• 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

    Internet - Online

    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
  • Lectio Divina Presenter Enrichment Gathering — via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    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

  • 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 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 known as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). As we view and discuss the engaging play, Bill W and Dr Bob, we see how the lives of two

    $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

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    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

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