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August 12, 2025, Adrian, Michigan – All are welcome to join the Mindfulness community at Weber Retreat and Conference Center for Days of Mindfulness, held in person from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The fall 2025 schedule is as follows:

•    Compassion in Action, September 6, 2025: A kind heart is sometimes ranked lower than a quick wit, a sharp mind, or the capacity to command. This session explores whether we can be kind and still strong. 

•    Courage to Wait, November 1, 2025: If we can refrain from reacting quickly to circumstances that bring on anger or agitation, we may discover some softness within. Practicing patience helps us to catch this softness.

•    Embracing Life Just as It Is, December 6, 2025: To embrace life just as it is, to experience life freshly in the moment, is simple and yet very profound. The important step is to see how we orient our minds.

Sessions are facilitated by Sister Esther Kennedy, OP, a Dominican Sister of Adrian, a retreat leader, and a spiritual director. The cost of $35 per session includes lunch. Each session is limited to 35 participants. 

Registration is required. Visit www.webercenter.org and click on “programs,” call 517-266-4000, or email [email protected]. Limited scholarships are available.

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, Adrian, Michigan. On East Siena Heights Drive, turn into the driveway between Adrian Rea Literacy Center and the solar panel-covered carport. Follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.
 

December 19, 2022, Adrian, Michigan – Sister Esther Kennedy, OP, a Dominican Sister of Adrian, resumes her monthly Days of Mindfulness in person on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sessions this season will focus on relationships, amplifying our capacity to be love within family, neighborhood, city, and world.

Upcoming sessions are as follows:

• Cultivating Heart, Finding Courage, January 14, 2023. Times of crisis always include moments of grace, as insight and wisdom dawn. A community gathered in meditation is grace itself, offered in love to our world.
• Acting from Deep Knowing, February 11, 2023. John Kabat-Zinn says, “Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.” It is waking up, simply for the sake of waking up.
• Relieving Suffering, March 11, 2023. What responses arise within you when you think of someone you dislike, fear, or resent? With patience and tenderness, examine your behavior and open yourself to unfolding and transforming awareness.
• Cultivating Mindfulness, April 15, 2023. What value does meditation have? We may simply desire to realize more fully who we are and to live in the growing freedom of that awareness.

Mindfulness sessions are limited to 30 participants. All guests will be screened for COVID-19 and required to wear masks when not eating.

The cost is $35 per session, including lunch. Registration is required and is available at www.webercenter.org; click on “programs.” Registrations may also be made by calling 517-266-4000 or emailing [email protected]. Limited scholarships are available.