With the help of its graduates, the Loyola Institute for Ministry (LIM) has developed retreat materials—in English and Spanish—based on the creation-centered work of Passionist "Ecologian" Fr. Thomas Berry.  LIM now seeks to make those materials available to its graduates, students, facilitators, liaisons, and faculty so that they can sponsor and lead retreats based on them.  

Background
Creation has long been central to the work of the Loyola Institute for Ministry (LIM). It informs its method and model of theological reflection and is woven through its curriculum.

LIM Emerita Professor Kathleen O'Gorman established LIM's relationship with "Ecologian" and Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry who would go on to lecture and teach regularly at and receive an honorary degree from Loyola. Dr. O'Gorman has gathered videos and other materials associated with Thomas Berry at Loyola. They have been developed by LIM graduates, faculty, and staff into a retreat entitled "A Mutually Enhancing Relationship with the Natural World." It is the first of a projected five retreats.  

LIM now makes these materials available to students, graduates, facilitators, liaisons, and adjunct faculty (and, for now, only to them) to sponsor and lead--as a pilot project between now and Easter 2020--a retreat based on the creation-centered work of Fr. Thomas Berry. After your retreat, we seek feedback from you and retreat participants to improve our materials with the intention of making them more widely available.  

To sponsor and lead the retreat, please fill out the following survey (once for each time you intend to sponsor and lead it). In addition to completing the survey, finding a time, and inviting people to attend, you will need to finalize a day and time and identify a space that:
>>has good internet access, a computer, speakers, projector, and screen
>>is appropriate for a 100-minute retreat
>>has accommodations that meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements and local fire safety rules if the retreat is open to the public

All that we ask of you is to
>>send us the names and emails of the participants who will receive one email from LIM asking for feedback on the retreat
>>complete this survey for each retreat you sponsor.

Within a week of your completing this form, we will send you a link to the retreat material.  

For more information on Thomas Berry and the retreat, see http://cnh.loyno.edu/lim/retreats.  For more information on the Thomas Berry Project at Loyola, see http://cnh.loyno.edu/lim/thomas-berry-project.