53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA, USA
October 30 - November 1, 2026
About this Retreat
Br. Don Bisson, FMS is, first and foremost, a spiritual director and is widely respected as a specialist in the training, formation, and supervision of spiritual directors.
A Marist brother based in Esopus, New York, he has graduate degrees in liturgy, spirituality, and transpersonal psychology, and earned his Doctor of Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion specializing in Spiritual Direction and Jungian Psychology. With more than 90 live audio recordings available, Brother Bisson is internationally recognized for his lectures, workshops, and retreats on the interrelationship of Christian spirituality and Jungian psychology.
His soulful humanity makes Don attractive to the hundreds of people who find their way to virtually everything he offers. He is a man committed to “walking the talk.” From this commitment comes a grounded wisdom and an authentic humility. His gems of wisdom have been formed in the heat and pressure of the deep underground passage of his own healing journey in God. Compassion for what it means to be human is the result, alongside clarity about the compelling call of the Spirit to “wake up” and participate consciously in God’s purposes in our world. This waking up is not an achievement but a process that invites him–and us–into a transformation that is ongoing.
Details of this retreat
Encountering the shadow may lead us into a whole new identity willing and able to make freer decisions. Without shadow work, prayer and grace we may get stuck repeating destructive patterns of self-loathing, incapacity for intimacy and rigid false images of God. The shadow we fear may be the gateway to transformation.
Discover the light hidden in your darkness. Each of us carries within a shadow—a part of ourselves we often avoid, deny, or fear to confront. Yet it is precisely here, in the depths of our unacknowledged wounds and desires, that the Spirit waits to meet us. In this retreat, Br. Don Bisson will guide participants into a profound and compassionate exploration of the shadow self as a path toward wholeness and inner freedom.
Encountering the shadow may open us to an entirely new sense of identity—one that is grounded, authentic, and capable of making freer, more life-giving choices. Without shadow work integration, and without the grounding of prayer and grace, we risk repeating destructive patterns of self-loathing, incapacity for intimacy and rigid false images of God - old patterns that limit our capacity for love. The shadow we fear may be the gateway to transformation
Through teachings, guided reflection, and prayerful silence, participants will learn that the shadow we fear may, in truth, be the threshold where divine mercy leads us into an ever-deepening encounter with love.
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