​Deepen your intimacy with God and Increase your capacity to live a fuller Christian life.

According to Fr. Thomas Keating, “Welcoming Prayer is the practice that actively lets go of thoughts and feelings that support the false-self system. It embraces painful emotions experienced in the body rather than avoiding them or trying to suppress them.”

This workshop introduces participants to the method of the Welcoming Prayer and provides an opportunity to practice. We’ll establish Welcoming Prayer’s place in Body Awareness Practice and include discussions of the human condition and the false-self system as conceptual background to Welcoming Prayer.

Presented by Mike Smoolca

Mike Smoolca is a contemplative group and workshop facilitator and a dedicated teacher and student of contemplative practice and wisdom spirituality. He is a Contemplative Outreach Commissioned Presenter of  Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina and Welcoming Prayer and has lead many Centering Prayer Formation training workshops. He is Coordinator of Contemplative Outreach of CT, the Christian Contemplative Experience at Holy Family, and the Northern CT Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society. Mike is a practicing spiritual director and supervisor as well as a BioSpiritual Focusing companion and teacher.

To register contact Patricia Knight-Bellisle at (860)559-6286 or by email at  [email protected] or simply Register below. If you have any questions or difficulties please contact Patricia as well.

Kindly mail your check for $15 payable to Contemplative Outreach of CT to:

Mike Smoolca
8 Tennyson Dr
Granby, CT 01035

If you'd like to pay by Venmo or Zelle, please contact us at: ​[email protected]

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