Fall 2016 contemplative offerings
Cherry Haisten
Happy autumn greetings to all of you Centering Pray-ers!
Here are a few opportunities coming up to refresh and/or deepen your contemplative experience:
1. October 3-28. Contemplative Outreach is offering its third online Welcoming Prayer course through Spirituality and Practice. Hundreds of people have benefitted from the earlier two online classes, which they found to be helpful in establishing and deepening the practice of Welcoming Prayer in their lives. I will be joining other members of the Contemplative Outreach Welcoming Prayer team, Therese Saulnier, Mary Dwyer, and Jim McElroy, to facilitate this virtual class. Please see the attached flyer or go to http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ecourses/course/view/10165/embracing-living-the-welcoming-prayer for more information.
2. October 1. Longtime Centering Prayer practitioner and presenter Carolyn Wyman will be offering a long morning Centering Prayer introductory workshop on the first Saturday in October at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Bellevue.
3. October 22. Contemplative Outreach Northwest presenters-in-training Pam Wilder and Michael Stuart will be presenting a long morning Centering Prayer introductory workshop later in October at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Seattle.
4. November 4-6. The Priory Spirituality Center in Lacey, WA, will host a silent Centering Prayer retreat facilitated by Kay Kukowski and Mary Solberg. These semi-annual weekend retreats have been a staple of the Priory and Contemplative Outreach NW for many years. They are a wonderful weekend refresher to ground your Centering Prayer in more silence than you can manage day to day, and they can also serve as a trial run for a longer silent retreat. Consider giving yourself the gift of this peaceful retreat this fall. For more information, go to website www.stplacid.org and click on Spirituality Programs.
Please note that the October Centering Prayer introductory workshops are suitable for everyone from beginners with no prior experience to longtime practitioners who want to review and renew their practice and to support newcomers. It is always enriching to all to have a mixed group at these workshops, so feel free to come yourself and to invite anyone you think might be interested.
The online Welcoming Prayer class is particularly suitable for those with a Centering Prayer practice who want to take their consent more solidly into the activities of everyday life. But it is also a possibility for people with other kinds of meditation practice or even no practice at all if they feel the Spirit calling them. (We know that Holy Spirit works in mysterious ways!)
The weekend retreat at the Priory is appropriate for anyone with a Centering Prayer practice, whether longstanding or one month!
You will find information attached about each of these programs. Please feel free to write me if you have any questions or if I can help you in any way. Hope that you will find what you are seeking to deepen your relationship with God and free you to be peace in daily life.
Many blessings for this autumn,
cherry
Cherry Haisten
Contemplative Outreach Northwest Coordinator
415 16th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112
206-726-3074 home
206-909-1736 cell