Something that feels very much like a women's movement is gathering momentum (circle on circle, closing in on a million!), and while it's aligned with movements of the past, it has its own character. Its vision is wider: its outlook is consistently global. Its proponents want their life choices to enhance the lives of women everywhere, and they are convinced that a world that is safe and welcoming for women is safe and welcoming for everyone else as well.

These women are alert to the connections between women's issues and environmental issues. They see a special role for women in peace work. Their work is grounded in spiritual practices and informed by spiritual perspectives.
Carol believes that the relationship between feminism and spirituality is so layered and complex that it is best approached from several angles: from one's own life experience as well as that of women mystics, spiritual activists, and . . . men . . . because spiritual feminism doesn't stop with women. It asks, rather, how we all might move together into radiant wholeness.

If women are to bring forth a new political paradigm, built on inclusiveness, mutuality, and reverence for nature, their inner work must be as sustained and systematic as their analysis and their activism. To that end, this two-day retreat will be filled with Carol's wisdom and insights gained from years of study and research in the field. She will offer women a meditative practice that can be carried out in any religious tradition (or none!), and believes it is an ideal foundation for spiritually informed activism. Women will leave this two-day inspirational retreat infused with renewed energy and belief in the vital importance of this new movement.

In 1990 Carol returned to her field of study, writing the well received book Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Subsequent books include At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst and Rebalancing the World. She has taught courses in mystical literature at UC, Berkeley, and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is currently a Fellow of the Spirituality and Health Institute, Santa Clara University. She will be teaching a graduate seminar this fall at the Sophia Center at Holy Names University in Oakland.

Carol's latest book, Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women and Faith in Action, profiles four contemporary women that she believes live and work in the "spiritual mother-line" of women like Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint Catherine of Genoa. Further information on Carol can be found at www.tworock.org.

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