Personalized Retreats

You are welcome at Dominican Center programs and retreats regardless of your religious affliation or faith tradition. In addition to our scheduled retreat program, the following opportunities are also available by arrangement.

Group Retreats: By arrangement, groups can reserve a meeting room/chapel for staff spiritual retreats or planning days. Dominican Center Staff can assist with preparation and facilitation. Call Sr. Diane Zerfas at (616) 643-0356 for additional information.

Private Retreats: These self-directed “on-your-own” retreats provide opportunity to experience time alone with God in a prayerful setting.

Personalized Directed Retreats: Directed retreats offer extended time to tend to the movement of God in your life. It is a special time to go apart and listen, to draw close to the Presence and be refreshed in your inner spirit. Directed retreats provide a time to meet with a retreat director about an hour a day, and to engage in the typical daily pattern of prayer (usually with scripture or according to the individual’s way or praying), listening, contemplation and solitude. Directed retreats may last anywhere from two days to upwards of 30 days. Meals, lodging and meeting with a retreat director can be arranged individually.

Simmering Time: Take the time you need to re-center, to reconnect with yourself and the Center of your life. Simmering can be quiet time apart from business and busyness. It may be time for a cup of tea and reading a good book or just rest for the body, as well as a Bodywork appointment. You will leave from these 6, 8 or 10 hours more yourself, grounded in who you are, and ready to re-enter life with a new perspective from within.