Hello Presenters,

We are grateful you have registered to participate in the upcoming Presenter Enrichment Gathering. Here are the details to join.

WHEN: Saturday, April 30, 2022, 3-5:30 pm Eastern Time (New York), and Noon-2:30 pm Pacific Time (Los Angeles). Use this time zone converter to determine your correct local date and start time. Please connect about 5 minutes early to get settled and centered. We will begin at the start of the hour. The session will be recorded.

HOW: About five minutes before the start time, click on this link to join Zoom. Or you may use this meeting ID is 445-909-4698 with password COL. 

WHAT: The gathering will last 2 ½ hours and the schedule is below.  In advance, you may wish to review The Centering Prayer Introductory Program brochure. The program is free. Donations are always welcome here.

Schedule
1. Welcome
2. Centering Prayer (5 minutes) & Opening Reflection with Guideline 3: 

• We share Centering Prayer by appealing to interior attraction rather than proselytizing. The practice of Centering Prayer enables us to bring dispositions of humility and attentive listening into our service. We offer the method of Centering Prayer and its conceptual background in a pastoral way and avoid emphasizing strict policies, rigid rules or proselytizing.

3. The Necessity for Meditation (5 min video) 
4. Centering Prayer: Our “Yes” to God 
5. Centering Prayer Introductory Program Styles 
6. Options for Continuing Sessions
7. Experience of Facilitating Newcomer Groups 
8. Break (10 min)
9. Facilitator Resources for Newcomer Groups 
10. Zoom Features to Consider 
11. Small Group breakout: Ideas from your community: what have you done for CP Intros & how did it go)
12. Closing 

 
 
“God is never asking us to do more than we can do.”
-Thomas Keating, The Necessity for Meditation, Part 2 of The Four Monks