Creative Ideas for Seasonal Retreats

Build your own seasonal retreat programmes with this unique resource. Offering material for use throughout the Christian year, it uses the Church's seasons to explore the different ways that Christ meets us, the saving mysteries of each season, and the ways that the seasons resonate with varying life stages: Advent: Beginning againChristmas: Finding GodEpiphany: Seeing gloryLent: Finding acceptancePassiontide: Growing in compassionEaster: Growing in faith Ascensiontide: Making sense of it allPentecost: Sensing the SpiritOrdinary Time: Visions of the whole.Drawing on on Scripture, Christian tradition and contemporary psychological insights such as the Enneagram, it offers two outline retreat programmes for each season, with a wide range of imaginative activities and spiritual exercises. The outlines are readily adaptable to half day, whole day or weekend retreats and are suitable for group or individually-guided retreats.