Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.

Cynthia Bourgeault on “Thomas Keating: The Last Thirty Years” - Hybrid Event
2022-03-26 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Internet – Online
Hosted by The Center for Contemplative Living in Denver Colorado.
This is a hybrid presentation being conducted both in person at The Center and online via Zoom videoconference.
The Contemplative Outreach of Colorado annual conference is March 26, 2022, featuring Cynthia Bourgeault. Cynthia’s talk will be on “Thomas Keating: The Last Thirty Years,” in which she will explore his life as he passed through two significant stages of the journey – The Dark Night of the Spirit and the gradual awakening to the Unitive.
Time listed are Mountain Time
Click the link below for more information and to register.

Discernment: Deep Listening and the Presence of God - via Zoom
2022-03-26 09:00 - 12:15 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online
Discernment is more than exploring what I want or what others want of me, rather what does God want of me? Contemplative discernment sorts, questions, senses, intuits movements of grace with a disposition of complete confidence and surrender to God – a dialogue of deep wills, borne of love and choice — so that we are animated in fullness of being and action by the Holy Spirit. We learn to step forth in courage, to take risks in our choices that may lift us from our routines and open to us the door of a new being, a new reality.
Since the day you were born
I have carried you along.
I will still be the same
when you are old and gray
and I will take care of you.
I created you. I will carry you
and always keep you safe.
– Isaiah 46:3-4
Includes:
Introduction and opening time of prayerful centering
Two sessions with sharing and Q&A
A break
A time of Centering Prayer
Please register using the link below.
Presenter:
Mary Anne Best is a member and trustee of The Church of Conscious harmony, a contemplative Christian community in Austin, Texas, where she also serves as Abbess of The Journey School, a school of transformative spiritual psychology and practice. Previously, for many years, she served as development director for Contemplative Outreach, Ltd and worked with Thomas Keating in the last 10 years of his life to edit and produce new books and videos on the spiritual life. She is a mother and grandmother to two beloved grandchildren.

4-DAY CONTEMPLATIVE RETREAT at Camp Galilee, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
2022-03-20 16:30 - 2022-03-24 13:00 UTC | Galilee Episcopal Camp and Retreat Center, 1776 Hwy 50, GlenBrook (Lake Tahoe), NV, 89413, United States
Contemplative Outreach of Northern Nevada will hold a four-day, self-directed retreat with God in a praying community, joining with the Alpine beauty of the grounds of Camp Galilee on Lake Tahoe. You are invited to deepen your consent and discover the healing God wants to give us. Our retreat will include silence, several periods of Centering Prayer and walking meditation each day, evening prayer liturgies, contemplative free time for being in nature, reflection with journaling, rest, and creative endeavors in art and nature. Currently, COVID-19 protocols are in place. There are 12 spots available with each spot having your own bathroom and bedroom; meals are individually served. As always, delicious meals are prepared on-site three times a day. The kitchen staff uses mostly local and organic produce. We will be the only group on site at the time.
Average temperatures for this time of the year at Camp Galilee are in the 28 – 50 degree range. Please bring appropriate clothing.
For more information, please contact Dennis and Patty Schreiner, brooksp17@gmail.com
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Raimon Panikkar’s Christophany: A Day of Engagement, Reflection, and Contemplation
2022-03-19 09:00 - 16:30 UTC | Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center, 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, 6107, United States
Raimon Panikkar was simultaneously philosopher, theologian, mystic, poet, and Catholic priest. A notable influence on Cynthia Bourgeault and Fr. Thomas Keating, he was a major contributor to the modern study of comparative religion and interreligious dialogue. In this program, we’ll engage Christophany, Panikkar’s seminal work, and its call for the relationship with God for which Jesus prayed for us in John 17:21: “…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us….”
Periods of Centering Prayer will be offered in the morning and afternoon.

