The following programs are held at the Mercy Center in Colorado Springs, as residental programs.

Individual Vitality Programs are held year round pending space availability.

Sabbatical Programs
September 8- December 4, 2008
January 26 -April 24, 2009 and September 14 - December 10, 2009

May 2008

May 12 - 23 Pastoral Leadership Institute The Pastoral Leadership Intensive is a unique and innovative program that has been designed to provide personal and professional growth experiences. The program design includes the combination of small group sharing, classroom lectures and one-on-one spiritual direction. The program goal is to provide each participant with a pastoral leadership assessment with professional applications that will empower and renew each pastoral leader so that they can return to their pastoral work renewed and invigorated.

June 2008
June 2-6 MC Family Institute - Healing Family Relationships
June 9-13 MC Family Institute – Effective Family Living
June 16-20 MC Family Institute – Exploring Childhood Experiences

June 23-27 Retreat: Meditations on St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross St. John of the Cross invites us into a dynamic journey and teaches us how to adventure the pathways and prayerways up the mountain to the Ascent of Love. During these spiritual awakenings, St. John reveals how an intimate relationship with God can be borne from human suffering and transformed into redemptive suffering. We will then explore the Seven Dwelling Places of St. Teresa of Avila. Each dwelling place offers the spiritual pilgrim opportunities for conversion, radical encounters with transforming grace and mystical experiences that will lift us into a heavenly language and divine knowledge of God’s presence in our life. This retreat is not for the faint hearted or beginners. Intensive prayer, humble self-disclosure and a readiness to meet God’s unpredictable ways are included in this opportunity for inner exploration and the quest for holiness.

June 23-27 MC Family Institute – When My Body Speaks

June 23 -27 Mountains & Hills Vacation Retreat Come explore and pray some of the most beautiful vistas in Colorado. Through the meditation of scriptures and outdoor visits throughout Colorado we will meditate and ponder how God has revealed presence through sacred signs and images. A journal workbook is provided to help you reflect, journal, draw and create poem/reflections of your God encounters.

July 2008
June 30 - July 25 Spiritual Directors Renewal/Training Program

July 28-Aug 1  Mandala Exploration Training Program

July 28 - Aug 1 Mountains & Hills Vacation Retreat Come explore and pray some of the most beautiful vistas in Colorado. Through the meditation of scriptures and outdoor visits throughout Colorado we will meditate and ponder how God has revealed presence through sacred signs and images. A journal workbook is provided to help you reflect, journal, draw and create poem/reflections of your God encounters.

• Personal Power – abuse, misuse, or empowerment
• Necessary Losses
• The Call to Holiness and Soul Making
• Moments of Mercy: Sharing Blessings and Burdens
• The Practice of Presence
• Peacemakers and Bridge Builders
• Persecution or Self-Sabotage
• The Search for Ecstasy and Joy without addictions and Compulsions

August 11-15  The Relationship Institute The Relationship Institute is a therapeutic and educational program that provides an intensive learning environment for men and women who would like to develop human life skills for healthy living and relationships. many men and women have never had a first chance to learn how to trust, belong, and feel safe in relationships, establish boundaries, create healthy expressions of friendship, and secure a personal identity expressed in love and confidence of one's sexuality. If you are ready to learn new healthy patterns of living and begin to intergrate a vibrant way of life that encourages you to live life to the full, then we invite you to join us for the Relationship Institute.

August 11-15   Healing the Father and Mother Wound Hare you ever felt like there is a hole in your chest? Have you tried to fill it with food, drugs, alcohol, religion, relationships, or work? Would you like to get rid of the aching feeling that nothing is good enough? Through personal assessment you will be able to name those adult life skills taht are missing and establish a health care program taht will enable you to create a life choice based on recovery, well-being, and integrity.

August 18-29  Vocation and Formation Providers Training Program

August 18-29   Healing and Reconstruction for ACOA/Trauma/Dysfunctional Families Adult Children from Dysfunctional/Alcoholic/Abusive family systems need a safe environment to unlearn the three family rules: don’t talk, don’t trust and don’t feel. Through the exploration of your family genogram we will help each participant unlearn family, cultural and religious rules and beliefs that create burdens and inhibit personal freedom. Learning healthy communication patterns, intimacy skills, boundaries, self-esteem and designing a health care plan for “Living life to the full” will be achieved through small group sharing, lectures and a variety of rituals of healing.

