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Presentation
Center Retreat
Days in Meditative Writing Saturday, July 17 | Saturday, August 14 Cost: $45 includes
lunch, $33 Sisters Experience daylong retreats in meditative writing, each of which includes time for silence, reflection, meditative writing, and spiritual conversation in an atmosphere that honors the privacy of each participant. No previous experience of meditative writing is necessary. These days will provide you with an experience of a life-based spirituality and a tool that will help you begin or deepen your meditative practice. You may attend either of these offerings, or deepen and expand your inner work by attending both of them. You can extend and enhance this retreat experience by planning to spend a day in solitude at the Center either before or after the day of retreat. The Presenter: Fr. Francis Dorff, O. Praem., is a priest of the Norbertine Community who lives in retirement at the Norbertine Hermitage Retreat in Albuquerque, NM. Fr. Fran is a former chaplain at Presentation Center and often returns here as a retreatant. He has taught philosophy and theology at both graduate and undergraduate levels, and presently serves as retreat master and spiritual director. He is a specialist in the practice of meditative writing, the founder of the Center for Life Process Awareness, and the author of eight books on living spiritually. He has just completed writing Memoirs of a Misfit: A Soliloquy, which is currently being considered for publication by Paulist Press. Fr. Fran holds a licentiate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and a doctorate summa cum laude in philosophical theology from the Institute Catholique in Paris. The Flowering of the Cross: Meditating Your Way Through Hard Times Saturday, July 17 , 2010 Underneath all the words of the Bible a river of life-giving water flows through depression and suffering to celebrating, service, and a whole new creative quality of living. In this day of retreat we will meditatively follow the flow of that river to discover where it may lead in our own personal experience. Walking in a Sacred Way: Living Creatively in a Broken World Saturday, August 14, 2010 How can we learn to walk peacefully and creatively through these times of such great discord and violence? We will spend this day meditatively walking in a sacred way so that we may be channels of peace and reconciliation in the badly broken world in which we live. This day can help you experience your own life and the nature of other religions in a very new and creative way. Back to Calendar Awakening
Your Energy Spirit: Transforming Life with the Enneagram and Body Wellness
Practices Presented by: Presentation Center
& Capacitar International What is it like to be fully alive, centered and present to each moment, awakened in your energy spirit? This interactive workshop will offer tools ancient and new to awaken and reconnect with your deep wisdom and capacities of body, mind and spirit. Integrating Enneagram theory and body-based wellness practices, the program will empower participants in a process of recognizing and unfolding their inherent energy capacity in their personal lives, relationships, and work to live with integrity and to be of service in the larger world. About Patricia Cane—Patricia Mathes Cane, Ph.D. is founder/director of Capacitar, an international project of empowerment and solidarity focused on personal and societal healing and transformation. Pat has 21 years experience working with professional and grassroots groups teaching wellness practices to thousands of people in 30 countries –in the US, the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Midde East and Asia. She has a Ph.D. in Multicultural Wellness Education from The Union Institute and University, and is author of Trauma Healing and Transformation and other Capacitar manuals. www.capacitar.org About Desmond Raftery—Desmond Raftery MPS, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a spiritual director. He holds dual Bachelor Degrees in the Arts and in Theology from St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, Ireland and two-master degrees in Social Work and in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University, Chicago. Des is a certified EMDR trauma therapist, a certified Imago Relational Therapist, a certified hypnotherapist, a family and divorce mediator and has presented workshops and retreats in Ireland, Great Britain, West Africa and the US. He is a social worker with the Elk Grove Village, Illinois Police Department and maintains a private practice. |
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