“God is Love, the Heart of All Creation” Part 2 - via zoom
2022-03-19 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Internet – Online
Thomas Keating with Carl J. Arico
Video and Discussion hosted by Kathleen Blank Riether
The video series God is Love, The Heart of All Creation was filmed in Snowmass, CO, in 2013. Carl Arico interviewed Thomas Keating about a variety of topics from cosmology, divine/human evolution, and unity consciousness, to silence and centering prayer. Thomas Keating considered this video series as Part 8 in his foundational Spiritual Journey series.
In Part 2 of our two part series based on God Is Love, The Heart of All Creation, we will begin with Thomas Keating reflecting on the silence in Centering Prayer as the first step in what Christian theology understands as the path of contemplation taking us into divine union. Centering Prayer reduces the obstacles to our awareness of God’s presence and communications to us. Through the regular practice of Centering Prayer, an attentiveness emerges to the presence of God in all reality and in all the experiences of our daily lives. It releases the positive energies of grace within us that are inaccessible to our conscious minds. As we become increasingly aware of God’s inspirations, we consciously experience and consent to our creaturehood – our nothingness. In time, we even embrace our own nothingness, as we turn our lives over completely to God, confident in God’s total presence and support.
Please register using the link below.

Centered in Silence, Rooted in Love: A Contemplative Lenten Retreat
2022-03-18 18:00 - 2022-03-20 18:00, 2022-03-18 18:00 - 2022-03-20 12:00 UTC | Eastern Point Retreat House, 37 Niles Pond Road, Gloucester, MA, 1930, United States
This weekend, anchored in silence and the practice of Centering Prayer, provides an opportunity to reflect on the Lenten invitation to return, to “be still and know” God within the secret room of your heart and among spring’s emerging life on the Gloucester shore.
There will be scheduled periods for communal Centering Prayer, lectio divina, contemplative walks and evening prayer. The remaining time is unstructured for private reflection, prayer and rest. A Catholic liturgy will be offered on Saturday afternoon. No previous experience with Centering Prayer is necessary; an overview of the practice will be provided. The fee of $425 includes overnight accommodations, program and all meals, from dinner at 6:00 p.m. Friday night through lunch on Sunday. (All meals on Saturday through Sunday breakfast will be silent.) Guests may arrive anytime from 3 p.m. on Friday. The retreat program ends at noon on Sunday; lunch will follow.
To register, visit easternpoint.org and go to “Retreats,” and then to “2022 Weekend Retreats.”

9-Day Intensive and Post-Intensive Retreat
2022-03-17 15:00 - 2022-03-25 11:00 UTC | Mercy Center Auburn, 535 Sacramento Street, Auburn, CA, 95603, United States
This retreat offers two tracks simultaneously: Intensive I and Post Intensive. You choose the track that works best for you. For everyone, there will be 3 sets of two 30 minute periods of Centering Prayer daily. The Intensive I retreat will watch video talks from Fr. Thomas Keating’s Spiritual Journey, focusing on “The Human Condition and the Spiritual Journey”. The Post Intensive retreat has no videos and an additional hour of Centering Prayer each day.
Lectio Divina and a contemplative Eucharist will be offered daily, as well as optional soul-friending with the staff. Throughout the retreat, we will be in silence.
The retreat will be facilitated by Susan Turpin, Joy Hayter and Fr. Bill Sheehan, OMI
The Retreat begins Thursday, March 17 with registration from 3:00 to 5:00, an opening session at 5:00pm, and dinner at 6:00pm. We end on Friday, March 25 at 11:00am (lunch optional).
For more information, contact Susan Turpin at 541-324-1207 or slturpin@me.com

The Welcoming Prayer via Zoom - For Those Who Practice Centering Prayer
2022-03-16 08:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Internet – Online
In this time of pandemic with so much to deal with, the practice of The Welcoming Prayer can be most helpful. The Welcoming Prayer is a method of consenting to God’s presence and action in our physical and emotional reactions to events and situations in daily life. The purpose of the Welcoming Prayer is to deepen our relationship with God through consenting in the ordinary activities of our day — “consent-on-the-go.”
A reliable internet connection with the capability for audio and video is required. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion. Prerequisite: Introduction to Centering Prayer or an established Centering Prayer practice.
Retreat Director: Sister Mary McGehee, OSB

“A Lenten Journey From Uncertainty to Joy” with Father Bill Sheehan via Zoom
2022-03-12 09:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Internet – Online
Join us for this Zoom Lenten Silent Saturday. We hope you will join us as Father Bill shares his heart of Centering Prayer.
Registration will open on February 10, 2022. Lenten Silent Saturday with Fr. Bill Sheehan
If you have any issues with the link, please contact Jill Yamada at jyamada@sothumc.org . Thank you.
Time is Pacific Standard Time.
Psalm 31
You are my hiding place, O Lord;
You save me from distress.
You surround me with the cries of deliverance.
– The Psalms, A New Translation, arranged by Joseph Gelineau

