Dates

November 2, 2026

Day & Time

Monday
9am-12pm PT / 11am-2pm CT

Format

3-hour Virtual Session

Plenary portions will be recorded.

Reserve Your Spot Today!

Refreshment, Reconnection, Networking

Our Annual Gathering is a celebration of the people who make the Companioning Center such a welcoming, spacious, and renewing community. Whether you have trained with us, participated in our offerings, journeyed alongside us in other ways, or are just discovering our community, we hope you'll join us this November for a time of refreshment, reconnection, and shared joy. 

Let us know you can join in!

Plenary speaker for our gathering

Meet Our Plenary Speaker

Tracy Busse

Plenary Topic:
Inside, Outside, and In Between: The Regulating Glimmers of God

The ways God offers co-regulation from within, in our environment, and with others, regardless of the current season we find ourselves in. 

Tracy's Bio

Tracy Busse’s life and work have fueled an ongoing desire to move in harmony with the Trinity and to create spaces where all can encounter intimacy with God.

Tracy is a writer, teacher, counselor, and spiritual director. For over eighteen years, she has provided therapy to children and adult survivors of trauma and human trafficking. She also provides consultation and training to a variety of organizations who serve leaders and marginalized populations. 

Continued growth in Kingdom life and integrating God’s love and presence into her work are the heart of her practice. In addition, Tracy earned a doctorate in Spiritual Direction at Fuller Theological Seminary, which offered the opportunity to enjoy a 30-day Ignatian Retreat. The fruit of this experience continues to grow and reveal greater depths of God’s love and abundant grace.

With the belief that God is in all things, Tracy finds delight on her paddleboard, hiking, playing the guitar, painting, traveling, and resting in the company of fellow image-bearers. Website: https://ashtreecenter.com/

Wisdom Circle Options

Personal Formation and the Vocation of Companioning

Each Wisdom Circle invites participants to reflect on both their own lived experience and their vocation of companioning others. The questions are designed to hold two movements together:

  1. How am I encountering God in this area of my own life?
  2. How does this shape the way I offer presence, listening, and care to others?

Discernment in Hidden Seasons

with Abby Sham

When the way forward is unclear in your own life or in the life of someone you companion, what helps you keep listening for God?

Companioning Through Grief
with Lynn Holt & Lisa Moore

How are you learning to be present to grief — both your own grief and the grief of those you companion?

Hope and Respair
with Sheryl Graves & Alaine Buchanan

Respair is a rare, obsolete English word that means "fresh hope; a recovery from despair."
Where are you noticing fresh hope in your own life, and how are you learning to recognize it in those you companion?

Becoming Fully Human: Formation and Faithfulness
with Katie Skurja & Sue Giordano

How is God meeting you in the ongoing work of becoming human, and how does that shape the way you companion others in their own becoming?

Our Hosts

Lang Charters

Alyssa Bell

Abby Sham

Sheryl Graves

Paul Nunn

Lisa Moore

Sue Giordano

Lynn Holt

Kathi Gatlin

Jeff Savage

Alaine Buchanan

Katie Skurja

Jean Nevills