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2022 Visual Year-in-Review

Celebrating God’s faithfulness in and through the Goldenwood community this year. Glimpses from a full year below. Faith & work… it’s much more than we imagine! We continue to rely upon the generosity of this dynamic community for cultivating a spiritual ecosystem focused on revitalizing what is unseen so that our collective work–what is seen–might be characterized and fueled by future hope. Thank you for partnering with us in this… Read More »2022 Visual Year-in-Review

New Post: Director of Dream Cultivation

*NEW 2/15/23: Announcing our New Director of Dream Cultivation: Stephen Bailey Stephen is a Brooklyn based independent film producer and business consultant. He has worked as a producer and/or financier on more than 17 feature films, including BURDEN (Sundance Audience Award Winner 2018), STRANGE NEGOTIATIONS (SXSW 2019), and LOCKED DOWN (HBO Max 2021) to name a few. Prior to his work in film, he spent more than a decade in… Read More »New Post: Director of Dream Cultivation

From Fast to Feast: A Listening Retreat to Nourish Body + Soul (Jan 6-7, 2023)

Set aside the first weekend of 2023 for a 1.5 day communal experience to reconnect body and spirit and establish holistic rhythms of wellness for the new year, that your work might be revived by love. Joined by the founders of Re-well, Dr. Chika Okoli and Health Coach Amber Gentry, we will journey from fasting to feasting, exploring God’s divine design for physical and spiritual interconnection and restoration. This is… Read More »From Fast to Feast: A Listening Retreat to Nourish Body + Soul (Jan 6-7, 2023)

Where Justice and Work Meet

On September 29, Goldenwood hosted a special event in partnership with the International Justice Mission. Joined by Keynote speaker Brad Twedt (Former Director of IJM Guatemala and Senior Advisor, Violence Against Women and Children) and Panelists Faith Lee (CEO, Bird & Branch Coffee), Jovana Mullins (Co-Founder and CCO, Alivia) and Malik Ashiru (Director, Devices & Services Partnerships, Google), it was a rich evening filled with stories shared of how each… Read More »Where Justice and Work Meet

Hearing a New Song: A Listening Retreat with Sandra McCracken (Oct 7-9, 2022)

He put a new song in my mouth… Psalm 40:3 We’re taking our quarterly listening retreat on the road this fall and heading to Nashville, TN. Featuring singer-songwriter and Goldenwood Creative Fellow Sandra McCracken, join us for a unique weekend of stillness, story, Scripture, and song to slow down and reconnect to the life-giving voice of our Triune God. We all need a new song… With the fall comes a freshness… Read More »Hearing a New Song: A Listening Retreat with Sandra McCracken (Oct 7-9, 2022)

A New Imagination

This past weekend’s Summer Listening Retreat marked the 3rd full year of consistently offering this quarterly communal rhythm each season. And it was our very 1st fully hybrid retreat, with half the group participating virtually and the other half gathered in-person in idyllic Lancaster, PA.  We focused on listening through one of the prophetic texts, the book of Joel, to explore the role of the imagination as we asked “How… Read More »A New Imagination

Like a Seedling

As I reflect on the past 5 months, my heart is so full of gratitude.  When I started this journey with The Dream Forum, I really had no idea what I was getting myself into.  The description of the program led me to believe that The Dream Forum was some kind of Christian business incubator where I would receive business coaching, tools to build a business plan and the possibility… Read More »Like a Seedling

How Anxiety Led to a New Calling

My struggle with anxiety I had just landed (what I thought was) my dream job doing product marketing at LinkedIn. However, a few weeks into the new job, anxiety set in. I had never done product marketing before and felt I needed to prove to my manager and coworkers that I was capable. I worked until the wee hours of the morning to impress everyone with my energy and work… Read More »How Anxiety Led to a New Calling

New Day Ahead

Learning to be the recipient of good things has been a life-long challenge. In fact, when good things came my way, I think I was always a little scared.  Unconsciously, I feared that they would be taken away again. I know that these fears were from wounds I’ve carried since my childhood. My upbringing haunts how I see myself, which inevitably interfered with the way I pursued my dreams. I… Read More »New Day Ahead

2022 DREAM FORUM | June 9, 8pm EST

WATCH the 2022 Dream Forum: In January 2022, eight Dreamers cast their visions for renewal into the world and embarked on a 6-month journey of communal dream cultivation and development. Their process included monthly workshops and listening sessions, spiritual direction, business coaching, and two guided retreats. And we learned a lot–about dream discernment, the spiritual dynamics of a listening community, and the power of a guided process that cultivates both… Read More »2022 DREAM FORUM | June 9, 8pm EST