September 2008
September 8th - Three Month Sabbatical Program Begins

September 8-12  Encounters with Sacred Living

September 15-19 Inner Explorations: Healing the Past, Releasing Creativity, and the Search for Our Innocence & Family Life: Exploring Blessings and Burdens The nature of the ego and the psyche, persona - personal and professional, projections - infatuations and repulsions, the shadow, and the power shadow. The Genogram will help you to discover your blessings and release your burdens. Learn how to detox and detach from family systems and dysfunctional patterns of: thinking, feeling, trusting, behaving, unhealthy intimacy, co-dependence and attictive living.

September 22-26 Mountains & Hills Adventure Come explore and pray some of the most beautiful vistas in Colorado. Through the meditation of scriptures and outdoor visits throughout Colorado we will meditate and ponder how God has revealed presence through sacred signs and images. A journal workbook is provided to help you reflect, journal, draw and create poem/reflections of your God encounters.

September 29-Oct 3 BodyStories: Reflection and Mediations on Pope John Paul II Theology of the Body. Symbolic woundedness, the wisdom of dis-ease, unlocking past hurts, breathwork and inner explorations through imagery, storytelling and imagination.

October 2008
October 6-10 Enneagram Explorations: Healing Compulsions - Unearthing Potential Naming our compulsions can begin our journey towards personal healing and recovery. Understanding the three centers, vice/virtue, consolation and desolation, pride, passion, intimacy, friendship, love and work will be explored.

October 13-17 Anger Workout: Resolving Grief, Fear, Anxiety Understanding the power/purpose of anger and learning how to detox anxiety, fear and greif. Establishing a personal health care program and learn how to forgive and let go of the past. Reconciling major life losses such as surgery, midlife, career change, and loss of a relationship and experiencing serentiy.

October 20-24 Myers -Briggs Type Indicator Personality and Prayer: Understanding personality preferences, career likes and dislikes, consolation, desolation, power and intimacy, MBTI dominant and inferior functions, compatibility and conflict profiles, play, work shadow profile and relationships.

October 27-31 Conscious Celibacy: Truth or Consequences. Psycho-sexual-social development, stages of initiation into celibacy, the meaning and purpose of celibacy, Conscious Celibacy Assessment Inventory, managing libido, the biological implications of celibate living, detoxing sexual symbols and fantasies, intimacy inventory and designing a social atom.

November 2008
November 3-7 Dream Explorations: Sacred Symbols, Rituals, and the Presence of God. Learning the biology, psychology and spirituality of dream work. Understanding archetypes, anima/animus, night terrors and nightmares, the libido, numious dreams, mandala symbolism and dreams of transformation.

November 10-14 Retreat: Meditations on St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross St. John of the Cross invites us into a dynamic journey and teaches us how to adventure the pathways and prayerways up the mountain to the Ascent of Love. During these spiritual awakenings, St. John reveals how an intimate relationship with God can be borne from human suffering and transformed into redemptive suffering. We will then explore the Seven Dwelling Places of St. Teresa of Avila. Each dwelling place offers the spiritual pilgrim opportunities for conversion, radical encounters with transforming grace and mystical experiences that will lift us into a heavenly language and divine knowledge of God’s presence in our life. This retreat is not for the faint hearted or beginners. Intensive prayer, humble self-disclosure and a readiness to meet God’s unpredictable ways are included in this opportunity for inner exploration and the quest for holiness.

November 17-21 Life Transitions: Journey Through the Labyrinth The individuation process, stages of psychosexual and social growth and development, life transitions, necessary losses, ritual grieving, depression of the dark night of hte soul, consolation and desolation, menopause and manapause, body changes and challenges.

