This retreat will offer an environment of solitude and silence in community with time for reflection, fellowship and 12-Step Meetings. We will be presenting Centering Prayer as an 11th-Step Practice. […]

12-Step Retreat: First Things First – Faith in Recovery
Recovery, 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 […]
Dealing with the Unloading of Trauma and Grief
Q: Over the last few months I’ve been experiencing a lot of deep grief during Centering Prayer periods followed by understandings outside of prayer into trauma that occurred when […]
Centering Prayer: An 11th-Step Practice – Introductory Workshop via Zoom
We have found Centering Prayer to be a meaningful method for our daily 11th-step meditation practice. To share this method with others in 12-step recovery, we are offering this workshop […]

12-Step Introductory Workshop on Centering Prayer as 11th-Step Practice – via Zoom
Centering Prayer as an 11th Step Practice Introductory Workshop and a presentation on The Human Condition We have discovered that even when we live with great resolve, determination, and effort, […]

Emotional Sobriety Through Contemplative Practice
Contemplative 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 […]

Rabbi Rami Shapiro – 8 Points of Agreement and First, Stop Playing God – via Zoom
Rabbi Rami Shapiro enjoyed a close relationship with Fr. Thomas Keating and was invited to participate, starting in 1984, in the Snowmass Interreligious Dialogue that was published in The Common […]
Centering Prayer as an 11th-Step Practice: Zoom OR In-Person
For those in 12-step recovery: Contemplative Outreach of Madison will present Centering Prayer as an 11th-Step Practice Introductory Workshop and a presentation on The Human Condition based on the teaching […]