Retreats
Peacewhisper offers a sacred place for personal and spiritual growth.
We invite you to take time away from busy schedules, noise, and clutter to enter a quiet, peaceful space to renew and refresh your spirit.
- Come on your own or with a group
- Plan your own retreat
- Allow us to tailor a retreat for you or your group
- Participate in a spiritually directed retreat
- Attend a Contemplative retreat
- Request a day of prayer with lunch
- Utilize Peacewhisper for youth activities
- Arrange an outing or group meeting
- Schedule a spiritual direction session
Retreats allow ample time for silence, solitude, prayer, reflection, reading, hiking, and exploration within the sacred spaces.
Rates
Individual and group retreats
- $80 per night for lodging and 1 meal
- $60 per night for lodging if you bring and prepare your own meals in our guest kitchen.
- Prices include directed or nondirected retreats. A donation for a directed retreat is optional.
Topic specific retreats
- Please refer to the schedule of events below.
Day of prayer
- $40 per person, includes coffee, tea, fruit, and pastries upon arrival and a full lunch midday. There will be time to walk the Labyrinth, Stations of the Cross, Rosary Walk, Rosary Garden, and to the Hermitage.
Spiritual Direction
- Spiritual Direction is available during your stay. Free-will offering. Learn more about Spiritual Direction below.
2024 Schedule (2025 Schedule TBD)
Introduction to Centering Prayer
May 24 ~ 26, 2024 $215
Retreat will include instruction and practice of Centering Prayer. This retreat is for those who wish to learn the practice and those who wish to increase or strengthen their practice. Retreat will be geared toward the experience of the retreatants.
Facilitator: Barb Kollenkark
Lectio Divina Retreat
August 2 ~ 4, 2024 $215
Lectio Divina, divine or sacred reading, is an ancient Christian contemplative practice found in the beginnings of monasticism. Lectio Divina fosters a receptive attitude as we listen to how God is addressing us in a particular text of Scripture. The Living Word of God speaks to us where we are on our path today, enlightens us, guides our daily living, and opens us to a deeper relationship with God.
Facilitator: Barb Kollenkark
Facilitator: Barb Kollenkark
Letting Go Retreat
September 27 ~ 29, 2024 $215
This retreat will include teaching and practice of prayers that help us let go of obstacles to our deepening relationship with God.
Facilitator: Barb Kollenkark
Barb Kollenkark is a trained presenter of the Centering Prayer method by Contemplative Outreach. She has been practicing Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina for over 40 years and teaching these prayers for over 25 years.
Christine Bender is a trained presenter of the Centering Prayer method by Contemplative Outreach. Christine worked with the Contemplative Outreach Center in Denver for many years. She now serves on the leadership team of Contemplative Outreach of Southeast Wisconsin.
Christine Bender is a trained presenter of the Centering Prayer method by Contemplative Outreach. Christine worked with the Contemplative Outreach Center in Denver for many years. She now serves on the leadership team of Contemplative Outreach of Southeast Wisconsin.
Retreat cost includes lodging, meals, and spiritual direction if desired.
Spiritual Direction
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