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
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.
The Christine Center Scholarship Fund is available from donations specified for this purpose. Currently,
we are able to offer partial scholarships to help cover the costs of housing and meals. Our hope is that all
who seek a spiritual deepening experience will have the opportunity to participate with us.
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!
July
Online
A Year of Living with Change
Monthly Online sessions
Whether you’re living through significant personal transitions or navigating a world reshaping itself faster than ever, you are invited to join a yearlong conversation about how to make change more trustworthy.
July 18, 2023: Claiming Companions
with Karen Hering
In Person
Worth Writing About: a writers’ retreat for tumultuous times
Together, we’ll share the gifts and challenges of the writing life, supported by the Christine Center’s generous hospitality, delicious and nourishing meals, peaceful natural setting, and opportunities for silent meditation and spiritual direction or unleashing creativity in the arts studio.
July 21-25, 2023
with Karen Hering
In Person
Returning to your Light
This retreat is for sensitive souls, empaths, healers and helpers who want to be in sacred space to connect spiritually with their own hearts and engage deeply in their own healing work.
July 28-30, 2023
with Kim Lovejoy LICSW, SEP & Christine Lord LICSW, SEP
Online
Franciscan Soul-Themes for Inner Holy Grounding
Outside Assisi’s Walls! To the “Little Portion” of St Mary of the Angels
Join S. Gabe in a year-long “pilgrimage” to explore the great Franciscan soul-themes. Together we will unfold our mystic maps and open our spiritual traveling bags to experience the heritage homeland of the Christine Center!
July 30, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
In Person
Embodiment of Wisdom
The Buddha has said that the key to liberation is mindful awareness of the body. We will explore this wonderful teaching, and enjoy practices in body awareness.
July 30 – August 4, 2023
with the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee and guest teachers Peggy & Larry Ward
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 10:30am (CDT)
with Ron Moor
August
In Person
Women’s Summer Retreat to Renew, Reset and Rise
This joyful women’s retreat offers time and space to engage in mindful movement, dance, yoga, restorative Pilates, meditation and other mindful practices to empower you to reset and rise with a renewed enthusiasm for you life.
August 4-6, 2023
with Marie McKay, Rachel Soffer, Jody Polson, and Dawn Brunn
In Person
Intuitive Painting: Cultivate your Creative Spirit!
Monthly opportunity to dare yourself to stretch into fresh creative possibility! Spend a weekend with creative friends, let your inner child play. Open and move with the full creativity of your intuitive inner guides, in a No Judgement Zone!
First weekend of each month!
August 4-6, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
In Person
Leaning into Transitions: An Immersive Expressive Arts Ecotherapy Retreat for Women
As a collective we will engage in nature connection, creative expression and somatic practices as a means of developing strength, expanding perspective and gleaning insight from this time of transition all while steeped in the lovely natural surroundings of the Christine Center.
Early registration price through July 14
August 11-13, 2023
Offered by: Jillynn Garcia, Rachel Mullis, Alison Vooris and Agnieszka Wiosna, Ecotherapists
Online
Soul-Sensing: Soul and Community
An Inquiry into Unitive Consciousness
An invitation to a year of shared collective deepening – twelve Saturday morning on-line experiments in the art of conscious communing! Join for one session or all!
August 12, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
In Person & Online
Living Tao: An Experiential Journey into Deep Time, Deep Earth and Deep Knowing
While we will learn of the meaning and mysterious origin of Tao, our focus will be on opening to the mystery in a way that is felt and embodied as well as cognitive.
Early registration price through July 24th!
August 15-18, 2023
with Ron Moor
In Person
The Art of Kintsugi: Mending our Broken Bits
In this nurturing, transforming workshop you will discover your own unique beauty and resilience. We will be using Kintsugi as a metaphor for healing ourselves as it teaches us an important lesson: Sometimes, in the process of repairing things that have broken, we actually create something more unique, beautiful and resilient.
August 22-24, 2023
With Chris Flynn
Online
Franciscan Soul-Themes for Inner Holy Grounding
Outside Assisi’s Walls! Communing in San Damiano.
