Listening for the Heartbeat of God – G190514 Please note that our 2018 workshop price structure packages your tuition, workshop materials, lodging and meals together in a single rate. Prices are presented for each of the types of lodging available for the workshop you select. All rates are Per Person, Double Occupancy unless otherwise specified. …
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Icon Writing – G190402CDS Workshop ID: G190402CDS Dates: April 7, 2019 – April 13, 2019 Price: $595.00 – $1,475.00 An icon is a valuable spiritual aid in prayer, meditation, and contemplation. Learn the ancient art of Byzantine Icon ‘writing’ using classical painting methods of transfer drawing, egg tempera laying, and gold leaf guilding. In residence for the week at Casa del Sol, …
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Landscapes and Soulscapes: Walking Meditation Adventures Through Camino Divina – G190101 Workshop ID: G190101 Dates: December 29, 2018 – January 2, 2019 Price: $395.00 – $1,065.00 This interactive workshop will help you explore in greater depth a richer, deeper relationship with the land and yourself. You will be enriched by thoughtful and joyful practices that help you connect more meaningfully wherever you …
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The Art of Spiritual Direction Cohort IX Session 1 Workshop ID: G181025 Dates: November 5 – November 12, 2018 Price: $0.00 To learn more about Stillpoint Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program, contact Ravi Verma at Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality, 323.340.8036. Ravi Verma will be happy to discuss the program with you personally. Applications and reservations will be accepted …
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Grateful: The Radical Practice for Personal and Political Transformation – G18101 Workshop ID: G18101 Dates: October 5 – October 7, 2018 Price: $399.00 – $1,100.00   Based on her new book, Grateful, Diana Butler Bass explores the spiritual practices of thanksgiving. Looking at gratitude as both a transforming emotion and a radical ethical practice, she takes …
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Offered by Mary Ellen Ashcroft Friday, October 5 – Saturday, October 6, 2018 $155   During this retreat we will explore how our god images must change as we reshape our broken stories within life’s realities. We will delve into our own life thresholds that have forced us to retell our stories. We will consider god …
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July 2, 2019 – July 4, 2019 | Five Oaks Retreat Center – Paris, Ontario, Canada Year II ‘The Song of the Sacred Earth’ In 2016, John Philip Newell founded the School of Celtic Consciousness. He did so in the belief that Celtic wisdom is needed at this moment in time, urgently. It is a …
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“Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?” – The Gift of Growing Older: April 6, 2019 Saturday, April 6, 2019 (9:00 am-12:15 pm, doors open at 8:45 am) Leader: Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE A trove of gifts come with age in our age-phobic culture: wisdom, a kind of deep seeing; freedom in not being …
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Cultivating the Gift of Patience: February 9, 2019 Saturday, February 9, 2019 (9:00 am-12:15 pm; doors open at 8:40 am) Leader: Br. David Vryhof, SSJE According to Trappist monk and author Michael Casey, in Western Monasticism patienceis seen as the “principal battleground” where we work out our salvation.  It is “the practical expression of faith and …
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Introduction to Centering Prayer: October 20, 2018 Saturday, October 20, 2018 (9:00 am-3:00 pm; includes lunch; doors open at 8:40 am) Leader: Br. Keith Nelson, SSJE Centering prayer is a gentle practice of silent, spacious communion with God through consent to God’s abiding presence within.  Grounded solidly in the Western Christian contemplative tradition, its subtle …
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