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 […]
Centering Prayer Mentoring in a Monastery
By Benedicte Vibe Christensen In June 2018 Pat Johnston, the interim administrator of Contemplative Outreach, asked me to mentor Brother Columba, a young monk (then 26) in a monastery in […]
“Deliberately dismantle the emotional programming of the false self”
by Cherry Haisten member of Welcoming Prayer service team At the end of early editions of Open Mind, Open Heart appears a list Thomas Keating calls “Means of Extending the […]
Presenter Formation Training
Presenter Formation Training is being offered at the Sophia Center in Atchinson, Kansas Sept 19-22. This is for those feeling called to become a commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer. Sponsored […]
Presenter Formation for Centering Prayer
Presenter Formation to become a commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer is being offered at Mercy Centers beautiful Auburn California retreat center April 14 – 16th and is led by Susan […]
Introduction to Centering Prayer Workshop
Be still and know that I am God. – Psalm 46:10 “Centering Prayer is a discipline to foster interior transformation, initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine […]
Spring Centering Prayer Silent Retreat
Saint 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 […]
Introduction to Centering Prayer – via Zoom
Two Session Event: February 27th and 28th, 2023 from 6 PM to 8 PM (Central) each day. The Introduction to Centering Prayer explores the place of contemplative prayer in the […]
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 […]
Practicing from a sacred space within
Q: Prior to discovering Centering Prayer I practiced meditation using a mantra. Somewhere along the way I found myself inside a space like the cleft of a rock, which I […]
Carolyn Goddard’s “Reflection on Discernment” – via Zoom
Using gardening as a metaphor, this workshop will look at the process of discernment in terms of tilling the soil of one’s soul, planting a seed for discernment and watching […]