ReImagine is a national center for Integral Christian Practice that offers trainings for leaders interested in facilitating experimental practices in their church or community. Mark enjoys the opportunity to teach and interact with groups in a variety of settings, including conferences, retreats, training events, church and campus appearances and personalized consults.

If you are interested in being trained or mentored by Mark, or have a public event you'd like him to speak at, contact info@reimagine.org and include the following information: the dates you are requesting, a brief description of your group, the topic(s) you want Mark to address and the amount you have budgeted for honorarium and travel expenses. 

ReImagine's Apprentice Program is a 9-month intensive spiritual formation and discernment process that includes 3 learning labs, 2 retreats, 4 workshops, reading assignments and monthly group processing meetings. Apprentices participate in all ReImagine offerings, commit to a year of the ReImagine vows and give 5% of their income to the organization. ReImagine's goal is to equip apprentices with tools and perspective for lifelong holistic spiritual development.

The Apprentice Program begins in August and concludes in May. Interested in applying? Email info@reimagine.org for more details!

Seasonally we host a public conversation on a topic that connects Christian spirituality with the details of daily life. 5 people are invited to share a written story from their lived experience, followed by a larger group conversation and brainstorm of applicable practices. Topics include Sexuality, Personality Type, Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Money, Chasing Purpose, Reconciliation, etc.

Check our Facebook page for upcoming Conversations.

We are transformed when we risk crossing boundaries of comfort and predictability. Cities like San Francisco are a microcosm of diversity and global cultures that reflect the beauty and shadows of our humanity.  How can we resonate with the heart of God and God’s kingdom dream as we open ourselves to the wonder and brokenness revealed in city streets?  

For visiting groups, we offer an intensive learning experience designed to engage participants with intentional, holistic and incarnational Christian practices. We find these trips highly formative for participants as they daily encounter and wrestle with how to live out the teachings of Jesus in varied contexts.

Curious about this program? Check out our informational packet here for more details!

We were made to flourish and do good in a world full of abundance. Yet many of us feel crunched for time, stressed in our finances or perplexed about what makes life meaningful. There is a trusted path for recovering the life of meaning, freedom and compassion were were created for. This journey invites us to adopt soul practices like gratitude, trust, contentment and generosity and practical skills like time management, goal setting and living by a spending plan.

"How you spend your time is how you spend your life. And how you spend your life is shaped by your financial choices." 

In this 8-week course, we will explore practices of gratitude, trust, generosity and contentment and life planning and money management skills to more fully embrace the freedom to pursue what matters most! We will be reading and working through the experiments and tasks in the book FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.

This event will occur Wednesday evenings, 7-9pm, from September 17th to November 5th, 2014. For more information or to register, go to the Simplify Event Page. 

"Be still and Know...."

Silence and solitude help us become aware of the presence of God in our lives. Throughout history earnest spiritual seekers have created space for contemplation and prayer, following the example of the prophets and Jesus, who often withdrew to lonely places to pray. The hurry and distractions of our hyper-connected culture have renewed interest in classic spiritual disciplines and the "Desert Spirituality," of the Egyptian Fathers and Mothers of the 3rd and 4th Century. For many of us, the practices of contemplative prayer and reflection are best learned within a supportive group experience. On this retreat we’ll explore 6 classic prayer practices:

Silence

Solitude in nature

Stillness prayer

Breath prayer

Contemplative Reading

Examen

Join us for a weekend of discovering greater self-awareness and deeper intimacy with God-- a great way to begin the new year!

For more details and registration for our January 9-11th, 2015 Retreat, click here!

The teachings of Jesus invite into a life transformed by learning to cooperate with God's healing work in us. The ancients called this process ascesis, or self-discipline, which according to the Apostle Paul, involves training and experimenting with new ways of living in our minds, bodies and relationships. Mahatma Ghandi called this an "experiment in truth." Even Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness fasting and facing his greatest shadows and temptations.

For those of us who desire greater wholeness and Christ-likeness, this practical workshop seeks to bridge the gap we often feel between how we want to live and how we actually live. Join us for a 6 week group experiment aimed at confronting obstacles to the spiritual life. Each participant will identify a key area for growth, commit to a change by adopting practices of abstinence and engagement and support others in taking steps to face core struggles, wounds, fears and resistance.

This workshop invites participants into: 

a transformative experience applying disciplines of abstinence and engagement to a core struggle through a 28-day experiment.

a greater understanding of the holistic and embodied nature of spiritual formation.

2015 Dates: Wednesday evenings, 7-9pm, from January 28th - March 4th.

Click here for more information and to register!

Since ancient times spiritual seekers have expressed their questions and longings through story, art and song. Many have observed the vital link between imagination, creativity and spiritual transformation. Jesus invited his listeners to repent, reimagine or dream up their whole lives again.

This six-week Learning Lab will help participants weave together imagination, personal narrative and theology through individual and group exercises. We will celebrate the culmination of this formation process with a public art show. 

Each session will explore a core theme from the life of Jesus that connects with our stories:

Session 1: Identifying Context: The Boy Jesus at the Temple

Session 2: Experiencing Union: Jesus abiding in the Father and promising the Spirit

Session 3: Confronting Shadows: The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness

Session 4: Enacting Destiny: The symbolic performances and stories of Jesus .

Session 5: Navigating Resistance: Jesus rejected and criticized by his community.

Session 6: Embracing Community: Jesus eats with his friends and washes their feet (Public Art Show and Celebration)

Participants will:

Learn to use daily journal keeping, a weekly walk and creative adventure as tools for transformation.

Study the life and teachings of Christ as an archetype for creative living.

Explore personal narrative through writing.

Discuss process and discoveries through small group encounter. 

Create a compilation of art pieces from weekly exercises for display at an art event on April 29th.

2015 Dates: Wednesday evenings, 7-9pm, from March 25th- April 29th.

Click here for more information and to register!

“So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?" Isaiah 58:6 

As God's beloved community, we are invited to be peacemakers, both in our closest relationships and the world. Jesus said that seeking reconciliation in our closest relationships is even more important than our "sacrifices", while the prophet Isaiah challenges us to rethink fasting from a religious ritual to an act of social justice. The tensions we face in our relationships and see happening in the world around us can feel complicated, messy or impossible. Dare to imagine the healing and restoration promised by the gospel of shalom. The solidarity of a group process can help us take steps that might be more difficult alone. Join us for this five-week Learning Lab where we will support each other to take steps to: 

* Live in reconciled relationships with one another. 

* Serve one another well.

* Make an impact through small, sustaining acts of justice.

* Create relationships with those we don't often spend time with.

Session 1) Identify our social circles and most important relationships. Seek reconciliation with those we have wronged. 

Session 2) Tenaciously forgive those who have wronged us. Practice honest, direct and loving communication.

Session 3) Neighborhood service and prayer. 

Session 4) Community building & leading. 

Session 5) Cook a communal meal on sidewalk. Sidewalk party - anyone can come & people walking by. 

Each session will include regular rhythms of hospitality, communion and prayer.

This Learning Lab will not occur in 2015, keep an eye out for it in 2016!