Welcome to 2025!
We hope your holiday season was filled with meaning and hope. Was your crossing over into the new year filled with excitement or on the quieter, more tentative side of things?
The Spirit is ready and present to meet you wherever you are and the Journey Cener Association is honored to accompany you.
Below you’ll find various offerings from the Journey Center Association. See what the Spirit is inviting you into.
Updates and Upcoming Contemplative Events
Your Get Out of Jail Free Card: Enneagram Keys to Unlock the Door
Saturdays: February 15, March 15, April 12, May 10, June 7
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Pacific
Journey Center Online
Kathryn shares this about her upcoming online Enneagram series, offering in Spring 2025:
Remember in those early classes we all took learning the Enneagram – at least one person said, “I don’t want to be put into a box”? That often met with the response “You are already in a box. The Enneagram will help you get out” and off we went to learn the basics of this gem of wisdom. A map for our journey. A tool for our toolbox. With our lunches packed, a compass, sturdy shoes, and a backpack – off we went like Dora the Explorer.
And the adventure was amazing and still can be… yet, I wonder. Have ideas and routines that were so life-giving become a necessity? Have we settled for a comfortable box, a jail where certain ideas, phrases, bits of wisdom have lulled us into a state of complacency? The jail is comfortable enough, familiar: we are loathe to give it up.
Each style has their own model of jail or, more properly, jails that they demand. This series will help us explore our habits, routines – our jails – and set us on the path to find our specific keys to freedom. Each session will have something for each style. We will start with the stories we tell ourselves and encourage our re-writes. We will each discover that the key to unlock our habitual jail is well within our reach. Join in!
Life After Doom Book Group - Online
Wednesday, January 15 @ 3pm – 4pm PST
OR
Thursday, January 16 @ 6:30pm – 7:30pm PST
Journey Center Santa Rosa
www.journeycentersantarosa.org
Join us in reading Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart by Brian McLaren. We will gather every other Wednesday at 3pm PST online beginning January 15th. OR every other Thursday at 6:30pm – 7:30pm PST
The book is divided into 4 parts and each part is 45 – 88 pages long. We will meet for 5 sessions to discuss, connect and learn from one another.
If you are interested you can RSVP here for the Zoom link.
RSVP Wednesday
RSVP Thursday
Embodied Spirituality Workshop
January 11, 10:30am at 12pm (noon, Central Time)
Journey Center Chicago
https://journeycenterofchicago.org/
We are excited to offer this Embodied Spirituality Workshop with Jennifer Sturdy Andersson. Our Creator knit each of us together in a unique way. That unique spirit within each of us has made a home in our beautiful, imperfect, complex, and holy physical beings.
During our time together, we will intentionally connect our full selves — mind, body, and spirit — as we listen to and incorporate the wisdom of a variety of practices, particularly those that come from people of color, whose bodies have often been used against them. We hope you will join us in a time of learning and listening to the Holy, within and around where our spirit resides.
Journey Center of Michigan
https://journeycenterofmichigan.org/
If you need a soft place to land right now, please join us for our Wednesday and Friday morning meditations. 
In the midst of a hurried life, and the challenges we fact, we are invited to step out of anxiety and stress and enter into sacred space where we ca breathe and be restored for this unexpected journey we all find ourselves on in life. Join us. You can RSVP at info@journeycenterofmichigan.org.
You may also find encouragement hearing other voices who are on life’s journey with you. Our Reflections and Happenings posts may help you realize that you are not alone.
