Featured in the Newsletter
- Creating Space for Change
- Free Film Event: A Rising Tide of Silence
- Guard of the Heart
- CP Intro Workshops: Need Locations
- Facilitators: We Need Your Help
- No Frills Second Sits – Zoom
- Forever Zoom morning sit, Mon-Fri, 7-7:30 am, online
- Sunday Soup and Contemplation In-Person Every Sunday
- Centering Prayer for 12 Steps, Spring Spirituality Series Part One
- Meditation Chapel
- Retreats 2025 and beyond
Creating Space for Change
Oct 6 – Oct 30, Monday – Thursday each week
6 am – 7 am Pacific Time
Online
Learn practical exercises for activating your nervous system’s ability to calm and heal itself
$50 fee, scholarships available
Photo by James Morden on Unsplash
Free Film Event: A Rising Tide of Silence
Saturday, October 11
9 am to 12 noon
In-person
Event will include centering prayer, film showing, and discussion
Holy Communion Church
1245 SE 3rd Street, Suite C10
Bend, OR
CP Intro Workshops: Need Locations
Four new presenters-in-training will be ready to give their first workshops in September, October or early November.
Contact Gini by email at giniwg@gmail.com if you can host one in your church, home, or library.
We can also set up a Zoom workshop.
Consider offering training for newcomers before or after your CP group meeting.
Workshops can be 1/2hr, 1hr, 2hr, or 3hr sessions.
No Frills Second Sits
Mondays through Fridays
(sometimes we need help with that second sit)
Mondays through Fridays
4:30-5:00 pm (Pacific)
No chit-chat, no extras.
All are welcome.
Drop in any time.
Contact councilcoordinating@gmail.com for login information.
Photo by photo: Chewy on Unsplash
Forever Zoom
Need a little support for your morning sit?
Forever Zoom is a no-frills online group
No chit-chat, no extras. All are welcome. Drop in any time.
Mondays through Fridays
7:00 – 7:30am
Contact councilcoordinating@gmail.com for login information.
Photo by Jackie Jabson on Pexels
Centering Prayer for 12 Steps 2025 Spring Spirituality Series- Part One
Discover How Centering Prayer Can Deepen Your 12 Step Journey
Therese W. shares her powerful story of transformation through 12 Step Recovery and Centering Prayer. Even after years of sobriety and external success, she still felt a deep inner emptiness. Learn how integrating Centering Prayer into her life helped her develop a richer, more surrendered relationship with God, one sit at a time.
Watch anytime on Vimeo by clicking on the title.
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Clearing
Instead, create a clearing
in the dense forest of your life
and wait there patiently,
until the song that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world, so worthy of rescue.
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