Summer Spiritual Series
- Find comfort, healing & universal love in community. -
Various Opportunities in June & July 2026...
- June Offerings -Spiritual Ritual
Theme: Modern Day Evangelists & Prophets of Universal Love. Date: Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 9:30 AM Join us for a “morning spiritual ritual in the Grove” at 9:30am, based on the theme of “Modern Day Evangelists and Prophets of Universal Love Needed”. Stay afterwards for “Spilling the Sacred Tea” (from 10:30-11:00 am) for wondering questions and an awakening conversation with tea for further exploration at our journey to growing universal love. Enneagram Workshop- Let personal growth guide you to your healthiest life. Date: Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 1:00– 4:00 PM Location: (Quillen building) Dolphin Room at Ferry Beach. Come enjoy an Enneagram Workshop by Donna from 1 to 4pm. Awaken Your Personal Growth through understanding personality types: let the Enneagram guide you to your healthiest life. This welcoming and experiential workshop invites participants to explore the Enneagram as a tool for self-awareness, spiritual growth, and deeper understanding of others. Through reflection, discussion, and practical application, participants will discover how personality patterns influence relationships, communication, stress responses, and everyday life. Grounded in an interfaith and compassionate approach, this workshop offers space for insight, curiosity, and authentic connection with self and community at Ferry Beach Retreat and Conference Center. Spiritual Ritual Theme: Finding love during dark and/or challenging times. Date: Sunday, June 21, 2026 | 9:30 AM Join us for a morning spiritual ritual in the Grove” at 9:30am, based on the theme of “Let Your Universal Love Shine for Summer Solstice: Finding and growing love during dark and/or challenging times”. Afterwards feel free to stay for “Spilling the Sacred Tea” from 10:30-11:00am, an awakening conversation with tea as we keep exploring our journeys to growing universal love. Summer Solstice Celebration Date: Sunday, June 21st, 2026 | 7:00PM In honor of Ferry Beach's 125th anniversary this year, we are welcome you to join us for a special solstice celebration around the fire in the Grove Campground. We will be clearing the space of energy and opening the sacred space through a variety of ways, smudging, dowsing, singing and more. Please bring your intentions for the year ahead. Spiritual Ritual Theme: How your love language can amplify universal love. Date: Sunday, June 28, 2026 | 9:30 AM Join us for a morning spiritual ritual in the Grove at 9:30am, based on the theme:“How Your Love Language Can Amplify Universal Love in Your Life and the World”. Afterwards, feel free to stay around for “Spilling the Sacred Tea” at 10:30 am. We will have an awakening conversation with tea as we keep exploring our journeys to growing universal love. |
- July Offerings -Spiritual Ritual
Theme: Finding love during dark and/or challenging times. Date: Sunday, July 5, 2026 | 9:30 AM Join us for a morning spiritual ritual in the Grove at 9:30am, the theme is “It only takes a spark to kindle a spiritual fire!”. Stay afterwards for “Tending the Spiritual Fire”, a conversation and exploration about how we keep our our internal flames lit (10:30-11:00 am). Grief Café A four-week Monday evening series Dates: July 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026 | 7:00–8:30 PM Come heal your soul as we explore our individual and collective struggles of grief with honesty, depth, and compassion. Whether your grief is fresh, old, personal, collective, spoken, or silent, this circle offers a warm place to breathe, reflect, connect, and heal. As poet Rumi wrote, let’s invite grief to tea in our guest house. Comforting tea will be provided as we learn coping skills to soothe our hurting souls. We'll find inspiration from around the world, share simple meditations that help us go deeper exploring our grief, and practice rituals that support our healing journeys. Spiritual Voices A four-week Tuesday evening series Dates: July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2026 | 7:00–8:30 PM We invite you to come awaken your spiritual voice! Join Donna for a writing experience that invites participants into deep listening and authentic expression. Location:Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center in Saco, Maine
The majority of these offering will take place at Ferry Beach Grove Campground: 96 Seaside Ave, Saco, ME. unless otherwise noted. |
About the Interfaith Chaplain Leaders:
Robi (Roberta) Altamari (she/her) is honored to do her ChIME (Chaplain Institute of Maine’s) Interfaith Ministerial & Chaplaincy internship with Ferry Beach for our 125th anniversary year and is inspired to creatively amplify the spirit of universal love and the gifts of nature here. She first came to Ferry Beach in 2005 with her two daughters to volunteer at Youth Camp, and she has been grateful to be a part of the beloved community ever since. Her resume includes 20 years of religious education leadership, 30 years of supporting adults with disabilities, her degree in developmental psychology from Suffolk University, her Fahs Fellowship studying youth ministry with Meadville Lombard Theology School, and her certifications as a 200 hour yoga teacher through Breathe For Change, a Kripalu Restorative Yoga Teacher, and a Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher. She is looking forward to bringing the spiritual care of an interfaith ministerial chaplain to Ferry Beach activities, community rituals, and anniversary celebrations.
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Donna Naylor (she/her) is an emerging interfaith minister, educator, and creative facilitator honored to do her ChIME (Chaplain Institute of Maine’s) Interfaith Ministerial & Chaplaincy internship with the Ferry Beach community. She brings a spirit of openness, compassion, and curiosity to her work. She holds a Master's degree in Teaching the Arts from Lesley University and is trained in teaching the Enneagram through the Enneagram Institute, integrating creative practice with deepened self-awareness and spiritual reflection. Grounded in a belief in radical welcome and the sacredness of each person's journey, Donna creates spaces where individuals can feel seen, heard, and supported. Her work reflects the spirit of Ferry Beach—nurturing connection, encouraging exploration, and honoring the many ways people experience the sacred.
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Our mission at Ferry Beach is to awaken hearts to explore, grow and renew the spirit of universal love.
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.
