Make this school year different! Join us for a faculty retreat with master educator Christina Bieber Lake at Asbury Theological Seminary this Aug. 12-14. We’ll rest and reconnect, exploring visions both of personal sustainability (how can we avoid burnout?) and professional innovation (how can higher education serve the needs of the future?).
There will be no fee to attend the retreat. If you cover your travel, we’ll provide the meals and all the rest – including, especially, the rest.
Lake will lead us in interactive sessions as we rediscover our real calling – to be human beings made in God’s image, not slaves to our jobs – and consider practical ways to stay grounded in this calling and resist overwork and burnout. We’ll think together about how Karam Fellowship can become a community where we continually help one another resist the culture of burnout and create protective boundaries around the rest and contemplation that we need both as human beings made in God’s image and as educators called to impart something more than ashes and a burnt-out shell to the rising generation.
Speaking of which, we’ll also be taking a field trip to nearby Berea College, a school with a long legacy of leading the way in higher education. It was the first integrated and co-educational college in the South, founded by ardent abolitionists in 1855 to extend education to the marginalized. And it has not charged students a penny of tuition since 1892. We’ll immerse ourselves in its history and consider how theological education can innovate to meet the needs of the 21st century world.
And, of course, we’ll relax in the Kentucky countryside in the beautiful summer!
Highlights will include:
- Guided reflection and conversation to reconnect with our calling and resist overwork
- Real community and collaboration with peers across theological education
- A field trip to historic Berea College to consider a vision of educational innovation
We’ll be meeting from dinner on Monday, Aug. 12 through lunch on Wednesday, Aug. 14.
If you’re flying, arrive in Lexington; the Asbury Inn has an airport shuttle.
To join us, please take five minutes to register for the retreat.
We will have a discounted room block at the Asbury Inn for only $105 a night!
Check out the room options and reserve your room:
- Go to the Asbury Inn booking page.
- Click on the huge blue button: “Reserve Your Room Now!”
- If a page of special instructions for students comes up, just click “Continue.”
- On the next page, click on the text in the lower left: “I Have a Group Number”
- Enter our group number in the box provided: Karam2024
- If you want to change the arrival or departure date, click “Edit” in the upper right
- Make your reservation!
The $105 discount rate on hotel rooms won’t last forever, so don’t delay.
Register to attend and reserve your room for the August 12-14 Faculty Retreat today!