November 24-28 Conscious Living, Loving and Being

December 2008
December 3 - 7 Sabbatical Farewell Celebrations

January 2009
January 26 – Three month Sabbatical Begins

January 26 - 30 Encounters with Sacred Living
January 26-30 Mandala Exploration The Mandala Exploration/Integration training program is an opportunity to create sacred space, a healing environment, a catalyst for personal growth and development and learn an innovative, unique and dynamic skill for personal and professional assessment.

February 2009
February 2-6 Inner Explorations: Healing the Past, Releasing Creativity, and the Search for Our Innocence & Family Life: Exploring Blessings and Burdens The nature of the ego and the psyche, persona - personal and professional, projections - infatuations and repulsions, the shadow, and the power shadow. The Genogram will help you to discover your blessings and release your burdens. Learn how to detox and detach from family systems and dysfunctional patterns of: thinking, feeling, trusting, behaving, unhealthy intimacy, co-dependence and attictive living.

February 9-20 Pastoral Leadership Institute The Pastoral Leadership Intensive is a unique and innovative program that has been designed to provide personal and professional growth experiences. The program design includes the combination of small group sharing, classroom lectures and one-on-one spiritual direction. The program goal is to provide each participant with a pastoral leadership assessment with professional applications that will empower and renew each pastoral leader so that they can return to their pastoral work renewed and invigorated.

February 9-13 BodyStories: Reflection and Mediations on Pope John Paul II Theology of the Body. Symbolic woundedness, the wisdom of dis-ease, unlocking past hurts, breathwork and inner explorations through imagery, storytelling and imagination.

Feb 16-20 Myers -Briggs Type Indicator Personality and Prayer: Understanding personality preferences, career likes and dislikes, consolation, desolation, power and intimacy, MBTI dominant and inferior functions, compatibility and conflict profiles, play, work shadow profile and relationships.

February 23-27  Enneagram Explorations: Healing Compulsions - Unearthing Potential Naming our compulsions can begin our journey towards personal healing and recovery. Understanding the three centers, vice/virtue, consolation and desolation, pride, passion, intimacy, friendship, love and work will be explored.

March 2009

March 2-6 Conscious Living, Loving and Being

March 9-13 Anger Workout: Resolving Grief, Fear, Anxiety Understanding the power/purpose of anger and learning how to detox anxiety, fear and greif. Establishing a personal health care program and learn how to forgive and let go of the past. Reconciling major life losses such as surgery, midlife, career change, and loss of a relationship and experiencing serentiy.

March 16-20 Dream Explorations: Sacred Symbols, Rituals, and the Presence of God. Learning the biology, psychology and spirituality of dream work. Understanding archetypes, anima/animus, night terrors and nightmares, the libido, numious dreams, mandala symbolism and dreams of transformation.

March 23-27 Conscious Celibacy: Truth or Consequences. Psycho-sexual-social development, stages of initiation into celibacy, the meaning and purpose of celibacy, Conscious Celibacy Assessment Inventory, managing libido, the biological implications of celibate living, detoxing sexual symbols and fantasies, intimacy inventory and designing a social atom.

March 30 - April 3 Life Transitions: Journey Through the Labyrinth The individuation process, stages of psychosexual and social growth and development, life transitions, necessary losses, ritual grieving, depression of the dark night of hte soul, consolation and desolation, menopause and manapause, body changes and challenges.

April 2009

April 5-11 Holy Week Retreat: Meditations with Rituals, Symbols and the Paschal Mystery

April 13-17 Mountains & Hills Adventure: Come explore and pray some of the most beautiful vistas in Colorado. Through the meditation of scriptures and outdoor visits throughout Colorado we will meditate and ponder how God has revealed presence through sacred signs and images. A journal workbook is provided to help you reflect, journal, draw and create poem/reflections of your God encounters.

April 20-23 Sabbatical Farewell Celebrations

July 2009
June 29 - July 24 Spiritual Directors Renewal/Training Program

July 27-31  Mandala Exploration Training Program

Aug 3-7 Mountains & Hills Vacation Retreat Come explore and pray some of the most beautiful vistas in Colorado. Through the meditation of scriptures and outdoor visits throughout Colorado we will meditate and ponder how God has revealed presence through sacred signs and images. A journal workbook is provided to help you reflect, journal, draw and create poem/reflections of your God encounters.

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