One of the earliest articles I wrote on Highly Sensitive Power was about HSP Gatherings. It’s now almost two years later and I’ll be attending one in a few months, right here on the little island in British Columbia where I live.
Jacquelyn Strickland, the mastermind behind the HSP Retreat Gatherings, hosted a Gathering here on Gabriola Island a few years ago, which I didn’t attend, but wanted to. Though I didn’t move to Gabriola Island to save on lodging costs during the Gathering, I’m definitely now in the right place at the right time. I’m enjoying helping Jacquelyn pull the details together, including plans for a hike I’ll lead through and around Drumbeg Provincial Park, which is just along the shore from the little bay I live on.
People come from all over to attend HSP Gatherings — they’re not only for whoever’s in the area. June in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia is a prime vacation destination. Perhaps I’ll see you here then.
For more information, visit the June HSP Gathering info page on Jacquelyn’s website. Please let me or Jacquelyn know if you have any questions.
Photo taken from Drumbeg Provincial Park, Gabriola Island, BC, by Grace Kerina
Related reading: The Power of Community, HSP Gatherings
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Wow. This sounds like the perfect trip/retreat – am so anticipating your report (and pics!) And living onsite is the icing on the cake, que no?!
I have to go to this gathering if only to meet you. You are my new hero.
I have to say I’ve been agonizing about various reasons why I can’t attend and I decided today that it’s way more fun to come up with strategies on how I will inevitably attend.
I also decided today that I’m going to stop hiding behind a wall of HSP shame. I’m standing up in pride of my HSPness with shoulders back and head held high, I’m ready to spread the HSP joy.
Right after I made this decision I found you in the Pacific Northwest HSP group and after reading a few posts on your blog and seeing the great things your doing on your website I’m inspired beyond inspiration (OK, I;m starting to overwhelm myself here).
But really Grace, you’re great and I’m looking forward to meeting you in June.
PS> I love your name. I always said if I had a daughter I would name her Grace. It was my great-grandmother’s name and she was the strongest, most lovely woman I know. She lived up to her name and I see you are living up to yours.
Blushing now. Oh my. Those are lovely things to say, Sarah. Thank you for all of them. What a relief to know you’ll “invariably attend” — I had a realization like that this morning about something. It’s a feeling that makes me want to laugh.
I will really love to meet you — in only a few short months. Please feel free to email to me at grace@highlysensitivepower.com if you want to talk about the Gathering more in private. Where do you live?
About the name Grace. I named myself when I changed my entire name (first, middle, last) more than a decade ago. I looked the word GRACE up in the dictionary (elegance of beauty of form, manner, motion, or action … favor or good will … mercy, clemency, pardon … the freely given favor and love of God … moral strength) and thought, Wow, if people are calling me Grace all the time, then maybe, even in small ways, I’ll be more inclined to embody these marvelous qualities.
I’m glad we found each other, Sarah.
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