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SeekaRetreat - Massachusetts retreats, retreat workshops, programs and events. Directory of retreat leaders and spiritual directors and coaches. Retreats include themes with topics including: spiritual retreats, religious retreats, healing, yoga, self improvement etc...
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Massachusetts is the most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by New York (W), Vermont and New Hampshire (N), the Atlantic Ocean (E) and Rhode Island and Connecticut (S).
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Retreat Centers with Scheduled Retreats
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A Place of Peace and Renewal
Rolling Ridge is a retreat and conference center open to people of all faiths, and to a wide variety of groups and individuals who seek a time of rest and reflection, who desire new resources for living, who long for space to listen or to plan and create.
Rolling Ridge sponsors monthly retreats and programs focusing on spiritual formation and hosts many groups for day or overnight events. Private rooms for personal retreats are also available.
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The 38 acres of woods, rolling hills and lakefront and the 40 room Georgian estate provide the setting and accommodations for you or your group. Rolling Ridge is a ministry of the New England Conference, United Methodist Church. The Director, Rev. Larry J. Peacock, and the staff look forward to meeting you.
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The idea of a retreat is nothing new or radical. The impulse to retire from the confusion of complex life, to break away from well-worn habit, to escape the demands of ordinary life and to seek a place apart to rest, reflect and renew has always lain at the heart of the spiritual journey.
Within the Judeo-Christian tradition, we see how Jesus often withdrew to a quiet place to pray and urged his disciples to go apart and reflect about their mission.
Time away to look back and remember is one of the best ways to catch a glimpse of the activity of God, to discover the meaning of life's experiences, to find hints of new directions.
Making a retreat, like most spiritual experiences, is a journey into solitude, then back into the human circle.
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The Philosophy Foundation is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to spiritual development. Since 1972 our members have explored how to live more consciously and joyfully in the midst of life's complexities, inspired by the advice from modern sages of the Advaita Vedanta tradition.
We invite you to share the practical essence of this wisdom - whose themes of unity, goodness, and reason run through virtually every enduring philosophy, religion and spiritual tradition.
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For more information on these retreats and other courses and workshops offered,
please visit our website www.philosophyfoundation.org/ or call us at 781-647-0020.
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The Empty Bell is a sanctuary for the study and practice of Christian meditation and prayer, giving special attention to the Christian-Buddhist dialogue. Our purpose is to learn the history and practice of the Christian contemplative path as it is rooted in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, and to explore its common ground with other faiths. We cultivate artistic expressions of spiritual insight, and seek ways to embody these insights in compassionate social, environmental and political action.
For more information on upcoming events...
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 THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM
A Retreat with Bernadette Roberts
Glastonbury Abbey
Hingham, Massachusetts
Bernadette Roberts is one of the most extraordinary contemplatives of our time. She began having mystical experiences as a child, and by grace she has lived on this path longer than any known Christian mystic. Living in the unitive state for 30 years in the “marketplace”, she came finally to the experience of “no-self”, and her accounts of the infused understanding of Christian truths that followed are stunning. In Bernadette, now 75, we have a living woman, writing and speaking in the American idiom, who exemplifies in flesh and blood, not New Age sentiment, what actually lies beyond self. This is our journey too.
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Highlighted Retreats
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Event theme: Wellness, Personal Development, Yoga
Event spiritual orienation: Personal Empowerment
Event environment: Ocean
Event overview: One-on-one personal coaching with Dr. Keith Ablow. You will practice in-depth Living the Truth exercises and participate in group activities, like Living the Truth with Yoga, all designed to help you integrate and embrace your truth mentally, emotionally and physically.
Retreat_leader_name: Keith Ablow, M.D.
Keith Ablow, M.D., is a New York Times bestselling author, Fox News Psychiatry Correspondent, contributing editor for Good Housekeeping and Men’s Fitness, and repeat Oprah guest.
He has earned the title, “America’s Psychiatrist” by helping millions of people take control of their lives by understanding the patterns they’ve developed that are firmly
rooted in the past. His transformative strategies are the founding principles for LivingtheTruth.com and are incisively presented in Living the Truth: Transform Your life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty.
Dr. Ablow graduated from Brown University and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is on the faculty of New England Medical Center in Boston.
Whatever the forum, Dr. Ablow’s message is always the same: You can’t outdistance your past. The truth always wins. And you can be a far more powerful person the moment you embrace it.
Retreat leader phone: 866-622-TRUE
Retreat center name: Stage Neck Inn
8 Stage Neck Rd., York Harbor ME 03911
Retreat center telephone: 800-340-1130
Retreat center web site: http://www.stageneck.com/
Contact name: Amber Roback
Contact email: info@keithablow.com
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Healed @ Work Conference
A first of a kind conference to bring god's healing to workplace problems, relationships and issues. Presenters will share their unique approach to healing brokenness in general sessions, then enable you to sample their methods in experiential breakout sessions.
