This 2-Day walking retreat is all about reconnecting with your spirituality and your God by following the way of the Pilgrim walking the Shalom Labyrinth & around the beautiful Carcoar valley.

The ancient desert mothers and fathers discovered the connection between slow work with the hands and pathways into deeper prayer towards the source of all Wisdom. Slow Stitch retreat invites you into deeper prayer through the slow work of your hands using threads, wool or fibre. Bring your handicrafts and meet like minded people in the peaceful hospitality of Shalom.

“Discovering God’s Colours in our Day to Day Living” This retreat will give you various art and mediation activities to provide you a path to stop and take time to be still and reflect on those things that are most important in your life.You don’t have to be artist to enjoy this retreat .

Knowing yourself and understanding others. Unlike other personality models, the Enneagram focuses on internal motivations rather than external behaviours. It helps you not only understand yourself better, but it gives you the tools to help understand your colleagues, employees and clients . This workshop is an introduction to the Enneagram system of understanding personality and behaviour. All participants gain a clear understanding of human personality and their own personality profile based on the Enneagram, as well as the value of self-understanding, the understanding of others and diversity in the workplace. Get to know yourself and each other intimately so you can be free from patterns that don't serve you, bring out the best in each other and embody your unique, collective capabilities. Beginners and veterans and everyone in between are welcome! 

“The enneagram has changed my life, and the lives of many" The enneagram is an extraordinary map on personality, and the human condition, identifying very accurately our blind spots. It lets us recognise that we are so much more than our behaviours, thoughts and emotions. In fact I would say that the enneagram exposes to us who we are NOT.” - Facilitator Georgia Bailey

This retreat has 5 exercises in seeking inner peace in Divine love. Ignatian Spiritual Exercises employ many forms of prayer to engage you in different ways of knowing and feeling the Spirit within. All are welcome. There are no special requirements to attend.. come as you are.

We are living in extraordinary times. Truly extra-ordinary! So how do we live well in a time which continues to change, challenges us, and asks more of us while giving us less time to react, recharge, or connect? Shalom is holding its latest Men’s Weekend Retreat. It is a time where men can get away together, share life experiences, and take time to reflect on the values and actions we can take to live better. Using some simple, yet powerful, meditation exercises, participants use the retreat to ‘slow down’ their thinking and explore (individually and together) what we can to do make a positive change that impacts ourselves and others. Meals, drinks and stories are shared. Connections are made. It is not about being particularly holy, religious, or prayerful. It is about coming together to explore a connection to something greater than ourselves – something that never tires of refreshing us to deal with such ‘extra-ordinary’ times.

The women’s retreat is an opportunity to escape from your busy lives, pause and take some time for yourself.