Retreats
Retreats For All
University Ministry offers a variety of retreats throughout the academic year, each designed to help you pause, reflect, and connect more deeply with yourself, others, and the world around you.
Whether you're looking for a retreat grounded in a particular faith tradition or one centered around shared interests and personal growth, there's something here for everyone.
Core Retreats
University Ministry offers a series of Core Retreats that serve as foundational experiences for you during your time at Seattle University. These retreats are offered regularly each year.
Retreat in Daily Life
Take a day to focus on resetting, reflecting, and being present. These retreats focus on a variety of themes including environmental restoration, time outdoors, taking time to craft and create, as well as being in community with others. This is an opportunity to ground yourself, typically on a Saturday morning, before stepping into your week ahead. Dates, times, and locations vary.
Bouldering Buddies
Are you interested in trying out climbing? Are you looking for a group to do a weeknight activity with? Have you wanted to check out local climbing gyms but haven't had a buddy to go with? Look no further than Bouldering Buddies! We leave campus together in the evening, walk to the Seattle Bouldering Project, climb together, and walk back. This takes place once a month and is open to all levels of climbers! Join us!
Ignatian Silent Retreats
Through silence and meaningful reflection, retreatants are invited to discover the generative love in their lives, listen deeply to the core of who they are, and respond to the holy call to act with compassion, courage, and hope in this world. Held at the serene Palisades Retreat Center overlooking Puget Sound, participants engage in Ignatian spirituality through daily spiritual direction, communal prayer, and guided discernment practices
Search Retreat
The Search Retreat gives you the opportunity to reflect on yourself and your sense of the sacred in the context of community. Though the retreat's roots are in the Jesuit Christian tradition, students of all faith and non-faith backgrounds are welcome to attend and encouraged to show up as they are to explore how love, the sacred, and our relationships shape us and the world we live in.
SPECIAL AND ROTATING RETREATS
We also offer special and rotating retreats in response to the particular needs and desires of our students.
Embodying The Sacred
Embodying the Sacred is a retreat open to undergraduate students who identify as non-binary, Two-Spirit, transgender, genderqueer, or cisgender women. This retreat is spacious and centers around making space to ground down in the joy and strengths of our identities, find rest, cultivate community, and have fun. This retreat typically takes place in winter quarter.
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University Minister for Retreats
Stay in Contact to Learn More About Retreats
Mackenzie Gass

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