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In addition, trained healing teams will be availabe to minister to those who request it and testimonies from those who have already experienced healing through the ministries supporting our work. Confirmed speakers include: Pastor Dan Lee, H.B. London, John Sanford, Dr. Ed Smith, Michele Wagner and Sunrise Retreats' Ken Unger.
Sturbridge Worship Center
city: Williamsburg
state: MA
telephone: 310-541-9232
email: admin@sunriseretreats.com
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To be Announced, 2008
Weekend Retreat at Hill House
Step out of your hectic routine and into the peace and joy that a weekend of gentle spiritual practice can provide. No previous experience necessary. Guided exercises help you connect with the fundamental unity that is not only within you, but in all beings, and permeating the creation. Includes scheduled activities and quiet personal time. Enjoy the serenity and natural beauty of Hill House, overlooking Halfway Pond in Plymouth, MA. Lake access for swimming and boating, plus acres of woodland trails. Vegetarian meals of freshest ingredients communally prepared and served family style in sun-filled dining area. Dormitory-style and limited private accomodations in lovely 18-room mansion. Friday 8:30 PM through Sunday afternoon.
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For more information on these retreats and other courses and workshops offered, please visit our website www.philosophyfoundation.org/ or call us at 781-647-0020.
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POETRY AS PRAYER -
REFLECTIONS ON THE INCARNATION:
Directed by Rev. James David, M.Div.
For centuries poetry has been one of the sublime expressions of prayer for mystics. In our own day it is a common form of prayer and spiritual expression for many on the spiritual journey. Not all such expressions are published. In fact, few are. But all are deeply felt and cherished instances of spiritual insight for the writer. Poetry celebrates the truth that words are able to point to a reality which they cannot fully capture. The spiritual poet uses words to shed a light upon her or his experience of the "More than mere words can express." In this Advent season of mystery we seek to convene a gathering of such people - those who use poetry as a means to express their experience of the More. If you are a published poet or a one whose poetry is personal you are welcome - it matters only that poetry be a means of prayer for you, and that you are willing to share your prayer with others and allow them to share theirs with you. These Advent days together will include time for silent private prayer as well as group sessions during which we will share poetry and prayer. All poets are welcome.
Rev. Jim David, an author and poet, is one of the Directors of Evensong Retreat Center. Join Jim as he leads participants in these prayerful days of sharing poetry. The retreat begins on Thursday Evening and ends on Sunday at 11:00am. (Mass is available for those who wish at 11:30a.m.)
Fee: $400 per person includes room and board (Commuter fees available – please call).
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INTENSIVE MINISTRY REFLECTION
Reflection Days in 2008
Thursdays
9:30 a.m.—3:00 p.m.
Choose: March 6, May 1
September 4
November 6
Leader: Alice Mann
With the demands of congregational ministry today, it is difficult for clergy
to maintain perspective, energy and self-direction. These professionallyled
ministry reflection days provide a setting where a pastor may receive
both individual and peer support, and regain a sense of clarity.
The structure is simple. Just four pastors will gather with Alice Mann
for a full day of group reflection, individual coaching, and discretionary
time to rest, journal or plan:
9:00—10:15 Prayer and small group sharing
10:30—2:45 Individual coaching sessions
Discretionary Time
Lunch available mid-day
2:45—3:30 Prayer and small-group sharing
You may register for one or more of these reflection days. Appointments
for therapeutic massage may be scheduled during the discretionary
time for an additional fee. For those coming from a distance, or desiring a
longer time apart, overnight guest accommodations may be arranged.
Before joining the staff of the Alban Institute in 1995, Alice Mann served for
two decades in the dual roles of local pastor and nationally recognized
consultant-trainer in the field of parish development. She has worked in depth
with clergy, congregations and denominational staff on challenges such
as incorporating new members; redeveloping struggling churches;
defining denominational roles in growth and revitalization; breaking through size
plateaus; and deepening the congregation’s spirituality.
She frequently assists congregations with self-assessment, long-range planning, and
the development of context-sensitive strategies for growth. In training
workshops, planning retreats, and individual coaching settings, Alice
engages leaders in practical learning and candid conversation about their ministry
choices and opportunities.
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Seeing Who You Really Are Workshop
with Richard Lang
Friday May 30, and an all day workshop, Saturday May 31
Nahant, Mass, USA, about 15 miles north of Boston on the coast
headexchange@gn.apc.org
For more details and registration, contact Linda Tanfani asap at
CenterLane@comcast.net
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The Headless Way offers you a practical, user-friendly way to see Who you really are. This method was developed by the philosopher Douglas Harding. At the heart of this approach are the Experiments - awareness exercises that guide your attention directly to your deepest identity. Visit our web site for more information.
