Catherine Regan, Ph.D.

Catherine Regan, Ph.D. is a spiritual director, retired psychologist, and longtime adjunct program staff member at Mercy Center, at this time serving on the Centering Prayer/Wisdom Practices team. She also offers online and in-person retreat days. She is committed to fostering our reclaiming the Wisdom at the heart of the Christian Tradition and the contemplative practices so urgently needed at this time in our world.

Upcoming Programs by Catherine Regan, Ph.D.

An Introduction to a Wisdom Way of Knowing: A Wisdom Practices Series

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

January 18 - February 1, 2025

January 18th This Sacred Path: Three Centered Knowing This Sacred Surrender: Centering Prayer January 25th This Sacred Voice: Chanting This Sacred Body: Gesture & Movement February  1st This Sacred Self: Witnessing & Welcoming This Sacred Heart: The Way of the Heart   This is a series introducing some key elements of the Christian Wisdom tradition, […]

Centering Prayer and Three-Centered Knowing: A Silent Centering Prayer Wisdom Retreat

Also With Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D. and Heather Ruce, M.A.

February 7 - 9, 2025

"Centering Prayer … is the opening of mind and heart, body and emotions--our whole being--to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond words, thoughts, and emotions."  —Thomas Keating, in Open Mind Open Heart             In Centering Prayer we practice letting go to the Divine Indwelling, building up a muscle of release, of consent to the presence and […]

Centering Prayer Friday Evening

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

March 14, 2025

Centering Prayer Day

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

March 15, 2025

Schedule (subject to change): 9:30   Grounding practices, introduction to the day and themes, and to each other 10:00   Centering Prayer 10:30   Break 10:45   Teaching / Exploration 11:30   Centering Prayer 12:00   Lunch and Contemplative Free Time (optional labyrinth walk) 1:30   Centering Prayer 2:00   Teaching / Exploration 2:45   Break 3:00   […]

Centering Prayer Friday Evening

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

May 9, 2025

Centering Prayer Day

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

May 10, 2025

Schedule (subject to change): 9:30   Grounding practices, introduction to the day and themes, and to each other 10:00   Centering Prayer 10:30   Break 10:45   Teaching / Exploration 11:30   Centering Prayer 12:00   Lunch and Contemplative Free Time (optional labyrinth walk) 1:30   Centering Prayer 2:00   Teaching / Exploration 2:45   Break 3:00   […]

Centering Prayer Wisdom Retreat

Also With Cynthia Bourgeault, Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

May 25 - 30, 2025

Centering Prayer Day

Also With Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

June 28, 2025

Schedule (subject to change): 9:30   Grounding practices, introduction to the day and themes, and to each other 10:00   Centering Prayer 10:30   Break 10:45   Teaching / Exploration 11:30   Centering Prayer 12:00   Lunch and Contemplative Free Time (optional labyrinth walk) 1:30   Centering Prayer 2:00   Teaching / Exploration 2:45   Break 3:00   […]

The Way of the Heart: A Silent Wisdom Retreat

Also With Rev. Amber Sturgess and Heather Ruce, M.A.

August 15 - 17, 2025

“The heart is the place of our origin in which the soul is, as it were, coming from the hands of God and waking up to itself."      – French Benedictine Henri Lassaux The Way of the Heart is at the center of the Christian Wisdom tradition, a transformative pilgrimage of the soul. This immersive […]

Centering Prayer Friday Evening

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

August 29, 2025

Centering Prayer Day

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

August 30, 2025

Schedule (subject to change): 9:30   Grounding practices, introduction to the day and themes, and to each other 10:00   Centering Prayer 10:30   Break 10:45   Teaching / Exploration 11:30   Centering Prayer 12:00   Lunch and Contemplative Free Time (optional labyrinth walk) 1:30   Centering Prayer 2:00   Teaching / Exploration 2:45   Break 3:00   […]

Centering Prayer Wisdom Retreat

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

October 10 - 14, 2025

Centering Prayer Friday Evening

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

October 17, 2025

Centering Prayer Day

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

October 18, 2025

Schedule (subject to change): 9:30   Grounding practices, introduction to the day and themes, and to each other 10:00   Centering Prayer 10:30   Break 10:45   Teaching / Exploration 11:30   Centering Prayer 12:00   Lunch and Contemplative Free Time (optional labyrinth walk) 1:30   Centering Prayer 2:00   Teaching / Exploration 2:45   Break 3:00   […]

Centering Prayer Friday Evening

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

December 12, 2025

Centering Prayer Day

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

December 13, 2025

Schedule (subject to change): 9:30   Grounding practices, introduction to the day and themes, and to each other 10:00   Centering Prayer 10:30   Break 10:45   Teaching / Exploration 11:30   Centering Prayer 12:00   Lunch and Contemplative Free Time (optional labyrinth walk) 1:30   Centering Prayer 2:00   Teaching / Exploration 2:45   Break 3:00   […]

Cynthia Bourgeault Retreat

Also With Cynthia Bourgeault, Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

February 13 - 18, 2026

Wisdom School

Also With Heather Ruce, M.A. and Joy Andrews Hayter, Ph.D.

May 22 - 27, 2026