EVENT, MEETINGS & GROUPS
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO READ ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN 11TH STEP MEETING AND A 12 STEP CENTERING PRAYER GROUP SO THAT YOU LIST YOUR MEETING OR GROUP ON THE CORRECT LIST.
11TH STEP MEDITATION MEETINGS (Click here for more info)
There is a growing interest in meditation meetings in the 12 Step communities across the country. We would like to provide a listing of the 12 Step Meetings that provide a setting for meditation by incorporating a period of Silence in the meetings. We have found these types of meetings can provide a nurturing and encouraging setting where those new to meditation can explore the benefits of this type of prayer/meditation in a group setting. We are compiling a lists of the 11th Step Meditation meetings and encourage you to add any meetings that you know about in your area to our list. You may submit 11th Step Meeting information to our listing or update a current listing.
12 STEP CENTERING PRAYER GROUPS (Click here for more info)
What is a 12 Step CP Group? The most important thing to be clear about is that this is not a 12-step meeting (i.e. AA, Al-anon, OA, NA, SA…). A 12 Step CP group is made up of others in 12-step recovery who practice or want to practice Centering Prayer as an 11th Step practice and it is intended to help deepen our CP practice. It usually consists of a CP period, a 20 – 30 minute period of study related to CP, and sometimes a discussion about the material and the relationship to recovery. Since this is not a 12-step meeting, we are free to discuss CP openly without fear of voicing an “opinion on an outside issue.” Contemplative Outreach (CO) has used this format of small groups for many years to form a spiritual network of support for those practicing CP. Those of us in 12-step recovery also find this to be extremely important in maintaining our 11th step practice and as a way to encourage others or introduce others to the practice. You may submit your 12 Step Centering Prayer Group to the listing.
Online Spring Spirituality Series 2025 “Continuing Our Spiritual Practices During Uncertain Times.”
March 29 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
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Saturday, March 29th & April 12th 12PM to 1:30PM EDT
When we are challenged by illness, grief, political events, and a changing world, we can be overcome by anxiety, and powerlessness. We may need help with changing our attitude. Thomas Keating says unloading the undigested material of our psychological unconscious is the work of contemplative prayer, and all of these challenges are necessary aspects of the spiritual journey. They are not obstacles. From experience we have found our contemplative practices have cultivated in us the freedom to allow our Higher Power to change us.
In this Series, two long-time practitioners discuss how their experience allowed them to surrender to this Great Reality deep within and how their practices became the resource that moved them through the experience. Some of you attending may have had similar experiences with powerlessness. There will be time to dialogue and listen to one another on this important topic.
We will begin with a 20 minute Centering Prayer sit.
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