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Seeing Who You Really Are
Who are you really? Richard Lang will guide you through experiments invented by the philosopher Douglas Harding. These experiments test an amazing claim about you - at centre you are absolutely different from what you appear to be from a distance. From several metres you are human, but at centre you are not – you are Awake No-thing that is capacity for everything. Put in more traditional language, in appearance you are human but in reality you are divine. Your True Identity is God, Buddha-Nature, the One Self – choose your name! Richard will not ask you to believe this – he will invite you actually to look into your centre for yourself to see if this claim about you is true. And he will show you how to look into your centre so that you can, during this workshop, see your True Nature. This discovery can change your life. When you see Who you really are, you become one with the Source of all things. What greater discovery is there than this?
 Richard Lang first discovered Who he really is when he attended a workshop with Douglas Harding in 1970. Since then he has devoted his life both to staying awake to his True Nature and to sharing Harding’s experiments that make so available this profoundest of discoveries. He has two books published - Seeing Who You Really Are and Open To The Source. He has written and compiled the content for the website www.headless.org He lives in London, co-ordinating the Shollond Trust – the UK charity set up to share this work. He also works as a psychotherapist, and teaches Tai Chi and Five Rhythms Dance.
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Retreat Calendar
* Enjoy ocean breezes, miles of wooded trails, private beach
* Retreat from the hectic pace of life to a setting of peace
* Walk the Labyrinth
* Experience sacred stillness, nestled on a beach
* Time to relax, explore, nap, dream
* Replenish your spirit, restore balance, reconnect with yourself
* Enjoy inspiration and gathering and sharing with like-hearted
* Activate your energy and reconnect to your gifts
* Tap into your joy, savor, celebrate and acknowledge your life
* In sacred circles of trust, find the sacred in your life
* Situated on 128 acres of forest and waterfront on Cape Cod
 The Recovery Coaches: Kathy Robbins, LICSW, PCC Psychotherapist/Life Coach
Clare Garrity, CPCC Life Coach
Call us at (508) 774-7400 with any questions or Retreat Sign up for a downloadable brochure.
Cost : $300 per person (double occupancy)
Includes Accommodation
Friday 7pm through Sunday 3pm,meals and program
Send To:
Three Cs Coaching & Therapy
C/O Kathy Robbins
P.O. Box 563
W. Barnstable, MA 02668
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 Retreat Title: Discernment Retreat
Spiritual Focus: Roman Catholic
Environment: Good Shepherd Sisters Convent
Sister Rose Behrend
Contemplative Community
88 Bank St.
Harwichport, MA 02646
(508) 432-5582
email: aureenb@aol.com
The Call to Religious Life ~ How do you Know?
“A vocation is inextricably linked with a person’s ‘dream’, that vision of the future than includes the kind of person we want to be…” Daniel Levinson
“The vocation to religious life is a total commitment to Jesus Christ. It is about giving one’s whole life to God…” Sr. Sandra Schneiders
On this discernment retreat we will take a deeper look at the call to religious life, the steps of discernment, and the skills needed to live religious life well.
* What is a call?
* How do you know if God is calling you to religious life?
* What are the signs to look for?
Retreat Leaders: Sr. Debbie Drago
Leader Credentials: Vocation Director
Leader Telephone: 732-946-0515 ext. 422
Leader Web Site: www.goodshepherdsisters.org
Leader Email: srdebbie@optonline.net
Retreat Center: Good Shepherd Sisters Convent
Address: 160 Conover Road
City: Wickatunk
State/Province: NJ
Postal: 07765
Telephone: 732-946-0515
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Chanting and Meditation
Spiritual Focus: Non-denominational
Description: his retreat will include Yogic chanting and meditation interspersed with some movement.
 Retreat Leaders: Russill Paul
Leader Credentials: Russill Paul is an internationally known chant yogi. Bron and raised in South India, Russill live in an Ashram for several years, working with Bede Griffiths to integrate Eastern and Western spiritualities.
Leader Web Site: www.russillpaul.com
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The Ecstasy of Chant
Getting High on Mantra
Kripalu, MA
Sanskrit mantras are powerful spiritual pharmaceuticals. When used properly, they have extraordinary psychophysical effects. They are also karmically pure, chemical-free, and nonaddictive. Chanting mantra is a form of "divine therapy," a means of freeing your creative spirit and drinking deeply of the joy that results from making contact with the spiritual dimension of your being. Much easier than singing, chanting transports you rapidly and effortlessly into the ecstasy of spiritual practice.
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