Online Mini Retreats: 10am - 12pm, PT
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Understanding the voice of God and how it works in our lives
September 26, 2026
In this mini retreat we will seek a deeper understanding of the voice of God and how he works generally in all believers and specifically in each one of us. As we focus on hearing God, I’ll share some helpful tools/disciplines to assist you as you seek to listen to His voice knowing that confidence, trust and focus on God are the keys that unlock the doors to clarity and peace.
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Paula Mitchell. Spiritual Director, teacher, retreat facilitator and writer. Paula was director of the CFDM Spiritual Formation Program for 5 years. She has spent more than twenty years leading Days of Prayer and Reflection, silent longer retreats and teaching and writing about prayer, discernment and experiencing God . Paula has taught as an adjunct for the CFDM Spiritual Direction training program since 2008. She lives in Star Idaho with her husband Jim.
centering prayer: consenting to gods presense and action within us
October 17, 2026
In centering prayer we sit in God's loving presence with no agenda, no requests. It's a prayer of open surrender to God's presence and action within us. In this retreat, you'll learn guidelines that help you to be still in God's presence, and we'll have the opportunity to practice this prayer together.
Centering Prayer is beautifully described by Thomas Keating as “…the opening of mind and heart - our whole being - to God beyond thoughts, words, and emotions. Moved by God’s sustaining grace, we open our awareness to God, who we know by faith is within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than choosing - closer than consciousness itself.”
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Serves as pastor for Newberg First Presbyterian Church in Newberg, Oregon. He is blessed to be married to Karen and to be dad to two daughters, Cate and Chiara. He is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church USA and earned his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Direction through Fuller Theological Seminary. Chris received a Certificate in Spiritual Direction in 2005 and has actively offered spiritual direction and prayer retreats for the last 20 years. Chris has taught for Fuller Seminary, CFDM Seattle, CFDM Los Angeles, and Renovare Institute. He is grateful to partner once again with CFDM and to help students grow in God's love and in the art of spiritual direction.
seeking Jesus with our imagination - Imaginative prayer
November 14, 2026
How many times have you wondered what it would have been like to walk the roads of Galilee with Jesus, listening to him teach, watching him heal, and spending time with him as a friend? Our imagination is a beautiful gift, created by God, to help us encounter Jesus in the stories of the Gospels, offering our attention and our hearts as we watch him, listen to him, and follow him. This imaginative prayer workshop offers an invitation to “seek his face” in prayer and encounter Jesus in fresh ways.
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Dan Heavenor is a spiritual director, retreat leader and author. A former pastor and transit bus driver, Dan now offers individual spiritual direction, as well as leading weekend prayer and silent retreats. His passion and calling is to walk with others as they seek after God, ask their questions, and live their journey with God in all its complexity and uniqueness. Dan received his MDiv from Regent College and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Imaginative Prayer and Ignatian Spirituality at Carey Theological College. Dan is married to Andrea and together they have four adult children and three grandkids. Dan’s book, Friendship with Jesus: An Imaginative Prayer Journey was published in May 2024. Find out more at http://www.danheavenor.com.
A Ripening Faith: Learning to Trust the Slow Work of God
December 12, 2026
How do we discern the ways we are growing in God's grace and in the love of Jesus? What is our part in spiritual growth, and what belongs to God? Is it even possible to measure spiritual growth? What are the growth edges where we notice new life and change?
Preparing the soil for healthy growth…
Deepening Roots - Desire, Doubts, and Dwelling
Nurturing Strength - Discipline, Wilderness, Perseverance
Harvesting Abundance - Discernment, Freedom, Gathering
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Marsha Crockett is a certified Spiritual Director from CFDM -AZ, and an award-winning author of seven books focused on prayer, spiritual formation, and God-given identity. She resides in Port Orchard, Washington, and is actively involved in her local faith community. You can learn more about her work at www.marshacrockett.org
An Ignatian Examen on the Threshold of a New Year
January 9, 2027
Experience a unique guided reflection to bless the year past, to welcome what is to come, and to hallow where we now stand as we linger at the doorpost.
