• The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    A Zoom Event with James Finley, Ph.D. Student of Thomas Merton, contemplative practitioner and Clinical Psychologist Dates: October 7, 2023, 10:00am – 1:30pm PST Location: Zoom and option to gather in Victoria, BC Join us as Jim Finley guides us through an exploration of his latest book The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation.

  • Manifesting God, A Silent Retreat

    Sisters of Charity Motherhouse 5900 Delhi Road, Cincinnati, OH, United States

    This is a four-day silent retreat, presented by the CO Chapter of Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky. The retreat starts at 10:00am Eastern Time, October 12, 2023 and ends at 12:30pm Eastern Time October 15. Dual tracks for the intensive and post-intensive retreats will be offered. Register online at co-gcnky.org via the Donate link.  Please include information

    $250
  • Welcoming Prayer Introductory Workshop

    CO-CT Online Zoom event

    According to Fr. Thomas Keating, “Welcoming Prayer is the practice that actively lets go of thoughts and feelings that support the false-self system. It embraces painful emotions experienced in the body rather than avoiding them or trying to suppress them.” This workshop introduces participants to the method of the Welcoming Prayer and provides an opportunity

  • BioSpiritual Focusing: Welcoming an Embodied Experience of Grace

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Contemplative Enrichment Day with Donna O’Connor and Mike Smoolca Deep wisdom and healing are accessible within us waiting for discovery. BioSpiritual Focusing offers access to the causal point for change, our feelings. We see that a loving and curious presence offered to disregarded and hidden feelings allows deeper meanings to emerge and a graced shift

  • The Body’s Bridge to the Experience of Living in God: Exploring BioSpiritual Focusing in Context of BioSpirituality – in person and online

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Two Jesuits, Fr. Edwin McMahon and Fr. Peter Campbell, incorporated the embodied practice of Focusing into the larger context of BioSpirituality. Their work opens us to know ourselves as living within the greater Whole, the Body of Christ. During this day, we’ll experience BioSpiritual Focusing and explore, among other things, the embodied experience of grace