The SPICE RETREAT will:
- Enable you to be your best you in everyday life, work and relationships.
- Help you to make a lasting transformation to live your life as God intended, as he created you to be
- Give you proven tools to become your best you, that you can use in any situation
- Show you how God has put you together in the 5 areas that are the wells of contentment: Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Creative and Emotional
- Show you how to arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God (as Dallas Willard said)
- Give you the freedom and power to be yourself and help you to let go of who you think you’re supposed to be or who you think others expect you to be
- Help you to come alive and be your best YOU in ways you might not even have imagined and that will last a lifetime
The SPICE RETREAT is for:
- Anyone who wants to go deeper with God and discover how he created you to be
- The person who feels lost and uncertain in life, especially in these uncertain times
- Someone who needs to re-set and start-over, to be re-activated with a new purpose
- Those who are created by God
To have your own online SPICE RETREAT:
You'll then be sent the pre-retreat journal and further information to begin The Spice Retreat.
Comments from those who have already done the SPICE retreat:
The spice retreat was an oasis in my week and for that matter day as I worked through some of the things in the journal. I’ve a week in a retreat house booked for the end of September my Spice journal and some of the recommended books I’ve bought will be coming with me. - H.C.
I am in a place of transition .. and this course spoke to a journey I was already pursuing about being the best – the real me, rather than a good all-rounder who was getting worn out doing too much else that took me away from my true desires and calling for this time. I long to develop the contemplative and what comes out of that and can now do so. - J.S.
Watched on Tuesday mornings when I could guarantee no distractions. So far I have watched all the sessions twice. I intend to replay bits of each over the next few weeks. It is great to be able to go back, to rewind bits, to pick out things that catch my attention the second time around. - S.J.
Exceeded my expectations. Such a rich resource especially with the SPICE journal handouts each week. - S.S.
I am excited to be sharing this online retreat with you and my prayer is that the Lord will reach out and touch each one of us and transform us to be the people He has made us to be so that we can live Life in all its fullness. Come and join us and learn more about the 5 areas that make you YOU!
I’m passionate about helping other Christians in their walk with the Lord! We’re told to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11) yet for many that’s not something they’re used to. I want to support you, and help you see what God is doing in your life, whether through my writing, speaking, spiritual accompaniment/direction, or retreat and pilgrimages.
The world is a strange place at the best of times, and currently a uncomfortable with so much unknown and fragile, so much uncertainty and stress. I’d love to support, encourage and build up those like you who’re perhaps feeling a little lost, a little weary, or wondering where God is and what he is doing or saying to you at the moment.
Penelope Swithinbank is an experienced pilgrimage and retreat leader, conference speaker and Spiritual Director/Therapist. She has been leading retreats and pilgrimages for nearly 20 years, regularly leads pilgrimages in the UK, such as the Celtic Pilgrimage in Cornwall; and on the Via Francigena in Italy. She has had an international ministry, including churches in America and the UK, and speaking on Women's Retreats and leading conferences. Her most special memory is of opening the US Senate in prayer and being guest chaplain.
As a life coach and mentor, I help others to live their best life by discovering who God intended them to be, using my simple 5-step SPICE RETREAT.
It’s never too late to be what you were meant to be. ‘If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way; if not, you’ll find an excuse.’ (Jen Sincero).
Allowing the Lord to work in and through you to transform you into your best YOU is far too important to be left to chance!
The SPICE RETREAT has:
- 5 weekly sessions, of 50-60 minutes each, recorded and available to be accessed at any time. These include input, guided times for reflection, and other specials such as led meditations, contemplative prayer, imaginative prayer, lectio divina, and various ways to hear God speak into your life. You will have forever access to these
- Downloadable weekly journals, that you can keep, personalise and use at any time
- Suggestions for how to use SPICE to create your own individual retreat at a time to suit you
- A retreat handbook of things that will enhance the SPICE RETREAT
- A guide to retreats and times with the Lord, and suggestions for how to make the best use of your Sacred Time.
- Optional One-on-one Spiritual Direction/mentoring sessions. These will be online with me via Facetime/Whatsapp/Zoom. (your preference)
Choose your SPICE Retreat Level:
BRONZE
- 5 weekly sessions, of 60 minutes each, recorded and available to be accessed at any time. These will include input, guided times for reflection, and other specials such as led meditations, contemplative prayer, imaginative prayer, lectio divina, and various ways to hear God speak into your life. You will have forever access to these
- Downloadable weekly journals, that you can keep, personalise and use at any time
- Suggestions for how to use SPICE to create your own individual retreat at a time to suit you
- A retreat handbook of things that will enhance the SPICE RETREAT
Bronze price £89 SALE £49
SILVER
- everything in Bronze plus 1 x 60 minutes session of one-to-one Spiritual Direction (worth £55) at the end of the course to help you personalise your main takeaways
SILVER price £120 SALE £69
GOLD
- everything in Bronze, PLUS 3 x once-a-month 60 minute sessions of one-to-one Spiritual Direction (worth £165) to help you process and personalise what you learn on the course, turning it into a lasting practical life change, with support and encouragement on your journey.
Gold price £210 SALE £159
PLATINUM
- everything in Bronze, PLUS
- 6 x once-a-month 60 minute sessions of one-to-one Spiritual Direction (worth £330) to help you process and personalise what you learn on the course, turning it into a lasting practical life change, with support and encouragement on your journey and see you through the first 6 months of the new YOU
Platinum price £320 SALE £199
To sign up for the SPICE RETREAT click here
You'll then be sent the pre-retreat journal.
Penelope was the first ordained woman on the staff of The Falls Church, Virginia, where she headed up the Connections and Communications Ministry in a church of nearly 3,000. Later, she was the first chaplain at St Mellitus College, London, and then ran The Vine at Mays Farm, a Christian Retreat House providing sanctuary mostly to burned-out clergy, although normal people came too, for retreats and time out. She now divides her time between mentoring, supporting and pastoring clergy and others, Chaplaincy at Bath Abbey, leading retreats and writing.
Penelope is an avid walker and spends a lot of her time stomping in the hills and valleys near her home outside Bath. She is the author of two books, Women by Design and Walking Back to Happiness; her third, Scent of Water, a devotional for times of spiritual bewilderment and grief, has just been published. She is a wife, mother and grandmother and says of the 6 grandchildren that they are so wonderful she should have had them first.