Recovery

Understanding Your Grief - Fifth Session

With Linda Whelan

Open Dates
When someone you love dies, it can be difficult to understand your often complex and painful thoughts and your feelings surrounding the loss. Understanding Your Grief uses the book and workbook of the same name by author Dr. Alan Wolfelt. We will explore the 10 touchstones—or trail markers—that are essential physical, emotional, cognitive, and social signs for mourners to look for on their journey through grief.

Admit, Submit and Commit: A journey to our true self, A Women's 11th Step Weekend

With Fr John Koelle, OFM Cap

October 23 - 25, 2026
Each of us are on a journey to discover our true self. However, we all get caught up in the roles society expects us to play. We are teachers, parents, caregivers and addicts. This weekend, we will put aside who we think we are and to discover our real self as our Higher Power sees us.

Men's 11th Step: Healing the Cracks in Your Soul

With Fr. Anthony Ciorra

November 13 - 15, 2026

"There is a crack in everything God has made." ( Ralph Waldo Emerson). We recognize that our human frailty, including the struggle with addiction, reveals the places where God's grace enters and transforms us. It is through our brokenness that we encounter His mercy and healing light. Embracing a "spirituality of imperfection," we journey toward […]

Developing a Daily Spiritual Practice With the 11th Step

With Sue Ellen Landwehr

December 4 - 6, 2026
As we read in the chapter A Vision for you in the book Alcoholics Anonymous, God will disclose more to us “if your own house is in order”. This retreat is a more comprehensive look at our house/ourselves than the daily 10th step.

Women's 11th Step

With Sue Ellen Landwehr

January 22 - 24, 2027
Our Recovery Retreats provide a unique opportunity for individuals to encounter and accompany one another as a recovery community seeking to live out the twelve steps, with particular emphasis on the eleventh step.    

How DOES It Work?

With Deacon Dan Giblin

March 12 - 14, 2027

We say, "It works if you work it" — but how? This retreat explores, from a modern spiritual perspective, the core spiritual movements accomplished through the Twelve Steps. Drawing on the twelve spiritual movements in Richard Rohr's Breathing Under Water and the seven spiritual movements found in the life and spirituality of Venerable Matt Talbot, […]

The Beatitudes for Sobriety: A Men's 11th Step Retreat

With Fr. Anthony Ciorra

August 27 - 29, 2027

Welcome to the pathway for peace and sobriety! This Eleventh Step Retreat  will bring us through the doorway of the beatitudes that Jesus ( or your Higher Power) offers us as a way of not just being sober but living a sober-filled life.   Enders Island has long been steeped in the traditions and spirituality […]

Harvest of Calm; A Women's 11th Step

With Kathy Irr

October 22 - 24, 2027
Come just as you are. Take time to focus on self-care, prayer and meditation, especially before the holiday rush.