Southwest/Shadow Rock Report
Profound Journey Dialog© Shadow Rock UCC, Phoenix, Arizona, USA May 14-16, 2010
a four-session meaning event ... about ...Session 1 – Mysterious Reality
… dialog about the way life is and our relationship to mystery at its heart
Session 2 – Transformative Event-Story
… dialog about life-changing events and an empowering story
Session 3 – Emergent Context
… dialog about the heart and breadth of vocation
Session 4 – Caring Community
… dialog about pioneering and sustaining community
Dialog happens throughout, using small and large groups,
meal conversations, individual reflection, and multi-media.
Dialoging about the deep dimensions of our journeys can
be exhilarating, intense, transforming, and celebrative.
Participant Endorsements
PJD offers ... ideas for understanding the human journey and a format for exploring and
sharing your own part of the larger human journey … and caring and knowledgeable people
to journey with you. I am grateful for their passion and mission. ~Ken Heintzelman, senior minister, Shadow Rock UCC
PJD is foundational to our church’s roots and philosophy. Our very covenant is based upon it. The intention of this event forces one to reflect upon God’s newest thrust in the midst of history. ~Cindy Gattorna, president, Shadow Rock UCC
I recommend PJD for those who know they have a role in the world but need help putting it all into perspective. It is fun, moving, emotional, and enlightening. More than a course or training, it is a special event. ~Roy Zaborowski, past president, Shadow Rock UCC
My life has been shaped by RS-I. To have it newly minted as PJD and free of religious language makes it even more accessible to others. I appreciate the transformation. ~Marilyn Rampley, co-director, Shadow Rock Preschool
The content, insights and challenges are forever fresh and relevant. Having in-depth conversations was profound and all too rare. ~Bill Reece, longtime minister of Pine Valley Christian Church, Wichita, and now a member of Shadow Rock
I found that the PJD allowed me to discuss ideas of grace and service to save the Earth in small group settings with others with similar ideas. ~Chuck Bonstelle, MD, chair of Shadow Rock Festival Garden
I would like to see PJDs in Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Australia. I would recommend and help lead such an event since we’re all on the journey and need to be sustained.
~Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook, ICA International VP of Asia and the Pacific
The PJD would be a great refresher for any “sensitive and responsive” body of people to enable them to pass on to the next stage of their journey. ~Jim Wiegel, certified ToP facilitator
listen to our song
see the wedgeblade (from big pic to right) meal conversation room
Participants’ Comments about the PJD ...
• total event was transformative
• being in and experiencing community is worth it all
• PJD event was excellent!
• discovered there are many grace moments on the journey
• good to revisit RS-I
• deciding the first step of “the task before us now”
• addressed by “obligated to all” and “free for all”
• ideal for “stuck seekers”
• greater understanding of my place in the world
• understanding how responsible we are for the planet
• gained greater understanding about Shadow Rock and our task
• discovering why pivotal life events are pivotal and how they changed me
• intensive time away from world to re-create
• review of how my life developed and what is next
• hearing that others have same deep questions and fears about being “out on the point”
• being in right relationship with all of creation
• loving and gentle in its approach
• reflecting on journey from despair to grace
• “progressive” in deep sense
• about taking care of the whole Earth community
• best grace session of “RS-I” I ever participated in; I’ve been in and led a bunch
• intense, enjoyable engagement of very bright, well informed, sensitive participants
• courage to recreate RS-I with methods that beckon one to be engaged
• proves to me “RS-I” still the best model for appropriating a worldview that makes sense
• fitting yourself into your journey and joining with others on the journey
• powerful
• watching how guides lead this is much more tricky and difficult than I imagined
• given new eyes for old ideas
• more convinced we need to do more PJDs here at Shadow Rock
• helped me further refine my faith
• interactive throughout
• revival
• same as RS-I but much different
Participants Said They Especially Appreciated ...
• unanimous: the “huddles” (Host guiding small group dialog)
• tie for most significant session: II (event-story), III (vocation), and IV (the task)
• “What Name?” huddle great for naming “the unnamable” and honoring each participant’s contribution (session I)
• grace huddle (session II)
• story creation (session II)
• seminar huddle on Thomas Berry’s “big context” (session III)
• song creation (session III)
• wedgeblade talk (session IV)
• worship service break on Sunday
• interplay of large and small groups and individual reflection
• personal symbol creation, song creation
• great timing and flow
• enthusiastic participation in huddles
• a winning format
• liked the tag team teaching
• PowerPoint makes it more effective
• meaning of “Namaste”
• participant notebooks – a keeper
• singing, poetry reading, décor, food, hospitality, space
• appreciated the male/female dynamics
• less religious wording and more experiential grounding worked well
• rolling humor
• framework and interaction; smooth transitions; good balance of huddles, talks, quiet time, breaks
• sharing and deepening of relationships
• talking about what I can do to make a difference
• personal and not heavy in theology
• relaxing on this beautiful campus with the Daily Spirit Journal and journaling and meditating
• the simple, clear symbols and content
• picture of major slides in notebooks and text of poetry read are most helpful
• great room for meals and conversations
• appreciate so much the time, energy, and patience of the three Guides
29 Participants/Guides from 3 States and 2 Countries
Andy Banks; Libby Banks; Edith Byers; Chuck Bonstelle; Yvonne Clark; Cindy Gattorna; Ken Heintzelman; Peg Heintzelman; Alyce-Anne Meadows; Linda Merritt; June Miner; Bob Mundy; Ernie Otto; Evelyln Philbrook; Amy Rampley; Marilyn Rampley; Dewey Reay; Sharon Reay; Bill Reece; Karen Richter; Liana Rowe; Susan Wadell; Darrell Walker; James Wiegel; Barb Zaborowski; Roy Zaborowski (Guides: John Cock; Lynda Cock; Terry Bergdall)
personal prayer flags
About the Profound Journey Dialog© Shadow Rock sanctuary
The Southwest/Shadow Rock PJD at Phoenix is the seventh, following ones held in Denver, Dubuque, New York, Chicago, Seattle, St. Paul. PJD’s primary source is Religious Studies I (RS-I), a seminar of the Ecumenical Institute: Chicago (a partner organization of the Institute of Cultural Affairs: Chicago), shared with many thousands globally since the early 1960s.
Southwest/Shadow Rock PJD Leadership• Coordinators: Lois Beberniss and Dena Covey
• Huddle Hosts: Ken Heintzelman, Roy Zaborowski, Marilyn Rampley, Bill Reece, Evelyn Philbrook
• Guides: John Cock, Terry Bergdall, Lynda Cock
from St. Paul to Shadow Rock PJDs great group of journers
“You should have a ritual for your life.” ~Joseph Campbell
“Profound Journey Dialog is a ritual for our lives.” ~PJD Team
