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Retreat at Home

  • 01 Jan 2022
  • 30 Nov 2022
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Retreat at Home

(For Principals and Deputy Principals Only)


Retreatants have the option of taking 3 days across the span of 1 to 6 weeks to step away from their professional role to be on retreat and engage in a ‘retreat at home’ experience facilitated by an accredited and approved spiritual director via a one-to-one 45 minute to 1 hour online session on each of the 3 days.  

This form of retreat requires a high degree of self-discipline, an ability to switch off from work matters, and for retreatants to have a space to be by themselves (either at home or in a space by themselves, walking on the beach or in the bush, going for a drive or any other suitable, solitary space).  There must be a preparedness to enter into a quiet contemplation where the retreatant can be mindful of and consider the input from their spiritual director sessions.

Retreatants will be paired with a spiritual director and can negotiate dates and times for the online sessions.  Ideally, retreatants and spiritual directors will arrange to meet online on each of the mornings of the 3 days for about 1 hour and then for the rest of the day, retreatants consider whatever has come out of the conversation, contemplate and pray on it (and stay away from emails, phone and other work distractions!). 

Retreatants may wish to nominate and propose a particular focus, theme or topic to their spiritual director, or may simply want to focus on their relationship with God, the ways in which they pray, how they see themself as a Catholic leader and how they interact with others and the world because of their context.  This experience could be a gentle, calm way of considering what other dimensions or growth points the retreatant would like to focus on to improve their spiritual health and wellbeing.

The 3 days of ‘retreat at home’ ideally should not span more than 6 weeks in total so there is a flow.

Commitment to all three days is essential

Cost
$300.00 per participant (an invoice will be sent to your school from the CEO)                

For further information contact:

Juanita Lieschke, Administrator, Leadership and Workforce Development

Email:  mailto:Juanita.lieschke@cesa.catholic.edu.au

Phone:  08 8301 6885 

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