Becoming Prayer: Incarnation Makes Mystics of Us All
2022-03-12 | St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3775 Crosshaven Dr., Birmingham,, AL, 35223, United States
Contemplative Outreach Birmingham in partnership with The Commission on Spirituality of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and Metagem Institute present
“Becoming Prayer: Incarnation Makes Mystics of Us All”
The Rev. Dr. Vincent Pizzuto, Presenter
Saturday, March 12, 2022
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Birmingham, AL
9:00 am – 3:00 pm CST
Includes two periods of Centering Prayer
Concludes with a Celtic Contemplative Eucharist
Pre-Registration $60. At the Door (cash or check) $75
Registration Link:

The Seven Mansion of the Interior Castle: Teresa of Avila – via Zoom
2022-03-11 16:00 - 2022-03-13 11:15 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online
The Seven Mansions of the Interior Castle — Teresa of Avila
Presented by Susan Komis
Virtual Centering Prayer Retreat via Zoom
Co-sponsored by Contemplative Outreach of New Orleans
and the School for Contemplative Living
Join us in exploring the Seven Mansions of Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle.
Teresa is one of Christianity’s great mystics and teachers. The Seven Mansions of the Interior Castle is her final work
and one of the most profound literary works on contemplation and experiential mysticism. Teresa wrote The Interior
Castle to describe seven mansions of the inner life with God. Prayer stood at the center of Teresa’s teaching. Her fidelity
to prayer was a means of deepening her intimate relationship with God. She considered a life of prayer in terms of love.
Together we will reflect on the light of Teresa’s timeless insights into the human soul, its journey towards intimate
relationship with God, and how Teresa’s teaching is relevant to our personal contemporary spiritual journey today.
There will be Centering Prayer sessions, the presentations, Q & A opportunities, and small group gatherings via
breakout rooms.

Lenten Silent Saturday – In Person
2022-03-05 08:00 - 12:00 UTC | Holy Spirit Retreat Center, 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, 91436, United States
The season of Lent invites us to deeper prayer and reflection.
Join us for a quiet morning of Centering Prayer and silence.
The morning provides time for communal prayer, a contemplative walk, private journaling and reflection, and ends with a period of Lectio Divina.
For those new to Centering Prayer or wanting a review of the method,
a brief introduction will be given at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time
We’re sorry, we are not accepting walk-ins at this time
Please be prepared to show current proof of Covid-19 vaccination or
Proof of Negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of May 7th
REGISTER ONLINE AT www.hsrcenter.com under 1 Day Retreats
For more information, email pbcurreysd@gmail.com
All donations gratefully received

Somewhat Silent Saturday
2022-02-26 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | st johns lutheran church, Saint John Lutheran Church Lutheran Church 715 College St, , Cedar Falls, IA · (319) 268-0165, IA, 50613, United States
You are invited to a “Somewhat Silent Saturday” on Saturday, February 26. This day will include opportunities for ~
– multiple periods of Centering Prayer;
– an introduction to and guided experience of Prayer of the Breath, an attentive discipline that may become a prelude to Centering Prayer for you;
– a session of traditional Lectio Divina (“Sacred Reading” of scripture);
– personal reflection, walking and/or journaling;
– a brief opening and closing devotional/worship time; and
– refreshments and a light lunch.
The only cost for this event is a donation for the meal. Please join us at St John Lutheran Church, 715 College St, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. The event itself will be led by local members of Contemplative Outreach of Northeast Iowa. If interested in attending or if you have questions, contact Bonnie Smith-Davis , Coordinator of CONI at 319-230-2165 or email CONEiowa@gmail.com and include your contact information of name, email, or phone number.

