Fall Retreats

The RCT Program holds annual retreats each fall. The retreats invite scholars and practitioners working in one of the program’s focal areas to lead students and the community in a workshop engaging their work and integrating it with our vision for conflict transformation. The annual retreats are an engaging way for students in the RCT program to get to know one another and learn contextually.

Past Retreats:

• 2012: “The Practice of Dialogue” led by Robert Stains, Jr. from the Public Conversations Project
• 2011: “Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most” led by Sheila Heen, a Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Ann Garrido, Associate Professor of Homiletics and former director of the field education program at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri
• 2010: “A Track to the Water’s Edge: Active Non-Violence and the Witness of Howard Thurman” led by Dr. Walter Fluker, Boston University School of Theology’s Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership
• 2009: “Imagine Peace: Vision, Vocation and Theologies of Change,” was led by Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore and Josh Thomas, BU’s Episcopal Chaplain