Truth & Times Like These
With Lois Huey-Heck, Murray Groom and Grainger Brown
September 10 - 24, 2025
Online
Date and Time Details:
3-sessions, Weekly on Wednesdays
September 10, 17, 24 2025
6:45 pm - 8:30 pm PT
Location: Online - Zoom
Contact: programs@naramatacentresociety.org
Ages: 18+
Bursary Available: The Naramata Centre Heartwood Bursary is available for most programs, based on financial need. If cost is a barrier to participating in this program, please consider applying for the bursary. Click here to apply
Price: .
- CAD $110.00 – Standard Fee
In times like these, how do we find solid ground on which to place our feet and clear vision to see things as they are? What deepens our connection to truth? What gives us the courage to face a reality we would rather not see in a time known as ‘the post truth era’? How do we not succumb to avoidance or despair so that we may bear witness? And how then do we continue to choose for Love?
During three evenings in September, we will look at the deeper nature of truth through embodied practice, chant, lectio/audio/visio divina, and prayer. These contemplative practices will be interwoven with Silence. A wisdom teaching about the essential nature of truth will be followed by personal reflection and a hosted conversation.
In a time when the news can be profoundly unsettling, let us put down roots into the ancient soil of wisdom. Let us lean into connection with kindred souls and be sustained by Spirit. We need individuals and communities willing to be “true” in times like these.
*We will be joined by Murray Groom on September 10 and 24 and Grainger Brown on September 17.
This event is offered through the partnership of
Pacific Jubilee and Naramata Centre
Bursary funds are available through Naramata Centre.
About the Program Leaders
Lois Huey-Heck
Lois Huey-Heck has been living with sleep-interrupting questions about life, death, and the mystery of a cosmos-without-end since elementary school. She says, “In this season, it’s the fragility of Earth and human communities that’s keeping me up at night. I have so much grief for the Earth herself and for the most vulnerable of Creation, […]
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Murray Groom
The Reverend Doctor Murray Groom is an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada. Retired from parish ministry, he now exercises his vocation as a spiritual director/soul guide. He regularly conducts extended retreats into Silence at Bethlehem Centre in Nanaimo and at Naramata Centre in the Okanagan Valley. His prevailing interests include the role […]
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Grainger Brown
Grainger Brown is a licensed marriage family therapist (since 1985) and spiritual director living in Sacramento, California. Grainger completed the Pacific Jubilee Program in 1998 and then was on staff for six years. He has a spiritual direction private practice and works part-time as a psychotherapist for a large national hospital chain. The marriage between […]
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