Contemplative Programs by Shalem Graduates
The programs listed here are offered by graduates of Shalem's extension programs and are provided as a service for people looking for spiritual formation opportunities. They are not sponsored by the Shalem Institute. Contact each event directly to find out more information or to register -- you cannot register for these events through Shalem.
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For a directory of spiritual retreat and conference centers, go to http://www.findthedivine.com, integrated with http://www.seekaretreat.com, a directory of retreat events, retreat leaders and spiritual advisors.
Spiritual Directors International also has a resource list of global retreat centers at http://www.sdiworld.org/retreat_centers.html
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District of Columbia
Event: Listening to the Land: A Meditation in Green with St. Patrick
Dates: March 17, 2012
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Place: Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC 20009
Cost: $35
Details: "I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time.” St. Patrick’s spiritual awakening came not in a church but in the forests and hills of Ireland, where he was a slave tending sheep. Celtic spirituality is an invitation to listen for wisdom in many ways, by quieting our souls, in chanting and sacred text, and also in the very land we walk. Welcome the re-greening of the earth in this season by listening to what the land remembers.
Leader: Sue Mosher, graduate of Shalem’s Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program.
Contact: Sue Mosher at 703-241-9828 or
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. To register, visit the Cathedral’s web site at http://www.nationalcathedral.org/visit/calendar.shtml
Maine
Event: Aging with Spirit
Dates: Friday, March 2, 2012 to Saturday March 2, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM Friday to 4:00 PM Saturday
Place: Living Water Spiritual Center, 93 Halifax Street, Winslow, ME 04901
Cost: $85, includes Saturday breakfast and lunch
Details: As we age, everything shifts and changes—including our spiritual lives. Some changes are subtle, some fairly dramatic. We will look at how aging, living the last part of our lives and facing their inevitable end, affects our spiritual lives. What becomes more—and less?—important to us? What images of old age do we carry? What do we most deeply want in the last part of our lives, and what might God want for us? What does it mean to seek and find wholeness in the last years of our lives?
Leader: Karen Foley, a graduate of both Shalem's Spiritual Guidance and Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreat Programs, is a Unitarian Universalist minister who served congregations in Massachusetts before retiring to Maine. She regularly offers spiritual direction, retreats, meditation/prayer groups and congregational pastoral care consultation.
Contact: www.retreatinmaine.com or
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or 207-872-2370
Maryland
Event: Group Spiritual Direction
Dates: October 6, 2011 through May 3, 2012, meeting monthly on Thursday evenings, 6:00-9:00 pm
Place: Hagerstown Church of the Brethren, 15 S. Mulberry Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740
Cost: Donation
Details: A small group experience in spiritual direction based on the Shalem model of group spiritual direction. A process is facilitated where a small group gathers regularly to support each other in an ongoing responsiveness to God in all of life, based on the belief that in Christ, God enters our pain and joy. It is open to all, both lay and clergy. Participants are asked to read Henri Nouwen’s Spiritual Formation through the year.
Leaders: Ed Poling, Church of the Brethren pastor and spiritual director, and Don Evason, United Church of Christ minister, retired hospital chaplain, and spiritual director.
Contact:
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Massachusetts
Event: Aging with Spirit
Dates: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Time: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM; coffee at 9:00 AM
Place: Rolling Ridge Retreat and Conference Center, 660 Great Pond Road, Andover, MA 01845
Cost: $53, early registration; $60, after 1/31/12; includes lunch
Details: As we age, everything shifts and changes—including our spiritual lives. Some changes are subtle, some fairly dramatic. We will look at how aging, living the last part of our lives and facing their inevitable end, affects our spiritual lives. What becomes more—and less?—important to us? What images of old age do we carry? What do we most deeply want in the last part of our lives, and what might God want for us? What does it mean to seek and find wholeness in the last years of our lives?
Leader: Karen Foley, a graduate of both Shalem's Spiritual Guidance and Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreat Programs, is a Unitarian Universalist minister who served congregations in Massachusetts before retiring to Maine. She regularly offers spiritual direction, retreats, meditation/prayer groups and congregational pastoral care consultation.
