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SUMMARY:The Gift of Life: Death & Dying\, Life & Living via Zoom - 12-Step Friendly
DESCRIPTION:Covid-19 has caused most of us to experience some type of loss\, stress\, questions of faith and possibly death of loved ones. Even without Covid-19\, there is an almost universal pondering we share about suffering and death. Join us as we explore these common and often “tabooed” subjects in a four-part Zoom meeting series. \nFour Sundays – May 16\, May 23\, June 6\, June – 13\nAll meetings are from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm\nLive Zoom interactive experience \nWe’ll learn from videos of Fr. Thomas Keating exploring our capacity for knowing God through relationship – a relationship that evolves and changes as we move through various phases of the spiritual journey. \nHosted by Gina DiGirolamo and John Orr \nThis video series is an intimate conversation between Fr. Thomas Keating and Fr. Carl Arico focusing on the transformative process of death and dying as part of\, rather than the end of\, life’s journey. \nThe original title of this series of interviews with Father Thomas Keating was Death & Dying and the Unknowable God. But as the series was worked on\, it was realized that while the subject is death and dying\, it is really about life – hence\, “The Gift of Life: Death & Dying\, Life & Living“. \nRegistration is requested. Please send an email to cogcnky@gmail.com (this stand for Contemplative Outreach of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky). Please provide:\n1) Name (s) of participant(s)\n2) Email address of participant(s) \nA Zoom link to the series and a PDF Gift of Life: Death & Dying\, Life & Living guidebook will be emailed to all registered participants a few days prior to the first Zoom meeting.\nEvent is Free.\nDonations are gratefully accepted via the donation button on our local chapter website: co-gcnky.org
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/the-gift-of-life-death-dying-life-living-via-zoom-12-step-friendly/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gina Di Girolamo":MAILTO:gi.digi55@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Opening to Our Pre-Existing Union with God
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Keith Kristich \nSo many of us grow up with the message that God is the great\, old Guy-in-the-Sky. This God loves the world\, but is ultimately separate from it and separate from us. But the great contemplatives say otherwise\, that God is the Heart of our hearts and the very Center of our souls. From the contemplative perspective\, the spiritual journey isn’t one in which we get closer to God\, but rather about waking up to the reality that we are already one! Join this weekend retreat as we explore Centering Prayer as a path of waking up to our pre-existing oneness with God. We are not ultimately separate from God\, and we’ll explore the significance of opening to this reality through teaching\, reflection\, and Centering Prayer practice. \nPlease register using the link below.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/opening-to-our-pre-existing-union-with-god/
LOCATION:Bethany Retreat Center\, 1031 Germania Rd\, Frenchville\, PA\, 16836\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Retreat Center":MAILTO:bethanyretreatcenter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210605T083000
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SUMMARY:Spiritual and Physical Evolution: In Contemplative Hindsight of 2020
DESCRIPTION:Looking back on the Covid-19 evolution of 2020\, we will reflect on our own evolving and devolving during the pandemic. We must encounter the unwanted to be able to recognize the wanted in times of change. How have we changed physically? How have we grown spiritually? What brought out the best in us? What brought out the worst in us? \nEvolution is happening physically due to the pandemic. Our brains changed with each new experience. Did you have anything to say about which way your brain went? Our world changed daily in wonderful and horrifying ways. Our behavior changed daily as we woke up to the meaning of pandemic. What dark night did you encounter and where did it take you spiritually? \nPresented by: Charlotte A. Tomaino\, Ph.D. is a Clinical Neuropsychologist whose career has been dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of brain function. She is retired from clinical practice but has learned about the power of belief to access neuroplasticity to adapt brain function from the clients she treated for several decades. Her book\, Awakening the Brain: the Neuropsychology of Grace gently weaves together the power of spirituality to alter perception of life events and access the path of recovery from trauma or growth in times of change. She is formerly a Maryknoll Sister.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/spiritual-and-physical-evolution-in-contemplative-hindsight-of-2020/
LOCATION:Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center\, 303 Tunxis Road\, West Hartford\, CT\, 6107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mike  Smoolca":MAILTO:msmoolca@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:Contemplative Spirituality in a Contemporary Time
DESCRIPTION:Presenter – Susan Komis \nWhat is contemplation? In addition to exploring three stages critical to our spiritual journey relative to prayer and faith in ordinary life\, this extended weekend retreat will include presentation and discussion on the dynamic of the many people who are beginning to experience and live a contemplative life in our contemporary time. We will explore awakenings that open the door to understanding contemplative prayer\, transformation and union with God. Portions of this retreat experience invite interactive engagement of participants\, but will include periods of Centering Prayer\, silence\, solitude\, small group process and serene enjoyment of the beautiful Bethany Retreat Center. \nPlease register via the link below.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/contemplative-spirituality-in-a-contemporary-time/
