Workshops and Retreats
Creating sacred space to quiet your mind, deepen your faith, and experience God in everyday life through the path of Divine Flow.
Workshops and Retreats
Creating sacred space to quiet your mind, deepen your faith, and experience God in everyday life through the path of Divine Flow.
Are you or your community seeking space to slow down, quiet the noise, and experience God as a living Presence in your everyday world?
Each workshop or retreat is rooted in the Divine Flow path: to quiet the mind, open the heart, and learn simple practices that help us live with more peace, clarity, courage, and connection with God.
Each offering can be adapted to fit your small group, church, parish, or community, your setting, time frame, and spiritual needs.
Book Brian for Your Next Event
Are you or your community seeking space to slow down, quiet the noise, and experience God as a living Presence in your everyday world?
Each workshop or retreat is rooted in the Divine Flow path: to quiet the mind, open the heart, and learn simple practices that help us live with more peace, clarity, courage, and connection with God.
Each offering can be adapted to fit your small group, church, parish, or community, your setting, time frame, and spiritual needs.
Book Brian for Your Next EventSignature Workshops and Retreats
These are Brian's most requested offerings and where most communities begin their Divine Flow journey.
Divine Flow: Reclaiming the Lost Art of Contemplation to Quiet Your Mind and Experience God in Everyday Life
An introduction to the Divine Flow contemplative lifestyle through its Four Pillars: Quiet Time, Spiritual Reading, Community, and Spiritual Gifts. Participants discover how these simple practices create a practical rhythm for experiencing God's Presence in ordinary life.
How to Quiet Your Mind and Experience Inner Peace
A practical, experience-based workshop exploring why the mind becomes noisy and how simple contemplative practices create space for God's Voice of Love to rise within us. Includes guided quiet time and practices participants can begin using immediately.
Reclaiming the Heart of Christianity: Divine Flow as a Path into the Contemplative Lifestyle
A teaching and experiential workshop that explores how Christianity has always included both the head and the heart: truth, doctrine, and wisdom joined with lived experience, prayer, and intimacy with God. Participants are invited to rediscover contemplation not as something new, but as a deep, eternal stream within the Christian tradition.
Signature Workshops
and Retreats
These are Brian's most requested offerings and where most communities begin their Divine Flow journey.
Divine Flow: Reclaiming the Lost Art of Contemplation to Quiet Your Mind and Experience God in Everyday Life
An introduction to the Divine Flow contemplative lifestyle through its Four Pillars: Quiet Time, Spiritual Reading, Community, and Spiritual Gifts. Participants discover how these simple practices create a practical rhythm for experiencing God's Presence in ordinary life.
How to Quiet Your Mind and Experience Inner Peace
A practical, experience-based workshop exploring why the mind becomes noisy and how simple contemplative practices create space for God's Voice of Love to rise within us. Includes guided quiet time and practices participants can begin using immediately.
Reclaiming the Heart of Christianity: Divine Flow as a Path into the Contemplative Lifestyle
A teaching and experiential workshop that explores how Christianity has always included both the head and the heart: truth, doctrine, and wisdom joined with lived experience, prayer, and intimacy with God. Participants are invited to rediscover contemplation not as something new, but as a deep, eternal stream within the Christian tradition.
"Brian Plachta's Divine Flow workshop was truly transformative. His warm, engaging presence invited our community into a sacred space of reflection and discovery. We left feeling deeply seen, inspired to live more fully in God's flow both personally and together as a community."
—Lisa Hudkins, Spiritual Director, Spiritual Life Center, CT
"Brian Plachta's Divine Flow workshop was truly transformative. His warm, engaging presence invited our community into a sacred space of reflection and discovery. We left feeling deeply seen, inspired to live more fully in God's flow both personally and together as a community."
—Lisa Hudkins, Spiritual Director, Spiritual Life Center, CT
Ready to discover the gifts and purpose
God has placed within you?
These offerings invite you to look more deeply at the gifts, experiences, and purpose God has woven into your life.
A workshop inviting participants to discover their spiritual gifts and how God may be using them to make the world a better place.
Through a spiritual gifts inventory and guided reflection, participants begin to recognize how their gifts have already shown up in their lives and how God may be inviting them to offer those gifts more freely.
Life sometimes changes abruptly through divorce, job loss, retirement, grief, or an unexpected transition. These moments can feel disorienting, but they can also become an invitation from God to pause, reflect, and discern what's next.
Through guided reflection and a spiritual gifts inventory, participants listen for how God may be inviting them to move into the next phase of life with greater passion and purpose.
Ready to discover the gifts and purpose God has placed within you?
These offerings invite you to look more deeply at the gifts, experiences, and purpose God has woven into your life.
A workshop inviting participants to discover their spiritual gifts and how God may be using them to make the world a better place.
Through a spiritual gifts inventory and guided reflection, participants begin to recognize how their gifts have already shown up in their lives and how God may be inviting them to offer those gifts more freely.
Life sometimes changes abruptly through divorce, job loss, retirement, grief, or an unexpected transition. These moments can feel disorienting, but they can also become an invitation from God to pause, reflect, and discern what's next.
Through guided reflection and a spiritual gifts inventory, participants listen for how God may be inviting them to move into the next phase of life with greater passion and purpose.
"Brian's talk is both inspiring and deeply relatable. He meets you right where you are, beautifully weaving timeless spiritual wisdom into everyday life. Each lesson feels like a personal journey of awakening, practical, profound, and transformative. I can't recommend it highly enough!"
