Salt, Light, Doves, Serpents etc: Navigating Secular Academia as a Catholic

This workshop investigates how Catholics can navigate, persevere, and thrive in an academic university environment - particularly if that environment feels hostile to our faith or resistant to the truth. Participants will explore a range of practical, intellectual, and spiritual avenues for both safeguarding their own faith during their university years, and for proposing and illuminating truth, goodness and beauty precisely in and through their studies.

PRESENTER: Laura van der Linden

Navigating the World of Christian Dating

Be empowered and equipped with the practical skills and strategies needed for successful Christian dating! Learn God’s plan for love and marriage and how to date with purpose and integrity. Be encouraged, come with your questions and dating dilemmas! Bring your friends, single or dating. This seminar is designed for 16-24 year olds.

PRESENTER: Brendan and Candice Lazaroo

The Art of Prayer Ministry

So, you’ve received prayer ministry and can see the benefits of it. Would you like to bless others in the same way? Maybe you have never prayed over someone and would like to learn. Maybe you’ve been praying over others and want to skill up a little more. Then, this seminar is for you. Over two sessions you’ll learn the fundamentals of prayer ministry, and some deeper insights, as well as gain some practical experience.

PRESENTER: Matt and Sulyn Leslie

Releasing God’s Supernatural Power to Heal

Prayer for the restoration of health is part of the Church's experience in every age, including our own. Come and see and experience God's supernatural power to heal through the word of God and his saints. This seminar will give participants the opportunity to receive physical, spiritual, and emotional healing so that they can be set free to live a fuller life.

PRESENTER: Rachel Fleurant MGL

Encounter and Growth - Kerygmatic Discipleship in Youth Ministry

Over the past 15 years, the value of youth ministry has risen to new heights. At the same time, it often remains under-funded with limited formation and mixed success. What often results is a one size fits all approach to youth ministry that achieves success incidentally rather than intentionally. In this Seminar, Louisa and Fr Josh break open a ‘Kerygmatic Discipleship’ approach to youth ministry that seeks to bring young people to an encounter with Jesus, and draw them into discipleship in a way that meets their pastoral needs.

PRESENTER: Fr. Josh Whicker and Louisa Daniels

Contemplative Creative Prayer

Come and make space to co-create with God! Each day participants will be invited to explore a contemplative creative process as a way of listening to God, resting, and responding. You do not need to have any artistic talent, as this is about the prayer process and not the product. There will be input for the first section, followed by at time of self directed creative prayer, in a space of your choosing around the retreat centre (all creative materials will be supplied). You are the artisan of your own spiritual formation - this is an opportunity to explore, be open and receive, in order to be refreshed in our relationship with God and our service to others.

PRESENTER: Christy Honeysett