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.

Understanding Your Grief - Sixth 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.

Loss to Addiction

With Linda Whelan

Open Dates
Via Zoom
Every Third Monday of the Month 7 PM EST - Live on Zoom (FREE) join us via Zoom for "Loss to Addiction" with Linda Whelan

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.

Women's 11th Step

With Fr John Koelle, OFM Cap

November 6 - 8, 2026

Enders Island has long been steeped in the traditions and spirituality of the Twelve Step Program which had it's beginnings in 1935 with the birth of AA. 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 […]

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.

Awakening Consciousness: A New Year's 11th Step Women's Retreat

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.    

Women's 11th Step Retreat: Learning to Navigate the Challenges to Loving Myself, Others and My Higher Power

With Sr. Marie Mackey, CSJ

February 12 - 14, 2027

All relationships involve "give and take". Do you find you are giving too much of yourself away to others?  Or are you more of a "taker" in your relationships? The 11th Step guides us towards healthy awareness of ourselves and our Higher Power so that we may be in right relationship with self, God and […]

How DOES It Work?; Men's 11th Step Retreat

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, […]

Women's 11th Step Retreat: MAXIM-IZE YOUR LIFE

With Sr. Marie Mackey, CSJ

May 28 - 30, 2027
Spring is a season of quiet miracles—roots deepening beneath the surface long before anything blooms. In the same way, this Step Eleven retreat focuses on the unseen work of spiritual growth through prayer and meditation.

Seek & Surrender: A Journey Through Recovery

With Kathryn Harris

August 13 - 15, 2027

A Women’s Step 3 & Step 11 Retreat:  Exploring what it means to turn it over - and how to stay connected once we do!   Step Three invites us to make a decision: to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a Power greater than ourselves. Step Eleven invites us into […]

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.

Men's 11th Step

With Br. Wayne Fitzpatrick, MM

November 12 - 14, 2027

Enders Island has long been steeped in the traditions and spirituality of the Twelve Step Program which had it's beginnings in 1935 with the birth of AA. 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 […]