Introduction to Centering Prayer via Zoom
2022-02-26 09:00 - 13:00 UTC | Internet – Online
Have you been longing for a deeper, more intimate relationship with God? The method of Centering Prayer, a traditional form of Christian contemplative prayer, gives you a way to say “yes” to God’s presence and action in your life. Come to learn the method or to renew your practice and go deeper. Our half-day format offers a relaxed way to hear the basics, practice, and ask questions. Following the workshop, we will offer a weekly series of 1.5 hour evening sessions, which will go deeper into the method and include 20 minute practice sessions as well as time for questions and discussion.
For more information and to register, see the link below.
Saturday, February 26, 2022, from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM U.S. Pacific Time Zone.

Lenten Centering Prayer Weekend Retreat - Onsite
2022-02-25 15:00 - 2022-02-27 12:00 UTC | St. Mary’s Sewanee, 770 St. Mary's Lane, TN, 37375, United States
Lenten Centering Prayer Weekend Retreat at the St. Mary’s Sewanee Retreat Center in Sewanee, TN, USA.
COVID protection policies include full vaccination, negative COVID test, signed Medical Waiver and Symptom Checklist.
Please register using the link below.

​ Introduction to Centering Prayer (via Zoom)
2022-02-23 10:00 - 15:00, 2022-02-05 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Internet – Online
Centering Prayer is a form of Christian prayer rooted in the ancient Christian contemplative tradition. Its purpose is to foster a deeper intimacy with Christ through the silence and stillness of contemplative prayer. This time of pandemic has led many to seek to deepen their relationship with God through this wordless prayer of contemplation.
This workshop/retreat is designed for those new to Centering Prayer and will be held over Zoom. A reliable internet connection with the capability for audio and video is required. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion.
Retreat Director: Sister Mary McGehee

7-Day Silent Intensive & Post-Intensive Retreats
2022-02-21 15:00 - 2022-02-27 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mt. Angel, Oregon
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITING LIST, CONTACT REGISTRAR, BENNETH HUSTED, bhusted@easystreet.net
Come, rest in the stillness with contemplative companions, away from the busyness of daily life.
Expansive views of the Willamette Valley, walking the stations of the cross on the park-like grounds, opportunities to pray with the monks, or simply soaking in the silence, will enhance your Centering Prayer practice whether you are coming for the first time (Intensive Retreat) or returning (Post-Intensive). Intensive retreatants will watch Fr. Keating’s Spiritual Journey videos, while those on the Post-Intensive track have an extra prayer period and no videos.
The retreat is designed to deepen your established practice. Grand Silence (no eye contact) will be observed throughout, including at meals, except for opening and closing programs. Discussion after videos for the Intensive track is optional.
Registration fee includes 6 nights in a private room with private bath and delicious meals by Bon Appetit, who will attempt to honor special diets. Elevators and one ADA room available.
Pre-requisites: daily Centering Prayer practice for six months; fully vaccinated for Covid with booster at least 2 wks prior. The guesthouse is in compliance with State of Oregon Covid-19 prevention recommendations regarding face masks, social distancing, and air filtration.
Deposit of $100 due at the time of registration ($50 is non-refundable)
Balance due by January 15, 2022
TRANSPORTATION TO THE ABBEY FROM PDX OR PORTLAND AMTRAK TRAIN STATION IS INCLUDED
Partial scholarships available! To apply, email Patricia Lacy, patricia.a.lacy@gmail.com
Other questions? Email Benneth Husted, bhusted@easystreet.net

