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Certificate in Contemplative Spiritual Direction

Columbia Theological Seminary 701 South Columbia Drive, Decatur

The certificate offering is a 2-year formation and training program for persons who discern a call to the ministry of spiritual direction. Applicants will begin Phase I in July 2025. Certificate in Contemplative Spiritual Direction features: Contemplative spiritual formation as the foundation A 24-month Focused Program with home-based assignments A Cohort Model in a hybrid

Ongoing

Contemplative Living II: Daily Life as Prayer – via Zoom

Internet - Online

Your life is hidden with Christ in God. - Colossians 3:3 Further enrich your contemplative life and embrace the practice of living each day as a form of prayer. In Contemplative Living I (CL I) the focus is on deepening your interior prayer life, leading to the awareness of God’s presence in all that is.

$700

Centering Prayer and Three-Centered Knowing: A Silent Centering Prayer Wisdom Retreat

Mercy Center Burlingame 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame

“Centering Prayer … is the opening of mind and heart, body and emotions–our whole being–to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond words, thoughts, and emotions.” —Thomas Keating, in Open Mind Open Heart In Centering Prayer we practice letting go to the Divine Indwelling, building up a muscle of release, of consent to the presence and action