Applications for the 2024-25 Praxis cohort are closed.

Applications for the 2025-26 Praxis cohort are closed will open in early 2025.

"But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in God. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NIV)

Longing to rest and receive care for your own soul? 

What is the Praxis?

The Praxis offers a safe place and proven process for Christian leaders to nurture their own personal relationship with God.

A 9-month guided experience for pastors, parachurch ministry leaders, and faith leaders along the Front Range longing for a deeper intimacy with God, the Praxis offers rest, refreshment, and soul care through monthly retreats, spiritual direction, and prayer practices to encourage a deeply personal reconnection with the abundant life in the kingdom of God. 

Hear more about the Praxis from past participants:

100% of past participants recommend the Praxis to pastors and faith leaders.

Details

Leaders invited into the Praxis join an intentionally small collective of peers for a 9-month transformative experience. The Praxis cohort has limited spaces available.

From September through May, the Praxis cohort gathers together monthly for a retreat. Retreats offer holistic nurturing, combining rest, silence, solitude, community, teaching, and delicious meals. Participants additionally experience an hour of individual spiritual direction each month with a trained Christian spiritual director and are invited into personal, daily prayer practices.

The heart of the Praxis is personal rediscovery of the joy, lightness, and abundant life available in the kingdom of God. 

While you will deepen your knowledge of God and yourself as well as build relationships with local peers, the Praxis is not heavily programmed, academic, or designed for professional development. The purpose is not to study, earn academic credit, or network, but to nourish your own personal connection with God.

Investment

The primary investment the Praxis requires is surrender and protection of time and space within often overflowing schedules.

The Praxis is currently offered free of financial charge for participants as a gift and metaphor of God’s extravagant love. The cost of the Praxis is time: participants in the cohort are expected to fully attend every retreat gathering from September through May, participate monthly in an hour of individual spiritual direction in between gatherings, and engage daily prayer practices. 

Join the Cohort: Applications Will Open In February 2025

GATHERING DATES WILL BE POSTED IN LATE 2024, BUT GENERALLY FALL ON THE FIRST OR SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH

Each Praxis cohort has limited spaces available.

To be considered to join the next Praxis cohort, we invite you to enter a process of discernment with our team. Before applying for Praxis, please confirm with all work, family and other important folks that you can fully attend all Praxis retreats as well as a monthly individual spiritual direction appointment. Your ability to fully participate in each and every gathering as well as monthly individual spiritual direction is required for consideration.

2024-25 Praxis Cohort Gathering Dates

Tuesday, September 10 – Wednesday, September 11, 2024 from 8:30 am – 8:00 pm (Overnight in Colorado Springs)

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 from 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Denver)

Monday, November 4 , 2024 from 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Denver)

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Denver)

Tuesday, January 7 and Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Overnight in Colorado Springs)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Denver)

Monday, March 3, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Denver)

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Denver)

Tuesday, May 6 – Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from 8:30 am – 8:00 pm (Overnight in Colorado Springs)

PLEASE NOTE: The Praxis Discernment Questionnaire form should save your progress if you need to fill it out over the course of a couple sit-downs. However, it’s never a bad idea to copy and paste your answers into a local file on your computer as a backup.

Connect with us if you have further questions or any difficulties with the Discernment Questionnaire.