I am available to lead Interfaith Worship Services for your
Spiritual Community
Or as part of a Retreat
or Conference
These services could focus on bringing together people of different faiths to share their heritages, or could be an
exploration of a theme or a scriptural passage that is relevant to your community. I can also work with a group within the
congregation, to help them develop a creative sharing of their insights and experiences on a particular subject
or congregational vision or issue.
I also delight in weaving together retreats and conferences with ritual, music and movement that not only complements,
but expands on the themes of the conference and brings them into people’s experiential awareness in transformative ways.
A Small Sampling of Possible Topics:
INTERFAITH AWARENESS
The Relevance of Jungian Psychology to Interfaith Dialogue
The Art of Living with Intention: The Gifts of the Jewish High Holy Days
Honoring Indigenous Traditions: Finding our Own Earth-Centered Spiritual Path
The Gift of Compassionate Presence: An Exploration of Buddhist Practice
Celtic Spiritual Traditions that Nourish the Soul
The Dark Places of Wisdom: The Elusynian Mysteries and Our Western Philosophical Traditions
COMMUNITY LIFE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Voluntary Simplicity and Freedom
The Transformative Power of Community
Living in Conscious Community
Healing our Divisions: Moving Beyond Self / Other
Polarizations
Hear
No Evil... Confronting Society's Complicity in Trauma & Injustice
On
Developing Sane Societies
Why
the Political is Personal - Transformation AND Liberation
Spiritual
Perspectives on Our Global Crisis
Climate
Change and You: Changing our Course
Refusing
Cynicism: Believing in Our Power to Create Change
Re-Imagining
the World
Unmasking
Pretension: The Role of the Sacred Fool, Jester, Clown , and Trickster in Shaking Up Our Social Norms.
Liberation
Theology and You: Joining in Solidarity with the Oppressed
Earth
Community: Re-Visioning Our Place in the Family of Beings
Shared
Ministry: Mutuality in Fostering the Beloved Community
This
Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land - How do we Undo the Damage?
Keepers
of the Dream: Guarding the Earth for the Seventh Generation
SPIRITUAL LIFE AND PRACTICE
Developing a Spiritual Practice
Return to the Land of Your Soul: Reclaiming the Art of Silence and Solitude
Honoring the Sabbath: Hospitality to the Holy
The Healing Power of Dreams
The Role of Dance and Music in Our Spiritual Lives
Vision Quest: Wilderness Rite of Passage
Wisdom of the Heart: Trusting our Intuitive Knowing
Aligning Our Intentions with the Rhythm of Life
Breaking the Shell that Encloses our Understanding: Pain and Limitation as Teacher
Doing Theology: Wrestling with Life's Big Questions with Integrity
Our Lives as Sacred Texts
Reclaiming Ritual for Personal and Communal Transformation
The Contemplative Activist: Mysticism and Social Change
Original Sin / Original Blessing: Knowing Ourselves Anew
Feminist and Womanist Theology: The Sacredness of Being in Right Relation
Honoring Life's Passages: Taking our Place in the Circle of Life
NATURE AND INSPIRATION
Sacred Hoop: The Importance of Nature in our Spiritual Lives and our Children's Development of Values
Creating Beauty: A Spiritual Imperative for Our Time
Dancing the Edge of Mystery
A Celebration of Night: Hearing Whispers of the Sacred in the Dark
Living the Questions: Reflections on Rilke's Advice to a Young Poet
The Circle of Life: Giving and Receiving as Sacred Reciprocity
Light to Read By: Literature and the Religious Imagination
Why are we Here? What Greater Life Wants to Live in Us?: Hospitality to the Mystery of Life
HOLIDAY SERVICES
Fully Alive on the Brink of a New Year – A New Year’s Service
Tending the Inner Fire - a Brigid’s Day Fireside Service – near Feb 1
Maundy Thursday Communion Service
Now the Green Blade Riseth: An Intergenerational Easter Service
Foolish Wisdom: Sacred Play: An April Fools Service
Motherhood as a Spiritual Art and Practice
Turning toward At-One-Ment: High Holy Days Reflection
Honoring the Ancestors: An All Souls Day Service
Thanksgiving Bread Making Service
Keep the Magic Alive: Celebrating Festivals of Lights and the Aurora Borealis
Flower Communion: A Celebration of the Gift of Life in Community
This is a small sampling: feel free to suggest
a topic!
My background:
I have been leading worship services for over 25 years, primarily within the Unitarian Universalist Tradition, but
also in interfaith gatherings and as part of my ongoing work as a Workshop and Retreat Facilitator. I received my
formal training at Union Theological Seminary, which has a powerful tradition of creative and transformative community
worship. For a year I worked with the Worship Office Staff, facilitating the planning process for groups who would be leading
services, and helping to design the chapel space in creative ways.
I also sing songs of many traditions, especially Hebrew chants and holiday songs, Spanish songs, and sacred circle
songs that bring communities together to affirm their values in heartfelt ways. I can sing solos a capella, or lead the community in song. I can also integrate
a simple folk dance or a movement meditation into the service, encouraging community participation in a non-threatening way.
It is my vision to fully integrate the arts, music, dance, healing forms of ritual, community participation,
meditation, silence and sharing in a way that brings your community's services to life and fosters intergenerational
bonds.
My fee for leading a one hour service is between $75-$200 (depending on size of congregation). plus travel expenses.
If you are a distance away, I would be happy to receive home hospitality with a congregational member to facilitate my arriving
in a timely manner. I like to coordinate the service with the congregations musicians, so that the music is an
integral part of the service and complements the theme. I strive to integrate your own traditions and rituals while enlivening the
service with meaningful creative elements. Services that involve a planning session with the congregation would cost
an additional $100, and would include an powerful learning experience and educational handouts on facilitating worship.
I could also lead a workshop on Facilitating Worship for your congregation or Worship Committee.
I also welcome opportunities to collaborate in the weaving together of retreats, conferences and other transformative
experiences.
Feel free to contact me at anamcaracenter@earthlink.net
