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Winter - Spring 2009 - 2010

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Mary is the central figure of the Incarnation. Her fiat allowed the embodiment of Christ into our world. This weekend retreat will invite us to wrestle with our choices, our capability to cooperate with the Divine initiative, as well as our capacity to sabotage the good news.

Begins Friday at 7:30 p.m. and concludes with lunch at noon on Sunday. Resident with private room $325; Semi-private room $300; Commuter with meals $275; Commuter without meals $200. Deposit $50. Balance due ten days prior to start of program.

Friday, December 11, 6:00 pm – Sunday December 13, 10:00 am brunch
Fee: $200

Saturday, January 9, 2010
9:30 am – 3:30 pm $75 includes lunch

You must be registered by December 31, 2009.
There are no walk-ins for this workshop.  

We are all recovering from various forms of perfectionism. This workshop will look at new ways of understanding the journey towards God as rooted in imperfection, struggle, and addictions. The need for God comes through failure and brokenness. The paradox of the soul lives in the wounding and healing.

Sunday, January 10, 2010
9:30 am – 3:30 pm, $60

Please bring a bag lunch
Walk-ins are welcome

The ego must participate in living its destiny by making choices. This workshop, from a Jungian-Christian perspective, wrestles with the voices of inflation, deflation and despair. The individuation process and our journey to God demand an authentic encounter with temptation and the ethical task of choosing life and living it to the full.

Saturday, January 16, 2010
9:30 am – 3:30 pm, $60

Please bring a bag lunch
Walk-ins are welcome

In a life, for every door chosen, several are closed.  We cannot live every possibility, every natural inclination, and every gift of God.  This workshop will examine the gift of joy in the paradox of accepting limited choices, roads not taken, and the grief and freedom from the unlived life.

Sunday, January 17, 2010
9:30 am – 3:30 pm, $60

Please bring a bag lunch
Walk-ins are welcome

To reconcile, to forgive self and others is a continual call for spiritual transformation and conversion. This day will focus on the soul’s need for reconciliation from one-sidedness, hurts and memories. The process of forgiveness will be presented from both a Jungian and Christian context.

Time:  9:30 am-3:30 pm
Cost:  $45; Deposit: $20

The internship in giving the directed retreat is designed to complement and deepen the skills of spiritual directors, pastoral ministers, chaplains and formation directors.  The practicum is for persons who have made an individually directed retreat and completed a training program.

Call for fee information and application.  Must apply two weeks prior to session.:  
Office hours - Monday--Friday 9:30 am - 4:00 pm 
(845) 876-4178, ext. 301 

Vocation is a soul invitation to live in alignment with God's will.  This is living in the spirit of discernment and listening to a deeper Voice than the ego.  This workshop will examine the art of deep listening and courage necessary to incarnate the invitation.  

Cost $60 includes lunch.  9:30 - 3:30.  Reservation and $10 deposit required.

During these times of financial worry, global anxiety and fear, we can lose ourselves in alienation or fear.  Paradoxically, during this Lenten season we can reclaim a proper rhythm to life including feasting and fasting, work and Sabbath, charity and justice.  This weekend will invite us to transform these hard times into spiritual awakening. 

$200.00  Must register two weeks prior

March 9-10

The theme of the Conference will be: Spiritual Direction, Healing and Recovery Spiritual Directors listen to a growing number of men and women who are recovering from addictions and many forms of abuse and woundedness.

This workshop will look at the unique spiritual transformations and the kind of companioning necessary for spiritual growth and maturity of the Directees and the unique issues of Directors.

Spiritual Directors International Annual Conference

"Gratefulness: The Heart of Spiritual Care"

San Francisco, CA

www.sdiworld.org/

Men have unique issues and ways of being on the spiritual journey. Presentations and opportunities for conversation will assist spiritual directors of both genders to listen to the journey of God from the male experience. Male issues and ways of offering spiritual direction with men will be specifically addressed.

April 11-12: Men's retreat 

Begins at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday with evening meal and continues through 4:00 p.m. on Monday.

Men are conditioned to have answers and to be in control over situations, themselves, and others. As spiritual directors, men listen and process the searching and depth questions of spiritual directees. As spiritual directors we are invited into the land of process, ambivalence, movements, and depth questions. This Institute will assist men to live into the deeper questions of our lives and tend the Mystery present in the questions.

NOTE: The Men’s Institute begins on Sunday evening, April 11, with an evening meal at 6:00 p.m. and concludes on Monday, April 12, at 4:00 p.m.
Cost: USD $140.00 includes Sunday evening meal and Monday midday meal. 

(Must register through the conference.)

What calls us to relationship? What do we do with the deep longings that arise from the solitude of the soul?  This workshop will engage us in pondering the nature of desire and its significance in forming relationships with others and God. We are invited to awaken and channel our desires into depth and meaning. This opens us up to the mystery of Love and Surrender. The presentations will offer insights from the Christian tradition and from Jungian  psychology with time for reflection and discussion.

 Fri, May 7, 7:30pm– Sun, May 9, 1pm

Private Room $230 Shared $210 Commuter $135

We are called to wake up from our sleep, our illusions, and our unconscious selves.  Jung's psychology and Christian spirituality comment on the nature of authentic life.  This workshop will look at the mystery of becoming fully alive by embracing our limits and dying.

Cost $60, includes lunch. 9:30 - 3:30. Reservation and $10 deposit required.

More Information Available Early Summer