LOCATION:Bethany Retreat Center\, 1031 Germania Rd\, Frenchville\, PA\, 16836\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Retreat Center":MAILTO:bethanyretreatcenter@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Presence\, Prayer and Writing from the Heart One-Day Retreat
DESCRIPTION:All of us have myriad stories to tell. Some focus on your family history\, spiritual journey\, experiences in Nature or a life-changing situation. These stories can take many forms but the most compelling are the ones written from the heart\, those that touch and move us and sometimes transform both the writer and reader. Writing from the heart demands attentiveness\, honesty\, courage\, and a commitment to engage with a creative process that pulls us into the unknown where we are often surprised at what surfaces. It’s a journey of discovery. What can help are presence and prayer. We’ll explore the link between both and the writing process\, ever mindful that we are never closer to the Creator than when we are creating. \nThis writing retreat is structured for those currently working on a project\, wanting to start one or simply wanting to spend time playing with words. In addition to a Centering Prayer/meditation session — Silence can be a portal to the Source of creativity and truth-telling — there will be time to write\, walk\, think or just be. \nThe fee includes lunch.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/presence-prayer-and-writing-from-the-heart-one-day-retreat/
LOCATION:Wisdom House\, 229 East Litchfield Road\, Litchfield\, CT\, 6759\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
ORGANIZER;CN="Anne A. Simpkinson":MAILTO:asimpkinson@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Enneagram and Contemplative Living via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:THE ENNEAGRAM AND CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING\nA Virtual Retreat from Contemplative Outreach of New Mexico\nJune 19\, 2021\n9:30-3:30 Mountain Time \nThe Enneagram offers a profound body of wisdom for psychological and spiritual healing. Based on the triadic nature of reality\, it is intended to help us awaken to our truer nature. Understanding the Enneagram to be far more than a ‘typing’ system\, we can discover often unconscious personality patterns that take us in the opposite direction of our soul’s yearning for unity. Rather than seeing the Enneagram personality ‘type’ as who we are\, we learn who we are not.\nIn this day retreat\, after a brief overview of Enneagram fundamentals\, we will primarily focus on the Three Centers of Intelligence (belly\, heart and head centers) inherent in the Enneagram symbol and important in personal inquiry. These are closely aligned with Fr. Thomas Keating’s three emotional centers of the false self. \nThe retreat will also include two periods of Centering Prayer\, a lunch break and break during morning and afternoon sessions\, short times of personal reflection and interpersonal inquiry. Having access to your zoom screen will be helpful as a few slides are shared. \nRegister via the link below or via the email address listed. \nFacilitator: Roxanne Howe-Murphy\, EdD Founder of the Deep Living Institute and author of “Deep Living with the Enneagram; Recovering your True Nature”
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/the-enneagram-and-contemplative-living-via-zoom/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemplative Outreach of NM":MAILTO:conm2016@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210626T090000
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SUMMARY:“The Cloud of Unknowing” via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:An anonymous Christian contemplative from the middle ages wrote the classic work The Cloud of Unknowing. Centering Prayer\, of course\, is based on this seminal work of spiritual practice. The whole of The Cloud of Unknowing is about contemplation. The practice of contemplation goes beyond the mind. It goes into unknowing. The author is insistent on this point. Our minds cannot grasp God because God is transcendent mystery. Therefore\, we must pray beyond the thinking mind. \nIn this half-day retreat\, we will seek to learn how to deepen our practice of Centering Prayer from the mysterious author of The Cloud of Unknowing. There is deep teaching in this work concerning how we deal with thoughts\, humility\, intention\, and growth in divine unity. \nLed by LJ Milone\nHaving practiced Centering Prayer for 17 years\, LJ Milone has gone deep into the Catholic tradition. His spirituality is greatly influenced by Francis of Assisi\, Meister Eckhart\, the Cloud of Unknowing\, Thomas Keating\, Richard Rohr\, Anthony De Mello\, and\, ultimately\, the teachings of Jesus. As a pastoral minister at a Catholic parish in Silver Spring\, MD\, he has served the faith formation needs of children\, as well as adults since June 2007. A leader of many retreats\, lectures\, and classes on the topics of the teachings of Jesus\, contemplative prayer\, Centering Prayer\, Christian mysticism\, and contemporary spirituality\, LJ is also a spiritual director receiving his training at the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction in Tucson\, AZ. \nRegister using this link (scroll to event date) https://contemplativeoutreachofmarylandandwashington.org/retreats-events/half-day-retreats-intro-workshops/
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/the-cloud-of-unknowing-via-zoom/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington %EF%BB%BF(COMW)":MAILTO:info@ContemplativeOutreachofMarylandandWashington.org
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