The programs listed here are offered by graduates of Shalem's extension programs and are provided as a service for people looking for spiritual formation opportunities.  They are not sponsored by the Shalem Institute.  Contact each event directly to find out more information or to register -- you cannot register for these events through Shalem. 

If you would like to have your event added to this list, please email your listing to Monica Maxon, our Director of Communications and Marketing, monica@shalem.org.

For a directory of spiritual retreat and conference centers, go to http://www.findthedivine.com, integrated with http://www.seekaretreat.com, a directory of retreat events, retreat leaders and spiritual advisors. 
Spiritual Directors International also has a resource list of global retreat centers at http://www.sdiworld.org/retreat_centers.html

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Event: Art From the Heart Retreat
Dates: May 29-June 1, 2008
Time: N/A
Place: A Stillpoint in Halibut Cove, Halibut Cove, AK
Cost: $750
Details: To be alive is to be creative. Drawing from such books as The Zen of Seeing and Drawing on the Artist Within, this retreat will offer an opportunity to inspire, challenge, encourage and surprise you with your own inherent creativity.
Leader: Jan Thurston is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, 1990.
Contact: www.stillpointlodge.com

Event: Returning to Yourself in the Midst of Care-Giving: A Retreat
Dates: August 28-31, 2008
Time: N/A
Place: A Stillpoint in Halibut Cove, Halibut Cove, AK
Cost: $745
Details: A retreat for all those whose lives lead them to be with those who are dying: doctors, nurses, pastoral care workers, Hospice workers, spiritual directors and those who companion partners, family and friends in their dying. Our time together will include input, quiet reflection, small and large group sharing and rest.
Leader: Rose Mary Dougherty is Shalem's Senior Fellow for Spiritual Guidance. She has ministered in the area of spiritual for over 30 years, offering spiritual direction and retreats in the contemplative tradition.
Contact: www.stillpointlodge.com

Event: Universal Teachings in Jewish Spirituality: A Unique Opportunity to Learn, Listen, Reflect and Renew in the Jewish New Year
Dates: September 25-28, 2008
Time: N/A  
Place: A Stillpoint in Halibut Cove, Halibut Cove, AK
Cost: $745
Details: The extraordinary High Holy Day season invites people to engage in a "Heshbon HaNefesh," an " accounting of the soul."  Looking at powerful texts of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition, we will explore how Jewish spirituality can guide us to greater self-awareness, compassion, gratitude and commitment in our lives.  We will include creative and dynamic Sabbath and Jewish New Year rituals as well as periods of silence and contemplation. Jewish and non-Jewish who desire a deeper understanding of Jewish spirituality and of their own sense of an "accounting of the soul" are welcome.
Leader: Rabbi Lenore Bohm, a graduate of Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program, is one of the first 50 women ordained by the Reform movement and the first to serve in San Diego County.  She has enhanced the spiritual lives of countless San Diego Jews and has been a promoter of Jewish women's and interfaith causes for over 25 years.  She is a preacher, teacher, counselor and spiritual director.
Contact: info@stillpointlodge.com or www.stillpointlodge.com

Event: Christian Meditation: Silence, Stillness, Simplicity
Dates: Fourth Saturdays
Time: 10 - 11 am
Place: Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC
Cost: Free and open to the public
Details: Experience a rhythm of contemplative prayer that includes a reading fromm one of the great contemplatives, a period of silent meditation, and time for sharing and reflection.
Leader: Milo Coerper is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, Class of 1981 Local.
Contact: www.cathedral.org/cathedral/worship/contemplation.shtml

Event: Day of Prayer: Walking with Dorothy Day
Dates: Second Wednesday each month
Time: 9:15am - 2:00pm with the option to stay for quiet prayer time until 4:00pm.
Place: John XXIII Retreat Center, 407 W McDonald Street, Hartford City, IN 47348
Cost: Suggested donation is $18.00. The option to stay over the night before is also available for an extra fee.
Details: Dorothy Day had a passionate love for the poor, the outcast, and the downtrodden. She was a radical, a suffragist, and outspoken critic of the establishment. She was considered by many to be the most influential Roman Catholic of her time. The presence of Christ among the poor reminds us of the divine ethic to serve those who hunger, for in doing so we serve Christ. Introduction to Dorothy Day & Turning to God begins the series
Leader: Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program S92.
Contact: john23rd@sbcglobal.net or dorstewart@sbcglobal.net or www.john23rdretreatcenter.com