Join S. Gabe in a year-long “pilgrimage” to explore the great Franciscan soul-themes. Together we will unfold our mystic maps and open our spiritual traveling bags to experience the heritage homeland of the Christine Center!
August 27, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
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.
August 25-27, 2023
with Andrea Russell
In Person
Crones Don’t Whine: A Tapestry of Wise Women’s Wisdom
Join the companionship of other Elder Wisdom Seekers for a retreat where we will explore the wisdom teachings of: Jean Boland, Jean Houston, Mirabai Starr, Brene Brown, Barbe Kobe, and Mary Oliver.
August 29-31, 2023
with Chris Flynn
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 10:30am (CDT)
with Ron Moor
September
In Person
The Forest Philosopher: Finding Wellness & Wisdom in the Woods
Join leading Shinrin Yoku guide and award-winning Landscape Architect, David Motzenbecker, for an intentional weekend of wellness and wisdom in the woods, exploring the increasingly popular Japanese art of Forest Bathing (Shinrin Yoku), translated as ‘taking in the forest air with all of your senses’.
September 1-3, 2023
with David Motzenbecker
In Person
Intuitive Painting: Cultivate your Creative Spirit!
Monthly opportunity to dare yourself to stretch into fresh creative possibility! Spend a weekend with creative friends, let your inner child play. Open and move with the full creativity of your intuitive inner guides, in a No Judgement Zone!
First weekend of each month!
September 1-3, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
Online
Soul-Sensing: Soul and Earth
An Inquiry into Unitive Consciousness
An invitation to a year of shared collective deepening – twelve Saturday morning on-line experiments in the art of conscious communing! Join for one session or all!
September 9, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
In Person
Diamond Approach: Close Encounters with Inner Space
In this retreat we will explore inner space as the transformational nature of our soul. Through understanding and practice we can encounter and metabolize stuck images of ourselves and the world around us, and begin the process of opening our “soul space” to the depths of our true potential.
Sept. 8-10, 2023
with teachers: Kathleen Graham, Kara Vangen and Jim Lockridge
In Person
ASAHI: Awareness through Movement
Learn the simple and effective mind/body method from Finland
Optional teaching certification
This retreat offers opportunity to cultivate physical health and mental awareness in your daily life through this easy series of movement meditation.
September 8 – 10, 2023
with Margaret Vainio and Carol Curtis
Online
Soul Without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within
A Book Study with Diamond Approach Teacher Sheryl Lyndes Stowman discovering the ways the inner critic is our greatest barrier to spiritual growth and development.
2 groups available: Every other Monday from 6:30-8:30, beginning September 11 and 18, 2023 via Zoom
In Person
Find Your Nature: A Forest Therapy, Movement, & Meditation Retreat
Early registration price through August 21st
Return to a sense of deep belonging in the woods and attune to the voice of nature around and within you.
September 15-17, 2023
with Emily Jarrett Hughes & Johanna Schussler
Online
A Year of Living with Change
Monthly Online session (a few days before the in person companion retreat)
Whether you’re living through significant personal transitions or navigating a world reshaping itself faster than ever, you are invited to join a yearlong conversation about how to make change more trustworthy.
September 19, 2023 (Moving On)
with Karen Hering
In Person
A New Balance: Trusting a World in Motion
This retreat, in a beautiful natural setting, offers community, spiritual practices and deep time for accessing your own threshold wisdom and hopes, both fierce and fragile. Participants can register as a stand alone program, or to underscore the monthly conversations with other threshold seekers occurring online in “A Year of Living with Change.”
September 22-24, 2023
with Karen Hering
Online
Franciscan Soul-Themes for Inner Holy Grounding
Outside Assisi’s Walls! Climbing to the Carceri “Hermitages”
Join S. Gabe in a year-long “pilgrimage” to explore the great Franciscan soul-themes. Together we will unfold our mystic maps and open our spiritual traveling bags to experience the heritage homeland of the Christine Center!
September 24, 2023
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein
In Person
Empowering Body and Spirit: Mindful Eating for Body Confidence and Weight Management
Education, Inspiration and Support on Mindful Eating as a Way to Wholistic Wellness
September 22-24, 2023
with Robin Richards
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 10:30am (CDT)
with Ron Moor