Honoured to Record for Shalom Group

This was a memorable recording and I just had to write a blog about it. The Shalom Mountain Retreat and Study Center is a beautiful place in the Catskill Mountains and was established in 1976 as a home of Shalom Process. Shalom Process is based around a “hope structure” for passionate and compassionate living. The centre is run by staff, volunteers, and a network of retreat leaders. One of these groups is the Gender Outlaws Shalom Group run by process leader LJ Wooden ! These are retreats for gender outlaws who “break the culturally defined lines of gender.” The retreats are designed to offer self-exploration and healing to people who feel alienated along gender lines. Together after a recent retreat, LJ and two other member wanted to see some of their thoughts and ideas up in visual form, using graphic recording. The way they described their goals and progress with their work made me envisioned a river with shorelines and bridges. Their ideas rolled along very quickly but were very visually evocative. It was an honour to record for them and the final piece was loaded with colour and flow, just like their inspiring ideas.