JUBILEE ASSOCIATES: WHAT, WHO AND WHERE

To any reader of this program description, welcome: shalom and salaam! We are glad you are interested in our program, and we hope to be in touch with you about it.

The first Jubilee program began in Vancouver in 1988, followed by the beginning of the Ontario program, the affiliation of the pre-existing Atlantic program, and the forming of the Prairie program. Jubilee Associates is a Canadian leadership co-operative in spiritual formation and spiritual direction, mostly comprising the staffs of the Jubilee programs, and rooted in the Christian contemplative tradition. We are committed to offering programs through which participants may deepen their experience of spirited living and identify their gifts for spiritual guidance. We know ourselves called, both personally and societally, to live lives that incarnate the love of God, self, others and the Earth.

JA also offers continuing education events. In November 2007, we co-sponsored a wonderful weekend with Merton scholar and psychologist James Finley in Winnipeg. In November 2008 we sponsored the very successful "Inner and Outer Landscapes" conference at the Holiday Inn in downtown Vancouver. The 2009 meeting will again be in Winnipeg, and will focus on supervision for spiritual directors/soulfriends.

At the 2007 annual meeting of the JA, we acknowledged that every alumna/us of the program was a "Jubilee associate," and so we are now calling the meeting of the staff members which follows the annual con ed event the Jubilee Council. Between annual meetings, we work through a Communications Team, which involves one member from each program, the co-ordinator of which will be chosen shortly and announced on this page.

THE REGIONAL PROGRAMS

THE PACIFIC PROGRAM, based in Vancouver, British Columbia
Contact: Don Grayston, director ()

THE PRAIRIE PROGRAM, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and partnered with the Faculty of Theology of the University of Winnipeg
Contact: Susan Butler-Jones, co-ordinator ()

THE ONTARIO PROGRAM, based in London, Ontario and partnered with the Faculty of Divinity at Huron College, University of Western Ontario
Contact: Miriam Frey, director ()

THE ATLANTIC PROGRAM, based in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, and partnered with Tatamagouche Centre of the United Church of Canada
Contact: Becky McKenna, co-ordinator ()