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THE SPIRITUALITY OF
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Our Lady of Calvary Retreat Center
Sisters of the Cross and Passion
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Practicing Engagement In Our Every Day Lives
Friday, June 3 - Sunday, June 5, 2016
Our Lady of Calvary Retreat Center
31 Colton Street
Farmington, CT 06032
Our Lady of Calvary Retreat Center
31 Colton Street
Farmington, CT 06032
Spirituality is at heart about authentic relationship. Yet it seems it is a human struggle to show up and relate with our best values in real time moments, with God or with others.
This practical retreat will help you better engage those Sacred everyday moments, family, workplace, community, with greater presence and possibility.
During this engaging weekend:.
This practical retreat will help you better engage those Sacred everyday moments, family, workplace, community, with greater presence and possibility.
During this engaging weekend:.
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Join us to explore the spiritual underpinnings and experience a practice that has been used successfully worldwide for nearly 20 years in both faith-based and secular settings from the method's founder and principal teacher. This can profoundly change the way you engage and be in relationship with others while helping you to more deeply become aware of your genuine self; the one that God created you to be.
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Contemplative Dialogue
Contemplative Dialogue provides individuals and groups a greater ability to engage, relate and overcome the challenges they collectively face, and to do so with integrity and compassion.
It creates ways of drawing on what is best and most essential in each of us, and creates trustworthy ways to bring that into our relationships, the work of our organizations and our individual lives. It supports a spirituality that seeks God in all life, and trusts that Spirit seeks us in healthy relationship.
Contemplative Dialogue was created in the early 1990’s in the context of a spiritual direction training community that recognized that holiness alone did not prepare us for life in the world. Asking the question, ‘How might Spirit be drawing us to relate with one another in the realities of our daily lives?’ led us to a broader and richer understanding of what it means to be contemplative, and practices that support us living more deeply in relationship with one another.
It further created a trustworthy way to engage the ‘collective spirit’ of a group or community.
Allowing us to engage the ‘Us,’ the Body of Christ in more discerning and healthy fashion.
Intentionally engaging this powerful common ground transforms how an community does what it does. The change is not artificial, but rooted in the deep human potential that resides within each of us.
Contemplative Dialogue (and Active Engagement as it is known in government and non-faith-based settings) has spread in life-changing ways from Australia to Africa, in monasteries and government agencies, from the way forest firefighters engage one another, to how child service agencies operate in Kingston, Jamaica. It has touched families, relationships, communities and many of the challenging issues of our day.
“Contemplative Dialogue is an attitude and practice of being attentive and open to the mystery of life around us in a way that allows us to know it more intimately, more productively, and with far richer understanding. It is a way of being in relationship to the ordinary reality about us that makes available not just the visible and material qualities but also the less tangible depths that lie hidden beneath mundane appearances.
Contemplative Dialogue opened my inner eyes to how such explorations could be enhanced and deepened by understanding and changing the way one interacts with others, individually and in groups.”
-- Dave Imbrogno. Naturalist, artist, organizational leader, practicing CD since 2002.
Click here for more detailed information on the foundations and method of Contemplative Dialogue.
It creates ways of drawing on what is best and most essential in each of us, and creates trustworthy ways to bring that into our relationships, the work of our organizations and our individual lives. It supports a spirituality that seeks God in all life, and trusts that Spirit seeks us in healthy relationship.
Contemplative Dialogue was created in the early 1990’s in the context of a spiritual direction training community that recognized that holiness alone did not prepare us for life in the world. Asking the question, ‘How might Spirit be drawing us to relate with one another in the realities of our daily lives?’ led us to a broader and richer understanding of what it means to be contemplative, and practices that support us living more deeply in relationship with one another.
It further created a trustworthy way to engage the ‘collective spirit’ of a group or community.
Allowing us to engage the ‘Us,’ the Body of Christ in more discerning and healthy fashion.
Intentionally engaging this powerful common ground transforms how an community does what it does. The change is not artificial, but rooted in the deep human potential that resides within each of us.
Contemplative Dialogue (and Active Engagement as it is known in government and non-faith-based settings) has spread in life-changing ways from Australia to Africa, in monasteries and government agencies, from the way forest firefighters engage one another, to how child service agencies operate in Kingston, Jamaica. It has touched families, relationships, communities and many of the challenging issues of our day.
“Contemplative Dialogue is an attitude and practice of being attentive and open to the mystery of life around us in a way that allows us to know it more intimately, more productively, and with far richer understanding. It is a way of being in relationship to the ordinary reality about us that makes available not just the visible and material qualities but also the less tangible depths that lie hidden beneath mundane appearances.
Contemplative Dialogue opened my inner eyes to how such explorations could be enhanced and deepened by understanding and changing the way one interacts with others, individually and in groups.”
-- Dave Imbrogno. Naturalist, artist, organizational leader, practicing CD since 2002.
Click here for more detailed information on the foundations and method of Contemplative Dialogue.
Weekend Lead By
Steven Wirth, originator of the Contemplative Dialogue practice, experienced Spiritual Director,
trainer and Director of the Centre for Contemplative Dialogue. His 25 year real world experience of helping people find hope and Spirit in their lives through this practice has taken him to diverse cultural professional, religious and international settings finding meaningful connections throughout.
Also Mike Smoolca, a Spiritual Director, active in ministries in his parish. Mike is an experienced
contemplative group and workshop facilitator and dedicated student of Contemplative practices and has been studying Contemplative Dialogue with Steve for the past 3 years.
trainer and Director of the Centre for Contemplative Dialogue. His 25 year real world experience of helping people find hope and Spirit in their lives through this practice has taken him to diverse cultural professional, religious and international settings finding meaningful connections throughout.
Also Mike Smoolca, a Spiritual Director, active in ministries in his parish. Mike is an experienced
contemplative group and workshop facilitator and dedicated student of Contemplative practices and has been studying Contemplative Dialogue with Steve for the past 3 years.