Retreat Dates
Retreat 1: July 22-24, 2018
Invitation to Transforming Community
Retreat 2: October 28-30, 2018
A Leader's Journey into Solitude and Silence
Retreat 3: February 10-12, 2019
Prayer: Deepening Our Intimacy with God
Retreat 4: May 5-7, 2019
Engaging the Scriptures for Spiritual Transformation
Retreat 5: August 11-13, 2019
Flesh and Blood Spirituality: Honoring the Body as a Spiritual Discipline
Retreat 6: November 3-5, 2019 (ends at 4pm)
Transformation through Self-Knowledge, Self-Examination and Confession
Retreat 7: February 23-25, 2020
The Art and Practice of Spiritual Discernment
Retreat 8: October 25-27, 2020 (Virtual)
For the Sake of Others: Where Formation and Mission Meet
Zoom Call: January 11, 2020 - 10am-1pm CST
Retreat 9: April 11-13, 2021
A Rule of Life: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
Community Member Information
To extend your retreat either for more solitude or to simply make your travel easier is a wonderful idea!
To make these arrangements, email tc15@transformingcenter.org 3 weeks prior to the retreat to guarantee your extended reservation.
Room cost for extended stay does not include meals. You may inquire about meal options at checkin:
$85/Standard - $120/Executive - $145/Suite
Q Center: 630-337-3200
Transforming Center: 630-588-8133
We offer the following payment options:
- Recurring payments via credit card or online banking system. If you paid the registration fee online with a credit card and answered “yes” that you want to use this card to begin your monthly payments, we will begin those payments on the date you indicated. You will receive an emailed receipt when your first payment goes through.
- Company/church check mailed to Transforming Center to arrive monthly (if a church would like to pay the entire program in 1, 2 or 3 installments, that is acceptable).
- Personal check sent monthly at the same time.
- Crowdfunding: the goal is that you would raise the full cost of the 2-year experience before the start of the community (February 25, 2019). If you are unable to raise the full amount, you agree to pay the difference.
All checks should be mailed to Transforming Center, 209 S. Naperville Road, Wheaton, IL 60187.
If you have questions about your financial arrangements, please contact Dina Coffey, your community registrar at dcoffey@transformingcenter.orgor 630-588-8133 ext. 302.
* What is included in the fees?
- Nine quarterly retreats, with a private room and bath for two nights at each retreat
- Refreshments and meals, beginning with dinner on Monday evening through breakfast on Wednesday (and lunch for an extended retreat)
- Six teaching sessions at each retreat. There will be guest presenters throughout.
- Fixed-hour prayer and worship experiences in community (morning, mid-day, evening and night)
- Group Spiritual Direction with six or fewer members who will remain together throughout the two-year experience
- Retreat materials (excluding books)
- Reflections on the psychological dynamics of the spiritual formation process
- Quarterly assignments that provide reading assignments, written reflections and guidance for practicing spiritual disciplines personally and in community, with specific application to your own life in leadership
- Guidance for meeting with a spiritual friend/spiritual director in-between retreats
- Final project that guides you in the process of articulating your personal Rule of Life
- Certificate in Spiritual Transformation. Certificates from the Transforming Center will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who complete all retreats, required readings and written assignments.
GUIDELINES FOR MISSED ATTENDANCE
- If you are going to miss a retreat please email TC15@transformingcenter.org or call Dina Coffey at 630-588-8133, ex: 302, so she can plan for your absence.
- Please email the members of your small group to let them know you will not be at the upcoming retreat. Please share email addresses with your small group for this purpose only.
- Monthly payments will continue even if you are unable to come to a retreat.
- If you plan to earn credit from an academic institution or a Certificate in Spiritual Transformation, please read the information below.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (when applicable) AND CERTIFICATE IN SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
For those who have missed a retreat, in order to receive credit for the Certificate in Spiritual Transformation and/or CEUs from the Transforming Center, you may make up the missed retreat via the written assignment below. Please complete your make-up assignment by the next attended retreat. All make-up assignments must be submitted by the 8th retreat (May 31- June 2, 2020), in order to give yourself fully to the final assignment at the end of the two-year experience.
GUIDELINES FOR RETREAT “MAKE UP” ASSIGNMENT
- Finish all required readings
- Listen to any recorded teaching sessions that are made available after the retreat
- Set aside time to spend in solitude with the assignment given Monday afternoon solitude
- Write a 7-10 page paper that describes: 1—your interactions with the teachings from the missed retreat, 2—your reflections on the required readings, and 3—your own experimentation and exploration of that retreat’s spiritual discipline. Feel free to include places of resonance along with questions you have about the material presented in either the teaching sessions or the reading material.
Remember the goal of this assignment: to demonstrate your completion of the assigned readings and your practice of the disciplines taught and experienced at the retreat.