Spiritual Accompaniment
Conversation with a companion-in-spirit provides time to consider one’s place in the world in the light of relationship with God.
Suggested donation barter to $35
Ignatian Retreat
in Everyday Life
Retreat in the midst of life. The period between Autumn and Easter provides coherence between natural and liturgical seasons. Retreatants meet one-on-one with a spiritual companion approximately every two to three weeks.
Suggested donation $20 for each session
Programs
See current Seasonal Celebrations and Program offerings below.
Free Will Offerings are appreciated for every program in which you participate. We give stipends to presenters other than the Full Circle Staff, Srs. Concepcion Gonzalez and Veronica Blake.
PROGRAMS 2025-2026
Seasonal Celebrations
Climate change invites all our senses to be alive, fall, winter, spring and summer - to each season’s subtle or dramatic changes. We may feel called to celebrate, mourn or do a bit of both. Nevertheless, let us rejoice in the beauty and gifts of each season even as we seek to treasure and safeguard them. Facilitator, Veronica Blake, smr.
March 20; June 19, 6pm-8pm
Please register two weeks in advance
Conversation Gatherings
Tuesday, February 17, April 21, 11am-1pm
Please register two weeks in advance
If you want to gather in a safe place to express what is deepest in your mind and heart during these alarming national, and global times, please know you are welcome to gather with us at Full Circle. Compassionate and respectful listening and sharing will allow our fears to lighten. Together we can grow in insight, wisdom, love and courage.
Each session will begin with a short period of silence. Then, whoever wishes can begin the conversation. We will end in a circle, hand and hand, knowing we are not alone as we walk forward. Facilitators, Full Circle Staff.
Please reflect one or other or all the following quotes in preparation for the conversations:
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
In these turbulent times, we must remind ourselves that life goes on. Birds still sing. The stars continue to cast their gentle gleam, and the heart is still inspired by kind words and gracious deeds.
Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart, Beacon Press, 2023
Everyone has the seeds of joy and compassion, and if we know how to touch them, we transform them into energies that make us feel better, happier, more joyful, and more compassionate.
Thich Nat Hanh, Together We Are One, Parallax Press,2006
The Trees Saved Me
Saturday, January 10, 1pm-3pm
Please register by December 29
Inspired by Ion Cojocaru’s experience of transformation among the Beech trees in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania as reported in The New York Times last year, Denni and René invite you to join them as they guide you in your own journey from darkness to light to transformation. They will be using storytelling, poetry, music and art as a means of furthering your experience beyond your wildest imagination.
Denni Lesinski and René Rousseau-Wilson, poetry lovers, dreamers, seekers of light and women of wisdom will be the co-facilitators of this program.
Spirituality
Companions in Reparation
Since 2003 a group of people of diverse religious traditions gather monthly to discuss how they might best:
- Manifest God’s tender, compassionate love for the world
- Help repair the damage humans have done to themselves, to other humans, to the Earth, and to relationship with God
- Work for reconciliation among humans
Live compassionately within an interdependent universe
Interested? Contact Full Circle.