Event: Contemplative Journey Series
Dates: March 22, April 26, and May 31, 2008
Time: 9:00am and end at 4:00pm. Stay overnight the night before or the day of for more quiet and prayer time.
Place: John XXIII Retreat Center, 407 W McDonald Street, Hartford City, IN 47348
Cost: $20.00 Call for confirmation on dates or check our web site
Details: Come journey with others who are serious about their contemplative walk. Some of the materials that will be used will be "Bridges to Contemplation Living" with Thomas Merton. Slow down and share insights with others on how to be a contemplative in today's world.
Leader: Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program S92.
Contact: john23rd@sbcglobal.net or dorstewart@sbcglobal.net or www.john23rdretreatcenter.com

Event: Directed Retreat
Dates: May 11-16, 2008
Time: Begins on Sunday at 7pm - Friday noon.
Place: John XXIII Retreat Center, 407 W McDonald Street, Hartford City, IN 47348
Cost: Choose 3 - 6 days at $70.00 per day.
Details: A Directed Retreat is a walk with Jesus in the lifetime journey to God, our Creator. It is a very special opportunity to work one-on-one with a spiritual director who guides you each day in a selection of Scripture readings, prayer time, and journal keeping.
Leader: Fr. Al Naseman C.PP.S & Sr. Joetta Huelsmann PHJC are the directors for this retreat. Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program S92.
Contact: john23rd@sbcglobal.net or dorstewart@sbcglobal.net or www.john23rdretreatcenter.com

Event: Directed Retreat
Dates: June 22-28, 2008
Time: Begins on Sunday at 7pm - Friday noon.
Place: John XXIII Retreat Center, 407 W McDonald Street, Hartford City, IN 47348
Cost: Choose 3 - 6 days at $70.00 per day.
Details: A Directed Retreat is a walk with Jesus in the lifetime journey to God, our Creator. It is a very special opportunity to work one-on-one with a spiritual director who guides you each day in a selection of Scripture readings, prayer time, and journal keeping.
Leader: Fr. Al Naseman C.PP.S & Sr. Joetta Huelsmann PHJC are the directors for this retreat. Sr. Joetta Huelsmann, PHJC, is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program S92.
Contact: john23rd@sbcglobal.net or dorstewart@sbcglobal.net or www.john23rdretreatcenter.com

Event: Fellowship of United Methodist Spiritual Directors and Retreat Leaders 2008 Retreat
Dates: October 27-30, 2008
Time: 1 PM, October 27, to Noon, October 30
Place: Wesley Center2350 Methodist ParkwayAlexandria, LA
Cost: $415, single room; $365 double room; early bird registration discounts available
Details: A four-day retreat for renewal, learning, contemplative silence and community.
Leader: Dr. Brenda Buckwell Lifland, graduate of Shalem's Clergy Spiritual Life & Leadership Program, Class of 2005, Bishop Susan Wolfe Hassinger, and Dwight H. Judy.
Contact: Brenda Buckwell Lifland at BKL4842@aol.com or at www.fumsdrl.org

Event: "The Other I Am"—A Retreat of Reflection and Writing
Dates: June 13-15, 2008
Time: 7 PM on Friday, June 13 through lunch on Sunday, June 15
Place: Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA
Cost: $240, includes private room and five meals.  Space is limited. Registration deadline: June 2.
Details: Are you yearning to reconnect with your inner voice in a supportive, spiritual and meditative environment? Walt Whitman used the phrase “The Other I Am” to describe that part of himself associated with the creative impulse. During this retreat, we will provide a range of opportunities for structured activities and unstructured time to allow you to tap “the other I am”—the wellspring within—to reveal the sacred that is ever present in ordinary experience. We will utilize reflective writing and lectio divina practices to center, ground and deepen our spiritual awareness and connection to the divine. These practices will be interspersed with opportunities for rest, meditation, prayer, silence and shared conversation.
Leaders: Nancy Elder-Wilfrid is an ordained UCC pastor, spiritual director, director of Kairos Spiritual Life Center and graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program and Clergy Spiritual Life and Leadership Program; Emily Ferrara is a poet and teacher of creative writing and mindfulness meditation at UMass Medical School.
Contact: kairoscenter@allsaintsw.org OR 508-752-3766 x19

