Move beyond talking about prayer and actually practice silence, Centering Prayer, breath prayer, and receptive presence together.
FOR EXISTING CHRISTIAN SMALL GROUPS
Keep your group.
Deepen the experience.
Give your group four weeks to slow down, experience God in new ways, and deepen the way you pray and listen together.
Homeward comes alongside a community that already exists with guided contemplative practices, meaningful conversation, and simple tools your group can continue using long after the four weeks end.
4 gatherings~90 minutesExperientialJesus-centered
NOT ANOTHER PROGRAM
Homeward joins the group you already have.
Your people stay together. Your leader stays the leader. Your church stays the church. Homeward simply facilitates a short season of practice and conversation designed to help the group experience something new together.
- No new group to recruit
- No long-term commitment
- No curriculum to master beforehand
- Practices your group can keep using
WHEN A GOOD GROUP WANTS TO GO DEEPER
Sometimes the next step is not more content.
It is a different kind of experience.
Help more people feel safe enough to speak honestly—and heard without being quickly advised, corrected, or fixed.
Give the group a meaningful reset without introducing another permanent program, curriculum, or commitment to maintain.
Leave with simple rhythms people can use at home, at work, in relationships, and in the group long after Homeward steps out.
THE 4-WEEK GROUP EXPERIENCE
Four gatherings. Four movements toward a deeper shared life with God.
Each week combines experience, brief teaching, Scripture or reflection, honest conversation, and a simple practice to carry into daily life.
BECOME PRESENT
Slow down and notice
Experience contemplative practices that help people settle, become more aware of what is happening within them, and become more present to God and one another.
Experience:Breath prayer · silence · noticing · presence
DEEPEN PRAYER
Discover silence, Centering Prayer & breath prayer
Experience time-tested Christian practices that create space to listen, receive, and rest in God rather than only speak.
Experience:Centering Prayer · contemplative prayer · receptive silence
LISTEN WITH LOVE
Help people feel seen, heard, and known
Practice Sacred Listening and discover how curiosity, reflection, and less fixing can transform the quality of a group’s conversations.
Experience:Sacred Listening · open questions · reflection · compassion
CARRY IT INTO LIFE
Build a rhythm your group can keep
Reflect on what was life-giving and choose a few practices, questions, and rhythms that can continue after the guided experience ends.
Experience:Integration · daily practice · shared commitments · next steps
WHAT A GATHERING FEELS LIKE
Less lecture.
More experience.
The goal is not to turn your group into a meditation class. It is to create enough space for people to experience a practice, reflect honestly, listen to one another, and notice how God may be meeting them.
Arrive
Settle in and reconnect as the group normally would.
Experience
Practice prayer, silence, Scripture, or another contemplative rhythm together.
Reflect
Notice what happened internally rather than rushing to explain or evaluate it.
Listen
Share honestly and practice listening without fixing, debating, or taking over.
Carry it home
Choose one simple practice for ordinary life before the group gathers again.
PRACTICES YOUR GROUP MAY EXPERIENCE
Ancient Christian practices, made approachable.
We introduce practices gently, explain where they come from, experience them together, and make room to talk honestly about what people notice.
Centering Prayer
A simple practice of consenting to God’s presence and action within, using silence and a sacred word as a gentle return.
Breath Prayer
Short prayer phrases joined to the natural breath as a way of returning to presence, trust, and God.
Contemplative Scripture
Reading slowly enough to notice the word, image, question, or invitation that seems alive in the passage.
Sacred Listening
Learning to be fully present, ask open questions, reflect what we hear, and resist the reflex to fix.
Daily Reflection
Looking back over ordinary life with gratitude and honesty to notice consolation, resistance, longing, and invitation.
Silence & Presence
Practicing stillness not as an escape from life, but as a way of becoming more available to God and the people around us.
DESIGNED TO SERVE THE CHURCH YOU ALREADY HAVE
Homeward adds a layer of practice—not a competing community.
The aim is to strengthen an existing Christian group, not pull people away from it.
We can work with a small-group leader, pastor, care ministry, recovery group, staff team, or other established community. Before beginning, we have a short conversation about the group, its tradition, and what would genuinely serve its people.
At the end of four weeks, Homeward steps back. The group keeps what was useful and continues in its own life together.
TWO WAYS TO BEGIN
Choose the experience that best fits your group.
BROADER FORMATION
4-Week Group Experience
A guided introduction to contemplative prayer, Centering Prayer, Sacred Listening, reflection, and everyday spiritual practice.
Ask About the 4-Week ExperienceFOCUSED WORKSHOP
Sacred Listening
Three experiential sessions that help people become more present, listen with compassion, and help others feel seen, heard, and loved.
Explore Sacred ListeningA SIMPLE FIRST STEP
Tell us about the group you already have.
We’ll learn a little about your community, what you hope to deepen, and whether a four-week Homeward experience—or Sacred Listening—might serve it well.