This retreat offers two tracks simultaneously: Intensive and Post Intensive. All participants will have 3 sets of two 30-minute periods of Centering Prayer daily. The Intensive retreat will watch video talks from Fr. Thomas Keating’s The Contemplative Dimension of the Twelve Steps. The Post Intensive retreat has no videos and an additional hour of Centering Prayer each day. If this is your first Centering Prayer retreat of this length, we suggest you choose the Intensive track. Tracks may be repeated multiple times. Optional: Lectio Divina and a contemplative Eucharist will be offered daily, as well as optional soul-friending with the 12-Step staff.
Pre-requisite: Active participation in a 12-Step Program and a daily practice of centering prayer for 6 months or longer.
Event Details
Check-in: Wednesday, October 6, from 2pm - 4pm
Opening session: 4:15pm
Ends: Thursday, October 14, 10:30am
Cost: $1,440 (includes program, meals, and lodging)
A $100 non-refundable & non-transferrable deposit is required to reserve your space.
Registration deadline: September 22, 2027
Scholarship funding is available. Apply here.
About the Facilitators
The retreat will be facilitated by 12-Step Contemplative Outreach Staff.
See Centering Prayer webpage: https://www.mercycenter.org/centering-prayer-retreats for facilitator bios and for an airport shuttle.
For more information, contact: Marty Badgett at (650) 862-5451 or mbadgettexas@gmail.com
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