Please click on our events to find out more about these retreats, which are sponsored by the Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center. If you would like information about scheduling a group conference to come to our Center, please call 410-442-3120. Conferences are distinguished from retreats because the group comes to our center for the facilities, lodging and/or meals, but they have their own presenter and attendees. Retreats are events that we plan here at the Center and that are open to the public to attend.
To maintain an atmosphere of quiet relaxation, we are an adult-only Retreat & Conference Center. Our retreat and event registrations are only open to those who are 18 and over. Please also note that only certified service animals are permitted during your stay. Thank you.
For more details, additional programs and registration information please call: 410.442.3120
Intensive Training Program for those Interested in Spiritual Direction Course Description and Goals: This will be the 6th cohort of students within our Bon Secours Spiritual Direction Institute. Our first week-long course is an introduction and overview of spiritual direction in the Christian tradition. It is intended to enhance the … Continue reading
Are you looking to go deeper in your relationship with God? Join us as we explore the Spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Our retreat will explore some of the key aspects of the spirituality which flowed out of the life and Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, who … Continue reading
Balance is a great word. It’s one of those words we love to hear but may not always know how to embrace. Wonderful concept, difficult to achieve, never ending process. Webster tells us balance is an even distribution and general harmony between parts. Spirituality teaches us balance is allowing time … Continue reading
The New Testament boldly proclaims "there is neither male nor female: for are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28), but for so many people, gender difference is a cause for much social and political conflict — and spiritual questioning. What is a healthy way for people of faith to approach … Continue reading
From Conflict to Connection: Contemplative Practices that Heal Families & Organizations Don’t miss this special 4-session retreat when chaplain and workplace communication advisor Brent Anderson, M.Div., shares proven techniques for sparking conversation, leading effective dialogue and managing conflict. Get ready for peaceful, productive exchanges that heal fractured relationships. Rooted in … Continue reading
“These are some of the things that prayer is. Prayer is rhythm. Prayer is comfort. Prayer is disappointment. Prayer is words and shape and art around desperation, and delight and disappointment and desire. Prayer can be the art that helps you name your desire.” ~ Padraig O Tuama In this … Continue reading
On an individually directed retreat, the retreatant meets with their spiritual director once a day. The rest of the time is spent relaxing, reading, thinking, and praying. Each retreat focuses on the way God is active in the individual’s life, and each retreat follows a uniquely personal path. The retreat … Continue reading
SoulCollage® is a simple intuitive process of creating many small collages and then giving voice to the images to discover their identity and the wisdom they carry. It is an imaginative, contemplative way to mindfully access the reality of our True Selves. SoulCollage® is a spiritual practice which can lead to … Continue reading
Following the Nonviolent Jesus: Living the Gospel Life of Peace, Love & Nonviolence Today with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, activist and author, Father John Dear Gandhi once said that Jesus was the greatest person of nonviolence in history, but the only people who don't know that Jesus was nonviolent are … Continue reading
On an individually directed retreat, the retreatant meets with their spiritual director once a day. The rest of the time is spent relaxing, reading, thinking, and praying. Each retreat focuses on the way God is active in the individual’s life, and each retreat follows a uniquely personal path. The retreat … Continue reading
Our Ignatian Directed Retreat will be privileged time for you to deepen your relationship with God. You will be assigned a trained spiritual director with whom you will meet briefly each day to discern the movements of God in your life as revealed through your prayer. The "direction" of directed … Continue reading
This retreat will explore the transformative teachings of Jesus and connect them to the reality of living incarnationally as embodied souls in ways that embrace Eastern understandings and practices of the Chakra system. The retreat will include presentation, group discussion and time for personal reflection. More details will be coming … Continue reading
Our August directed retreat consists of five whole days (6-night stay) of spiritual direction. Retreatants will meet with a spiritual director daily (or less if you desire) to reflect on God's Presence and movement in your life as revealed in prayer, the events and relationships in your life and the … Continue reading
This is a retreat to allow silence to still us. In doing so, we can listen attentively to our life’s myths, metaphors, meanings, and mysteries. Then, with compassion and courage, we may embrace the ambiguities of imperfection. We may write, with more clarity and conviction, our soul stories of wholeness … Continue reading
Join us for a marriage/relationship enrichment retreat for all marriages and committed couple relationships: those strong or struggling; recently married or married for years; divorced and remarried with blended families; and couples who are not married but want relationship help. Presentations will includee a mixture of prayer and reflection, music, … Continue reading
A Spirituality of Imperfection: Nurturing the Courage to Be Imperfect “No matter what gets done, no matter how it gets done, I am enough.” ~Brene Brown We women often think we need to do it all, do it flawlessly and effortlessly. We want to feel loved, connected to others, and we … Continue reading
A Spirituality of Imperfection: Nurturing the Courage to Be Imperfect “No matter what gets done, no matter how it gets done, I am enough.” ~Brene Brown We women often think we need to do it all, do it flawlessly and effortlessly. We want to feel loved, connected to others, and … Continue reading
This week-long intensive course will provide a deeper foundation for understanding and engaging in the practice of spiritual direction in the Christian tradition. It is intended to enhance the students’ understanding of the spiritual life, with attention given to developing the basic skills required for this ministry. COURSE OBJECTIVES: - … Continue reading
‘In Celtic wisdom the sacred is as present on earth as it is in heaven, as imminent as it is transcendent, as human as it is divine, as physical as it is spiritual.’ ~Dr. John Philip Newell, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul In 2016 John Philip Newell began a teaching initiative … Continue reading
Our world promotes the need to be happy. In TV and magazine ads, billboards and social media feeds, award shows and shop windows, everything is geared toward the same goal: convincing us that if only we had this thing, looked this way, owned this (fill-in-the-blank), we would finally have the … Continue reading
The SoulCollage® paradigm was created by the late psychologist, Seena B. Frost, as an engaging intuitive collaging process that uses images to explore and depict the inner workings of your own conscious and subconscious mind, as well as the opportunity to explore the many aspects of your strengths, shadows, and … Continue reading
Ancient people recognized the autumn season as a liminal time, as the days shorten and twilight and darkness increase. It was seen as a time when the veil between this world and the spiritual world was thinner, enveloped into the Christian tradition in the commemorations of Halloween, All Saints, and … Continue reading
Are you looking to go deeper in your relationship with God? Join us as we experience the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Our retreat will explore some of the key aspects of the spirituality which flowed out of the life and Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, who … Continue reading
God communicates to us through all created realities. Fr. Rick Malloy will lead us in praying through popular Christmas movies and help us experience the Advent of Emmanuel appearing to us through the medium of films that touch our hearts and enlighten our minds. Using the biblical scriptures of Advent … Continue reading
