The journey of each life is a pilgrimage but so often we travel as tourists!
In this healing retreat Shirley will spend time helping participants to find their ‘quiet light’ and to synthesise their sacred life journey, knowing that no period of life is easy. We seek God through prayer, work and peace and recognise how the Holy Spirit is alive and active in our world in the 21st century.
Shirley emphasises the integration of body, mind, spirit and emotions in healing. Her unique gift of synthesising many disciplines, and of encompassing the absolute uniqueness of each person’s spirituality will assist participants on their sacred soul journey.
The Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist will be celebrated during the Retreat.

Shirley Ward has worked nationally and internationally for over thirty years in USA, Russia, France, England, Ireland and in the United Nations, Vienna, Austria. She is a member of the Catholic Grail Society and is also associated with the Benedictine Oblates of Glenstal Abbey. She works for Bishop Willie Walsh and the Diocese of Killaloe in the area of Child Protection. She lives and works as a psychotherapist, healer, educator and spiritual director at Amethyst Resource for Human Development, Killaloe, County Clare .
Recognised for her work in Who’s Who in Catholic Life she was the 2006 recipient as one of the best 100 International Educators in her field of work, awarded by the International Biographies Centre, Cambridge , England .