Program Offerings

Individual retreats provide an atmosphere of silence and contemplative recollection for your daily discipline of personal prayer. Time spent in quiet reflection facilitates your spiritual journey. Access to video and book library is available.

A private retreat offers space, access to facilities and scheduling around Community liturgies and meals. The fee is $40 per day which includes room and meals. See Body and Soul retreat offering below for package options.

A directed retreat offers the same as above plus an opportunity to meet with a Spiritual Director each day. The fee is $75 per day. This includes spiritual direction, an over-night stay and three meals.

Directors:

Jolene Geier OP: invites you to root your spiritual journey in the broader world view where issues of peace and justice affect your soul choices.
Louise Hageman OP: invites you to be attentive to the rhythm of daily life and to integrate the spiritual into all of life.
Philip St. Romain D. Min.: invites you as a Catholic layman, husband, father and author to see the possibilities for a contemplative life in the midst of busy-ness. (3 day retreats only)
Renee Dreiling OP: invites you to discover the surprises that God splashes in and among the pleasures and pains of life.
Connie Burkholder, M. Div. invites you to a deeper awareness of and attentiveness to God’s presence, love, and action in your life. She is available for individual direction and directed Ignatian Retreats.
Ann Axman invites you to explore the daily moments as sacred and gifts from God. .
Marcia Berchek offers a time to be fully present to God in the midst of ordinary concerns.

WORKSHOPS AND SERIES

Book Discussion Series
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, by Eugene Peterson
2010: Sept. 2, 16; Oct. 7, 21; Nov. 18
2011: Jan. 13, 24; Feb. 10, 24; Mar. 24; Apr. 14
Cost: $25 per semester, plus $15 for the book if you purchase from us.
- lunch available for $7.00 or your can bring your own
. . . Peterson invites his readers into a true dialogue--speaking and listening in turn--that opens up Christian spirituality as a lived reality. Though grounded in scripture and in Trinitarian doctrine, the spirituality Peterson would foster is deeply experiential, intensely felt as a growing awareness of both transcendent miracles and intimate connections. That growth comes not through personal achievement but rather through selfless submission to the divine presence, memorably described in the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem from which Peterson takes his title.

Side by Side: Interpreting Dual Stories in the Bible
Connie Burkholder, M. Div.
Sept. 27; Oct. 11, 25; Nov. 8, 29
3:00 - 4:30 pm
$25 plus $10 for cost of book (new registrants welcomed)
What is your reaction to biblical accounts that don't mesh? Are you troubled? Do you want to know more? This scripture study explores ten pairs of biblical passages that sometimes complement each other and sometimes compete. The purpose will be to address the difficult issues and to understand the intent of the scriptures in question. The study text is by Frank Ramirez.
Chapter study headings include: Four Gospels, One Lord; The Birth of Jesus; The Most Famous Sermon; What Day Was It?; and Grace and Works.
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Peer Supervision for Spiritual Directors
Dates: (Friday 7:30 p.m. - Saturday 3:30 p.m.):
October 29-30, 2010
February 18-19, 2011
Fees per gathering (includes Saturday breakfast and lunch):
Commuters - $35.00
Staying overnight - $60.00
. . . In order to provide for the continuing growth and formation of spiritual directors trained in our SpiritLife program, we will provide several get-togethers at Heartland Center for Spirituality during the coming months.
- We are opening this opportunity for anyone who has completed a spiritual director formation program and is currently seeing directees.
. . . During this time, we will provide opportunities for fellowship, support, sharing resources, and peer supervision (contemplative observer approach taught by Jane Vennard). The team at Heartland Center will provide hospitality and direction for this process.
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RETREAT EXPERIENCES

Body and Soul: A Private Retreat Package.
. . . Heartland Center for Spirituality, located in the convent of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, invites you to relax and renew in one of our guest rooms and take advantage of one of our Body and Soul specials.
Included in the package are:
. . . * Room accommodations for two nights
. . . * 5 meals
. . . * 2-day pass to local health club.
. . . * The quiet and calm of the retreat center and grounds.
. . . * Access to a library of videos/DVDs on a variety of topics.
. . . * An opportunity to share prayer with the Sisters.
- - - Other options (by appointment only) - - -
. . . * Massage ($45)
. . . * Spiritual direction ($40)

To check for availability and make reservations, contact the Center: 620-792-1232 or send email to office@heartlandspirituality.org

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The Five Love Languages: day of enrichment for married and engaged couples.
October 9, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Led by Ann Axman and Ryan Axman
Cost $60.00 per couple
Are you speaking the right love language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home cooked meal. The problem is not your love - it is your love language. During this time together we will explore Dr. Gary Chapman's 5 love languages, and find the key to understanding the unique needs of your spouse. By applying the right principles and learning the correct language you will have the satisfaction and joy of being able to express your love and feel truly loved in return. There will be time for reflection, both on your own and with your spouse, and sharing with others in the group.
"I am convinced that keeping the emotional love tank full is as important to a marriage as maintaining the proper oil level is to an automobile." (Dr. Gary Chapman)

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RCIA Retreat 2011: Journeys to Conversion
Great Bend February 26th
Dodge City - March 5th
Presenters will be Sr. Jolene and Ann Axman
Mark your calendars now. Registration information will be posted in a forthcoming newsletter.

Holy Week Retreat - 2011 with Paul Colloton OP
April 17-24, 2011
$525 for retreat, room and board, general public.
$420 for Dominican Sisters
$275 commuter fee (includes lunches)
The death and resurrection we recall this week are often referred to as the Sacrifice of the Cross. Sacrifice is about learning how to love. Reclaim this central teaching in ways that deepen the ways we manifest God’s love today.

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Summer Retreat 2011 "If you make my word your home, you will truly be my disciples." (Jn. 8:31) Mary O'Driscoll OP and Brian J. Pierce OP July 24-31, 2011 $525 general public (includes retreat, room and board) $420 for Dominican Sisters of Peace $275 commuter fee (includes lunches) - register by June 1, 2011 and save $25.00: Mary O'Driscoll OP, a Cabra Irish Dominican, is an authority on the teaching of Catherine of Sienna, whose life and theological teaching were in fact the theme of her doctoral work. She has written several books and articles on St. Catherine of Sienna and other topics of interest. She has lived and ministered in South Africa and Italy as well as her own country. She has also lectured in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. She loves being a Dominican.

Brian J. Pierce OP, a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Martin de Porres, has worked much of his Dominican life in Latin America. He helped to found a new community of preachers in Honduras in the early 90's, and also spent time ministering in a Q’eqchi indigenous parish in Guatemala. After that Brian lived for a year and a half in a contemplative Christian ashram in Oklahoma, before being sent to Lima, Peru, where he served as the Promoter of the Dominican Family in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is now based in Rome as the General Promoter of the Contemplative Nuns of the Order. He has written three books: Martin de Porres: A Saint of the Americas (New City Press), We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart (Orbis Books), and Praxis y Predicación (Ed. Bonum, Buenos Aires).

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Program Offerings: Summer 2010 and Beyond

PRIVATE AND DIRECTED RETREATS

WORKSHOPS AND SERIES

RETREAT EXPERIENCES