Event: The Sacred Manuscript of Nature-A Day Retreat
Dates: Monday, June 16, 2008
Time: 9:30AM - 3:00PM Lunch provided
Place: Rolling Ridge Retreat & Conference Center, North Andover, MA
Cost: $40 by June 1, $45 at the door
Details: How does the Great Mystery at the Heart of Life-whether we call it God, or some other name, or cannot name it-reach us through the natural world? Come explore where and how you experience or may yet discover the sacred in the natural world. We will use text, imaging, meditation, and prayer. We hope for weather that will allow us outdoors for a portion of the day!
Leader: Karen Lewis Foley, a Unitarian Universalist minister and spiritual director, served Massachusetts congregations and now lives in Maine, where she practices spiritual direction, leads retreats, gardens, hikes, walks in the woods, volunteers in ecological education, and writes. She is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, Winter 2004 class and is in Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program, Class of 2009.
Contact: To register: 978-682-8815; thestaff@rollingridge.org For more information: revKLFoley@suscom-maine.net; 207-725-1379

Event: Peacemaking Grounded in Prayer
Dates: May 16-18, 2008
Time: Friday evening through Sunday lunch
Place: Camp Friedenswald, 15406 Watercress Drive, Cassopolis, Michigan 49031
Cost: $40 (suggested donation)
Details: A retreat to nurture, encourage, and strengthen peacemakers, sponsored by the Central District Conference of the Mennonite Church USA. This is not a training or a workshop but a time of inner reflection and sharing with a circle of like-minded partners in faith. The retreat is intended to encourage practices of prayer that can deepen the loving relationship with God on which active Christian peacemaking is based, to offer a space where peacemakers may discover prayer not just as a way to "recharge their batteries" but as a foundation for discernment and action. It will include periods of both discussion and silence, using biblical texts as a basis for reflection and discussion on styles of discipleship, prayer, contemplative prayer as listening prayer, and the relationship between spirituality and peacemaking.
Leader: David Rensberger is a member of the Atlanta Mennonite Fellowship and a 2003 graduate of the Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program.
Contact: Emma Hartman, Administrator, Central District Conference, office@mcusacdc.org

Event: The Sacred Manuscript of Nature-A Weekend Retreat
Dates: June 13-15, 2008
Time: Friday 4:00 PM to Sunday lunch
Place: Our Lady of Hope House of Prayer, New Ipswich, NH
Cost: $175 single room & meals; Registration deadline: May 23
Details: How does the Great Mystery at the Heart of Life-whether we call it God, or some other name, or cannot name it-reach us through the natural world? Come explore where and how you experience or may yet discover the sacred in the natural world. We will use text, imaging, meditation, and prayer. There will be opportunity to be in contact with nature directly outdoors during parts of the retreat.
Leader: Karen Lewis Foley, a Unitarian Universalist minister and spiritual director, served Massachusetts congregations and now lives in Maine, where she practices spiritual direction, leads retreats, gardens, hikes, walks in the woods, volunteers in ecological education, and writes. She is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, Winter 2004 class and is in Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program, Class of 2009.
Contact: To register: olhope@yahoo.com; 603-878-2346 For more information: revKLFoley@suscom-maine.net; 207-725-1379

Event: Ways to the Spirit: A Weekend of Spiritual Practice for Unitarian Universalists
Dates: July 11-12, 2008
Time: Friday evening through Sunday lunch
Place: Murray Grove, Lanoka Harbor, NJ
Cost: $290 double occupancy, including meals
Details: If you are seeking more spirit, more balance in your life, or would just like some time away to deepen your inner connections, join us in a variety of spiritual practices (prayer, meditation, art, music, movement, yoga, reiki, labyrinth walking, silent time*, spiritual direction) designed to help you get in touch with the spirit within. * You may choose a limited or more extended silence program.
Leaders: Rev. Karen Foley and Rev. Craig Hirshberg are both ordained UU ministers and have both completed Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program.
Contact: murraygrove@murraygrove.org or http://www.murraygrove.org/

