What is a Spiritual Retreat?
house. Even if you live with another person or by yourself, sometimes it is hard to set a time during the year where you will just focus on your faith for a weekend. This is one of the purposes of a spiritual retreat. There are many kinds of spiritual retreats. I am going to focus on the type I facilitate. I provide one day, weekend, or week retreats. For this article I will focus on the one day retreat. You usually sign up ahead of time and it costs twenty-five dollars. Bring your lunch and the facilitator will provide snacks and drinks. When you first walk in the door the facilitator or someone assisting the facilitator will greet you and ask you to sign a sign in sheet. There is usually a welcome from the facilitator and then an ice breaker. I will usually ask retreatants to introduce themself and give a little information why they came. I then explain who I am, a bit about what we are going to cover and the schedule of the day. I also let them know if there is anything they aren’t
