Awakening: Contemplative Leadership for Everyday Connection

Awakening offers instruction and a community of connection against a backdrop of meditation and mindfulness

Join us at peaceful Holy Wisdom Monastery for a restorative retreat led by Rev. Troy Bronsink, designed to help clergy with mindfulness and sacred connection through a trauma-aware, contemplative Christian approach. In the tranquil 130-acre setting, you’ll find community and space to reconnect. Join us for rest, brave reflection, and the gentle deepening of contemplative practices. Inspired by Howard Thurman’s invitation to hear “the sound of the genuine” within, this retreat fosters connection with self, God, others, and the land, opening us up to the renewed courage and joy to lead.

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Details

When

March 17 – 20, 2025

Where

Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI

Cost

Registration includes all meals, lodging, and workshops, worship, and access to the retreat center.

Registration fees include morning and evening worship, workshops, and meals beginning with Monday dinner and ending with Thursday breakfast. Transportation to and from the monastery is up to individual participants to organize.

Are you registered as a full participant in PLR? One yearly event is included in your PLR registration cost, double occupancy (you must register for the event), each additional event is $100
Are you a PLR alumnus? This event is $100 (double occupancy)
Are you a PLR coach, spiritual director, or paraclete? This event is free of charge for you (double occupancy)
Are you a registering as a regular participant? The cost is $200, double occupancy inside the OPSF territory. (Our territory includes the states of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.) If you are outside of OPSF territory, registration is $250.
Add $150 for single occupancy. Limited spots available.

What Should I Expect

This retreat is intentionally light, offering space to engage with the land, reflect on love and loss, laugh, and share beauty. It is a shared community experience, designed to create the conditions for being overcome by an oceanic oneness with God and all creation. Awakening includes morning and evening worship, sessions of reflection with Rev. Troy Bronsink, and community/solitude time within the vibrant community of Holy Wisdom Monastery.

Leader

Troy Bronsink

Troy Bronsink is a coach, consultant, teacher, and author dedicated to creating brave spaces for leaders to seek the common good. Integrating Christian contemplation with trauma-informed leadership, Troy creates space for awareness, listening, healing, group agreements, and belonging. He writes, “Let me start with this: there is power, liberation, and beauty when we stop to see and trust what is inside. You have this within you too!”

Introduced to contemplative Christianity and meditation thirty years ago, his journey has deepened his practice through mentors in community organizing, abolitionism, mindfulness, embodiment, integral coaching, the narrative enneagram, internal family systems, and Christian mysticism. This has shaped his belief in soulful leadership as a vital force for transformation in work and relationships. Troy has integrated this into his role as an ordained Presbyterian PC(USA) pastor for 20 years. He has presented at TEDx, Creative Mornings, and universities, as well as consulted with hundreds of nonprofits, small businesses, and congregations. Troy is the author of Drawn In (Paraclete Press, 2010), singer-songwriter of Songs to Pray By, a member of The Living School (CAC), and contributes poetry and essays to multiple publications.

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