Recognizing The Holy In Between
Reviewing The Consolations
Remembering The Desolations
Receiving the Grace to Begin Again
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Marsha Crockett is a certified Spiritual Director from CFDM -AZ, and an award-winning author of seven books focused on prayer, spiritual formation, and God-given identity. She resides in Port Orchard, Washington, and is actively involved in her local faith community. You can learn more about her work at www.marshacrockett.org
Creative Rhythms
February 13, 2027
We will explore how creative rhythms in our spiritual practices enhance our senses and awareness of God’s love and presence in our lives; in others and in the world around us. Participants will be invited to engage in whatever form of creativity they are drawn to - it may be some kind of visual art; photography; music; dancing; writing; perhaps even gardening or cooking. We believe everyone is creative - sometimes we just need permission and space to explore its possibilities.
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Sisters, Wendy Bryant and Cindy Waple (a CFDM Spiritual Direction and Formation alum), began curating creative contemplative opportunities in 2023 because of the richness both experience when they engage creatively with spiritual practices.
For Cindy, adding a creative component to her spiritual practices engages more of her heart, soul and senses, widening and deepening her experience of the Holy One and her own awareness. Often her creative explorations are simply a collection of markings, color, words and other mediums that reveal memorable and profound words and images.
Wendy often finds herself swirling in the wind like dried leaves on a Fall Day. Creative outlets in various media allow her to explore with wonder and discover that inner voice that often stumbles when restricted to only words. When in her “Heart Studio,” she freely engages with all media, recognizing a deep connection with the Divine, and even dancing on occasion with the Creative Spirit of God. Both desire to journey with others continuing to explore, experiment and experience a fuller awareness of the Holy One and ourselves as God’s Beloved.
Enneagram, Discernment and Prayer
March 13, 2027
Discernment is the gift and practice of living our lives from a deep sense of vocation, with wisdom, in the fullness of time. Each person's Enneagram journey holds profound questions that can lead us into deeper contemplation, a richer prayer life, and attentive spiritual discernment. In this retreat, we will explore how our dominant emotions shape our discernment; how the Enneagram can lead us into deeper listening around vocation and purpose; how to cultivate wisdom from the full range of intelligence - head, heart, and body; and how a better understanding of our time orientation can open us to experience God more fully across our past, present, and future. This retreat assumes a basic understanding of the Enneagram and that you already know your type. Together, we will discover new ways to pray and discern God's presence in our lives.
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Jonathan completed CFDM Spiritual Formation I and II and formerly served on the CFDM board for many years. He works full-time in IT consulting management and is a certified Enneagram coach with a passion for coaching and mentoring. He enjoys reading, designing, volunteering, and playing pickleball.
living as the Beloved
April 17, 2027
At the core of Christian faith is the conviction that we are the beloved daughters and sons of God. We know this with our heads and we long to know this with our hearts, to experience ourselves as beloved. In this mini retreat we will explore our belovedness and what it might be like to live a life anchored in our belovedness, to live our successes and failures as the beloved child of God.
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Wanda is a spiritual director living with her husband among the orchards near Othello, WA, except in the summer when they migrate to Alaska for fishing and hosting family and friends. She has been involved with CFDM for over a decade and is passionate about soul care and attending to God in the rhythms of life. She treasures time and conversations with her young adult children.
THE LABYRINTH: A PATH FOR PRAYER
May 22, 2027
This retreat invites participants into the spiritual practice of the labyrinth, a pathway that opened a new dimension in presenter Carolyn’s relationship with God. Drawing from her experience, the retreat will include an immersive time of reflection using a labyrinth video she created. Participants will be invited to engage with the labyrinth as a way of fostering deeper intimacy and connection with God. Conversation and shared reflection will accompany the experience, creating space to explore how the labyrinth might become a meaningful part of one’s spiritual journey.
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Carolyn is a native Washingtonian. She has two young adult children: Kristen and John and Grand pup Denzel. A graduate of the first CFDM-NW cohort, Carolyn serves as a spiritual director, labyrinth facilitator and documentarian. She is the founder/director of All-Seasons counseling and spiritual direction ministry since 2012.
Her background includes a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary, Veriditas Labyrinth Certification and is ordained with the American Baptist Churches, USA. Carolyn hosts labyrinth walks and has created immersive labyrinth videos as a path for prayer. Her desire is that all may know that they are loved by God and to experience God’s presence and guidance in real and authentic ways.