EVENT: UWA staff retreats and quiet days

Would you like to know more about staff contemplative retreats and quiet days at UWA? If so, we invite you to a lunch time conversation on Wednesday 21st March, 12.30pm Р1.30pm at the University Club caf̩.

Retreats and Quiet Days have been offered at UWA for the last four years with participants reporting very high levels of satisfaction with these opportunities for personal reflection and quality thinking time.

In the retreats we seek to create an environment of quiet, trust and collegiality in which things become clearer and creative new ideas can emerge. This involves a combination of small group reflections on poetry (which helps slow down the pace and takes us into a deeper level of contemplation) and an extended period of silence, in which participants can rest and reflect. ‘We do less in order to achieve more’. This is not a ‘religious’ event.

The underpinning principles are based on the work of Parker J Palmer (The Courage to Teach), more of which can be found at: www.couragerenewal.org

The next Quiet Day is on Thursday 12th April. Previous participants have commented:

"this retreat provided a rare opportunity to quietly reflect on what's going on for me internally as a teacher, helped by excellent facilitators and a wonderful peaceful location"

"the benefits of this retreat to my personal and professional life have been immense"

“Thank you for the retreat - I found it really useful, have a sense of focus, realised I was missing an important work goal and came home and wrote a research paper that has been bugging me for some time” (from unsolicited email)

“it is good because it forces you to disengage in order to more fully engage – well done and many thanks”

“useful, health-giving and creative time”

“definitely go!”

“The best thing about the day was the space to think (but the whole deal was great) – yes, go. Important opportunity to reflect. Thank you to the organisers. I feel positively that UWA supported this”.