Awaken: Is directed by Judy Kuiper, MDiv, MA, PhD. a licensed psychologist and commissioned by Contemplative Outreach to teach Centering Prayer.

The focus of the center and its activities will be to facilitate awakening to God's presence in everyday life through prayer. The following workshop/groups will be initially available with more to be added.

Pathways to prayer series

• Centering Prayer: A practice of resting in God; Recommended 20 minutes twice daily for the healing of the unconscious patterns we all have developed over our lifetime.
  
  Centering Prayer is taught in 4 one hour sessions. This can be a Saturday from 9 to 3 with a one hour lunch and breaks. There is then 6 more weeks of 1 hour sessions that continue the learning. Then it is best if people come weekly for a 1 – 1 ½ hour session to maintain the practice and continue learning.
• Welcoming Prayer: A practice of naming and feeling our pain, both emotional and physical; welcoming God into the midst of the pain; and then using a liturgy of letting go.    Again, there is usually a 4 - 6 hour workshop to teach the practice. Then it is reinforced periodically in the Centering Prayer sessions.
• Lectio Divina: A practice in which we listen for the voice of God directed to the individual’s particular need in Scripture.
• Body prayer
  A 4 week, eight session introduction to yoga prayer utlizing yoga postures and Christian spirituality based on the Bible to deepen our mind body and spirit connection to God.