Reading for Context and Perspective  In preparation for retreats, we select readings that contextualize our planned engagement with community members.  Memoirs, travel narratives, and historical novels are valuable for fostering intercultural mindfulness. As we read narratives different from our own, we step into another’s perspective and experience their reality. We can imagine how their life experiences have shaped them. This perspective taking can inform our efforts to interact with people who are from the cultures depicted in these works. 

• Here is an example of our 2019 Retreat Preparations and A Workshop Agenda.
• Here is another example from our 2024 Retreat Preparations and Workshop Agenda