Retreats, Workshops and Presentations

Retreats can be customized for your group and may be delivered in half day, full day or weekend formats.

Women's Retreats | Film and Faith | Professional Development Days
Single Adult | Single Parents | Creation Spirituality

Women’s Retreats

WHoly Handiwork
Handling so much throughout our days, we can often forget that we are held in the hands of God. This retreat looks at the many ways our hands serve to hold and help others as well as ourselves. Guided by scripture, prayer, journaling, dialogue and discussion, experience how God’s hands hold us in loving and lasting ways, giving birth to hope.

Wise, Wild, Wondrous: Recapturing our True Soul Nature
Often, without our knowing, our soul can lose luster and become dry and listless. During this women’s retreat, using ancient legends, scripture and story we will rediscover ways of recapturing our souls innate vibrancy, inner wisdom, beauty and wild creativity. A weekend of dialogue, prayer and ritual.

Mother’s Day Retreat—Patterns & Practices: Raising Persons of Peace
All too often, amidst the confusion of our chaotic family schedules, we can lose sight of the love that created our togetherness in the first place. This retreat will look at the many subtle, yet practical ways the “mother in us all” can instill a calming and Spirit-filled presence at the hub of family life.

Mother’s Day Retreat--Embracing Mother
Explore the varied ways we celebrate what it means to be “Mother” — Mother God, Mother Mary, Mother Earth, as well as “Mom.” Look at how we mother ourselves, others, and the world around us. Through story, scripture, discussion and meditation, experience the care and loving embrace of ..Mother!

Mother’s Day Retreat —“Mother GAIA, Mother Me”
A weekend for daughters, mothers, grandmothers (and those who have become mothers to you). Explore our interconnectedness with Mother Earth and the “mother that lives in each of us. Celebrate the deep spiritual roots of our lives by looking at our Earth our Bodies and our Souls as mother!

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Film and Faith

Video Divina: Film as Sacred Emissary
In the first Century , the Desert Fathers developed the practice of reflecting on sacred biblical texts to deepen their spiritual lives. Today, film, the medium of our time, can also be a tool and a practice to fortify our faith. Using film clips, scripture, prayer, reflections, small and large group discussions, discover how film can offer sacred gifts for spiritual growth.

Movies and Musicals: Media that Matter
An insightful look at the medium of movies and musicals, which, if we’re alert, can carry a sense of the sacred into our lives. Explore the artistry of an old classic, “Showboat.” Revel in the Broadway hit, “Ragtime.” View the endearing movie “Cinema Paradiso,” watching for Spirit to emerge in each.

Professional Development Days

Professional Development Days for RN’s and LVN’s
To be developed based upon organizational needs.

Worn Down, Yet Bearing Up
A day of renewal for the chronically ill and caregivers. Focusing on the spiritual, mental, physical, and psychological dimensions of living with a chronic condition, this day will provide strategies for adapting to diminishing capacities and changing circumstances, with ways to build courage and foster hope.

Single Adult

Party of One
Can you relate to solitary dinners, watching movies by yourself, or feeling left out of social events targeted for families or couples? This retreat looks at loneliness, fulfillment, vocation, relationships, dimensions of being single, silent heart decisions, sexuality and other issues that relate to living alone.

A Simple Joy
“Tis a gift to be simple…’tis a gift to be free…’tis a gift to come down where you want to be…” Is it … as a single person? Or are you singing a different tune? Pray, play, journal, discuss and explore the different tunes single persons sing.

Resounding Resolutions —
Making Resolutions that Reverberate Through our Lives

Designed for weekends prior to the New Year. “Some high notes, some low...a melody is born of these.” This New Years weekend, gather with other single adults to discuss goals, desires and dreams for the year ahead. Discover ways that the highs and lows of our lives can create a true symphony of our journey. Through process, prayer and presentations, explore the many rhythms that await us.

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Single Parents

Doubtfire Daze
Did you ever wish you had a Mrs. Doubtfire to help you? Come discover ways you can incorporate a Mrs. Doubtfire into your life.

A Singular Sensation One Day Retreat
Join other single parents for this festive, faith filled and fun retreat . Gain fresh perspectives on single parenting issues and options. Relax and discover ways you can parent with a peaceful presence and a Spirit-filled center.

Safe Passage One Day Retreat
Gain new perspectives on family issues, discover new spiritual resources and relax with other adults in a quiet, peaceful environment.

Shine Like a Diamond: A Retreat for Single Parents
Ever feel like a piece of coal...dark, dusty, misshapen, under appreciated and under pressure? Single parenting can often feel this way. But when coal can survive enormous pressure, it has the potential of transforming into a diamond! See how you too can become a diamond…”solitaire.”

Creation Spirituality

Cultivating Compassion: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
The seeds of compassion, planted deep within us, sprout when nourished. Till the soil of your soul on this weekend grounded in the four paths of Creation Spirituality. Using scripture, silence, discussion, media, and play, discover the sacred active in your life.

Earth, Water, Wind & Fire: Honoring Our Search for Spirit
Exploring the rich elements of earth, water, wind and fire, see how these images can deepen and enrich our understanding of Spirit’s “spark” in our deepest selves, and how responding can lead to radiant life and living.

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