WHAT WE OFFER
Formation that engages the whole person.
Our programs create space for rest, discernment, embodied learning, and faithful action.
Retreats & Getaways
Step away from noise and return to a slower rhythm of prayer, reflection, communal discernment, and time on the land.
Equine-Assisted Spiritual Direction
Embodied practices with horses invite participants to notice posture, intention, relationship, movement, silence, and God's presence.
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Leadership Formation
Pastors, executives, teams, and emerging leaders gain practices for discernment, resilience, transition, conflict, and vocational clarity.
RETREATS
Make room for what matters.
Retreats at Still Waters offer spacious rhythms of rest, prayer, reflection, and deep listening. Participants spend time walking the land, journaling, gathering in direction circles, and practicing attentiveness.
Retreat experiences can serve individuals, ministry teams, and student cohorts seeking renewal, clarity, and a fresh encounter with God.
EMBODIED FORMATION
Listening through relationship and presence.
Equine-assisted spiritual direction offers an embodied way of noticing what is happening within us and around us.
Sessions may take place in the barn, arena, or pasture. Gentle interaction, guided reflection, movement, and silence help participants explore courage, honesty, attentiveness, belovedness, and response.
LEADERSHIP FORMATION
Grounded leaders. Clearer discernment.
Still Waters serves leaders carrying complex responsibilities. Group spiritual direction, communal discernment, and embodied learning create space to navigate transition, conflict, vocational questions, and organizational challenges.
The goal is not simply better leadership performance. It is a more grounded, attentive, resilient way of leading that integrates theology, lived experience, relationships, and the capacity to listen deeply.
OUR FORMATION FRAMEWORK
Seven values shape the work.
1. Attentiveness to God
Slowing down and cultivating practices that help people notice God's presence.
2. Communal Discernment
Listening together with humility, wisdom, diversity, and sacred trust.
3. Embodied Formation
Recognizing bodies, emotions, relationships, and lived experience as places of formation.
4. Wesleyan Spirituality
Holding together grace, holiness, personal piety, and social holiness.
5. Hospitality & Healing
Creating spaces where people can explore grief, hope, questions, and calling without hurry.
6. Formation for Leadership
Investing in leaders' resilience, vocational clarity, intercultural awareness, and attentiveness.
7. Stewardship of Creation
Honoring land, animals, agriculture, and creation-centered practices as part of formation.