David Frenette Workshop - via Zoom
2022-02-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Internet – Online
Hosted by Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.
Silence Speaking, Stillness Acting: Centering Prayer, Contemplative Petition and Unity
Sunday February 20, 2022 via Zoom
11am – 1pm Pacific Time (noon Mountain; 1pm Central; 2pm Eastern; London (BST) 7pm; UTC 19:00)
Free; suggested donation $35 USD
Help! Our world, our loved ones and we ourselves are in need of help. Always, and it seems especially, now. How can we use our Centering Prayer practice to connect with the needs around us and to pray for help in a way that is aligned with our contemplative journey?
This workshop will explore the practice of contemplative petition: prayers of intercession flowing from the dynamic silence and stillness of Centering Prayer. Contemplative petition can help embody our Centering Prayer practice with intention, connecting it with our human needs and the needs of the world. This is not just “praying for what we want” in a materialistic or magical-thinking way. This practice is about surrendering into God in trust, as ultimately, contemplative petition is God in us, praying for God in others.
We will learn how Centering Prayer’s greatest relevance for our contemporary world is in the way it can flow into contemplative petition and contemplative service, into what happens off the prayer seat, in the integration of silence and speech, stillness and action.
Join us as we experientially learn three basic guidelines for a practice of contemplative petition. We will have two short periods of Centering Prayer, the first flowing into a group petition for a common need, the second expressing itself in personalized petitions for a need of your own. We will have small breakout groups for sharing and you will also receive a worksheet that will guide you in continuing your personal contemplative petition practice on your own.
You may also be interested in the 2021 November session, The Dynamic Center of Being.
This event will be recorded for those that cannot attend the live version.
About David Frenette:
David Frenette, author of The Path of Centering Prayer: Deepening Your Experience of God (Sounds True 2012), is a contemplative spiritual director, mentor for other spiritual directors, and spiritual writer. He co-created and co-led a contemplative retreat community where he lived as a monk for 10 years. He has an MA in transpersonal counseling psychology, has been a trustee of Contemplative Outreach (the international Centering Prayer organization), an adjunct faculty member at Naropa University, a founding member of Integral Spirituality, and a teacher at leading retreat centers across the country. From 1983 until his death in 2018, David’s spiritual father was the Trappist monk and founder of Centering Prayer, Father Thomas Keating. Learn more about David here.
Register for the event here:

The Astounding Bernadette Roberts: Insights and Experiences of a Modern Christian Mystic
2022-02-19 09:00 - 16:30 UTC | Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center, 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, 6107, United States
Fr. Thomas Keating considered Bernadette’s book, The Experience of No-Self, to be “one of the best … since St. John of the Cross. An amazing book, it clarifies the higher regions of the spiritual path.” Combining prodigious intelligence and psychological acumen with her own astonishing mystical journey, she boldly plunges into territory usually left unexplored. Hers is buried treasure indeed: daunting, liberating and exhilarating! Come and discover.
The event includes periods of Centering Prayer in the morning and the afternoon.
Please register below using the link.

“God is Love, the Heart of All Creation” via Zoom
2022-02-19 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Internet – Online
Thomas Keating with Carl J. Arico
Video and Discussion hosted by Benedicte Vibe Christensen
The video series God is Love, The Heart of All Creation was filmed in Snowmass, CO, in 2013. Carl Arico interviewed Thomas Keating about a variety of topics from cosmology, divine/human evolution, and unity consciousness, to silence and centering prayer. Thomas Keating considered this video series as Part 8 in his foundational Spiritual Journey series.
This half-day retreat—the first in a series of two retreats—will focus on two segments: Prologue on cosmology and the human evolution. Thomas Keating explains how scientific discoveries have led us to a new cosmology based on our evolving understanding of God and how the Universe was created.
This half-day retreat includes periods of Centering Prayer.

Mystic Series - Praying with Icons
2022-02-17 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Center for Contemplative Living in Elm Grove WI, 890 Elm Grove Road, The Village Court, WI, 53122, United States
Feb 17, 2022
$20
By Zoom or In-Person at the Center for Contemplative Living, Elm Grove, WI.
Religious Icons have been a part of Christianity from its earliest days, creating environments for worship and as objects of personal devotion and prayer. Through a prayer process know as Icon Gazing, we will learn more about them and how they can be meaningful for our personal faith journeys. 6 participants minimum.
This workshop will begin with a time of Centering Prayer.
The instructor, Jim Gill, holds a master’s degree from the Institute in Creation Centered Spirituality (Mundelein College-Chicago) and trained as a spiritual guide through Siena Retreat Center’s Spiritual Guidance Training Program. He ministered in Milwaukee area parishes for over three decades in Adult, Family and Child formation. Most recently he was a staff member at Siena Retreat Center, and began a free-lance ministry in retirement from full-time work in July of 2020. Jim is an Associate of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.

