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Each week you'll be provided with a few prayer prompts for your work as a leader, tips for facilitating the group, and behind-the-scenes information about the characters and their journeys that can be used as opening materials for your sessions. The second set of resources in this guide relates to leading a retreat based on Sensible Shoes.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAfter years of creating and speaking at \"Sensible Shoes Retreats,\" spiritual director Sharon Brown offers here additional content to help you design the ideal space for your context as you gather people in longer sessions to experience this material. In addition to one-day, weekend, and online schedules, there are many creative ideas from leaders of groups who have used Sensible Shoes for retreats over the years. Sensible Shoes was written for the purpose of bringing God's healing and spiritual transformation into the lives of readers traveling in community. Is there an invitation here for you to bring this message to your community?   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAlso available: Sensible Shoes Leader Kit and Sensible Shoes Participant Kit, with everything you need for a small group or retreat experience.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e-Publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***Sensible Shoes* is an unusual novel, blending a fictional story with nonfiction teaching elements.** Some readers view it only as a story of four characters on a journey. Others say yes to a deeper level of reading, embracing the opportunity to take a \"sacred journey\" along with the characters, by opening themselves to the Spirit's work and attending to God's invitations. The *Sensible Shoes Leader's Guide* offers two ways to invite readers into a deeper journey: first, there are resources here for a twelve-week small group experience through the *Sensible Shoes Study Guide*. Each week you'll be provided with a few prayer prompts for your work as a leader, tips for facilitating the group, and behind-the-scenes information about the characters and their journeys that can be used as opening materials for your sessions. The second set of resources in this guide relates to leading a retreat based on *Sensible Shoes*. After years of creating and speaking at \"Sensible Shoes Retreats,\" spiritual director Sharon Brown offers here additional content to help you design the ideal space for your context as you gather people in longer sessions to experience this material. In addition to one-day, weekend, and online schedules, there are many creative ideas from leaders of groups who have used *Sensible Shoes* for retreats over the years. *Sensible Shoes* was written for the purpose of bringing God's healing and spiritual transformation into the lives of readers traveling in community. Is there an invitation here for you to bring this message to your community? 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