Programs
Gift Certificate
Open Dates
Looking to share Well of Mercy with family, friends, or coworkers? A Gift certificate makes a perfect gift to be used for an overnight retreat, day in nature retreat, or purchasing items in our gift shop. You select the amount to give. *Note: Our system may take 24hours to deliver the Gift Certificate via email.
12 Days of Christmas Devotions
Open Dates
From Christmas Day through January 5th, you’ll receive a short daily devotion delivered right to your email inbox with scripture, reflection, and prayer to help you live fully into the joy of the season.
Crossing the Threshold - A New Year Virtual Retreat
With Sandra O'Brien
Open Dates
Instead of running from one year to the next, take a moment to pause and truly reflect before Crossing the Threshold into the year ahead. This self-paced vision board retreat invites you to honor the year that’s passed, release what no longer serves, and open space for what’s next. From the comfort of your own home, you’ll be gently guided to set heartfelt intentions and welcome the new year with clarity and purpose. Participate at your own pace and in your own sacred space—no travel or set schedule required.
🌿 Mindful Beginnings: Meditation and Movement to Start the Year (On-line Retreat)
With Susan Bednarick
Open Dates
Begin 2026 with a gentle reset for body, mind, and spirit. Mindful Beginnings offers a supportive space to explore meditation and mindful movement practices that help you release stress, find focus, and approach the year ahead with clarity and calm.
Awe: Cultivating a Daily Practice of Wonder
With Kristi Leonard
November 12, 2025
Discover the transformative power of everyday awe in this reflective retreat led by Kristi Leonard, PCC, MBA. Grounded in science and soul, participants will explore the healing impact of awe and create a personal plan to integrate wonder into daily life.
LEAVING THE SHORE: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer
With Colette Lafia
December 9, 2025
Free presentation offered in the comfort of your own home via Zoom, Colette Lafia invites you to see life through a contemplative lens and to notice what is so often missed. She asks, what if your life could be experienced like a poem: alive with meaning, attentive to nuance, and awake to the presence of the Holy in every moment?
Finding a Place of Deep Peace: An Advent Retreat Honoring Mary
With Chantal McKinney
December 12, 2025
As the holiday season rushes in, take time to slow down and reflect with Mary, the Mother of God.
In this virtual Advent retreat, we’ll step away from the noise to explore Mary’s quiet courage, her hopeful preparation, and her wholehearted “yes” that welcomed Christ into the world. Through prayer, scripture, reflection, and journaling, we’ll open our own hearts to the peace of Advent—a peace found not in doing more, but in being still and saying yes to God’s presence within us.
Advent Retreat - Hope, Peace, Joy and Love
With Well of Mercy Staff and Friends
December 16 - 18, 2025
Journey with us through the season of Advent using the themes of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love.
Book Club - Return to the Root by Joyce Rupp
With Lea Slaton
January 13, 2026
Join us for a reflective journey through Return to the Root by Joyce Rupp — a book that invites us to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with what is most essential in our spiritual lives. Whether you are new to Joyce Rupp’s writings or have long appreciated her wisdom, you are warmly invited to join this circle of readers and seekers.
Wintering: The Art of Comfortably Slowing Down
With Brenda Wallace
January 14 - 17, 2026
If you are looking to purposefully and intentionally spend time centered around cozy quietness and solitude and to...
“Be still and know that I am God”......
Wintering may be for you.
Reflections and Intentions: Vision for the New Year
With Meg Robertson
January 28 - 30, 2026
Step away to Well of Mercy for a peaceful retreat of reflection, visioning, and creation as you embrace the year ahead with purpose. Through journaling, mindful walks, and guided exercises, you’ll gain clarity and set intentions. Highlights include vision board creation, choosing a word or mantra, and an immersive Sound Healing experience.
Praying the Hours Retreat
With Lea Slaton
February 19 - 21, 2026
This retreat invites participants into the ancient rhythm of praying the hours—pausing throughout the day to turn hearts and minds toward God. Through liturgy, silence, and reflection, we will enter into the sacred pattern of morning, midday, evening, and night prayer, joining our voices with generations of Christians who have sought to mark time with God’s presence.
Tending Your Light
With Connie Hoffner and Sandra O'Brien
February 25 - 28, 2026
Does it feel like you are a lighthouse in a dark world? In order for your light to shine brightly requires tending both the building (your body) and the flame (your soul). Join other lighthouses as we focus on rejuvenating your spirit, releasing that which no longer serves, strengthening your motivation, and ability to shine brightly.