The Christian Heritage Centre is delighted to announce a weekend retreat exploring mindfulness, psychology and the Christian life.
Led by Fr Roger Dawson, SJ, Liz Lord and Steve Noone.
This weekend explores the human condition through your own life story, in the context of the Gospel and the Christian spiritual life, using mindfulness skills and contemplative Christian prayer.
In its methodology, this retreat seeks to reclaim practices that are common to mindfulness for the Christian tradition of contemplative prayer. In particular, mindfuless practices share common ground with the tradition of apophatic prayer and theology that is deeply rooted in the monastic and the Eastern Orthodox traditions.
The retreat will make use of such practices to help participants gain a greater awareness of their own experiences, to exercise a discipline of the mind, and to place them on the threshold of prayer, with an attentiveness and disposition to God’s presence.
This retreat will offer several talks over the weekend, framed by Mass, communal prayer in the morning and evening, and Adoration.
Free time for walks and reflection is built into each retreat.
Further information and registration are available here.
Download the poster here.