With the retreat being just over six weeks away, excitement is growing and the speakers and retreat coordinators are hard at work behind the scenes. Some of you may have noticed we have SIX speakers and only FIVE workshops in our schedule. How do we fit it all in? What do we cut? Much thought and prayer has been given to this problem; a back-of-the-envelope* schedule has been worked and reworked. However, until recently, no amount of tweaking resulted in a schedule which seemed peaceful and reflected our heart behind the Charlotte Mason Educational RETREAT. Every change took away precious free time, time for reflection, relationship building, spontaneous conversation, and pushed the retreat further down the spectrum toward a conference.
The solution which finally presented itself was to break one of the speaker's workshops into mini-workshops and optional chats and intersperse them throughout the retreat. The decision was made to do this with Dawn Rhymer's workshop on Narration. Her mini-workshops will take place during Workshops II, III, and IV on Friday. Two informal chats have been added on Thursday and Friday night. This change allows us to continue to guard the quiet times of the retreat and still spread an abundant feast.
The solution which finally presented itself was to break one of the speaker's workshops into mini-workshops and optional chats and intersperse them throughout the retreat. The decision was made to do this with Dawn Rhymer's workshop on Narration. Her mini-workshops will take place during Workshops II, III, and IV on Friday. Two informal chats have been added on Thursday and Friday night. This change allows us to continue to guard the quiet times of the retreat and still spread an abundant feast.
*Back-of-the-envelope: a phrase usually used with rough calculations jotted down and worked out on a slip of scrap paper. The phrase has been associated with multiple famous physicists.