Centering Prayer & Heart Intention with David Frenette

01/13/2026

I'm so grateful to have recently participated in an active dialogue with friend and amazing teacher Cynthia Bourgeault, hosted by Contemplative Outreach.

Please see the comments for *Cynthia and David in Dialogue: Non-Duality and Unity Consciousness* YouTube link, and enjoy this hour-long offering.

Many blessings,
David

12/18/2025

I’m excited to share a recent podcast episode I did with my wife Donna, where we discussed the gifts and challenges of our interfaith spiritual relationship. Hope you enjoy it!

:: Link to interview: https://tinyurl.com/ev3683cp

Blessings to you all!
May these darkening days be infused with light,
David

11/13/2025

Flowing Oneness: The Contemplative Vision of Father Thomas Keating | Led by Cynthia Bourgeault and David Frenette

March 18-22, 2026
Garrison Institute in New York
In-Person 5-Day Silent Retreat

:: Learn more here: https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/5-day-retreat-with-reverend-cynthia-bourgeault-david-frenette-2026/
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:: From the Garrison Institute website:

In this eagerly awaited Centering Prayer teaching retreat, Centering Prayer master teachers Davd Frenette and Cynthia Bourgeault once again team up to explore the late teachings of Fr. Thomas Keating and what they have to offer our own continuing spiritual evolution today.

As Thomas fully embraced his nondual awakening, he began to write and see from a perspective rarely attained in the Christian mystical tradition, significantly “growing” the Christian spiritual roadmap in the direction of his signature brand of “flowing oneness.”

Through teaching, dialogue, guided meditations — and mostly through the practice of Centering Prayer itself — David and Cynthia will jointly explore how he charts this new course —and more important, how he has planted practical seeds to bring our practice of Centering Prayer to the next level.

:: Learn more here: https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/5-day-retreat-with-reverend-cynthia-bourgeault-david-frenette-2026/

12/10/2024

Reminder: In about 10 hours from now: Join Cynthia Bourgeault and me, David Frenette, for a conversation about Thomas Keating and *The Making of a Modern Mystic* on Zoom.

➡️ Registration details in comments.
:: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
:: 1-2 p.m. Eastern Time via Zoom
🌟 recorded event
6 p.m. GMT, 12 p.m. CT, 11 a.m. MT, 10 a.m. PT
Free; $25 suggested donation
Blessings,
David

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12/07/2024

I am delighted to join Cynthia Bourgeault for an online dialogue to launch this new book. Join our donation-based Zoom event on Tuesday, December 10, 1-2 p.m. Eastern time, in an event hosted by Contemplative Outreach.

>> Link for this event is in the comments.
*Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Mystic*
:: Free :: Suggested Donation $25

Many blessings to you and yours,
David Frenette

03/07/2023

Today, Tuesday March 7, 2023, is the 100th anniversary of Fr. Thomas Keating’s birth. Enjoy the 16-minute video linked in this post, where my wife Donna and I share a few as-yet-untold stories of Fr. Thomas’ humor and wisdom, as a way of animating his presence in your life: https://youtu.be/qECnpcNHaHs.
A life of contemplative action and prayer is essential for human flourishing, if not plain survival, in our hyper-busy, technological, crisis-plagued world.

May God gift you with peace, health and Presence in your prayer and action in our broken and joyous world.

Good wishes,
David Frenette

David Frenette and his wife Donna Zerner share some poignant and funny memories of Fr. Thomas and David's time together, on 3/7/23, the 100th anniversary of ...

03/24/2022

The world is rapidly changing. How are you managing and feeling with these shifts? Need some extra support and tools?

I'm excited to share a new offering with you.

🙏 Grounding the Prayer of the Cloud with the Prayer of the Heart: An e-Introduction to Heart Intention for Centering Prayer Practitioners with David Frenette

Three-Week Class: May 3-22, 2022
Free; suggested donation $45 USD
⭐️ Hosted by Contemplative Outreach

>> Click here to learn more and register: https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/grounding-the-prayer-of-the-cloud-with-the-prayer-of-the-heart/

Heart Intention is a contemplative practice that, with Centering Prayer, helps us respond to the new challenges we are facing. In Centering Prayer and Heart Intention, two great streams of Christian contemplation – the Prayer of the Cloud and the Prayer of the Heart – meet, in service of an integrative approach to meditation.

>> Join us in learning Heart Intention, a contemplative practice that

* lets intention and meaning flow into our lives;

* integrates the receptive simplicity of Centering Prayer with a nuanced practice that is embodied, engaged, and that embraces our humanity;

* helps us act in our challenging world from a heart more present to God.

This three-week online class includes three new recorded video teachings, three live Zoom practice sessions with time for Q/A with David, and access to written resources. This course is for anyone looking for ways to meaningfully integrate their Centering Prayer practice into daily activity and contemplative service.

02/18/2022

Reminder: This Sunday :: How can we use our Centering Prayer practice to connect with the needs around us and to pray for help in a way that is aligned with our contemplative journey?

SILENCE SPEAKING, STILLNESS ACTING
Centering Prayer, Contemplative Petition and Unity
An online workshop with David Frenette
Sunday February 20, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Pacific Time USA

➡️ Learn more and register here: https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/david-frenette-workshop-via-zoom

🌱 We'll learn how Centering Prayer’s greatest relevance for our contemporary world is in the way it can flow into contemplative petition and contemplative service, into what happens off the prayer seat, in the integration of silence and speech, stillness and action.

02/11/2022

Help! Our world, our loved ones and we ourselves are in need of help. Always, and it seems especially, now. How can we use our Centering Prayer practice to connect with the needs around us and to pray for help in a way that is aligned with our contemplative journey?

This workshop will explore the practice of contemplative petition: prayers of intercession flowing from the dynamic silence and stillness of Centering Prayer. Contemplative petition can help embody our Centering Prayer practice with intention, connecting it with our human needs and the needs of the world. This is not just “praying for what we want” in a materialistic or magical-thinking way. This practice is about surrendering into God in trust, as ultimately, contemplative petition is God in us, praying for God in others.

SILENCE SPEAKING, STILLNESS ACTING
Centering Prayer, Contemplative Petition and Unity
An online workshop with David Frenette

Sunday February 20, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Pacific Time USA
➡️ Learn more and register here: https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/event/david-frenette-workshop-via-zoom/

🌱 We will learn how Centering Prayer’s greatest relevance for our contemporary world is in the way it can flow into contemplative petition and contemplative service, into what happens off the prayer seat, in the integration of silence and speech, stillness and action.

01/13/2022

Just two days from now... Centering Prayer support, inspiration, practices and community this weekend. Open to your true self and the Divine Presence within.

Join this two-day virtual summit to learn and practice with Centering Prayer leaders from around the world.

➡ Click here to learn more and register: https://www.centeringprayersummit.com/referral/N4CrUVAl/R0Is6MyxxILAUZFu

I'm looking forward to presenting and speaking on “Opening to the God of Unity through Centering Prayer,” 1-2 p.m. Pacific Time, on Saturday, January 15. I hope to connect with you this way.

>> Centering Prayer Summit 2022

Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude in her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule traveling globally to spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom path...

12/14/2021

I'm looking forward to being a presenter for an offering intended to provide Centering Prayer support, inspiration, practices and community this January. I hope to connect with you this way.

✨ Early-bird pricing is only $99 (USD) through December 15.

➡ Click here to learn more and register: https://tinyurl.com/4kept7nm

Open to your true self and the Divine Presence within. Join this two-day virtual summit to learn and practice with Centering Prayer leaders from around the world.

>> Centering Prayer Summit 2022