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Contemplative Living I: Contemplative Practices in Daily Life (Online) September – December 2025 I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. - Ezekiel 36:26) Course Description "Contemplative life begins when we first step into the silence of our heart. It's a pilgrimage—a journey that takes us first
$725
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![]() Introduction to Centering Prayer - a weekend workshop. September 5 - 7, 2025 Fr. Thomas Keating--As silence deepens, it transforms into Divine Presence in contemplative prayer. This pervasive presence invites us to accept the embrace of Divine Love and the realization of how much God loves us. Please see the link below to register.
$310.00
![]() “Contemplative prayer is simply a wordless, trusting opening of self to the divine presence. Far from being advanced, contemplative prayer is the simplest form of prayer that exists.” - Cynthia Bourgeault In a world filled with noise and uncertainty, our soul thirsts for silence as a path to inner peace and freedom. More than a
€210
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![]() God in Nature is the focus for this online half day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) @ 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
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![]() Contemplative prayer is God's personal and unique gift to each of us. If we open to this gift, it will profoundly affect our lives and relationship to God, others, and the world. Centering Prayer is a form of Contemplative Prayer. It is a method of prayer that opens us to interior transformation and deeper intimacy
$40
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Nebraska Contemplative Outreach. Weekend Centering Prayer Silent Retreat September 12-14, 2025 at Saint Benedict Center, Schuyler Nebraska Contemplative retreats are one of the most wonderful ways to experience time with God in the present moment. Retreats give you time to spend being aware of God and enjoying God's presence. You are invited to gather with
$340.00
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![]() This ZOOM event, facilitated by Contemplative Outreach Atlanta (COA), will offer participants an opportunity to be formed as commissioned presenters of the Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop. Working with a notebook of materials, each participant will have ample opportunity to learn the content of the Introductory Workshop and to practice presenting the content to others, with
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![]() As autumn approaches, join us for a quiet morning of Centering Prayer and silence. This day is open to beginners as well as those experienced in contemplative prayer or silent meditation. The day provides time for communal Centering Prayer, contemplative walks, private journaling and reflection, and ends with a period of Lectio Divina. All are
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![]() Join us for a time in community for sharing Centering Prayer, the teachings of Thomas Keating, Lectio Divina, the Great Silence and the beauty of the western North Carolina mountains. For more information and registration, go to https://centersw.org/programs/4-days-of-contemplation-in-community |
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![]() Awakening the heart and experiencing life through the heart center can impact how we live and respond to our current times. For centuries, Christian, Jewish, Sufi and Hindu mystics have been drawn to the heart as our primary source of spiritual perception and connection to wholeness and relationship. Fr. Matthew Wright will weave together teaching
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![]() Do you have questions about Centering Prayer and whether it is the right practice for you? Are you ready to begin a practice but need help getting started? Are you interested in deepening your current practice and would like a refresher and connection with other practitioners? Join us to learn more about consenting to the
$25
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![]() From a Wisdom perspective, the overarching message of Jesus’ teaching is the transformation of our ordinary ego-driven consciousness. In the scriptures, this is spoken of as stepping into the larger mind, or putting on the mind of Christ. The Enneagram is a tool based on ancient wisdom that can help us to see the contours
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Contemplative Outreach Prison Outreach Service Team (COPOST) is partnering with Prison Contemplative Fellowship (PCF) in offering a six-day intensive Centering Prayer retreat in September 2025 in Colorado for those affected by incarceration. To attend it is advised that the participant have a six month or longer practice. Financial support is available. You may find a |
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![]() God is Love: The Heart of All Creation Series continues and builds on the works of Thomas Keating over the past 30+ years, beginning with the Spiritual Journey series. It offers a vision of hope and a view of reality that at once integrates the sciences, religion and humankind’s place in the cosmos as divine
$70.00
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4 events,
![]() This intensive/post-intensive retreat, hosted by Contemplative Outreach of Central Iowa, will consist of continuous periods of Centering Prayer from before sunrise until the dinner hour, with breaks for meals. Attendees may participate in as much prayer as they are called to. Short pauses for entering and leaving the silence will be offered every 30 minutes.
$575 – $650
![]() The eight-day Centering Prayer dual track intensive/post intensive retreat offered from Saturday, September 27 to Saturday, October 4, 2025, provides an opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of profound silence and community support. The intensive track will follow the Contemplative Outreach guidelines for an intensive retreat including six 30-minute Centering
$1000
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![]() In den 70er Jahren begannen Thomas Keating und andere den Reichtum der christlichen, stillen Meditationspraxis (Kontemplation) wiederzuentdecken. Aus diesen Anfängen ist eine Praxis entstanden, die inzwischen weltweit verbreitet ist und das Gebet der Sammlung (Englisch: Centering Prayer) genannt wird. Die praktizierte Stille tut einfach gut und kann heilsam wirken. In diesem Workshop wird das wortlose
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4 events,
![]() A 5-day Centering Prayer retreat designed for and by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color - which includes Latinx and Asian) contemplatives. We gather to practice Centering Prayer, participate in facilitated dialogue about the changing needs of contemplatives in relation to the BIPOC community, and nurture and support BIPOC Centering and contemplative prayer retreat leaders |
3 events,
![]() Contemplative Outreach Pittsburgh invites you to join us as we explore forgiveness through a contemplative lens. Featuring Mary Dwyer as presenter, we will explore both the Forgiveness Process and Forgiveness Prayer while steeped in silence and Centering Prayer (with extended sits). Prior Centering Prayer experience recommended. Location: Spiritan Retreat Center located south of the city
$275.00
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![]() In this mini retreat let the Holy Spirit fill you with the peace that passes all understanding as you rest in periods of silent prayer, contemplative breaks ending with lectio divina. (Phil 4:7) There is no fee for this event, but a donation to Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., is greatly appreciated. If you are new to
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![]() Online 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, Terra-Divna (Nature) Lectio-Divina (Sacred
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2 events,
![]() Online and In-Person at Sorrento Centre, British Columbia, Canada. October 5th (5 pm) – October 9th (12 noon), 2025 (Pacific Time). In any moment, regardless of how significant or insignificant it may seem, we can offer ourselves as instruments, vessels, means by which worlds beyond can enter into this world, which has often been termed |