TELLING THE TALES: THE POWER OF STORY AND NARRATIVE FOR PERSONAL & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Special Guest: Enuma Okoro
When: March 1-6, 2020
Where: Serra Retreat Center — Malibu, California
We live in a time where issues of identity and belonging are points of both public and private controversy and debate, and determine the outcomes of the lives of millions of people. It is essential to know the role that stories and narratives play in our perceptions and in our actions in the world. But this begins by acknowledging and owning our own stories and working narratives. Understanding the power of stories and narratives is a matter of us living well in the world together, and effecting transformative change for our local and global communities. This retreat will focus on the power of story and narrative and learning to tell ours for the benefit of personal and social transformation.
Enuma Okoro is a writer, speaker and corporate communications consultant. She is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction books. Ms. Okoro has a professional background in Communications, Psychology, Public Speaking and Theology. Okoro was born in the United States and raised in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and England. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Duke University where she served as Director for the Center for Theological Writing. Enuma is an author, speaker, and spiritual director, and continues to teach and lecture on varied topics engaging culture and identity, women and narrative, faith and spirituality, and the literary and visual arts. Okoro's spiritual memoir, "Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community" was a winning finalist in the 2010 USA Best Books Award and received the 2011 National Indie Excellent Book Awards Winning Finalist in “Spirituality and African-American Non-Fiction.” She is co-author with Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of "Common Prayer: Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals" and in 2012 her book, Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent was released.
Her writing has been featured on ABC Good Morning America online, Sojourners, Burnside Writers’ Collective, The Christian Century, Christianity Today and more. She blogs regularly at Reluctant Pilgrim. Visit her website www.enumaokoro.com and follow her at Tweetenuma.