ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES |
Times to
be individually arranged
Cost: $65.00 |
Spiritual
Direction
— with Marie Thompson
Spiritual direction is an opportunity to learn to trace
the movement of God in our lives and to help us make positive life
choices and decisions. It involves meeting regularly with
a trained spiritual director. |
Times to be individually
arranged
Cost: Negotiable |
Counselling — with
Margaret Skehan pbvm
Counselling can help people to cope with the demands of
peer and family relationships, parenting issues, and personal
and emotional challenges, including grief, loss and depression. |
Once a week for six weeks
Cost: $5.00 offering per session |
Spirituality for Everyday Living
— guided by Cecily Foster pbvm
An opportunity to come along to a home retreat, where we
gather once a week for six weeks to share faith and insights,
read the Scriptures that come alive for us and that relate to our
daily lives. |
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Outreach
— facilitated by Mary Franzmann pbvm
Opportunities for parish retreats and renewal, team formation, adult education and staff in-service. |
Saturday
20 February
10.00am -
11.30am
Cost: Donation
Closing Date: 15 February |
Spiritual Direction/Retreat - What's It All About?
— facilitated
by Marie Thompson
If you are someone who would like to know more about what it means to participate in spiritual direction and/or what is involved in making a retreat, come along to this introductory morning. |
Sunday 27 February
10.00am - 3.00pm
Cost: $35 (incl afternoon tea, BYO lunch)
Closing Date: 20 February
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Walking a Sacred Labyrinth - A Journey to Nurture Spiritual Growth — guided by Rosemary Grundy pbvm
Divinity is like a wheel, a circle, a whole. (Hildegard of Bingen)
This day's journey is an opportunity to explore meditation and prayer through following a walkway through a Labyrinth. This medieval practice is being used to assist today's pilgrims to adopt a new mindfulness, engaging body, mind and spirit, and to respond to the invitation of our loving God - Come walk with me.
Special invitation to Fan the Flame participants |
Friday 19 March and
Saturday 17 July
9.00am - 3.30pm
Cost: $10 (incl morning/afternoon teas, BYO lunch)
Closing Dates: 12 March/9 July
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Gifts from the Sea
— guided by Penny Carroll and Gwen Winterscheidt
If you are a grandmother, mother, married or single, divorced, separated or widowed, this retreat is available for you.
Anthony de Mello writes: "Wonder at the mysteries that the sea keeps within it. So many forms of life manifest themselves in the ocean depths." This retreat will explore the many riches contained within us, and gives us the opportunity to encounter Jesus in the midst of our daily life. Gifts from the Sea is a day for women to come to the Bay and take time out for themselves to nurture their spirit through meditation, massage and reflection. |
LENTEN OPPORTUNITIES |
Sunday 21 March
11.00am - 4.00pm
Cost: $35 (incl afternoon tea, BYO lunch)
Closing Date: 15 March
|
A Sacred Journey - RCIA Retreat Day
— guided by Mary Franzmann pbvm
A reflection day for RCIA candidates, sponsors and teams journeying to Easter 2010. |
Monday 29 March 7.00pm supper - Easter Sunday 4 April 9.00am breakfast
Cost: $700 (cost for non-residential participants can be arranged)
Closing Date: 25 February |
From Darkness to Light - Holy Week Retreat
— Guided Retreat with Monica Brown and Hilary Musgrave
This guided retreat will offer a reflective space and a prayerful creative environment to prepare for and celebrate the Easter Triduum. As well as special liturgies for the Triduum, the retreat will offer a session each day of guided spiritual reflection using music, imagery, sacred clowning and ritual to reflect on Jesus' passion and its relevance for us. There will also be other optional sessions on various days throughout the retreat. |
Saturdays
10 April - 8 May
10.00am
- 12.00pm
Cost: $10 per session |
Meditations to Transform the Mind and Open the Hearth
— guided by Alan Carter
These morning meditations will offer techniques to enhance wholesome states of mind as a basis to increase one's love and compassion. The meditations can be applied within any religious/spiritual tradition. |
Friday
30 April
7.00pm
- Sunday 2 May 3.00pm
Cost: $90 per night (incl accom/all meals - cost for non-residential participants can be arranged)
Closing Date: 23 April |
Crafty Ladies Circle
— guided by Cathie Stone
Do you love crafty things? Do you need some time and quiet space for your spirit? Here is the weekend for you. Time-out to be creative and renew your spirit. |
Saturday
8 May
10.00am
- 12.00pm
Cost: Donation
Closing Date: 3 May |
Poetry Under the Mango Tree
— guided by Marie Thompson
The poetry of Mary Oliver has stirred the sacred in the hearts of many over the years. This is an opportunity to reflect upon her poetry and let the stirrings of our own hearts be heard. |
Saturday-Sunday
29-30 May Saturday
10.00am - 4.00pm
Sunday
10.00am - 3.00pm
Cost: $50 one day or $80 two days (incl morning/afternoon teas, BYO lunch; overnight stay available incl breakfast - add $80)
Closing Date: 17 May |
Parable and Parabler, Habitat and Humanity - A New Story Speaks to the Old
— Scripture Workshop facilitated by Elaine Wainwright rsm
This workshop offers an opportunity to explore ways in which the new story of the Universe with its images and metaphors, together with our growing knowledge of our planet Earth, provides a lens for reading the gospel story anew. Explore ways of reading, enter old stories from a new perspective. |
Saturday
26 June
9.30am - 5.00pm
Cost: $50 (incl morning/afternoon teas and lunch)
Closing Date: 20 May |
Compassionate Communication
— facilitated by Alan Carter
This workshop will present simple methods to be able to engage in communication in a more open-hearted and compassionate manner. It will be based on Dr Michael Rosenburg's model of non-violent communication (NVC). |
Tuesday 29 June 6.00pm -
Saturday 3 July/Tuesday
6 July 9.00am (3
or 6 days)
Cost: $270 for 3 days or $550 for 6 days
Closing Date: 31 May
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Time Away to Honour the Stirring of God
— 3/6-day Directed Retreat with Joan Cusack pbvm, Pat Cullen fmm and Therese Wilson rsj
Time away to know the goodness of God in one's life. A retreat experience nourished in silence, prayer, Eucharist and opportunity to meet
daily with a spiritual director. |
Saturdays 31 July and 9 October
9.30am
- 12.00pm
Cost: $20 (incl morning tea and art materials)
Closing Date: 24 July/4 October |
Art at the Bay
— guided by Zoe Fitzpatrick pbvm
Art has such a wonderful way of calling forth what is touching us in life. Come along for a cuppa and a gentle morning of art through the creative expression of a mandella. |
Saturday
7 August
10.00am
- 12.00pm
Cost: $10 (incl morning tea)
Closing
Date: 5 July |
Learning to Breathe Deeply into Our Soul
— guided by Sue Smith rsm
Come along and explore a variety of creative ways to live more mindfully. Breathing is one of those gentle, sacred practices. |
Tuesday
3 August 6.00pm - Tuesday 10 August 9.00am
Cost: $550 (cost for non-residential participants can be arranged)
Closing Date: 6 July |
Jesus' Call to a New Consciousness - "You were made for something enormous! Open your eyes and see it!"