— Nancy Van Fleet, Director of Children, Youth, and Family Ministries, First Presbyterian Church, Naples
"Brian's talk is both inspiring and deeply relatable. He meets you right where you are, beautifully weaving timeless spiritual wisdom into everyday life. Each lesson feels like a personal journey of awakening, practical, profound, and transformative. I can't recommend it highly enough!"
— Nancy Van Fleet, Director of Children, Youth, and Family Ministries, First Presbyterian Church, Naples
Longing for deeper community and more meaningful spiritual friendships?
These workshops help you recognize and cultivate the relationships God has placed in your life to support your spiritual growth.
This workshop introduces a confidential, prayerful space where people learn to listen together for the Holy Spirit's movement in daily life through quiet prayer and sacred listening.
Afterward, participants have the option to continue meeting monthly for three months or longer as a small spiritual community for ongoing mutual support and discernment. Ideal for churches, parishes, and faith-based communities.
A reflective and practical workshop that helps participants recognize the people God has placed in their lives to support their spiritual growth.
This experience includes the “Who’s in Your Inner Circle of Trust?” exercise, helping participants name the companions who encourage honesty, courage, wisdom, and the discovery of their True Self.
Longing for deeper community and more meaningful spiritual friendships?
These workshops help you recognize and cultivate the relationships God has placed in your life to support your spiritual growth.
This workshop introduces a confidential, prayerful space where people learn to listen together for the Holy Spirit's movement in daily life through quiet prayer and sacred listening.
Afterward, participants have the option to continue meeting monthly for three months or longer as a small spiritual community for ongoing mutual support and discernment. Ideal for churches, parishes, and faith-based communities.
A reflective and practical workshop that helps participants recognize the people God has placed in their lives to support their spiritual growth.
This experience includes the “Who’s in Your Inner Circle of Trust?” exercise, helping participants name the companions who encourage honesty, courage, wisdom, and the discovery of their True Self.
Want to create a customized retreat or workshop?
Whether you're looking for a personal retreat or a customized experience for your community, we can shape something that fits your needs.
Every experience begins with a free one-hour conversation by Zoom, telephone, or in person to listen for where the Holy Spirit may be moving and what your people are longing for.
For individuals, this means intentional space to step away from the noise, meet daily for spiritual direction and discernment, and carry God's grace back into your everyday life.
For communities, it means shaping a workshop or retreat that fits your setting, time frame, and spiritual needs.
Book a Free Call with Brian
Want to create a customized retreat or workshop?
Whether you're looking for a personal retreat or a customized experience for your community, we can shape something that fits your needs.
Every experience begins with a free one-hour conversation by Zoom, telephone, or in person to listen for where the Holy Spirit may be moving and what your people are longing for.
For individuals, this means intentional space to step away from the noise, meet daily for spiritual direction and discernment, and carry God's grace back into your everyday life.
For communities, it means shaping a workshop or retreat that fits your setting, time frame, and spiritual needs.
Book a Free Call with BrianHave more questions?
Do you offer other specialized topics?
Yes, below are a few other specialized workshop and retreat topics I offer:
- Fathered by God: How to Live Our Best Lives as Men of Faith and Conviction
A men’s workshop or retreat that explores how God fathers, forms, and strengthens us through the different phases of a man’s life. Drawing on themes from John Eldredge’s Fathered by God, participants reflect on the beloved child, the cowboy, the lover, the king, and the sage, noticing how each season and each part of our personality can become a place where God shapes our trust, courage, love, leadership, and wisdom. - The Artist’s Way: Discovering Your Artistic Gifts and Using Them to Connect More Deeply with God
A creative workshop or retreat based in part on Julia Cameron’s teachings in The Artist’s Way.
Participants explore creativity as a spiritual pathway, learn practices for listening to the creative voice within, and discover how artistic gifts can become a way of praying, healing, expressing truth, and connecting more deeply with God. - Oh God, It’s Monday: Reclaim Your Week with Divine Flow
A workshop designed to help participants start the week with intention, presence, and a renewed awareness of God in the ordinary.
Through teaching, reflection, prayer, and practical tools, participants learn how to enter the week from a place of inner steadiness rather than stress, reaction, or spiritual autopilot. -
Divine Flow for Caregivers: Finding Inner Peace, Presence, and Compassion in the Work of Caring for Others
A workshop for caregivers, hospice teams, ministry volunteers, and helping professionals who want to care for others without losing touch with their own soul. Participants learn how quiet time, spiritual listening, gratitude, and the awareness of spiritual gifts can deepen compassion for themselves and those they serve.
What formats are available?
- Keynote or featured talk: 45–75 minutes
- Workshop: 90 minutes to 3 hours
- Half-day retreat: 3–5 hours
- Full-day retreat: 6–7 hours
- Weekend retreat: Friday evening through Sunday, or adapted to your setting
- Directed retreat: One-on-one retreat direction for individuals
- 2-3 night mission
What is the cost to book Brian for a retreat or workshop?
Pricing varies depending on the length and type of workshop or retreat you are interested in. Book a free consultation call with Brian to discuss rates and find the right fit for your community.
Can Brian travel to our location?
Yes, I am willing to travel to your location!
Ready to take the next step?
You don't have to figure out exactly what you or your community needs before reaching out. We can begin with a conversation and shape the experience from there. I would be honored to help create sacred space for your journey.
