What Is Offered

Deepening Personal and Spiritual Life

Individual Spiritual Direction

  • Spiritual Direction: be companioned in your spiritual life and prayerful relationship with God by meeting with an experienced spiritual director who is available onsite and via Zoom
Cost per session is negotiable.

Individual and Group Professional or Pastoral Supervision

  • Individual and small group Pastoral Supervision; appointments can be booked with an AAOS-registered supervisor who is available onsite and via Zoom

Cost per session is negotiable.

Seminars and Workshops

  • A range of workshops, seminars and retreats are on offer on themes such as
    • Nourished by God’s Creation
    • Come to Me, Be Still, Pray with Your Whole Being
    • Mysticism for Everyone
    • Bush Bathing: “Shinrin-yoku” (Aussie style)
    • Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home”
    • Lessons from the Ocean
    • Integral Ecology
    • God’s Gift of Interculturality
  • Special themed prayer and reflection days can be negotiated and facilitated for groups of up to 25 people

Facilitation costs, apart from accommodation charges if applicable, are negotiable.

Private or Directed Retreat

  • Silent and guided retreats between 2 – 8 days can be booked anytime there is a vacancy, with the option of meeting with a retreat guide if desired
  • Special themed prayer and reflection days can be negotiated and facilitated for groups of up to 25 people

Facilitation and direction costs, apart from accommodation charges, are negotiable.

Taizé-style prayer gatherings

  • Monthly Taizé-style prayer gatherings are held regularly: please check the Colac/Apollo Bay Parish bulletins online for dates and times as these will vary over the summer and winter months.

There is no charge for these prayer gatherings.

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