Contact: www.rollingridge.org or
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or 978-682-8815
North Carolina
Event: Sacred Listening: Group Spiritual Direction
Dates: March 11-14, 2012
Place: Montreat Conference Center in Montreat, North Carolina
Details: Sacred listening as practiced in group spiritual direction is a unique and powerful way of tending to the Spirit of God in our daily lives. Gathered in circles of 5 or 6, we listen for the deep stirrings of the Spirit, who is alive within, among and around us in ever surprising and transforming ways. This class will explore the assumptions and process of group spiritual direction with special attention to the contemplative grounding which undergirds this spiritual practice. Presentations will address the following themes: listening, discernment, intercessory prayer, contemplative presence, and spiritual community as well as address practical tools for forming and facilitating sacred listening circles in local areas.
Leaders: Lalor Cadley, Ann Kline, and Patience Robbins
Contact: This class is sponsored by Columbia Theological Seminary and all are welcome. For more information, click here.
Virginia
Event: Contemplative Prayer Drop-in Group
Dates: Third Monday of each month
Time: 7:30 to 9PM.
Place: Providence Presbyterian Church, 9019 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, VA
Cost: No charge; occasional donations.
Details: The time includes brief introductions, opening prayer, some relaxation movements, the evening's presentation, 15 minutes of silence, journal-keeping and small group sharing. There is a closing intercessory prayer circle to name our concerns aloud or silently.
Leaders: Ann Kulp is a spiritual director, retreat leader, member of the Shalem Institute's associate staff, and author of SPIRIT WINDOWS, A Handbook of Spiritual Growth Resources for Leaders.
Contact: Ann Kulp at 703-978-9078 or
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Event: Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Christian Meditation
Dates & Time: Every Tuesday evening from 7-7:45pm
Place: St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, 1830 Kirby Road, McLean, VA 22101
Cost: Free
Details: This is for anyone seeking a deeper relationship with God in a silent gathering. Contemplative prayer is simply a wordless, trusting, opening of self to the divine presence. St. John of the Cross instructs us that 'silence is the first language of God.' Come, be supported in your desire for God. No experience needed. All are welcome. Come as you are able.
Leaders: Maureen Jenkins, graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program Class of 2007. 703-356-1881. No registration needed.
Event: Contemplative Prayer Workshop
Dates: March 22, 2012
Time: 2 to 5 PM
Place: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, 709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton, VA 22124
Cost: Included in the registration for the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival, or $25 for the single event.
Details: This workshop is aimed at both newcomers to contemplative prayer and those who may have been practicing centering prayer or a similar discipline for some time. Our time together will include silence, reflection, and sharing.
Leader: Sue Mosher, graduate of Shalem’s Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program.
Contact: Sue Mosher at 703-241-9828 or
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. To register, visit the UUCF Revival web site at http://www.uuchristian.org/revival/index.html
Austria
Event: Kairos Platzl
Dates: Ongoing
Time: Mondays and Fridays from 20-21h. for meditation in the chapel. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11h. and 20-21h.
Place: 5505 Mühlbach am Hochkönig, Mandlwandstrasse 437 AUSTRIA
Cost: Please call or email for a place. The seating is limited. You may also make a private appointment.
Details: “Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment(the supreme moment). The Acient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of indeterminate time in which something special happens. What that special something is depends on the individual. While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative nature.” (Wikipedia)
Clair and Rainer Ullmann moved ten years ago to this beautiful area in Austria. They always dreamed of a place where they could invite people to come and be, to enjoy nature, inhale the fresh mountain air, be reconnected with nature, listen to the voice within, and recharge their “batteries.” The time has come, the “Platzl” is prepared and the invitation is extended.
As locals we are often blind to what is in front of us. For visitors to our region, this is a unique welcome to begin their holiday: to prepare their bodies, minds, and spirits for the energy and radiance of Hochkoenig. It is an invitation to live more fully into this experience of nature as they hike, rest, and enjoy this mountain lifestyle.
Come and visit this special “Platzl" and feel the peace that Clair and Rainer have found here. It offers rest, time to be, words of encouragement and reflection.
Time is precious. You are precious. Come and join us in this informal and relaxed atmosphere as we breathe in this “Kairos.” Discover who you are and where you are being led. Clair is waiting to welcome you. This is a free gift!
Leader: Clair Ullmann is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program and currently a Shalem board member.
Contact: Cell: +43 664533 3530; Home: +43 6467 20 107; Email:
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; www.members.aon.at/ullmann-map