Event: Sacred Listening: Group Spiritual Direction
Dates: August 18-24, 2008
Time: N/A
Place: Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Cost: $730 before May 1
Details: During the week, the underlying assumptions and process of group spiritual direction will be explored. We will also have the opportunity to experience it. There will be ample time for prayerful silence including a 24-hour silent retreat during the middle of the week. At the end of the week, we will notice and claim what is most powerful and healing about this process and how sacred listening together can transform our communities and our world.
Leader: Patience Robbins is director of Shalem's Personal Spiritual Deepening Program.
Contact: www.ghostranch.org

Event: IN DEEP SILENCE: Exploring Quiet in Community
Dates: Saturday, June 14, 2008
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Place: Trinity Church Wall Street, Trinity Church Parish Hall, 74 Trinity Place, 2nd floor Parlor, New York, NY
Cost: $25 per person (includes lunch)
Details: Find the ascetic within yourself to live a calmer, less cluttered, and more God-centered life. This workshop will include excerpts from a documentary film on the monastic Carthusian Order as well as providing opportunities to journal, discuss, and contemplate silence. All who seek peace and stillness are welcome, from any religious tradition or none, and with experience in meditation or not.
Leader: Westina Matthews Shatteen, Ph.D, is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, Summer 2007.
Contact: Ali Lutz at alutz@trinitywallstreet.org or call 212.602.0800.

Event: THE WELCOMING PRAYER: attending, letting go, and surrendering to God
Dates: Saturday, June 7, 2008
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Starrette Farmhouse Retreat, Statesville, NC
Cost: $55.00 per person (includes materials and food for the soul)
Details: This day is an opportunity to experience a prayer practice that can transform our responses to both the challenges and ordinariness of everyday life. Developed by Contemplative Outreach’s late master teacher Mary Mrozowski, the Welcoming Prayer is based largely on the teaching and wisdom of Fr. Thomas Keating and the eighteenth-century work Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Topics covered in this introductory retreat: Human Condition, Method of the Welcoming Prayer Practice, Fruits of the Prayer & Extending the Fruits Into Daily Life.
Leader: Ann Starrette is a graduate of Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program 2003. She is Director of Spiritual Formation at Davidson United Methodist Church, Davidson, NC, and founding director of The Lydia Group, a faith based organization/coalition of various individuals and churches that join together for the common cause of providing spiritual formation/retreat growth opportunities for contemplative living and leadership.
Contact: www.TheLydiaGroup.com

Event: Personal, Guided Silent Retreats
Dates: February 3-5, 2008; April 18-20, 2008; May 3-5, 2008; June 6-8, 2008 (Additional dates available upon request)
Time: 4 PM the first day to 4 PM the third day
Place: Holy Ground Hermitage, 50 miles south of Pittsburgh (www.holygroundhermitage.org)
Cost: $60 per night, which includes meals and spiritual guidance
Details: These silent, directed retreats are made alone. The retreatant meets three times with the spiritual director for reflection, discernment, and suggestions for prayer and readings. The remainder of the time is spent in periods of prayer, spiritual reading, resting, walking, and enjoying the natural world.
Leader: Betty Voigt, graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, spiritual director, retreat leader, retired minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Contact: Betty Voigt, holyground@windstream.net

Event: Come Away: A Directed Retreat for Clergy
Dates: June 1-4, 2008
Time: 4PM, June 1 to after lunch June 4
Place: Diakonia Salem, SC
Cost: $385  To reserve space, send $10 payable to The Anchorage. By May 1st.  Limited space.
Details: The retreat experience at Diakonia, a Greek Orthodox Retreat Center, is unhurried and quiet, with delicious Greek food! Each retreatant has a cozy private cabin nestled in the woods. There are hiking trails, canoes and a lovely 11-acre lake. (Though this retreat is intended for clergy, we will keep a waiting list for others as there is space.)
Leader: Cathie Powell, graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, Class of Winter 1995.
Contact: The Anchorage, PO Box 9091, Greenville, SC 29604, www.theanchorage.org or 864-297-5308.

