For a Parish, Community, or Institution
A possibility to discern.
Creating Space is a collection of contemplative prayer experiences and formation resources intended to help people become more attentive to God’s presence in the ordinary movements of life.
Creating Space offers experiences for individuals as well as prepared contemplative experiences for gathered communities. These include Come and See, the Eight-Week Journey, and As Life Changes Shape—a Day of Reflection.
Creating Space in a gathered community
Creating Space is designed to make room for people to encounter a completed contemplative experience together without requiring them to arrive with particular knowledge, language, or answers.
A gathered experience may include witness, Scripture, prayer, silence, and opportunities for reflection and sharing. The facilitator prepares and holds the space, while the experience itself is allowed to do its work.
The same contemplative posture can take different forms—from a single evening of reflection to a longer journey or a day set apart for prayer and reflection.
The aim is not to deliver more content, but to create room for attention, prayer, and encounter.
Where Creating Space is now
Creating Space has moved beyond an initial idea into a developing body of contemplative experiences and formation resources.
Current work includes individual contemplative experiences, an Eight-Week Journey, resources for facilitators, formation for those creating contemplative experiences, and longer gathered experiences such as evenings and days of reflection.
These materials continue to be tested, refined, and listened to in practice. At the same time, discernment continues about how Creating Space might eventually live within or alongside parishes, dioceses, and other communities.
An invitation to discern
At this stage, institutional conversations are welcomed as opportunities for listening and discernment rather than as proposals for a predetermined relationship.
The question is not simply where Creating Space might be used, but where it might belong—and what form of stewardship would allow the work to remain faithful to what it is becoming.
For those wishing to look more closely
If your parish, community, or institution would like to explore how Creating Space might become part of its own life, I welcome a conversation about the possibilities, the resources being developed, and what such an experience might require locally.