Past Events › Region 4

 Presenters: Steve Spilde, certified Daring Way™ facilitator-candidate, and Deb Hansen, FSC spiritual director Weekend workshops (Friday evening through Saturday afternoon) Investment: $300 (payment options available) Overnight rooms available for additional fee; please call 608-791-5295 for housing options. Many of us want deeper and more intimate relationships, a life inspired by courage and freedom, and work [...]

 Presenters: Steve Spilde, certified Daring Way™ facilitator-candidate, and Deb Hansen, FSC spiritual director Weekend workshops (Friday evening through Saturday afternoon) Investment: $300 (payment options available) Overnight rooms available for additional fee; please call 608-791-5295 for housing options. Many of us want deeper and more intimate relationships, a life inspired by courage and freedom, and work [...]

Learn about the four types of grief identified as beyond the norm, how these types relate to the pandemic and specific actions that are recommended to work skillfully with the pain of loss. Presented by Elizabeth Lewis  

Through prayer and conversation on the Winter Solstice, particpants will embrace the longest night and remember that all feelings and memories are OK to  have during this time. Presented by Sarah Hennessey, FSPA and Jean Pagliaro The cost of this event is FREE, but registration is required.

This gathering is designed to offer mutual encouragement and support, as well as ideas for staying healthy and whole in the midst of this chaotic time. Presented by Steve Spilde  

Tonglen, which translates from Tibetan as 'giving and receiving,'  is a meditation practice of breathing in suffering and breathing out loving-kindess.  This retreat will include an introduction to the foundations of the practice and provide guided meditation periods, discussion, time for questions and extensive resources to prepare participants to pracatice this ancient tradition with understanding [...]

This workshop will delve into both spiritual and research-based approaches to gratitude and include guided visualizations, relience-building gratitude practices, short writing exercises, and discussion. Presented by Elizabeth Lewis

The call to embrace struggle is not an act of resignation but a commitment to life in its fullness. In this one day retreat via Zoom with Prairiewoods, we walk with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Jesuit, scientist and mystic. We explore the powerful imagery found in his essay, 'The Spiritual Power of Matter,' consider the way he faced his life struggles - especially those related to the Church and to the World - and prayerfully reflect on their relevance to our own life experiences and present situation. This online retreat via Zoom includes time for prayer, input, reflection, contemplative dialogye and sharing and is facilitated by Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, PhD., professor emerita of physics and director of the Institute for Religion and Science at Chestnut Hill College.

Sister Margaret Carney OSF will use her new biography, Light in Assisi:  The Story of St. Clare as the framework of this retreat.  For additional information and to register online, go to rochesterfranciscan.org/events and select the date: May 23, 2021.  The retreat starts at 6:30 PM on Sunday and ends at 11:30 AM on Saturday. [...]

Our retreat directors, Father James Burns and Sister Gabriele Uhlein, will provide an integrated approach using spiritual and psychological research on the stage of the second half of life.  For additional information and to register online, go to rochesterfranciscan.org/events and select the date:  June 6, 2021.  The retreat starts at 6:30 pm on Sunday and [...]