Welcoming Prayer – Part 2 (Zoom)
2022-02-14 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online
Part 1 Saturday February 5, 9:30-11:30 am CST
Part 1 Monday February 7, 6:30-8:30 pm CST
Part 2 Saturday February 12, 9:30-11:30 am CST
Part 2 Monday February 14, 6:30-8:30 pm CST
Part 3 (optional) Saturday February 19, 1:30-2:30 pm CST
Part 3 (optional) Monday February 21, 7-8:00 pm CST

Centering Prayer Intensive/Post Intensive 7-Day Retreat
2022-02-14 16:00 - 2022-02-20 13:00 UTC | Knobs Haven Retreat Center, 515 Nerinx Road, Nerinx, KY, 40049, United States
An intensive retreat offers silence and solitude with periods of Centering Prayer in community each day and video presentations by Thomas Keating that support Centering Prayer. A Centering Prayer post-intensive retreat offers a deeper silence and is for those who have made an intensive retreat.
Download the brochure here for further information and registration.

Welcoming Prayer – Part 2 (Zoom)
2022-02-12 09:30 - 23:30 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online
Two time options are offered for each part; all are in Central Standard Time.
Part 1 Saturday February 5, 9:30-11:30 am CST
Part 1 Monday February 7, 6:30-8:30 pm CST
Part 2 Saturday February 12, 9:30-11:30 am CST
Part 2 Monday February 14, 6:30-8:30 pm CST
Part 3 (optional) Saturday February 19, 1:30-2:30 pm CST
Part 3 (optional) Monday February 21, 7-8:00 pm CST

Body Presence and Contemplative Awareness - Intro to BioSpiritual Focusing via Zoom
2022-02-12 09:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online
Presented by Mike Smoolca
Co-sponsored by Contemplative Outreach Chicago and Contemplative Outreach of Connecticut.
9:30 AM to 2:15 PM Central Time Zone (10:30 AM to 3:15 PM Eastern Time Zone)
Discover a deeper awareness of healing and wisdom accessible to each of us through our bodies. BioSpiritual Focusing, like Welcoming Prayer, is a practice that allows you to become more aware of welcoming and holding your body feelings with curiosity and loving care. BioSpiritual Focusing allows you to directly access the Wisdom of your Body and the healing experience of God’s grace that comes with attending to the body feelings you carry within. At its most profound level it gives you access to your membership as the collective Body of Christ. In this experiential workshop you will be introduced to the overall method of BioSpiritual Focusing and be given some tools and awareness you can apply to enhance your own sense of Body Presence and contemplative awareness. We’ll cover the following material:
Conference 1: How BioSpiritual Focusing fits into the Landscape and Spirituality of Body Presence and Contemplative Awareness practices.
Conference 2: Introducing BioSpiritual Focusing – Clearing Space and The Felt Sense – The fundamental building blocks and tools
Conference 3: The method of BioSpiritual Focusing with demonstration, discussion and next steps
There will be a time of Centering Prayer together.
Please see the link below to register.

Welcoming Prayer - Part 1 (Zoom)
2022-02-07 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online
Two time options are offered for each part; all are in Central Standard Time. Please register using the link below.
Part 1 Saturday February 5, 9:30-11:30 am CST
Part 1 Monday February 7, 6:30-8:30 pm CST
Part 2 Saturday February 12, 9:30-11:30 am CST
Part 2 Monday February 14, 6:30-8:30 pm CST
Part 3 (optional) Saturday February 19, 1:30-2:30 pm CST
Part 3 (optional) Monday February 21, 7-8:00 pm CST

Welcoming Prayer – Part 1 (Zoom)
2022-02-05 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Internet – Online

The Biology of the Human Condition - Hybrid event
2022-02-05 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | Internet – Online
Hosted by The Center for Contemplative Living, Denver Colorado.
This is a hybrid presentation, conducted both in person at The Center for Contemplative Living in Denver, Colorado and online via Zoom videoconference.
Presentation description: Neuroscience research validates that contemplative practices, like Centering Prayer, are practical skills that rewire our entire being. Learn how the brain centers of compassion and connection are activated as our emotional centers become more regulated with contemplative prayer and the Divine Therapy that is initiated.
Dr. Christine O’Brien (Travers) has been involved with Contemplative Outreach since 1992. As a doctor for 37 years she has seen the powerful effects of spiritual belief on health. As a mother of seven children she knows the challenges of nurturing a family with loving kindness and compassion. As Medical Director of Whole Health Program for the Cheyenne VA Medical Center she uses research on neuroscience to validate and teach veterans about the human ability to transform in mind, body and soul with contemplative practice.
Times listed are Mountain Time.
Click on the link below for more information and to register.
