How Contemplation Can Heal a Violent World: Going Deeper – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesOur April Half-Day Retreat will feature three recorded excerpts from the Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton’s presentation on contemplation and nonviolence given during COMW’s 25th Anniversary Retreat in September 2022. The excerpts will focus on the different faces of violence, the spirituality of nonviolence and nonviolence in action. Before each video, we will prepare ourselves
Fear, Freedom and Levels of the Mind: Cultivating Interior Freedom in Fierce Times
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Mark Kutolowski Fear blocks our ability to hear God’s presence and action in our midst. How do we live from a place of spiritual freedom in an era of upheaval and fear? In this workshop, we will seek to cultivate awareness of fear as it relates to the Primitive, Rational, and
Lectio Divina Presenter Enrichment Gathering — via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesSave the date! Saturday April 22, 2023 This will be a 90 minute gathering beginning at 12 midday Eastern Standard Time. Commissioned presenters of Lectio Divina and Lectio Divina Presenters in Training are warmly invited to attend this event. Enquiries: lesleywaterford@gmail.com
EASTER 2023 6 DAY (5 NIGHT) SILENT CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT
St. Andrew's Retreat House WA, United StatesContinue your Easter journey by deepening your Centering Prayer practice in an atmosphere of silence and community, away from the busyness of daily life, and allow your mind, body and spirit to surrender to God’s presence and action within. This Contemplative Outreach post-intensive retreat is designed to deepen your established Centering Prayer practice. It will
Spring Centering Prayer Silent Retreat
Saint Benedict Center 1123 Road I, Schuyler, NE, United StatesSaint Benedict Center Schuyler, Nebraska "We must seek God more and more in the present moment, which is in fact the only place where God can be found. Since God is eternal, God is not to be found in the future but in the present." ~Thomas Keating, Intimacy With God, p.28 Contemplative retreats are one
Commissioned Presenter Gathering – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesAs Thomas Keating stated in The Vision of Contemplative Outreach, we are an evolving community. We need your input as we explore how the Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop can meet the changing needs of those we serve. Please join us to share your insights. Your participation on April 29th is important as we need to
12-Step Retreat: First Things First – Faith in Recovery
Siena Retreat Center, Racine WI 5637 Erie St, Racine, WI 53402, Racine, WI, United StatesRecovery, the power of story, in the silence of Centering Prayer This retreat explores the essential principles that formed the first steps of The Twelve Step program of recovery now known as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). As we view and discuss the engaging play, Bill W and Dr Bob, we see how the lives of two
Post Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat
Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey 9200 NE Abbey Road, OR, United States8-day post intensive Centering Prayer retreat Please email Patricia to register.
Online Half Day Moving meditation/Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month)
Internet - Online , United StatesOnline Half Day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) May 6 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am UTC-10 FREE First Saturdays online retreats are a special time where we explore our Centering Prayer practice. We are looking forward to sharing Physio-Divina (Moving) practices, Visio-Divina (visual-Art) practices. Lectio-Divina (Sacred Text) practices
Emotional Sobriety Through Contemplative Practice
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Jim McElroy Bill Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, coined the term “Emotional Sobriety.” He noticed that some AA members with long-term sobriety still experienced troublesome emotional reactions which were caused by “faulty emotional dependencies.” Contemplative practice heals the emotional wounds of our lifetime and touches the deep unconscious,
SAVE the DATE: Ubuntu and Contemplation: How an Indigenous African Philosophy Maps Our Spiritual Path to Global Community via Zoom
Internet - Online , United Stateswith Michael Battle https://michaelbattle.com/about/ Emerging from the ancient cultural traditions of sub-Saharan Africa, the deeply communitarian philosophy known as Ubuntu challenges Western habits of mind in ways that complement and complete the experience of contemplation. In Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices, we find a path that opens us up to oneness – both union
Spring Silent Saturday
Holy Spirit Retreat Center 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, United StatesIn this season of new life and promise, it is good to take a quiet Spring morning for Centering Prayer and silence. The day is open to beginners as well as those experienced in contemplative prayer or silent meditation. The day provides time for communal prayers, a contemplative walk, private journaling, reflection, and an opportunity