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SOAR 2025 Schedule

*Schedule subject to change without notice and updated as speakers and sessions are confirmed.

** All times are listed in MDT, which is the time zone for Banff. 

 

2025 Ministers Gathering

Wednesday, August 6: Opening Ceremony at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 7: Programming from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

 

2025 Member Gathering

Thursday, August 7: Programming from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

 

2025 Practitioner Gathering

Friday, August 8: 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

 

SOAR 2025

Thursday, August 7

12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.             Retreat Registration Open

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.              Early Arrival Optional Activity – Nature Walk

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.               SOAR Attendee Meet and Greet

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.              Reception Hour Sponsored by NextGEN

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.               Community Dinner (Included in registration fee)

7:30 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.               Opening General Session

Featuring:

  • Opening indigenous blessing
  • The Call to Adventure: This session marks the beginning of your transformative journey. Join us for an immersive introduction to the Hero’s Journey, where you’ll answer the call to adventure and step onto the path of personal and spiritual growth.
  • Talks by Dr. Christian Sorensen and Centers for Spiritual Living Spiritual Leader Rev. Dr. Soni Cantrell-Smith

 

Friday, August 8: Revelation

7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.               Movement / Yoga

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.               Morning Meditation

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.             Morning General Session

Featuring:

  • Crossing the Threshold: Step beyond the ordinary and into the realm of the extraordinary. You’ll gain tools to move through both internal hesitation and external resistance, taking the first courageous step toward your greatest transformation. This session invites you to embrace the unknown and move forward with confidence as you cross the threshold into a new chapter of your spiritual unfolding.
  • Talks by Rev. Elzia Sekou and Deborah Gayle, RScP

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.           Community Lunch (Included in registration fee)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.              Workshops

  • Revelation: Amplify Your Divine Presence with Fran Watson, RScP
  • Restoration: Become a Cultural Connector: With Ease and Grace with Rev. Dr. Trish Hall
  • Grace: The Alchemy of Release: Transforming Pain into Power with Rev. Dr. Michelle Wadleigh
  • Revelation/Restoration/Grace: The Magic of Mind Release: The Shift that Changes Everything with Indira Dyal

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.                Coffee Connection Break (Included in registration fee)

3:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.                Free time and dinner (Not included)

7:30 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.                Evening General Session

Featuring:

  • The Dark Night of the Soul: Every hero faces moments of darkness. In this deep and contemplative session, we navigate the trials that test us and shake us to our core. Are you willing to meet your darkest hour—and discover what lies within it?
  • Talks by: Rev. Dr. Petra Weldes and Rev. Sunshine Daye
    • Rev. Dr. Petra Weldes will present: Befriending the Dark
      A contemplative, immersive experience exploring our relationship with the dark. Through story, music, imagery, and silence rediscover your journey with darkness, not only the fear and sorrow but also the comfort and infinite possibility. Release the need to understand and allow yourself to be available to the invitation. Let go of what you know and remember what you are. Befriend the darkness and discover your Self.

9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.             Evening Activity – Laughter Yoga with Sharon Falconer

 

Saturday, August 9: Restoration

7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.               Movement / Yoga

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.               Morning Meditation

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.             Morning General Session

Featuring:

  • Discovering Light in the Darkness: Just when the night seems deepest, a spark of revelation breaks through. In this luminous session, you’ll uncover the hidden insights waiting on the other side of the dark night of the soul—reminding us that grace is always present when we need it most.
  • Talks by Rev. Abigail Schairer and Rev. Dr. Roger Teel

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.           Community Lunch (Included in registration fee)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.             Workshops

  • Revelation: Revel Night Live: Expressing Spirit Through Art & Community with Chris[The]Alchemist and Noadiah Shanti
  • Restoration: Divine Vibrations through Color and Healing with David and Lin Serlin, RScP
  • Grace:Finding Inner Peace: A 90 Minute Workshop with NLP, Huna, and MER with Rev. Elizabeth Rowley Hogue
  • Revelation/Restoration/Ritual: Rekindling My Memory of the Divine with Rev. Jill Brocklehurst-Booth

2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.                Afternoon General Session

 Featuring:

  • The Reward – Gifts Gained: Celebrate the treasures gathered along your path—wisdom, resilience, compassion, and joy. This session is a jubilant honoring of the heroes among us, complete with community awards and heartfelt recognition. Let your heart swell as we acknowledge the gifts we now carry forward.
  • Presented by the CSL Awards Team

4:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.                Free time and dinner (Not included)

7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                Evening General Session

Featuring:

  • Transformation – Becoming New: You are not the same person who began this journey. In this session of spiritual alchemy, we honor the inner shifts that have reshaped us. It’s time to step fully into your renewed self—radiant, aligned, and transformed.
  • Talks:
    • Rev. Dr. Andrea Asebedo will present: The Alchemy of Transformation 
      The two ingredients that create transformation are courage and imagination. This talk, by gifted storyteller Dr. Andrea, invites you into the alchemy of these two qualities and how their interaction inspires and renews us.
    • Claudette Gadsden will present: The Sacred Art of Becoming New
      Transformation isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about releasing what no longer serves and remembering who we truly are. In this talk, The Sacred Art of Becoming New, we’ll explore the inner journey of change with honesty, heart, and a touch of soul. Through real-life experiences and timeless spiritual truths, we’ll uncover how letting go becomes an opening, how uncertainty becomes grace, and how the path of becoming is less about striving—and more about allowing.

 

Sunday, August 10: Grace 

7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.               Movement / Yoga

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.               Morning Meditation

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.             Morning General Session

Featuring:

  • The Return – Sharing Out into the World: The journey doesn’t end here. Because of you, it will ripple outward into the world. In this closing session, you’ll be invited to integrate your insights and share your transformed presence within your community—and far beyond.
  • Talks by Rev. Michele Synegal and Rev. Dr. Pat Campbell
    • Rev. Dr. Pat Campbell will present: Amazing Grace
      Through personal stories and deep love of our teaching, Rev. Dr. Pat Campbell will share how her relationship with Grace has evolved over the years, and how it continues to have a “graceful” (or should that be grateful?) impact on her life even now. 

11:30 a.m.                               Departures

 

 

Register Here for SOAR 2025

A Journey of Revelation, Restoration, and Grace

August 7–10, 2025

107 Tunnel Mountain Dr.
Banff, Alberta
T1L 1H5 Canada