The Alcyon Center
Contemplative Culture Research, Recovery and Repair for the sake of the world.
Greetings from Seal Cove!
We joyfully embrace the magic of love as we walk with all of you on the inner path of the soul in service to the world.
Check out the calendar of programs and events to see how you can spend time at Alcyon in 2025: notably our expanded Simple and Silent personal retreats, work weekends (APR 25-27 + OCT 24-26) and Beauty in Silence week (NOV 17-21).
Are you interested in bringing an independent group to Alcyon? We would love to host you! Check out the calendar below - open dates mean we are open to talking with you about your group. Email us!
Blessings from the Cove from Kathryn Booth and Joan Jordan Grant, Directors
NEW in 2025
Recovery Companions Initiative - join us!
Years of praying, sitting, laughing, weeping, imagining and dwelling in the Silence with all of you makes clear that our work with the recovery community constitutes the future of The Alcyon Center. A willingness to delve into the silence and embody heartfulness inspires us and we wonder at the blessing of witnessing the formation of a kind of transformational community we could not have imagined when we opened Alcyon’s doors 18 years ago.
We invite you to become an Alcyon Recovery Companion and make a financial commitment now to Alcyon as a training ground for spiritual leadership that grows out of spiritual recovery. In doing so, you will help the Center hold for the next generations that follow you to Seal Cove, befriend the Silence, and take up the deep and courageous practices of heart work.
Join us on Seal Cove
FOR PERSONAL TIME, INDEPENDENT GROUPS, WORK WEEKENDS…
Choose your Alcyon experience - practice silence, engage in soul conversations and join in the gift of shared labor.
Mouse over the shaded dates for program information.
If you see open dates on the calendar and are interested in bringing an independent group to Alcyon, please email us for information and arrangements.
Program Information
The Alcyon Center is open for those who wish to join us in the work of awakening, rebirthing, and growing courage for our times. Join us as we take up our prayer and work for the sake of the world.
Musings + Gratitude
Writings from the Alcyon community, financial info, gratitude for our donors + more… read on!
Our perspective from the first 15 years (!) of Alcyon
We imagine each one of you—companions, donors, guests, friends—your own devotion to your own quests and the way you are present always on the Cove.
Goodness, where would we be without you?
Experimenting + encountering
Alcyon is an experiment in practicing community, spiritual hospitality, and theological study for our times. At root, we follow the cultural notion that Silence encountered in the depth of the human heart is healing medicine for the world.
