Compassion is a tender yet powerful capacity to respond to the suffering you see. Keeping your balance while reaching out is a spiritual practice that can ground you in your inner Self and connect you with the world around you. Drawing from the Boundless Compassion program’s essential movement of Awareness, Attitude, and Action, this retreat will suggest ways to integrate your spiritual journey with compassion, increase your self-care, and practice compassion with growing discernment, freedom, and wisdom. Come encounter a sacred practice to help sustain and empower you in today’s changing world.
This program is a hybrid: Participants have the option to stay overnight, to commute to The Well, or to join in on Zoom from home. Facilitators are at The Well.
Participants will receive Zoom sign-in information via email upon registration + a reminder the day before the program.
Information and Registration: https://csjthewell.org/programs/walking-compassion/
Facilitators: Wendy Mospan and S. Mary Dean Pfahler, SND
Wendy Mospan, M.Div. leads retreats and workshops that help people discover meaning and align with their deeper values. She is a spiritual director practicing in Palatine, IL, and co-director of the Boundless Compassion program. In the past, Wendy served as a parish pastoral associate in northern Illinois and directed marketing for the Egg Harbor Café restaurant group. Wendy is married with three sons, two daughters-in-love, and five grandchildren. She loves to accompany people exploring all aspects of their life journeys.
Mary Dean Pfahler, SND, delights in helping seekers savor the experience of Gracious Mystery in their lives. She completed the internship in Ignatian spirituality at Manresa Jesuit Retreat House in Bloomfield Hills MI and is a certified Boundless Compassion facilitator. A former educator in Ohio and Papua New Guinea, pastoral minister, retreat center director, and college campus mentor, she now finds joy in accompanying individuals and groups in spiritual direction, the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, and Boundless Compassion retreats.