Different types of Weekend Retreats

Posted by dawson12 on December 24th, 2014

Spiritual Retreat

Spiritual retreat can be different for different communities. In Christianity retreats are very popular. Every year people from each and every church be it a Protestant Church or Catholic Church organize spiritual retreats. Spiritual retreats could last for few hours or it could be for a month or so. Spiritual retreat is finding space and reflecting upon them, it is praying and worship God with everyone else in a peaceful settings and growing spiritually.

Spiritual retreat is disconnecting oneself from the hustle and bustle of life and reconnecting with God with the purpose of growing in the light and knowledge of God. Excluding oneself from the family and the everyday life and connecting with God is a very old tradition. We know that Jesus went into the desert; Moses retreated to the Mount Sinai. Even Hindus draws back to the temple, Muslims spends time praying to Allah in the mosque and even Buddhists go on retreat. Hence, spiritual retreat is not a new idea.

Spiritual retreat helps to get renewed, unite, revived, and refreshed. When we attend a spiritual retreat that is organized by a church along with the congregation we know about the Grace of God. When we start focusing on God, our lives get enlighten and know how to face challenges and the world. The main objective of a spiritual retreat is to let God enter our lives and eliminate all the distractions from an individual’s life.

Couple Retreat

Couple retreats are spending quality time with spouse with the soul intention of enhancing the relationship. Couple retreats are usually withdrawing from the busy life schedule, from family, friends, children, work and household choirs and giving opportunity to know each other better. Couple retreats could be in groups or could as individual couples. In case of group couple retreats, couples get to interact with each other, perform some exercises that would strengthen their relationship. Couple retreats could also perform counselling for couples who would be facing some ups and downs in their marital life. Couple retreats centers also teach couples how to get intimate with each other, how to tackle problems together, how to adjust with each other, how to approach other family members, how to forgive each other.

Group Retreats

Group retreats are when we engage or interact with a large or small group of people. There could a sole motive or theme in such retreats. A certain agenda or activity may be planned to help people interact with each other. Group retreats could be organized for people from same age, or community, or religion, or same gender, or same workplace. Such type of retreat creates a sense of bonding to work together as a team, to understand each other, their problems, their drawbacks etc.

Group retreats helps in uniting, socializing, planning, communicating, learning, teaching from each other in the group. It not only helps to learn from each other but also discover new things about oneself.

To conclude, retreat not only revitalizes and refreshes us. It helps us socialize, be interactive, teaches us to be united, etc.

Franciscan Retreat Center in Oceanside, CA offers great accommodation for all kind of retreats. If you are interested for couple and group retreats and educational programs visit http://sanluisrey.org/retreats

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