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Articles about the retreat experience from Friends of FindtheDivine
 Beyond Vacation: Going on Retreat
Published by congregationalresources.org
My summer vacation time is approaching, and I'd like to devote at least part of it to quiet reflection in a serene setting. What resources would point me to some good retreat centers?
"Find the Divine" offers a fairly comprehensive listing of retreat centers around the country and overseas. You'll notice, for example, that the site offers a link to retreat centers by state. Once you click on a specific state, the web page will show featured centers and camps, with photos and descriptions. More
Travel as a spiritual practice: tips for transformational vagabonding - By MaryEllen O'Brien - Phoenix Spiritual Pathways Examiner
"Let’s be clear — travel as a spiritual practice, a knee deep, wide eyed, excursion into the mist, is not to be confused with tourism. Tourism is pleasurable and yes, it may expand awareness and be fun. But a vacation — an escape to far-away beach or mountain, is not the same as travel. And a tourist is not the same thing as a traveler."
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Trips toward tranquillity - Spiritual tourism is on the rise as the stressed-out among us seek some serenity, by GENARO C. ARMAS - The Associated Press
"Frazzled Americans look to such destinations increasingly to decompress from their mile-a-minute lifestyles, redefining the concept of "spiritual travel." State tourism gurus in Pennsylvania in recent years have produced literature promoting what they called "growing interest in spiritually based retreat destinations."
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Retreats in Troubled Times - Why make a retreat? Why take time and spend money in the midst of a great financial crisis? Suzanne Buckley, Director of Mercy Center (http://www.mercy-center.org) in California, believes that this is a perfect time to invest in yourself, your health and your spiritual well-being. She says... Link to Why attend a retreat now?
Reflections on Spa, Soul, and the role of Water, by Sara Firman
Aqua est Animus, Animus est Bonus (Water is life, life is good)
What if we considered retreat in natural surroundings, immersion in beauty and art, intensive personal attention, valuing dreams, visions and encounters with spirit, as our birthright?
From this soulful connection with self we might then experience a more sacred connection with nature that could inspire us to support it's preservation and healing also. What if water were the medium?
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 Retreats
by Joe Paprocki
Do you ever just feel like life is wearing you down and your spiritual “gas tank” is running on empty? It's not unusual to experience “dry spells” in our spiritual life. One way to deal with or even to prevent these dry spells is to go on a retreat.
Link to article on Loyola Press
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 What is Enlightenment (WIE) Magazine - Pulse
by Andrew Cohen
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The Darden Magazine – Spring 2007 Issue (pg 40)
The University of Virginia graduate business school
Founder of FindtheDivine and Darden MBA, Phil Stone
by Stephen Evans, Editor
Link to PDF File - The Darden Magazine
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 Getting Away with God, Today's Christian
A spiritual retreat can quiet your soul and renew your faith. Here's how.
By Brenda Jank
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 Summer 2006, Religious Based Events, A Profitable Market in Good times and Bad. FindtheDivine featured in article as a source for those seeking a retreat or conference center to host a religious event.
By Michael Snyder, HSMAI Marketing Review.
 Michael Snyder is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in HSMAI Marketing Review, The South Bend Tribune, TR News, Liquid Magazine, and Union City. He is at work on a book of biographical sketches and short stories titled Voices from the Prairie: Scenes from Life As It Once Was. His first book, Angels on the Streets (Angeles en las Calles), will be available in English and Spanish in February 2007. After 25 years in the Washington, D.C., area, this past December he returned to live in his hometown, South Bend, Indiana.
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 Summery Ways to Spiritually Expand
Star-gaze, hike barefoot, light a bonfire, and ponder your life
... TAKE A MEANINGFUL WORKSHOP. School's out. Time to learn. Spiritual and religious retreats and Zen centers are now hot topics on the travel pages of major newspapers. We've found a terrific site called Find the Divine where you can locate virtually every religious and spiritual retreat center in existence (phew!) with space for feedback, chat, and evaluation. Or check out Beliefnet's review of some happy settings for transformational seminars featuring nationally known people teaching everything from meditation to ecstatic dance to whole foods cooking.
By Amy Cunningham
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 My Time at Mercy Center
July, 2006
BURLINGAME'S Mercy Center —nestled among towering leafy old oaks — has offered me quiet, solitude, and inspiration for many years. For more information...
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 "Top Ten: Family Destinations", Feb 2006.
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 "Where the Spirit Moves You", AARP - The Magazine, November & December 2005, Article about Spirituality websites and retreats. By Lani Luciano
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 "Click and Ye Shall Find", by Andrea Cooper, page 72, The OPRAH Magazine, March 2005 issue. Article about FindtheDivine and its founder.. article continued
"Summery Ways to Spiritually Expand" by Amy Cunningham
It's July. It's hot. If you feel overwhelmed or stuck, there is nowhere to turn. Houses of worship have shifted to lighter hours and offer fewer activities. Therapists and friends have that annoying way of departing on exotic, expensive vacations. At first, you may say, "What is this?" You can't believe you've been left to your own resources. article continued
 Carol Reeves - "Vacations with spirit - This summer's travelers can enjoy religious activities in Northwest", Corvalles Gazette-Times , June 19, 2004
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Ellen Michaud - "The new family retreat: a different kind of retreat lets parents and kids come together to reflect on family and spiritual values--and spend time playing on the beach.(religious family retreats)", Better Homes and Gardens, March, 2004
 "You don't have to be of any particular faith to come to a family retreat," she says. All that's needed is an openness to God, the willingness to reconnect with one's family--and the energy to build a lot of sand castles.
