May 25-28: Quality of Life Retreat for People Living with HIV/AIDS
The next retreat takes places May 25th-28th in Frederick, MD
The Quality of Life Retreat program began in 1988. Since then over sixty-two retreats have been conducted.
The retreats are a connecting and coping experience for persons living with HIV/AIDS. It is a chance to get away, to get together, to interact and to learn the techniques and attitudes that are effective in dealing with the issues of long-term survival.
The program includes workshops that focus on self-acceptance, spiritual empowerment, stigmas, mental health, and maintaining quality of life. There will be workshops, entertainment, singing, prayer, and a healing services. Participants support each other through a Prayer-Buddy System. The group may also design a Talent Show. The retreat is limited to 40 participants and is offered to persons living with HIV/AIDS. The program is ecumenical and opent to individuals of all faiths, religions, and beliefs.
The retreats have four objects:
The next retreat will take place May 25-28 at the Mar-Lu Conference Center, on Catoctin Ridge in Frederick County, MD.
For more information visit www.qualityofliferetreatshiv.org
The Quality of Life Retreat program began in 1988. Since then over sixty-two retreats have been conducted.
The retreats are a connecting and coping experience for persons living with HIV/AIDS. It is a chance to get away, to get together, to interact and to learn the techniques and attitudes that are effective in dealing with the issues of long-term survival.
The program includes workshops that focus on self-acceptance, spiritual empowerment, stigmas, mental health, and maintaining quality of life. There will be workshops, entertainment, singing, prayer, and a healing services. Participants support each other through a Prayer-Buddy System. The group may also design a Talent Show. The retreat is limited to 40 participants and is offered to persons living with HIV/AIDS. The program is ecumenical and opent to individuals of all faiths, religions, and beliefs.
The retreats have four objects:
- To provide a safe, loving environment in which participants can be fully themselves, free of fears and inhibitions, and can deal openly with their deeest concerns.
- To offer spiritual, practical, educational and health resources to those whose lives have been, are and will be affected personally by HIV infection.
- To listen to what HIV infected persons have to say about their journeys.
- To offer and develop a viable model of how the religious community can make a compassionate and effective response to this crisis.
The next retreat will take place May 25-28 at the Mar-Lu Conference Center, on Catoctin Ridge in Frederick County, MD.
For more information visit www.qualityofliferetreatshiv.org
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