate. Of course, you’re welcome to, if you’d like.
Mondays, 7:30 – 9:00p – Mom’s Group (Meridian-Kessler)
Wednesdays, 11:30a - 1:00p (Meridian-Kessler)
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:00p (Downtown)
Thursdays, 7:00 - 9:00p (Irvington)
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COST
For those who can afford it, there is a cost with the WAYfinding experience. Each round we ask you make an investment in yourself of $50 - $150. (For this round, please subtract your book/Audible cost.) It's a sliding scale; you pay what you can. And, if you can't pay, simply select our Scholarship Fund when signing up - that's all there is to it. Invest online here.
Or, you may become a sustaining member of WAYfinding by making a recurring donation of at least $30 per month. This option is not just an investment in yourself - all rounds are included - but in others. Your recurring donation (or quarterly/yearly, if you prefer) helps us sponsor new and existing participants, "get the word out," invest in public speakers and new programs, etc. You can learn more about our different investment levels here.