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SUMMARY:Introduction to Centering Prayer via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for a way to explore or deepen your relationship with God? \nIn our introductory workshop to Centering Prayer\, you will discover a centuries-old prayer method. Centering Prayer consists of simply sitting in silence with God – beyond thoughts\, words\, and emotions – and opening our mind\, heart and whole being to the Ultimate Mystery. In this workshop\, you will learn the basics of Centering Prayer\, experience it in a guided setting\, and be able to ask questions and share experiences with the presenter and your fellow initiates. \nCentering Prayer is based on a Christian contemplative practice first described in The Cloud of Unknowing\, written in the latter half of the 14th century. It calls one to abandon any consideration of God’s attributes and actions\, and to surrender to God’s influence in our lives. It is a very personal prayer practice but is often practiced in groups. It opens one to God’s infinite love and power to heal\, and opens the door to other related prayer practices around forgiveness\, and dealing with painful situations and emotions. Introduction to Centering Prayer is a sampling of the practice and its benefits. Basic Centering Prayer is the next step to a committed practice. \nSponsored by Contemplative Outreach of Colorado at The Center for Contemplative Living. Please see the link below to register. \nNOTE: Times listed for this event are Mountain Time Zone.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/introduction-to-centering-prayer-via-zoom-3/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T130000
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SUMMARY:Basic Centering Prayer via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:If you have taken the Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop and want to make Centering Prayer a daily practice\, this six-week basic course is the next step. Each week\, you will view a video-taped talk on the Spiritual Journey by Fr. Thomas Keating\, followed by group discussion. The course will cover such topics as prayer as relationship with God\, the four levels of scriptural experience\, resting in God\, Centering Prayer as method\, and progress in Centering Prayer. \nThere are two different times to choose from for this six-week course. Times listed are Mountain Standard Time.  Please see the link below to register.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/basic-centering-prayer-via-zoom/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Spirituality in Everyday Life via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:In this six-week course\, Fr. Keating continues to expand on the human condition\, using St. Anthony of Egypt as a paradigm of a pilgrim on the spiritual journey and shows how this early desert saint’s struggles mirror ours with the false self. Fr. Keating then takes us beyond the struggle to liberation from the false-self system and from our cultural conditioning. Fr. Keating continues explaining the psychological unloading process that lies at the heart of healing. \nHe describes four “moments” of Centering Prayer\, during which unloading occurs\, and compares the process to an archeological dig as the Divine Therapy takes us deeper through layers of our own woundedness. The course will also introduce us to Lectio Divina and the concept of transforming union\, as well as the Night of the Sense\, which are addressed more fully in Course 4. \nThe prerequisites are Courses 1 Basic Centering Prayer and 2 Human Condition. \nThere are two different times to choose from for this six-week course. Times listed are Mountain Time.  Please register using the link below.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/spirituality-in-everyday-life-via-zoom/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210923T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210923T203000
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SUMMARY:Heartfulness workshop - via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:In the Heartfulness 9-week series\, Fr. Thomas Keating reminds us that we are called by God to open to a new reality that is our true Self … the image and likeness of God. The path to this true Self and all its fruits and gifts is the challenge of becoming fully human\, and to become fully human is to become fully divine. This is the fullness of life itself\, a life abiding in the grace and truth of Christ\, while at the same time\, fully being the unique person you are. Fr. Thomas calls this the journey of heartfulness\, and says that Centering Prayer might be thought of as heartfulness. Centering Prayer as contemplative prayer is a reflection on the mysteries of faith that has been digested and reflected upon and expressed in acts of love until it has simplified into a movement of the will that is becoming quasi-permanent – a way of occupying the mind and transferring it to the heart so that with practice it becomes more “heartfulness” than “mindfulness”. \nThis is a 9-week series beginning on Thursday\, September 23 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm Mountain Time.  Please register using the link below.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/heartfulness-workshop-via-zoom/
LOCATION:Internet – Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210928T190000
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SUMMARY:Six Continuing Sessions to the Introduction to Centering Prayer: ZOOM ONLY
DESCRIPTION:“Centering Prayer is a practice that sensitizes us to God’s presence that is already there.”\n– Thomas Keating \nThe inner world is not always familiar to us. Designed for beginners\, longtime practitioners have benefited from revisiting the basics from a new level. Bring your questions as we together become grounded in this prayer based on the monastic practices of the desert. \nThe class consists of a 30-minute video teaching by Fr. Thomas Keating\, and facilitated discussion. The book Open Mind Open Heart by Thomas Keating is the text to the class. \nFruits of Centering Prayer include: \n• responding rather than reacting to the events of life \n• nature our ability to live in the present moment \n• develop a nonjudgmental attitude of ourselves and others \nDates: Tuesday evenings\, September 28\, October 5\, 12\, 19\, 26 and November 9 \nTime: 7:00 to 8:30 PM Central Time \nSponsored by: Contemplative Outreach of Southeast Wisconsin \nDonations accepted (suggested $25) NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY DUE TO COST! \nContact and Facilitator: Christine Bender\, admin @contemplativeoutreachwisconsin.org\, 720-987-7433 \nThe Zoom link information will be sent together with the registration confirmation email. \nPlease see the link below to register.
URL:https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/six-continuing-sessions-to-the-introduction-to-centering-prayer-zoom-only/
LOCATION:Center for Contemplative Living in Elm Grove WI\, 890 Elm Grove Road\, The Village Court\, WI\, 53122\, United States
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