Program Offerings
Offering online, onsite and hybrid programs
Retreat programs offer unique opportunity to deepen your spiritual practice in a supportive group container. At the Christine Center, we strive to offer diverse opportunities so that all may find a retreat experience to deepen and nourish their practice.
Reservation Information:
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- Online registration is available–find the link to register online on the program webpages.
- Contact us directly via email or phone: welcome@christinecenter.org or 715-267-7507
- Payments are due in full at the time reservations are made
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April
In Person
2024 Spring into the Arts
Housing and meals are offered to attend the event
Join us for the weekend festivities and enjoy spiritually inspired artwork. Come for a day or the entire weekend!
April 26-28, 2024
May
Online
Hagitude Online Book Study
This moving and uplifting book will inspire a new generation of female elders: women who have reclaimed their Inner Hag, matured into their own unique brand of hagitude and who are ready to pass down their deep feminine wisdom for the benefit of the wider Earth community.
Thursdays, beginning May 2nd for 12 Weeks
2 groups: 11:00 am and 7:00 pm
In Person
Ayurveda, Yoga & Meditation Seasonal Retreat
This retreat will allow you to unplug and remember what is really important to you. You will get the time you need for yoga, meditation, and introspection so that you can reset and come home to yourself.
May 3-5, 2024
with Andrea Russell
Online
On the Cusp of Change: Practicing Equanimity
with Karen Hering
Join your fellow thresholders for an evening of embodied practices, guided writing, reflection and conversation led by Karen Hering.
May 14, 2024, 7-8:00 pm
Are you called?
Spiritual Deepening
for Global Transformation
First gathering: May 16-19
A heartful community intending to deepen together:
Creating a spiritual infrastructure for the sake of the beautiful
world our souls know is possible.
Online
Compassion in Action Film Viewing and Discussion: Bringing Etty Hillesum to Life
Using the diaries of Etty Hillesum, a young women who was murdered in the holocaust, this documentary tells the story of Dina Awwad-Srour (Palestine) and Emma Sham-Ba Ayalon (Israel). Dina and Emma are peace activists working for global healing.
Offered at no cost
Film Viewing: May 17/18/19
Discussion: May 19, 10am-11am CDT
Online
Full Moon Meditation
May 23 at 6:30pm ~ Offered at no cost; come meditate with us!
Seed-thought: Who I am is not how I think of myself or who I have made myself to be. I recognize who I think I am, and in the waning of that self, I serve, I shine, I am One.
In Person
Third Annual Garden and Trail Volunteer Events!
Garden retreat days: May 28-30 (Tuesday to Thursday)
If you’re drawn to nature and community service, we warmly invite you to join us for one or both events.
Volunteering with us is not just an act of service; it’s a precious contribution to our community! Thank you!!
Online
Tao Te Ching: Offering a Way Forward
Ancient spiritual knowledge applied to today’s life.
The Tao Te Ching is a philosophy of being calling us to live in harmony with all of creation.
Ongoing weekly sessions.
Register and drop in any time.
Wednesday’s at 10:15am (CST)
with Ron Moor
In Person & Online
Diamond Approach Hybrid Retreat: Compassion and our Inner Journey
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ~Buddha
with Teachers Kathleen Graham, Kara Vangen, and Jim Lockridge
Please join us for this retreat where we will explore the qualities of the Green Latifa; Essential Compassion, and start to look at what both blocks compassion and what helps to develop it.
May 31-June 2, 2024
In Person
Empowering Health: Mindful Eating for Body Confidence and Weight Management
A weekend of education and empowerment as you learn new skills and tools to bring mindful eating as a practice that brings balance to your mind and body for years to come.
with Robin Richards, MA, EdS, RMT
May 31 – June 2, 2024
June
In Person
Third Annual Garden and Trail Volunteer Events!
Garden and Trails retreat weekend: June 7-9
If you’re drawn to nature and community service, we warmly invite you to join us for one or both events.
Volunteering with us is not just an act of service; it’s a precious contribution to our community! Thank you!!
Online
Compassion in Action Film Viewing and Discussion: Human Flow
This documentary illuminates both the staggering scale of the global refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.
Offered at no cost
Film Viewing: June 14/15/16
Discussion: June 16, 3pm-4pm CDT
In Person
When I Am Among the Trees
A Nature Encounter with Ron Moor and Don Quintenz
June 20-23, 2024 (Thursday through Sunday)
8 person minimum
Might we open to the song of the whispering leaves and hear their call to “stay awhile” as in Mary Oliver’s luminous poem? Might we learn to “see” and commune more deeply with all of our senses?
In Person
Telling It True
June 20-23, 2024 (Thursday through Sunday)
with Joanne Nelson
Whether you are a seasoned writer or just beginning to play with words on the page you will grow during this innovative retreat filled with unique writing prompts, mindfulness opportunities, and focused instruction appropriate to all genres of writing and levels of spiritual practice.
The Hildegard Soul-Studio for Creative Art and Ritual is always open!
Whether enjoying a Private Retreat at the Center or participating in another organized program, this wonderful “no judgement” space is available to you to express your creativity, or just to “play.” Unless there’s an organized retreat happening in the studio, it’s open at all hours. There is a nominal fee for materials. You are invited. Check out the new Programs being offered!
Scholarships
The Christine Center Scholarship Fund is available from donations specified for this purpose. Our hope is that all who seek a spiritual deepening experience will have the opportunity to participate with us.
I am so grateful for the welcoming spirit of everyone at the Center, the quiet honoring of time spent both together and alone. It was such a gift.
THANK YOU!!!! Really THANK YOU! from my very soul. Stepping away to focus on myself and leaving the stresses of life behind was way overdue. I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to enjoy the peace and serenity of the Christine Center. Again, Thank You!
It was so special. The best experience of my life. I am so happy to know this place exists so close to my home. Thank you so much for providing this Center to us, it is such a special place.
When I arrived at Christine Center I was in need of restoration. I traversed the dark night of the soul with several losses over a relatively short period of time. The Christine Center provided all the elements for mending and rejoining the mind/body/spirit. Between the beautiful meditations held in the chapel by Sister Johanna, being enveloped in the wonder of nature, solitary walks on the trails, the serenity of the hermitage, and the spiritual guidance session with Sister Gabe, it was truly what my soul needed and received. I look forward to my next extended visit.
I love your mission and acceptance of all kinds of practices and rituals. The vibe and energy is so serene and accepting. It’s like an oasis there. And a powerful love that permeates the grounds and the buildings. I feel it immediately when I drive into the grounds. 🙂 There’s no other place like it.
You have such a space of respite and allowing in our deeper selves for healing and contemplation. Bless you for all that you offer to others through your beautiful center, grounds and hermitages. I share with people in my life all the time about you and your staff and facilities.
Thank you for providing this and all of the online programs that you do. Much appreciate S Gabe’s knowledge and enthusiasm!
I am so grateful that this Center exists. I have done both programs and personal retreats at the center and both have been very restorative. Thank you