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Creating Your Rule of Life

Creating Your Rule of Life

a retreat to build a trellis for your intentions and grow your God-given purposes

Friday, January 9, 2026 at 6 – 8:30pm and

Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 9am – 4pm

Lunch on Saturday is included

Cost: $140

Do you ever wonder if the things you do every day are contributing to the deeper things you’re designed for?

Are you curious about building a way of living that cultivates love and transformation in you and around you?

Do you desire to live intentionally but find you’re often pulled away from it?

Join us for a retreat to begin your year crafting your livable, personally discerned “Rule of Life.”

This is an ancient practice that realistically pays attention to what’s in your life, the love of God and how God made you, and then what habits move or hold you in the direction of purpose, wholeness and love. We will learn about what a “Rule of Life” is, then engage in prayer and activities to discover and choose with the Spirit what your Rule of Life will incorporate. You will leave with at least a rough draft on Saturday!

This is NOT a workshop on resolutions or self-improvement but learning a way of listening to God in the daily, how you co-operate with God naturally, and to follow your desire to love God with your whole self as you live from your belovedness. Come start 2026 with us!

 

Before you buy another planner, or get swept up in the urgent everyday,

create your rule of life to live by and make decisions this year from a more purposeful place.

Details

Objectives 

  • Learn what a Rule of Life is and is not
  • Learn different ways of creating a Rule of Life
  • Grow in awareness of our past & present ways of being
  • Discern invitations from God and other motivators
  • Realistically assess resources and expectations
  • Discover and choose with the Spirit do-able habits to become who God intends you to be
  • Create a rough draft of a personal Rule of Life for this season

“A good rule of life if not a complicated how-to manual, but a sheltering and sustaining place.”

~Margaret Guenther, Holy Listening

Facilitator

Kimberley Mulder

Kimberley enjoys creating, coordinating, hosting, and facilitating spaces for people to encounter God, experience belovedness, and deepen faith. She received her Master’s of Divinity and Spiritual Direction Certificate from Portland Seminary. She is a Spiritual Director, retreat facilitator, and is the Program Assistant at the Dominican Center. A former teacher, refugee resettlement coordinator, and caterer, Kimberley has found God continually illuminating Life and Love in the particularities of her life.

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If you would like to apply for scholarship assistance, please download this form first, complete and email it to programs@dominicancenter.com. We will then respond to you with further instructions on how to register.

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