“Be still and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10 Centering Prayer is a receptive, deep method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of the […]
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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 […]
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Personal Days of Renewal with optional Centering Prayer Group Sessions
Do you find yourself stressed? Overwhelmed? In personal spiritual crisis? Exhausted from caring for others? Do you just need to “unplug” from the daily grind? How are you taking care […]
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Global Conversation for Contemplative Outreach Community – via Zoom
“Sharing the Vision,” offered via Zoom All are welcome to join in a gathering for volunteers, hosted by the Chapter Support Team of Contemplative Outreach Ltd. This is an opportunity […]
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Advent Centering Prayer Weekend
“Bridges to Contemplative Living” leads participants on a journey toward personal spiritual transformation and a more contemplative and peace-filled life. This retreat is designed for those with an established daily […]
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Digging A Well of Presence in the Parish
by Amber Sturgess Recent years have brought about major paradigm shifts in our institutions, including our churches. During the pandemic many of our parishes had to close to the public, […]
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Guiding a Centering Prayer Group in Jail
by Tom Cook I have been guiding a Centering Prayer (CP) class for the last year at DuPage County Correctional Facility in Wheaton, Illinois (USA). I have been amazed and […]
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Using the Spiritual Journey Series for Ongoing Enrichment
Two different prayer groups – one on Zoom and one in-person, share their experience and approach to using the Spiritual Journey videos. Note that the entire series is freely […]
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Centering Prayer Group Facilitator Enrichment
Enrichment Gathering for Centering Prayer Group Facilitators Live via Zoom Saturday October 22, 2022, 8:30-10:30 am PT (9:30 to 11:30 am MT, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm CT, 11:30-1:30 pm […]
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Contemplative Walks
The Centering Prayer group at St. Thomas More parish in Sarasota, Florida, USA, started doing one hour contemplative walks on a Saturday afternoon in a local wooded area followed […]
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Hosting a Facilitator Workshop
CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH (CO) PITTSBURGH FACILITATOR WORKSHOP CO Pittsburgh planned an in-person Facilitator Workshop in 2019 to introduce the newly-developed online video formation materials for Facilitator Training. A link to […]
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Art as Prayer
Using a few colored pencils, black paper, and a journal our Centering Prayer Group in Hawaii has been responding to the Lectio Divina portion of our weekly Centering Prayer practice […]
