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SCHEDULE FOR SUMMER INSTUTUTE & POST-INSTITUTE RETREAT

SUMMER INSTITUTE
July 16-19

THURSDAY, July 16

2:00-5:30 PM Registration (Durocher Hall)
7:00 PM  Opening:  Jennifer Berezan (Regents’ Theatre)
Keynote Address: Joan Chittister, OSB "Contemporary Spirituality: A Merger of Opposition"
After Hours Gathering in Sophia Classroom

FRIDAY, July 17

9:30 AM (Regents’ Theatre)
Plenary Address: James O’Dea “Single Seed, Collective Blossom: Templates for Social Healing and Social Synergy in a Time of High Evolutionary Transition”

11:30 – 1:00 PM - LUNCH

1:30 - 4:00 PM Interactive Dialogue & Creative Process
#1.  Alexandra Kovats “Celebrating the Cosmic Dance”
#2. Masankho Banda “Stories of Our Grandmothers”
#3. Belvie Rooks  “Wholeness and the Perceived Divide” 

5:00 – 6:30 PM   DINNER

7:00 PM (Regents’ Theatre)
Opening:  Jennifer Berezan
Plenary Address: Belvie Rooks "Let the Circle be Unbroken"
After Hours Gathering in Sophia Classroom

SATURDAY, July 18

9:30 AM (Regents’ Theatre)
Opening:  Jennifer Berezan
Plenary Address: David Korten “Navigating the Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community”

11:30 – 1:00 PM - LUNCH

1:30 - 4:00 PM  Interactive Dialogue & Creative Process (SEE FRIDAY SCHEDULE)


5:00 – 6:30 PM   DINNER

7:00 PM (Regents’ Theatre)
Opening:  Jennifer Berezan
Plenary Address:  Brian Swimme “Women in the New Story”
After Hours Gathering in Sophia Classroom

SUNDAY, July 19

9:30 - 11:30 AM (Regents’ Theatre)
Opening:  Jennifer Berezan
Plenary Session: Jim Conlon "The Planetary Human"
Missa Gaia Celebration - A Mass for the World (Library Concourse)

Noon - LUNCH
Summer Institute check out by 2:00 p.m.

POST-INSTITUTE RETREAT
July7 19-21

“Creating A Mutually Enhancing World”
Alexandra Kovats and Carmel Bracken

7:00 PM Retreat begins with Alexandra