Event: Labyrinth Prayer Walks
Dates: February 10, 2008 (First Sunday in Lent), March 21, 2008 (Good Friday), May 11, 2008 (Pentecost), June 15, 2008 (Father's Day), October 5, 2008 (World Communion Sunday) and November 30, 2008 (First Sunday in Advent)
Time: 6 to 8PM when on a Sunday and Noon to 3PM on Friday.  Plan to arrive 30 minutes before closing.
Place: Kirkwood Presbyterian Church 8336 Carrleigh Parkway Springfield, VA
Cost: Free
Details: No prior experience is necessary; orientation is offered to those who have not walked a labyrinth before.  An eight-page brochure is given to each walker upon entering and includes an insert for the specific prayer walk.  A finger labyrinth is available for those unable to walk without assistance.
Leader: Coordinated by Linda Pierce Knutson, graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program, Class of Summer 2003.
Contact: Linda Pierce Knutson, 703-451-8492 or llpknutson@earthlink.net.

Event: Group Spiritual Direction
Dates: October 2007 through June 2008
Time: Wednesday evening, 7:30 to 9:30PM
Place: Missionhurst Retreat Center, Arlington, VA
Cost: No cost.
Details: A time to experience group spiritual direction.
Leaders: Rhoda Nary, long-time Shalem associate staff member and Father Jo Giordano.
Contact: Rhoda at 703-538-6132 or Father Joe at 703-528-3800

Event: Contemplative Prayer Drop-in Group
Dates: Third Monday of each month
Time: 7:30 to 9PM
Place: Providence Presbyterian Church, 9019 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, VA
Cost: No charge; occasional donations.
Details: The time includes brief introductions, opening prayer, some relaxation movements, the evening's presentation, 15 minutes of silence, journal-keeping and small group sharing. There is a closing intercessory prayer circle to name our concerns aloud or silently.
Leaders: Ann Kulp is a spiritual director, retreat leader, member of the Shalem Institute's associate staff, and author of SPIRIT WINDOWS, A Handbook of Spiritual Growth Resources for Leaders.
Contact: Ann Kulp at 703-978-9078 or annkulp@mac.com

Event: Monthly Contemplative Prayer Drop-In Group
Dates: Third Sunday of each month (sometimes the fourth Sunday; please check with contact)
Time: 7:30-9:00PM
Place: Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Rte. 50 and Woodlawn Avenue, Falls Church, VA
Cost: None
Details: Time for reflection and presence to God
Leader: Barbara Rosenbaum, graduate of Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program
Contact: Barbara Rosenbaum, 703-824-1947or rosenbaum.barbara@verizon.net

Event: Contemplative Labyrinth Retreat
Date: May 31, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Place: A private nature sanctuary on Vashon Island, Washington
Cost: $50.00
Details: The labyrinth is one of the oldest contemplative and transformational tools known to humanity. Walk this ancient path to reflect, relax and find your center. Silence, labyrinth walking, story telling, journaling and harp music will feed your spirit. Nature walks and simple, healthy food will nourish your body.
Leaders: Carol Spangler, a graduate of Shalem's Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats Program and an Anam Cara to Hospice patients and their families; Jane Valencia, a Celtic harpist, composer, storyteller, Reiki healing artist and teacher; and Betty Hawkins, a labyrinth expert who designs and constructs labyrinths, organizes intergenerational community labyrinth events and teaches about them.
Contact: www.ckspang@centurytel.net

Event: In Touch With The Sacred
Dates: Thursdays, May 1,8,15, 22, 2008
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Place: Waikanae Presbyterian Church, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand
Cost: $40
Details: A time to explore the sacred within and surrounding us
Leaders: Margaret Schrader and other spiritual directors of the Kapiti Coast. Margaret is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program W94 and Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program 94.
Contact: Register 04 905 94 74 margschrader@clear.net.nz

Event: Dreams: The Language of The Soul
Dates: May 10, 2008
Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Place: Kapiti Uniting Parish, Raumati, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand
Cost: $50; $30 for students
Details: Our dreams constantly show us the way towards wholeness and fullness of life. In this workshop we will use a variety of methods to tap into the deep inner wisdom of our lives through exploring our own dreams. Please come with a dream you would like to explore.
Leader: Margaret Schrader is a graduate of Shalem's Spiritual Guidance Program W94 and Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program 94.
Contact: Register 04 905 94 74 margschrader@clear.net.nz