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Caryle Murphy - "Getting in Touch by Getting Away", Washington Post, July 6, 2003
 "And one way of finding yourself is in peace and quiet. It's not necessarily where you go, but that you are alone and in quiet"
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Smartha Stevenson Olson - "Where the Views Are Inward", New York Times, June 22, 2003
 "On spiritual retreats, however scenic, participants focus on the self and the eternal..."
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Caryle Murphy - "Seeking out silence: More people visit retreat centers to look inward ", Seattle Times, July 26, 2003
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Susan Seliger - "A Vacation For The Soul (and easy on the purse, too)", Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, August 2002
"more than 2,000 monasteries, abbeys, and spiritual retreat centers are scattered throughout the United States and Canada. About 80 % are linked to a religious order. But more take a more ecumenical, interfaith approach to accomodate this increased interest".
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Rev.com - "Help For Hurting Pastors and Families", July 2002
Do a search on Web sites for pastors, and you’ll find many that offer sermon outlines and worship help. But what about help for pastors and their families who are hurting in some way-whether they’ve been forced out of the ministry, are recovering from an addiction, need help in their marriages, or need a mentor?
Retreat Articles After September 11
Making Haqqodesh - "Excerpts from Article about how God desires to be with us". By Loretta Ross-Gotta.
Charles McKelvy - "Finding a Place of Peace Near Kalamazoo",
The Beacher, Kalamazoo, MI, September 27, 2001.
NY Times News Service - "Retreats fare better than other travel spots". The pain of September 11 has driven people to search for more meaning in their lives, and religious retreats are where many are looking to find it.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center - In the light of recent events, which show so clearly the dangers of religious fanaticism, it is especially heartening to see leaders of different faiths gathered together to celebrate our common belief in the Light of God and, at the same time, to honor our religious diversity.
Susan Guynn - "Silence of the Land", March 2005
Douglas D. Germann, Sr. - "Sacred Group Retreats to Make Change ", March, 2004
G. Jeffrey MacDonald - "More Christians seek quiet relief in the practice of solitary piety", April, 2004
Phil Stone - "A Day Of Contemplative Prayer at Bon Secours Spiritual Center", August, 2003
Rev. Kathy Harris - "Daily Walking with Jesus the Messiah"
Rev. Joan Cerk - "Where Are You Putting Your Faith?"
Elizabeth Guss, M.A. - "Toward A New Way Of Working".
Elizabeth Guss, M.A. - "Workplace Spirituality - An Invitation to Wholeness". Three articles about workplace spirituality and bringing it all together. Spirit infuses the work; work offers the Spirit another form and shape.
Elizabeth Guss, M.A. - "On Finding an Integrated Path", Work & Spirit: A Reader of New Spiritual Paradigms for Organizations.. U of Scranton Press, Scranton, PA. 2000
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For Further Reading
Griffin, Emilie. The Reflective Executive - A Spirituality of Business and Enterprise. Crossroads Press, NY, NY. 1993 A profoundly practical commentary on how to integrate management and scriptural resources to see God's presence in work, even in the details. Draws from 30 years of marketing, poetic wisdom of Christian mystics, and visionary business thinkers.
Guenther, Margaret. Holy Listening - The Art of Spiritual Direction. Cowley Publications, Cambridge, MA. 1992. A practical explanation of the incredible gift of spiritual direction--listening wholly to another, helping that person get his inner house in order and await the arrival of divine messengers who wait for an audience.
Guillory, William. The Living Organization - Spirituality in the Workplace. Innovations International, Salt Lake City, UT 1998. Incorporating previous work on empowerment to understand the positive effect on an organization when people consciously embrace their spiritual selves and journey as part of their lifestyle.
McFague, Sallie. Models of God - Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, PA. 1987 Let us not narrow God, but engage the imagination about this all encompassing reality and free ourselves to a change in consciousness that can open us to new action to accomplish good.
Novak, Michael. Business as a Calling - Work and the Examined Life. The Free Press, NY, NY. 1996. Winner of the Templeton Prize in 1996, Novak examines the concept of vocation—a calling to wholeness—and its deep integration with business.
Richmond, Lewis. Work as a Spiritual Practice - A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job. Broadway Books, NY, NY. 1999. The active, engaged side of Buddhism draws people into the creative, inspiring, and accomplishing that is necessary in our workplace world. Invites empowerment in all work.
Wheatley, Margaret. Leadership and the New Science - Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe. Berrett-Kohler Publishers, San Francisco, CA. 1992. A synthesis of new understandings from science—systems, relationships, and that chaos is change toward a new order—that prompt us to look at organizations in a new way, seeing change as the impetus toward higher development and understanding.
Wicks, Robert. Touching the Holy - Ordinariness, Friendship, and Self Esteem. Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN,1992. A look at truth and our search for it through the simple, ordinary aspects of every day life and relationship.
Wicks, Robert and Rodgerson, Thomas E. Companions in Hope - The Art of Christian Caring. Paulist Press, NY, NY. 1998. A companioning guide for those who wish to care deeply for another through presence and conversation.
* Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109AD) is credited with this definition as part of his contribution to the growing emphasis on merging reason with faith. This definition helped shape theological study and discourse from the 12th century forward. (McBrien, Richard. Catholicism. Winston Press. P. 26)
**The root of enthusiasm is “en theos”, translated as the Spirit of God within—a radiating internal energy.
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