Youth Contemplative Retreat

9:30am-3:30pm, June 16, 2025 // The Hermitage, Three Rivers, MI

After sharing my personal testimony of how contemplative Christian practices enlivened my faith I shared with 10 high school students about how to understand their spiritual appetite. We sang together, breathed together, and considered how God might be inviting us into rest. The pattern for our time was teaching by me, experimentation by them, and reflection with each other. Here are the contemplative practices we covered:

Silence

Journaling

RAIN Self-compassion meditation

Visio Divina

Embodied Prayer

Blessings

Some resources we used at the retreat are listed below