Center for Action and Contemplation

Pre-Conference Contemplative Experience

Want some help slowing down before the conference begins? Move into a relaxed and prayerful space before the conference begins through Walking Meditation, Body Prayer, and Taize. Friday, November 9, 9:30am - 12:30pm.

No Additional Fee! Pre-registration required.

12-Step Meetings

The Conference will offer two sessions of 12-Step Meetings: Open Speaker Meetings and Closed Discussion Meetings.

Open Speaker meetings, which all are welcome to attend without making a declaration of addiction, will be led by an individual in recovery. They will share their experience, strength and hope by offering their personal recovery stories. Closed Discussion meetings are for people who identify with particular addictions and wish to embrace a path of recovery. The only requirement for attendance to the Closed Discussion meeting is a desire to be free of the particular addiction. Meetings offered will include: Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, Workaholics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, Sex/Love Addicts Anonymous, Al-Anon (for families and friends of alcoholics), and addiction to religion.

Marketplace of Possibilities

On Saturday afternoon, a three hour "open space" event will occur where participants will move between various educational and healing opportunities. Organizations and institutions will offer information at tables throughout the areas neighboring our meeting spaces.

The Sacred Wound-A Healing Service

Although all 12-Step groups are inherently about healing, we want to offer a prayerful healing service on Sunday morning. Fr. Richard will help us to ritualize our wounding in a simple way, and then offer those wounds to God for healing.

Thomas Worship Service

The Thomas Worship Service was first created in Finland in 1988 by a collection of ministers of various denominations, artists, musicians, and civic leaders in an effort to create a prayerful service that would again fill their cathedrals. They recognized that much of Europe had become a continent of skeptics, and so they named the service after St. Thomas "the Doubter." It retrieves the historic meaning of the very word "liturgy" as a collective work of the people. It is for believers, seekers and doubting Thomases alike! It is an ecumenical worship service that includes full lay participation and optional creative responses to the preached word.

Continuing Education Units

This conference will provide 8.5 CEU credits for LPC (Licensed Professional Counselors), LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists), LCDC (Addiction Professionals) and social workers who are licensed in Texas. If you live outside of Texas, please check with your state licensing board to determine whether the credits will be accepted.