by Amber Sturgess Recent years have brought about major paradigm shifts in our institutions, including our churches. During the pandemic many of our parishes had to close to the public, […]
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Guiding a Centering Prayer Group in Jail
by Tom Cook I have been guiding a Centering Prayer (CP) class for the last year at DuPage County Correctional Facility in Wheaton, Illinois (USA). I have been amazed and […]
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Using the Spiritual Journey Series for Ongoing Enrichment
Two different prayer groups – one on Zoom and one in-person, share their experience and approach to using the Spiritual Journey videos. Note that the entire series is freely […]
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Centering Prayer Group Facilitator Enrichment
Enrichment Gathering for Centering Prayer Group Facilitators Live via Zoom Saturday October 22, 2022, 8:30-10:30 am PT (9:30 to 11:30 am MT, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm CT, 11:30-1:30 pm […]
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Contemplative Walks
The Centering Prayer group at St. Thomas More parish in Sarasota, Florida, USA, started doing one hour contemplative walks on a Saturday afternoon in a local wooded area followed […]
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Hosting a Facilitator Workshop
CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH (CO) PITTSBURGH FACILITATOR WORKSHOP CO Pittsburgh planned an in-person Facilitator Workshop in 2019 to introduce the newly-developed online video formation materials for Facilitator Training. A link to […]
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Art as Prayer
Using a few colored pencils, black paper, and a journal our Centering Prayer Group in Hawaii has been responding to the Lectio Divina portion of our weekly Centering Prayer practice […]
Contemplative Group Spiritual Direction via Zoom
by Carol Fryer Editor’s note: Many Centering Prayer group participants experience the organic nature of ongoing soul-friending, a deep witnessing of each other’s journeys during a time of sacred sharing and […]
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Contemplative Group Spiritual Direction via Zoom
Contemplative Group Spiritual Direction via Zoom A conversation with spiritual directors Carol Fryer and Lindsay Boyer Saturday, March 26th, 2pm to 3:30pm Eastern Time Group spiritual direction can be a […]
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Zoom Prayer and Support: How Two Meditation Chapel Groups Meet the Need for Contemplative Community in Our Virtual Age
Two years ago Contemplative Outreach hosted a Global Introductory Workshop on Centering Prayer in the midst of the pandemic. Several hundred people from around the world tuned in to […]
