Compassion is a tender yet powerful capacity to respond to suffering with open-hearted connection and resilience. Keeping your balance while reaching out is a spiritual practice that can ground you in your inner Self and connect you with the world around you. Take some time to integrate your spiritual journey with compassion, increase your self-care, and practice compassion with growing discernment, freedom, and wisdom. Come encounter a sacred practice to help sustain and empower you in today’s changing world.

Facilitated by Wendy Mospan and Mary Dean Pfahler.

For more information or to register, contact Wendy Mospan or Mary Dean Pfahler

How do we make compassionate presence a part of our lives? It begins with giving ourselves time; time to reflect, time to become aware of the light of Divinity in ourselves, in others, and in every part of creation. This retreat will be experiential, with meditations, physical movement, and discussion. Come and explore God’s invitation to boundless compassion opening our minds and hearts.

Held each Wednesday via Zoom

You are invited to join us for a highly interactive, experiential and inspiring introductory workshop on Listening as Sanctuary, as practice that offer concrete skills for engaging with people we don’t agree with and for supporting people in our lives who may have experienced trauma.

The aim of this retreat is to help you gain an awareness of how your Enneagram type in times of security and stress elicit type-flavored responses that attend to inner movements that lead toward or away from compassionate presence and action.

"Change is possible when I see the spark of the divine within self and others."

That spark, described by spiritual guide and author Joyce Rupp in her book "Boundless Compassion: Creating a Way of Life" is inspiring people to discover and deepen the role of compassion in their lives and communities.

Facilitated by: Mary Dean Pfhaler, ND

Pre-requirement: March 1-4 Boundless Compassion Retreat

Learn more at boundlesscompassion.org/become-a-bcf

Registration / Information: Bobbi Bussan, OSB bbussan@boundlesscompassion.org

During this retreat, participants will learn practical skills and grow in trust as they discern their unique path toward compassionate living. We will have the opportunity to explore the many layered components of compassion based on the teachings of Christianity and other religious traditions.

Offering quiet reflection time and small group dialogue, this four-day retreat serves as a catalyst for a renewed commitment to becoming a compassionate presence. Experience this opportunity to deepen and expand the capacity for compassion in your life and in your community.

Led Mary Dean Pfahler SND

For information or to register, contact Lindenwood Retreat and Conference Center

Virtual and In-Person Options Meeting Throughout July and August

Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Did you know that when you learn about your dreams you can grow spiritually? personally? Dreams have been shared and explored throughout history in many cultures and faith groups.

It is important for everyone to nourish self-care. This guided retreat provides a time to ‘leave the crowd’ and pay attention to the Divine within you. A time to be compassionate to yourself. Each day will start with a meditation on self-compassion. The remainder of the day is for you to nourish yourself in the quiet, through prayer and reflection, a walk in the woods, perhaps do a little painting or rest. There is an opportunity for spiritual direction. Lauds and Vespers with the Sisters is also an option.

Healthcare professionals need to disconnect, in order to reconnect with body, emotion, knowledge, and spirit. Is there a part of you that yearns to be “good enough” or “smart enough” or just plain “enough”? Do you sometimes feel disconnected from your own inner goodness and beauty? Learning to “feel” your helplessness is a start. Learn the Four Pearls of Wisdom that inspire deep soul searching and allow you to experience:

—Nonjudgment with yourself

—Nonviolence toward yourself

—Forgiveness toward yourself and others

—Greater mindfulness

Leann Thrapp, RN. MA, CHCPA will help caregivers reconnect to body, emotion, knowledge, and spirit using

—Insights from theology, spirituality, sociology, and psychology

—Quiet reflection time and small group dialogue

—Four days devoted to renewal and deepening compassion for self and others

Facilitated by Leann Thrapp, RN, MA, CHPCA from Sun City West, AZ. Leann is a consultant, speaker, and end-of-life doula with experience in grief counseling and hospice care. She specializes in compassion and self-compassion as a way of life.

For more information or to register, contact Leann at NewHaven Healing Center: 480-773-4224

You are invited to join us for a highly interactive, experiential and inspiring introductory workshop on Listening as Sanctuary, as practice that offer concrete skills for engaging with people we don’t agree with and for supporting people in our lives who may have experienced truama.

In this course, we will:

• Explore this profound model for conflict transformation,

• Be grounded in Christian contemplative practice as a foundational support for listening

• Discover compassion as an essential form of attentiveness for this time

• Practice core self-compassion and compassionate listening skills, and

• Learn how each of us has the capacity to contribute to a more compassionate world simply by listening with an open heart.

The course will be held once a week for 6 - 2.5 hr sessions via Zoom. It will be held: Wednesday Jan 11 – Feb 15, 8 am – 10:30 PST

The instructor is Kathleen Coyne, a Christian meditator who has studied and worked for many years in community development and social justice across Western Canada, researching, facilitating, teaching and learning with and about community and social justice.

For more information and to register, please email: Kathleen Coyne

Price: Sliding scale of $0 - $150 for course. To pay online, visit boundlesscompassion.org/donate and enter "Compassionate Listening class" in the note section. Proceeds will benefit Boundless Compassion.