• Resurrection – Transformation Big Sit – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Join us for a meaningful morning exploring the Resurrection-Transformation theme. This Big Sit incorporates two 20-minute silent Centering Prayer sessions with Lectio Divina (sacred reading four times), Taizé chant, and stories about transformation for our reflection. Please see the link below to register.

    free
  • 4-Day Holy Week Silent Wisdom Retreat: Accompanying Jesus and Mary Magdalene through the Paschal Mystery – in-person or online

    Bethlehem Centre Nanaimo, BC, Canada

    Holy Week is more than a series of events surrounding the final days of Jesus’s earthy life that we are to commemorate. We can enter this sacred week from the inside as a way of mutual accompaniment in which we are concurrently embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeless passage through

  • Holy Saturday Retreat: Accompanying Jesus and Mary Magdalene – online or in-person

    Centre for Spiritaul Renewal at St. Andrew's Church Langley, BC, Canada

    Holy Saturday marks Jesus’ journeys into the heart of the earth in which he not only encounters the most constricted, cut off and hurt states of human consciousness in the collective false self but allows love to reach them and weave them into the whole. Meanwhile Mary Magdalene, the Tower, keeps vigil with a heart

  • Contemplative Outreach Pittsburgh Presents A Two-Day-Retreat: “Triple Way to Transformation”

    Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center 2067 Evergreen St., Villa Maria, PA, United States

    Location: Villa Marie Education and Spirituality Center in Contemplative Outreach Pittsburgh. Susan Muto, PhD., Dean of the Epiphany Academy of Formative Spirituality, and Executive Director of the Epiphany Association, a renowned speaker and author, will present a mystical guide to the soul’s quest for God aimed at our understanding of how to live the threefold

    $150
  • Presenter Formation for Centering Prayer

    Mercy Center Auburn 535 Sacramento Street, Auburn, CA, United States

    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 Turpin. Please contact Chuck Schaller if interested:  chuckschaller2@gmail.com or phone 916-390-3465

  • How Contemplation Can Heal a Violent World: Going Deeper – via Zoom

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    Our 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

    $25
  • 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 States

    Contemplative 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

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    Save 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 States

    Continue 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

    $800.00
  • Spring Centering Prayer Silent Retreat

    Saint Benedict Center 1123 Road I, Schuyler, NE, United States

    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 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

    $240.00
  • Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop

    Sisters of Charity Motherhouse 5900 Delhi Road, Cincinnati, OH, United States

    For those new to Centering Prayer/meditation this workshop familiarizes participants with the method of Centering Prayer and its practical application. The workshop offers an opportunity to experience this ancient prayer/meditation practice in a quiet, reflective atmosphere. Each workshop is led by an experienced facilitator, commissioned by Contemplative Outreach, LTD. “Contemplative prayer is the world in

    Free
  • Commissioned Presenter Gathering – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    As 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

    Free