MN Contemplative Outreach 2023 Fall Retreat
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Trusting the Divine
Through Transition and Transformation Retreat Leaders: Servant Leaders of MNCO including Jody Reis Johnson and John Keller Franciscan Retreat and Spirituality Center Prior Lake, MN (map) Friday November 10th at 5:00 p.m. (CT) to Sunday November 12th at 1:00 p.m. (CT) In-Person fee: $240 Online fee: $75 All in-person attendees will have a single room, though by request a movable partition may be opened to create a shared double room. Partial scholarships are available by request: send an email to Adam at the address below. Online participants will be able to take part in the main presentations, the small-group breakout discussions, and all Centering Prayer sessions. In-Person Registration is full. Typically some rooms become available -- you'll be contacted in the order you sign up. Trusting the Divine
Through Transition and Transformation Session topics will include:
Throughout the Retreat, we will hear members of the Minnesota Chapter share their experience of how Centering Prayer has transformed their relationship with God. Our Fall Retreat will incorporate time for personal reflection, group Centering Prayer, and small group sharing. Silence will be observed from Friday evening after dinner until Sunday lunch. Gentle Yoga will be offered at break of day. We will be upheld in our journey by the restful quiet and beauty of the Franciscan Retreat and Spirituality Center in Prior Lake, Minnesota, renowned for its good food and warm hospitality, and miles of wooded walking trails. 
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 John Keller
John Keller, a retired ELCA pastor and a certified presenter of Centering Prayer, is currently the interim co-coordinator for the Minnesota Chapter of Contemplative Outreach. John has a passion for teaching centering prayer to new people, having presented more than a dozen Introduction to Centering Prayer workshops in the past four years in Minnesota and Michigan. He has been practicing Centering Prayer for nine years.
Jody Reis Johnson, M.Div., MSW, is a retired mental health professional and a longtime practitioner of Centering Prayer. She received her commissioning as a Presenter/Facilitator through Contemplative Outreach in 2013 and serves on the Volunteer Board of MNCO. In addition to leading retreats, Jody is a writer, a spiritual director, and a busy grandmother of six.
Deepening trust in God ... first allows us to take that initial leap in the dark, to encounter God at deeper levels of ourselves. And it is trust that guides the intimate refashioning of our being, the transformation of our pain, woundedness, and unconscious motivation into the person that God intended us to be.
~Thomas Keating, Intimacy with God God is transforming us so that we can enjoy the divine life to the full once it has been established. ~Thomas Keating, Invitation to Love When the presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, divine life is pouring into the world. ~ Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart 
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