Learning to feel

Program Details

How do you feel?

Somewhere between our societal preference for facts and logic and the continual numbing of our senses through exposure to hate and violence, many adults have lost the ability to fully tap into their emotions and emotional experiences as a source of guidance. We doubt our feelings and our inner voice and search - sometimes fruitlessly - for guidance elsewhere.

The truth is that we have evolved as emotional beings and can recapture our emotional wisdom once again.

Our Learning to Feel Day Apart Retreat will be based on exercises from Kris Girrell's forthcoming book and is a one-day journey to discover and dissolve the barriers between us and our emotional intelligence so that we can trust again what we are experiencing and learn to support others in their emotional experiences as well. The format will include group discussion, dyad and reflection.

Cost: $79 for the program and lunch

About the Leaders

Kris Girrell

Kris Girrell is an author, speaker and leadership coach who has presented a TEDx talk and has written two books on the dark night experience (Wrestling the Angel and Stations in the Night). He holds a Master’s degree in Theological Research from Andover Newton and advanced degrees in Psychology and Counselling from Penn State University. He and his wife Sarah founded and operate a charity, Operation ELF, for the past 22 years, where he still serves as the event manager and as a member of the Board of Directors. Kris has been a program presenter at Rolling Ridge and is a member of the Ridge’s Board of Directors, co-chair of the Program Subcommittee and the Faculty Liaison for the outside presenters of the Ridge’s Day Apart series.