Breakout Sessions

For more detailed information on each breakout session (including presenter/s bios and session descriptions etc) visit the Speakers Page on the conference website.

  • 1. Carr Hall 103

    Finding God in Our Own Inner Sanctuary‍ ‍

    2. Carr Hall 404

    Solitude Meeting Solitude: A Community Lectio Divina

  • 1. Brennan Hall 200

    The Power of the Wounded Healer: Embracing Broken-ness as a Means to Leadership

    2. Carr Hall 103

    Spiritual Autobiographical Journaling: Recognizing & Experiencing the Love of God in Your Own Life Story

    3. Carr Hall 403

    Henri Nouwen and a Spirituality for Caring‍ ‍

    4. Carr Hall 404

    Breaking Bread with Henri Nouwen

    5. Carr Hall 405

    a. Dwelling in Love: Henri Nouwen’s “Home” Spirituality & the Formation of Christian Life

    b. Raising the Beloved: Wisdom from Henri Nouwen on Parenthood‍

    6. Carr Hall 406

    a. Reading Henri Nouwen as a prophetic friend in a wounded world

    b. Embodied Exegesis: the incarnational and sacramental hermeneutical stance and practice of Henri Nouwen

  • 1. Brennan Hall 200

    Encountering Henri: The Living Legacy of Henri Nouwen (Panel)

    2. Carr Hall 103

    Room at the Table: Members of L’Arche Daybreak

    3. Carr Hall 403

    God in My Day: How Henri Nouwen’s work can offer sustenance to children born into a world of turmoil

    4. Carr Hall 404

    I Get by with a Little Help From My Friends

    5. Carr Hall 405

    Embracing Beloved: A Journey of Healing Through Self-Acceptance, Forgiveness and Celebration

    6. Carr Hall 406

    a. The Call to be Priest: the Eucharistic Formation of Henri Nouwen

    b. Nouwen’s “Christ of the Americas”: an alternative invitation to the Eucharistic life

  • 1. Carr Hall 404

    Visio Divina Experience: Henri Nouwen’s Ruminations on Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son

  • 1. Brennan Hall 200

    Henri & Fred: Friends in the Neighborhood

    2. Carr Hall 103

    a. The Vulnerability of Henri Nouwen

    b. Beauty for Ashes

    3. Carr Hall 403

    Ministry and Caregiving

    4. Carr Hall 404

    On Teaching Spiritual Things Spiritually

    5. Carr Hall 405

    a. A meditation experience based on our identity as “Beloved” in Nouwen

    b. Iconic Moments: Experiences with Henri Nouwen

    6. Carr Hall 406

    a. Flying, Catching, and Mutualistic Ministry: How Nouwen’s enchantment with the trapeze (trans)forms pastoral priorities

    b. Remaining hopeful in a fractured world

  • 1. Brennan Hall 200

    The Life that Spoke: Bearing Witness to Henri Nouwen’s Life and Legacy (Panel)

    2. Carr Hall 103

    a. Shattered: The Journey to Healing in and through Loss with Henri Nouwen

    b. Reclaiming Belovedness

    3. Carr Hall 403

    A Brisk Walk through the Nouwen Trilogy of Spiritual Practice

    4. Carr Hall 404

    a. Dwelling Places: Henri Nouwen, Disability, and the Socio-Spatial Theologies of Care

    b. Real Grief is Not Healed by Time: An exploration of consolation in the work of Henri Nouwen

    c. “You do not have to deny the reality of the love you received”: Towards a theology of heartbreak in conversation with The Inner Voice of Love

    5. Carr Hall 405

    a. Being a Wounded Healer in an Age of Anxiety

    b. Making Space

    c. Woundedness and Compassion: Cultivated Affectivity in Henri Nouwen’s Spirituality and Demon Slayer

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