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Prayer with collage
Wander to Wonder – A day of creative collage with God This day is for those who would like to connect with God in creative ways. There will be gentle guidance for creative process in prayer, using collage to connect with ourselves and God. You are free to create but no pressure to share with…
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2025 Happenings
Here is the latest email I have sent out. Would you like to receive my email to know what is coming up? Please subscribe! I really appreciated it. https://mailchi.mp/3edc69b7d76d/creative-quiet-days-and-retreats-in-2025
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2025 retreats and quiet days
Looking for a way to re-center yourself and let God renew you? Here are what is happening in 2025 from what I offer: Quiet days, April 4-5th – Wonder as i Wander: The landscape of our LivesHow is your soul doing? We will reflect where we have been and we are in life through reading…
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Newness
Sorry for not updating regularly on this site – my posture around this website is to take it easy and go with the flow with this website. Hopefully, you will find something that is helpful from me. But I will only do the posts as something needing to be shared. On that note, here is…
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Newness 2024
It has been a tough summer for me personally, there were a lot of uncertainty and turmoil, unavoidable hard things to grapple with. Whatever it will be this following year, it will not be ‘business as usual’ sort of year! And yet, in the midst the changes, I was struck by the opportunities of ‘newness’…
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Praying our journey with God through weaving and collage
I am preparing the Wander to Wonder – Creative quiet day coming up! There are quite a few of us and I’m feeling very excited about it. Every retreat or quiet day, in my process of preparation there is a sense of hope and excitement, but also wanting to not have too much fixed expectations…
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Contemplative space: Grounded
At a recent ACSD Training Event for New Zealand Christian Spiritual directors, I was asked to facilitate a contemplative space for the duration of the weekend. The theme was ‘Grounded’. It was a joy to see many people being able to use the space, whether they paused for 10 minutes or for an hour. Here…
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Talking about creativity in spiritual direction
Here is a recent blog post about my practice as a spiritual director using creative process. While you are there, check out the new SGM website! https://www.sgm.org.nz/spiritual-direction-blog/alice-wood-creative-processes-in-spiritual-direction
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Reflect wintering
Here is the opening prayer reflection for a silent retreat, the theme was ‘Wintering’. As I sit here looking out to the bleak trees and cold rain, it’s a nice reminder that this is how God designed it to be – a season for everything. What comes to mind when you hear the word winter?…
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Retreats 2022
I will be part of a team leading 2 residential retreats this year, one is 4 days in June and another 2/5 days in August. There is also a silent retreat weekend just for university student. It has always been a privilege to be at each retreat, seeing how God at work at each of…
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