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Contemplative Outreach Prison Outreach Service Team (COPOST) is partnering with Prison Contemplative Fellowship (PCF) in offering a six-day intensive Centering Prayer retreat in September 2025 in Colorado for those affected by incarceration. To attend it is advised that the participant have a six month or longer practice. Financial support is available. You may find a ![]() This intensive/post-intensive retreat, hosted by Contemplative Outreach of Central Iowa, will consist of continuous periods of Centering Prayer from before sunrise until the dinner hour, with breaks for meals. Attendees may participate in as much prayer as they are called to. Short pauses for entering and leaving the silence will be offered every 30 minutes.
$575 – $650
![]() The eight-day Centering Prayer dual track intensive/post intensive retreat offered from Saturday, September 27 to Saturday, October 4, 2025, provides an opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of profound silence and community support. The intensive track will follow the Contemplative Outreach guidelines for an intensive retreat including six 30-minute Centering
$1000
![]() A 5-day Centering Prayer retreat designed for and by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color - which includes Latinx and Asian) contemplatives. We gather to practice Centering Prayer, participate in facilitated dialogue about the changing needs of contemplatives in relation to the BIPOC community, and nurture and support BIPOC Centering and contemplative prayer retreat leaders |
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![]() Contemplative Outreach Pittsburgh invites you to join us as we explore forgiveness through a contemplative lens. Featuring Mary Dwyer as presenter, we will explore both the Forgiveness Process and Forgiveness Prayer while steeped in silence and Centering Prayer (with extended sits). Prior Centering Prayer experience recommended. Location: Spiritan Retreat Center located south of the city
$275.00
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![]() In this mini retreat let the Holy Spirit fill you with the peace that passes all understanding as you rest in periods of silent prayer, contemplative breaks ending with lectio divina. (Phil 4:7) There is no fee for this event, but a donation to Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., is greatly appreciated. If you are new to
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![]() Online Half Day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) May 6 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am UTC-10 FREE First Saturdays online retreats are a special time where we explore our Centering Prayer practice. We are looking forward to sharing Physio-Divina (Moving) practices, Visio-Divina (visual-Art) practices, Terra-Divna (Nature) Lectio-Divina (Sacred
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![]() Online and In-Person at Sorrento Centre, British Columbia, Canada. October 5th (5 pm) – October 9th (12 noon), 2025 (Pacific Time). In any moment, regardless of how significant or insignificant it may seem, we can offer ourselves as instruments, vessels, means by which worlds beyond can enter into this world, which has often been termed |
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![]() This retreat offers three tracks simultaneously: Intensive I, Advanced Intensive and Post Intensive. See flyer for more information. The Post Intensive retreat will be in a separate prayer room with a separate staff. Pre-requisite: A daily practice of centering prayer for 6 months or longer. Rooms are single with a sink in the room; bathrooms
$975
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![]() Presented by Blair Ashby over six Thursday sessions A foundational gift of practicing Centering Prayer is that we also begin caring for our mental and emotional well-being during our prayer sits. Fortunately, this is also one definition of self-compassion. Frequently, we start noticing this gift with a simple thought like, “my days feel better since
$75.00
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![]() Charis Circles are small communities of interspiritual practice. We will introduce interspirituality and Charis Meditation, developed for interspiritual settings. The day is for those who embrace one religious tradition, more than one tradition, or are "spiritual but not religious.” As the Quaker Rufus Jones noted, “I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles, |
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Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer in which we experience God's presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship. As one practices Centering Prayer with devotional sincerity and tries to
$350
![]() Topic: Fr. Thomas Keating and the Development of Christian Contemplative Prayer Practice Presenter: Fr. Steve Coffey OSB Cam On this weekend Centering Prayer Retreat, Fr. Steve will begin with the story of how Fr. Thomas developed his teaching on Centering Prayer. He will then examine the process of contemplative prayer that leads to union with
$250 – $350
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![]() We are living in turbulent times. In the churning, can you feel an anchor to something that is unchanging? Could it be a deep abiding hope? In this presentation, Rick Klein offers insight to a path out of the dualistic sociopolitical environments that keep us stuck. How might I continue “Growing Up” on my spiritual
$50.00
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Centering Prayer and the Healing of our Hearts — and our World A Contemplative Outreach Retreat Day with Carl McColman. This retreat day will include time for Centering Prayer, personal reflection, talks by our presenter, and opportunities for shared reflection and contemplative dialogue. St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, Dunwoody, GA.
$50
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This is an intensive Centering Prayer retreat based on the work of David Frenette in his seminal book, The Path of Centering Prayer, hailed by Fr. Thomas Keating as, ‘The best, most comprehensive and most practical book on Centering Prayer.’ David Frenette is a leader and senior teacher in the Centering prayer movement, a longtime
$500.00
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![]() Beauty ~ A Fall Retreat Beauty is everywhere: ~ In the petals of a flower and the vista over fall foliage at a distance; ~ In the dance of a honey bee and the sway of an African elephant; ~ In waves on the seashore and the ripples on a brook; ~ In the face |
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![]() In this introductory workshop, you will learn the ancient method and principles of Centering Prayer practice in a quiet, reflective atmosphere. We will cover the history, psychology, and theology of the practice. Two prayer sessions and a question-and-answer session are included. Please see the link below to register. $50 offering. Scholarships are available.
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*HOLD THE DATE* Times listed are in Eastern Time Zone You can register for this one day retreat at the below page. Living Flame One Day Retreat Then at the registration confirmation page you will have the opportunity to make a donation.
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![]() The Program This retreat is designed to provide an opportunity for those who have an established practice of Centering Prayer to deepen their practice in an atmosphere of profound silence and community support. All participants observe silence from the opening to the closing of the retreat and share a schedule of several hours of group
$960
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![]() Centering Prayer Retreat with Father Bill Sheehan Monday, October 27 – Sunday, November 2, 2025 Holy Cross Abbey (HCA) www.virginiatrappists.org Berryville, VA • 5 Full Days & 2 half days of silence and solitude in a peaceful rural setting • 3 plus hours per day of group Centering Prayer • Daily morning Centering Prayer sit Centering Prayer is a form of Christian silent meditation rooted in the self-emptying love that forms the heart of Jesus' teaching and life. This retreat is an opportunity to deepen one's contemplative journey in the contemporary world. The retreat offers two tracks: a five-day track, recommended for individuals with an established and regular practice of
$1,200
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![]() "In moments when we simply surrender all to God in contemplation, God becomes the actor who acts through us. God becomes the writer of our lives, and we become the pencil with which God writes a love letter to the world." - Adam Bucko Sharing silent prayer with others in the context of a retreat
€395
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![]() All Saints-All Souls Visio Divina is the focus for this online half day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am UTC-10 FREE First Saturdays online retreats are a special time where we explore our Centering Prayer practice. We are looking forward to sharing Physio-Divina (Moving)
Free
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In Granby, Quebec, 3 day, 6 day and 10 day retreats are offered, at Maison de Spiritualité des Trinitaires, 200 boul. Robert, Granby. 6 day: November 2-7, $755.45 CDN 10 day: November 2-11, $1396.35 CDN 3 day: November 7-9, $ 323.90 CDN Please contact Hélène Goulet, at goulet.h@gmail.com for more information. Although retreat is in |