Confirmation Retreat:   Colour Outside the Lines, Unravel Faith, Resurrect Hope and Create Radical Beauty on Earth A retreat to support & enrich the confirmation process of your congregation. For both youth & leaders. Come, share the journey! Five Oaks, in partnership with the United Church and the Anglican Church, is offering a Confirmation program. This …
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How many times in your life have you realized it was better to let go of something–some job, some habit, or someone–rather than keep it in your life? This is a wonderful time to allow more space for Spirit by letting go of what no longer serves us. Sometimes this releasing is just pulling our …
View course details “The Spiritual Practice of Letting Go”

Wild Christ, Wild Earth, Wild Self.  An introduction to Seminary of the Wild Guest Speaker: Mirabai Starr Remember your deep belonging to the enchanted world by reconnecting with your senses, body, emotions, imagination, and Earth as sacred kin. Deconstruct the distortions of domestication and indoctrination that have limited your personal and the church’s collective experience …
View course details “Wild Christ, Wild Earth, Wild Self: A Nature Based Introduction to Seminary of the Wild Guest Speaker: Mirabai Starr”

Thomas Merton is one of the most famous and influential Christian writers who ever lived. In this retreat we will inquire into the spiritual evolution of his life, which includes excerpts from several of his books and documentaries on his life. We will learn about his early bohemian life, including the many places and mythical …
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The mystical path is the very ground of our being, but one cannot traverse it when they are spiritually asleep and/or hypnotized by the social/technological world. A true mystical experience not only unshackles the mind from religious conditioning and dogmas but also enlightens the mystic beyond any secular view of the world and opens the …
View course details “Journey to the God of Love”

The primary purpose of this weekend is to be a retreat: we want to give youth ages 13-18 the chance to take a breath in amongst the beauty of Sorrento Centre in the winter. We’ll also be taking time to gather as a community for inspiring worship, some great games and meals together. You’ll hear from …
View course details “Winter Retreat – Diocesan Youth Ministry”

The 8-Day Directed Retreat provides you with individual direction in an environment of silence and prayer. A spiritual director meets with you each day, listens as you share your prayer experiences, helps you reflect on them and discover the path God is revealing to you. This facilitates a deepening of your relationships with God. These …
View course details “8-Day Directed Retreat”

The 8-Day Directed Retreat provides you with individual direction in an environment of silence and prayer. A spiritual director meets with you each day, listens as you share your prayer experiences, helps you reflect on them and discover the path God is revealing to you. This facilitates a deepening of your relationships with God. These …
View course details “8-Day Directed Retreat”

The 8-Day Directed Retreat provides you with individual direction in an environment of silence and prayer. A spiritual director meets with you each day, listens as you share your prayer experiences, helps you reflect on them and discover the path God is revealing to you. This facilitates a deepening of your relationships with God. In …
View course details “Holy Week Retreat”

By Patricia Campbell Carlson, Br. David Steindl-Rast, Margaret Wakeley Grateful living as a valid spiritual practice opens the door to what in the Christian tradition have been called the three “Divine Virtues.” They are good habits that have become second nature and connect us to the deepest reality of life, the divine spark within us. …
View course details “Trusting In Life – 2020 (Online)”