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  • 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 the changing needs of those we serve. Please join us to share your insights. Your participation on April 29th is important as we need to

    Free

  • 12-Step Retreat: First Things First – Faith in Recovery

    Siena Retreat Center, Racine WI 5637 Erie St, Racine, WI 53402, Racine, WI, United States

    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

    $415

  • Post Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat

    Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey 9200 NE Abbey Road, OR, United States

    8-day post intensive Centering Prayer retreat Please email Patricia to register.

    $750

  • Emotional Sobriety Through Contemplative Practice

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    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 experienced troublesome emotional reactions which were caused by “faulty emotional dependencies.” Contemplative practice heals the emotional wounds of our lifetime and touches the deep unconscious,

  • Ubuntu and Contemplation: How an Indigenous African Philosophy Maps Our Spiritual Path to Global Community via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    with Michael Battle https://michaelbattle.com/about/ Emerging from the ancient cultural traditions of sub-Saharan Africa, the deeply communitarian philosophy known as Ubuntu challenges Western habits of mind in ways that complement and complete the experience of contemplation. In Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices, we find a path that opens us up to oneness – both union

    Donation

  • Online Morning Centering Prayer Retreat program: “Ancient Christian Contemplation – Before ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’ “

    Internet - Online

    Led by Steve Thompson (CONOVA) Have Christians always practiced contemplation?  During the first 150 years of Christianity, most of those who can be loosely identified as Christian contemplatives were ignored as harmless. By 220 CE, however, contemplatives were generally considered heretics, and they were frequently persecuted and sometimes put to death by their fellow Christians—usually

    $20

  • Spring Silent Saturday

    Holy Spirit Retreat Center 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, United States

    In this season of new life and promise, it is good to take a quiet Spring morning for Centering Prayer and silence. The day is open to beginners as well as those experienced in contemplative prayer or silent meditation. The day provides time for communal prayers, a contemplative walk, private journaling, reflection, and an opportunity

    Free

  • Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat

    Holy Cross Monastery - New York 1615 Route 9W, West Park, NY, United States

    The eight-day Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat, Tuesday, May 16 to Tuesday, May 23, 2023, provides an opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of silence and community support. This retreat follows the Contemplative Outreach guidelines for an Intensive Retreat including six 30-minute Centering Prayer periods daily. Following Fr. Thomas Keating’s guidelines

    $1200

  • Abide in the Mercy

    Mercy Center Burlingame 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA, United States

    The Mercy Center Centering Prayer Program presents: Abide in the Mercy: A Silent Wisdom** and Centering Prayer Retreat "As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love." - John 15:9 In many of Jesus' sayings we can find an invitation to a deeper contemplative way of being, so relevant

    $800

  • Five-Day Centering Prayer Retreat

    St. Mary's Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development 770 St. Mary's Lane, TN, United States

    This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a five day experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community. The retreat offers two tracks. The intensive track is recommended for people who have completed the introductory workshop and who

    $705.00

  • Online Morning Retreat: “By Their Fruits You Will Know Them,” led by Julie Saad

    Internet - Online

    “How do you know you are being transformed? Usually, either you or someone else in your life starts to notice that something has changed, something is different in your daily life, how you approach relationships, conflict, work, chores, loss, emotional turmoil. Transformation is about becoming who you are—not your idea of who you are, but

    $20

  • The Ecstasy of God – Contemplative Day of Reflection

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Annual Day of Reflection with Fr. Michael K. Holleran How fully, deeply, and consciously do we live the overwhelming dynamism of the Trinitarian Life? Do we recognize it as our own life, and that of the whole universe? Come and explore this vast and vibrant mystery, so central to our faith, in a synthesis inspired