Sacred Quest
Workshop and Retreat Topics
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Grief
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Loss in Life and Suffering
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A look at the wide range
of losses we all face in life
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Some Wisdom-Thoughts on
Suffering
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Ways to Avoid Unnecessary Suffering in My Life
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Some thoughts on being
less susceptible to suffering caused by others
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The Art of Grief Healing
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How do I help myself
along the Grief Journey?
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Twelve Steps of Healing
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A twelve-step approach
to self-healing
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Seven Choices Along the Grief Journey
§ The ways in which we must be pro-active in our own healing
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Getting
Through Grief with Gratitude (NEW)
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Grief
and Gratitude; Only one will prevail
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Men in Grief
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Some unique Grief
obstacles for males and some females in our culture
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Guilt and Anger
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Dealing with some
common, often difficult, Grief emotions
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Dark Emotions
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Ways to use dark
emotions positively
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Inner Peace
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Signs that I’m achieving
some
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Forgiveness; A Key to Grief Healing
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Often a major stumbling
block, supported by our false illusions
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Book of Job
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Wonderful expressions of
Grief
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Loss in Life and Faith
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Spiritual Crisis
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Poetry
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Its role in my life and
my growth
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Caregiving
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Key Skills for Effective Caregiving
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The Role of the
Caregiver
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The Art of Loving Listening
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An examination of a key
Caregiver skill; Some useful Listening tools
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Grief Support Groups; They Work
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Ideas for effective
Support Group Sessions
Ø Compassioning: A Key to Effective Caregiving (New)
§ Effective Help with Compassion
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Rituals
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How rituals may help the
bereaved
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The Crying Need to Formalize a Ministry to the
Bereaved
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Why and how every church
needs to minister to their grieving
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Befriending Death
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The need to befriend my
won death to help others actively dying
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Business Lessons I had to Unlearn
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Axioms of commerce I
needed to unlearn for Caregiving
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Ways to Avoid Unnecessary Suffering
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Ways to avoid suffering
as a Caregiver
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Servant Leadership
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Are Service and
Leadership compatible?
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Forgiveness: A Key to Grief Healing
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A tough nut for
caregivers
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The Call to Lay Ministry
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Our Gifts are meant for
Others
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Prayer of St. Francis; A guide for Caregivers
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All we need to know for
effective Caregiving
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Book of Job
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Great and Terrible
Caregiving
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Caring for the Elderly
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Some key things we
forget because they’re old
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Love and Relationships
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Soul Friends
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The role of loving
listening between Soul Friends
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Sharing Wisdom
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Effective Mentoring
ideas
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Love or Fear
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Which drives me?
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Dialogue or Conversation
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Thoughts on effective
Communication
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Family Systems that Promote Growth
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What makes for a Healthy
Nurturing Family environment?
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God and Growth in Relationships
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Reaching the fullness of
our humanity in Relationships
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True Self
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How do I find me?
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Forgiveness
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Vital to Relationship
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Love is the Answer, Whatever the Question
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God is Love (I Jn 4,
7-16)
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Love is
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A definition
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Open Mind/Open Heart
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A prayer of Letting Go
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Spiritual Growth
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Spirituality, What is it?
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Some definitions of the
Sages
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Creation Spirituality
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Creation: The Original
Blessing
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Contemplation
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It’s role in our active
lives
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Spiritual Well-being
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How do I nurture my
Spirituality
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Spiritual Healing
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How do I heal Spiritual
wounds?
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Approach to Spirituality in the World
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Are they compatible?
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We can Learn
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What we need; An Eight
Point Program
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Stepping Stones on the Sacred Quest
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Using all of life’s
experiences
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Moments of Spiritual Growth and Healing
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Every one and
opportunity for Growth
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Seek the Sacred
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Finding my way
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Socrates on Spirituality
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Some useful ancient
Wisdom
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Spiritual Path
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Life’s Journey
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Spiritual Growth and Enlightenment
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How do I grow? How do I
respond to the Holy Spirit?
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Obstacles to Spiritual Growth
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Turning stumbling blocks
to stepping stones
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Longing and Loss in Life
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The role of longing and
loss on life’s journey
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Our Precious Present
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The Gift of Life and
Spiritual Growth in the Now
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Business Lessons I had to Unlearn
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Axioms of Business I
needed to unlearn for my Spiritual Growth
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Rules for being Human
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Suggestions for reaching
a fullness of our humanity
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Some Thoughts on Sacrifice
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Sometimes, we use
sacrifice to control others
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Life Consents
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The consents we must
make to Grow in Life
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Indigenous American Wisdom
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Wisdom of the American
Indians
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Happiness
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Thoughts on this
illusive goal
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Male Spirituality
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Different than female?
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Forgiveness
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Lack of it stifles
Spiritual Growth
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Mother Theresa’s Simple Path
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Where does it begin?
End?
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Mysteries of the Rosary: A daily Life Guide
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Not just historical
events
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Bread of Life
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It is us
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Jesus and Zen
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Enlightenment
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Cracking Open the Beatitudes
§ Unreasonable challenges? Irrelevant rewards
Ø Moving My Light out from under the bushel (NEW)
§ Overcoming my sense of unworthiness
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Everything
Belongs (NEW)
§ Spirituality unites; religions tend to divide
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Church
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Early American Catholicism
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The growth of our
country and our religion
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What is this thing we call Church
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What is Church—really?
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Denial
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The role of denial in
our lack of Spiritual Growth
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Effective Dissent
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Dissent is essential for
growth, if effective
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An Earth-shattering Mission Statement
§ Living it grows the Church
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Ordination;
What's it REALLY all about (NEW)
§ A look at the history and mis-interpretations of Ordination
Ø I Love My Church, BUT OH MY GOD! (New)
§ What We Tolerate, We Cannot Change