COURSE OVERVIEW.
This course, referred to as The Course, A Contemplative Living Experience, focuses on living contemplatively in the context of ordinary daily life. It provides the guidance and formation needed to move into a more contemplative lifestyle. Among the practices we will focus upon are:

Centering Prayer
Prayer of Forgiveness
Lectio Divina
Active Prayer/Spiritual Reading
Discernment
Welcoming Prayer
Spiritual Direction
Contemplative Service

In the process of the course, community support and spiritual enrichment are offered to participants to help integrate the practices into daily life, and to nurture the contemplative dimensions of a changed lifestyle.


COURSE PREREQUISITES
Established practice of Centering Prayer
Visit with a Course Presenter


THE WEEKEND
Each weekend includes the following:
Review the previous month's practices
Centering Prayer
Conferences
Sharing
Walks & Talks
Silence

The course participants meet one weekend a month beginning in September and ending in May. The weekend begins on Friday evening and ends on Saturday afternoon between 4:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Utilizing our Center for Contemplative Living as a retreat venue, the weekend takes place in a setting that is conducive to prayer, privacy and rest.


COURSE PRESENTERS
A team of the Contemplative Outreach staff presents the course. The presenters are faithful to daily Centering Prayer and to living a more contemplative lifestyle. The concepts and practices taught by the presenters are based on the teachings of Fr. Thomas Keating and Contemplative Outreach.



THEMES AND PRACTICES
First Month
Theme: Awareness of God's Presence and Action
Practices: Spiritual Reading, Logging, Sabbath

Second Month
Theme: Intention and Consent in Relating to God Practices: Lectio Divina, Active Prayer

Third Month
Theme: Letting Go and Receiving True Life
Practices: Welcoming Prayer

Fourth Month
Theme: Resting in God and Resting from the False Self Activity, Group Spiritual Direction
Practices: Rest, Spiritual Direction

Fifth Month
Theme: Contemplative Discernment
Practice: Discernment Process

Sixth Month
Theme: Detachment
Practice: Discernment of Attachments

Seventh Month
Theme: Forgiveness in Relationships
Practice: Prayer of Forgiveness

Eighth Month
Theme: Spiritual Commitment, Contemplative Service
Practice: Creating an Individual Contemplative Lifestyle

Ninth Month
Celebration and Closure


SCHEDULE DATES
2011
September 23-24
October 14-15
November 11-12
December 9-10

2012
January 13-14
February 10-11
March 16-17
April 13-14
May 11-12


Cost: $900 (installments available)
If interested or for an application,contact:
Julie Saad
juliesaad@comcast.net
303-619-4426
Joanne Warner
joanne_warner@msn.com
720-746-1887
Rose Meyler
rcmeyler@gmail.com
303-863-0932


"Let us go off by ourselves to some place where we will be alone and your love can blossom." (Mark 6:31)