REFRESHING WEEKENDS


PENDING: Repeated, due to demand …

‘HEART MATTERS’ Refreshing weekend at Titoki Healing Centre, Whakatane,
13-15 February, 2026.

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Previous Weekend Workshops

‘HEART MATTERS,’ Titoki Christian Healing Centre, Whakatane.
12-14 September, 2025.

Joy and Barbara were privileged to co-facilitate this, their first REFRESHING WEEKEND, a voluntary silent ‘retreat’ for a group of 11 women from Central North Island.

This special time aside to be refreshed was nestled amongst a serene 10-acre block rural setting with accommodation and meals provided. The short, facilitated reflections allowed ample time to contemplate alone, express creatively, wander the surrounds or receive prayer ministry.

One participant, arriving in a ‘heavy’ state of mind, had a smile on her face as she departed 2 days later. ‘I surrendered it all,’ she confided. Thank you Holy Spirit for the deep work You will continue to do in our lives.

Testimonials From Participants:

  • “Having space to release some grief, rest and be still. Having such 
    wonderful nurturing care, meals, prayer.”
    Cherie

  • “Shorter reflection sessions with time to spend with God 
    and others in between.”
    Jen

  • “Beautiful restful place; Barbara’s quiet, calm presentations – always honouring the work of the Holy 
    Spirit and giving Him time; beautifully crafted themes – content and visual displays; nice rhythm and 
    times to be alone with God.”
    Kim

  • “Barbara you facilitated the sessions extremely well; the creativeness 
    of Joy and the pastoral care.”
    Michelle

  • “I have found such dungeon/heart freedom that came from the gentle 
    wafting of  God’s reality,  Spirit and imagery – I was reminded of/given the ability to fly with 
    angel wings – which has gifted me so  much more balance, peace and calm and greater ease of 
    coming before the Lord with tensions / burdens – so grateful I came to the retreat …”
    Clare

Correspondence pre-first Weekend Workshop: via RSM website, May 2025
Dear Barbara, I came across your name on the Titoki Retreat website as I’m looking at attending the women’s retreat in September. I have just watched your video and wept as it resonated so much with my experience and my dreams … Anyway I just wanted to say your message has touched my heart and injected some hope that maybe this current weary, lonely, disappointing season is not my full stop … Blessings on you and your inspiring ministry. [Cherie]


If you are interested in attending a potential Artisan Extravaganza weekend worshop at Titoki Healing Centre, Whakatane in 2026, please contact Barbara.


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REFRESHING DAYS ONLINE SESSIONS

Join Us for a Refreshing Day wherever you are in the world.

FINDING OUR IDENTITY THROUGH THE LIFE OF THE ONE BORN IN BETHLEHEM.

Barbara is looking forward to facilitating this, a third online session, for a small group of women from an international Mission organisation, in mid December, 2025


Previous Online Workshops

Online workshops/sessions are currently a private arrangement from an international
organisation at their request; koha received with thanks.

2. A GARDEN ENCLOSED, September 2024.

A 1.5 hour online session for 9 single women from the same Mission organisation, the women from:
Germany and New Zealand [based in Mozambique], the Netherlands and America [based in Indonesia], Philippines [based in Thailand, Cambodia, China], India [based in Mumbai] and South Africa.

The organisers had recognised the need for their workers, spread widely around the globe and often alone, to be gathered intermittently for encouragement and refreshing.  

TREASURES IN DARKNESS
Art-In-Mission seminar, March 2023.

A 2-hour online session for the same international Mission group with 14 Participants from:
Philippines (1 based in Cambodia), New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Germany (based in Mozambique), Singapore, Malaysia and Middle East.

Testimonials from Participants:

  • We both enjoyed this time so much!

    Dear Barbara,
    We both enjoyed this time so much!
    Thank you again, every word you presented was just life-giving, and you have such a talent to bring YHWH’s presence to the creativity.
    We total agree with you that it’s the intimacy with Him, the love for Him to compel artists to create and to draw people to Him … sometimes we feel so much under the heaviness … but “soaking” in Him is so good, and so refreshing … reminds us to do it more and pause in His presence more, and just to forget everything else, but draw our hearts 100% to Him.
    Your poem of “You Are a Mine” is so good, connecting to our hearts.

    In a follow-up email, Barbara asked if D’s painting of chrysalis and butterfly for an Art collectives’ website was a result of the online session.
    An emphatic “Yes!” to your question of was it a result of the soaking : ) D enjoyed it so much and it got her painting more, (alongside the music you suggested for soaking).
    Email from D & M

  • I felt the Holy Spirit 
    in a unique way

    Hi Barbara 
    The reflection time was a very a profound experience and I was able 
    to draw in my visual journey for most of  it. 
    [My husband] and I have been reflecting on how some things can 
    really reach deep into your heart and  bring 
    transformation in a way that talking and cognitive processes just 
    don’t. I’m learning a little about art  therapy and I  feel 
    like that workshop really did something that is hard to put into 
    words – I felt the Holy Spirit  in a unique way – I need to do more!  R.M. 
    Email from R. M [Host technician]

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