— 6-day Guided Retreat with Jill McCorquodale sgs
During this retreat we will explore Jesus' invitation to see beyond the parameters of meaning we have set for ourselves - an invitation to expansion of our vision, to change our way of seeing. Focusing on the events of Holy Thursday this retreat will draw us into Jesus' call to friendship, intimacy and deep relationship with our God and with each other. This retreat will include input, morning and evening prayer, and spiritual direction on request. |
August
- November
Monday 16 August
and alternate Mondays to 8 November 7.30pm
- 9.15pm
and Sunday 14 November 10.30am
- 4.00pm
Cost: $600
(incl materials, input and retreat)
Closing
Date: 24 July |
Fan the Flame: An Opportunity for Personal Renewal
Fan
the Flame is a unique opportunity for personal
renewal and professional development. The program suits pastoral
associates, members of leadership teams, chaplains, campus
ministers, teachers, others engaged in ministry and anyone
wishing to renew and deepen their faith.
To be held on the Gold Coast
Click here for more information on Fan
the Flame. |
Thursday
2 September
4.00pm - 8.00pm
Cost: $20 (BYO salad to share)
Closing Date: 19 August |
Soup, Salad and Bread for the Journey: Even Scribble can be Enough
— Twilight
Retreat guided by Kerry Holland
Come and make some time to converse with God who delights in you, using simple art materials. To converse is a way of loving. St Ignatius approached prayer and ministry as conversation: the kind of comfortable satisfying conversation whereby we truly get to know someone else. We all have a visual language that is more direct than words and even scribbling can be helpful with prayer. (Art materials are provided and no artistic experience is needed.) |
Monday 6 September 6.00pm
- Sunday 12 September 3.00pm
Cost: $550 (cost for non-residential participants can be arranged)
Closing Date: 14 August |
"We are knit in a knot so wonderful that we are oned to God" (Julian of Norwich)
— 6-day Guided Retreat with Kerrie Hide
Nourished by the prayer of the beholding, these days will be spent immersed in the prayer of Julian of Norwich, with our gaze on how God knits us and makes us one. Input and Eucharist will be offered daily. |
Tuesday
21 September 6.00pm - Saturday/Tuesday
25/28 September 9.00am
(3
or 6 days)
Cost: $270 for 3 days or $550 for 6 days
Closing Date: 1 September |
Come, Be With Me - Let us Give Birth to a New Earth
— 3/6-day Directed Retreat
with Colleen Brady rsm and Marie Thompson
A time to gather and bless all the fragments of my life so that the new Earth can come. A retreat experience nourished in silence, prayer, Eucharist and opportunity to meet daily with a spiritual director. |
Friday
15 October 6.00pm - Sunday 17 October after lunch
Cost: $180 (incl accom/all meals - cost for non-residential participants can be arranged)
Closing Date: 8 October |
Spiritual Yoga Retreat
— guided by Laurene Hassard
This weekend offers Hatha yoga, breathing practices, meditation and a charka workshop. Laurene has taught yoga for the past 20 years in Denmark, USA and Australia. |
Friday
26 November 6.00pm -
Tuesday 30 November/ Saturday 4 December 9.00am
(3
or 7 days)
Cost: $270 for 3 days or $650 for 7 days
Closing Date: 7 November |
Advent - A Sacred Time of Homecoming
— 3/7
day Directed Retreat with Elaine Smith rsj and Marie Thompson
Advent is a time of homecoming, a time of hope as we hear God's promise to bring us gently home. An Advent experience nourished in silence, prayer, Eucharist and opportunity to meet daily with a spiritual director. Evening prayer will be celebrated for those who wish to participate. |
Tuesday 7 December 3.00pm -
Monday 13 December 9.30am
Cost: $600 (incl accom/all meals)
Closing Date: 13 November |
Healing Life’s Hurts
— Guided Retreat with Julie O’Gorman and Maureen Flatley pbvm
Are you tired of hurting? You can leave it behind. Participants
are given an opportunity to understand and experience the
grieving/healing process. This week is a blend of focus sessions,
private time and individual accompaniment. |
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