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A gift purchased for someone you would like to bless with a retreat, program or spiritual direction.  Several options, listed at right, are available.  Contact the Center for more information. 360-438-2595

Spiritual Direction Certificate Program: Application

With Mary Pandiani, D. Min., MA, C.S.D and Monika Ellis, OSB, MA, Education

January 1 - May 9, 2025

Spiritual Direction Certificate Program: Listening with the Spirit (LWS) - a two year Online Spiritual Direction training program Application & Interview  A non-refundable $100 application/interview fee is submitted with your application materials and spiritual autobiography before the interview. The application materials and spiritual autobiography will be the substance of the interview. This fee is different […]

Hybrid: Jesus in Nature: Monastic Images of an Earthy Christ

With Samuel Torvend

April 26, 2025
The Priory Spirituality Center

The call to care for our common home, the earth, invites Christians to consider the image of Jesus who was and is among us – in, with, and through nature’s seasons. In this retreat, participants will consider the work of Benedict of Nursia, the Venerable Bede, Walafrid Strabo, and Hildegard of Bingen – Benedictines whose […]

Hybrid: Contemplative Rest Practice on First Saturdays Monthly

With M Freeman

May 3, 2025

This Contemplative Rest Practice series is open to those who have taken a Contemplative Rest retreat with M Freeman. Each session offers opportunities for awe-savoring, somatic, guided meditations by M and silent resting-in-awe practice together as well as gentle time for group sharing, connecting, and cherishing the transporting benefit of communal contemplative practice. “All living […]

Hybrid- When the Heart Is Touched: The Ancient Monastic Method of Lectio Divina

With Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB

July 5, 2025

In this workshop we will explore and practice the method of Lectio Divina as practiced by the desert Fathers and Mothers and monastics throughout the centuries. The emphasis will be on individual, rather than group, practice. Our time together will include short presentations by the facilitator, times for solitary, individual lectio practice and a time […]

Hybrid: The Sacred Line

With Monika Ellis, OSB

August 16, 2025
St Placid Spirituality Center

Lines – short or long, wide or narrow, are all around us. Once we become aware of the lines in our lives we will see them everywhere. They are sacred.  We will explore lines of many shapes that when put together make beautiful images.  Our world at this time needs the power of beauty to […]

Zoom: Prayer Practices Certification Program 2025-2026

With St. Placid Sisters

September 1, 2025 - August 3, 2026

Prayer Practices is a 2 years (20 sessions -40 hours) certificate program to explore a wide variety of ways to approach a prayerful life. You will  learn to connect with the sacred in diverse ways in order to help guide others. If you are a spiritual director, pastor, counselor or work in a ministry, different […]

Oasis 2025-2026

With Paz Vital, OSB, PhD, Monika Ellis, OSB, MA, Education, Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB, Sonja Weber, OSB, Laura Swan, OSB and Julian Cleary OSB

September 18, 2025 - March 20, 2026

Do you yearn for rest, prayer and nurturing in your busy schedule? What would your life look like if you gave yourself or/& to a beloved one two retreat opportunities at the Center, plus six quiet afternoons during the year? Silence, spiritual direction and Lectio Divina are available to aid your reflection. Every Third Thursday […]