Colette Lafia

Author, Spiritual Director & Retreat Leader

Colette Lafia

Author, Spiritual Director & Retreat Leader

Colette Lafia

A spiritual companion for the journey

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DIVINE IS THE LOVE STORY WE ARE ALL LIVING.

The movement of our hearts towards Divine Love is the essence of our spiritual experience. It is my honor to accompany you on this profound journey—to offer you practices, prayers, and spiritual insights that will help you grow love-centered relationships with everyone and everything around you.

Workshops and Retreats

Reflect deeply. Create with spirit. Connect with heart.

Weaving together contemplative spirituality, creative expression, and heartfelt community, Colette offers both online and in-person Retreats, Workshops, and Presentations.

Leaving the Shore invites us to discover the place in our hearts where creativity and contemplation come together.” 

— Carl McColman, author of Eternal Heart 

The Divine Heart

Seven Ways to Live In God's Love

“In The Divine Heart, Colette Lafia invites us to enter the vastness and intimacy of God's love.” — Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation

Attend or organize a virtual or in-person Divine Heart Retreat, Workshop, Presentation, or Day of Prayer. Invite Divine Love more deeply into your heart and life.

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TESTIMONIALS

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“Thank you Colette and others for sharing this retreat. I found it a wonderful touchstone through a busy time. It was delivered in such an accessible, sweet way. Having participated in the Living School myself, I found that your summaries and integration of the material was profound for me. Thank you. I was challenged to really create enough space to go as deeply as this deserved. A life-long challenge. I could have spent a day on each session. Please keep sharing your gift Colette.”

Victoria

Canada
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"Today I attended the final gathering of Living the Divine Heart, an online monthly program with Colette. Each session explored one of the “Seven Invitations for Living a Life Overflowing with Divine Love.” Through spiritual journaling, guided meditation, praying with images, and contemplative sharing, Colette created a beautiful, supportive space for spiritual and personal growth."

Marisa

San Antonio, Divine Heart Program
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"This has been a beautiful, personalized, compassionate and meaningful retreat for me! I was able to slow down and get in touch with Christ who is in me! Colette your topics and the pace you set for us led us deeper into ourselves! I thank you! I intend to keep re-reading all of this over and over in order to hopefully keep me in this wonderful, peaceful place!"

Annie

San Francisco
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"Colette created a safe and welcoming space to connect with myself and the Devine. It was wonderful to meet with other people on the spiritual journey and I left each meeting feeling nourished and encouraged. I appreciated Colette's wealth of knowledge and experience and the practices she sent out throughout the month gave me lots to contemplate and new ways to engage spiritually."

Vickie

London
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"I found myself opening again to both receive and give with open arms, knowing that in whom I live and move and have my being. I have regained the habit of prayerful living which allows the Divine. Thank you Colette. This is just what I needed in my life at this time."

Judith

Berkeley
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"Thank you Colette for allowing me to join your Retreat. It has blessed my soul. I found the demonstration on Centering prayer so very helpful & will keep using it. I so enjoyed Thomas Keating's interview, finding him very real. The simplicity of his life and faith was an inspiration. I have ended your Retreat with the words of that lovely Hymn on my heart, ' Love Divine all Loves excelling' It is the prayer I close this Retreat with. Thank you."

Audrey

England
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"I appreciated the intentional structure of the retreat and how it incorporated time for solo writing, time to share, time to do lectio divina, audio divina, and visio divina. I loved the concrete writing prompts and also the contrast between “how to,” and “lists” along with spaces for creativity and out of the box. I also felt you created a very comfortable community space that led to people feeling at ease with each other.
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M.P.

participant in Sacred Unfolding Writing Retreat
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"One of the graces I received during this retreat is that of keeping my focus on Divine Love. Receiving this Divine Love deep into my bones, and knowing that in first receiving it as the reality that it is actually more real than anything else, I can then reflect it more easily to all I encounter! Thank you so much Colette for enhancing and expanding my experience of Divine Love through this retreat."

Paula

Minneapolis
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"I am grateful for the grace of growing closer to the Beloved as I have experienced how deep, high, long & wide is this divine love. It is expansive, limitless, and eternal love! The Beloved is delighted to place His/Her hands on my heart, to fill me with compassion, to heal my hurts and sorrows, and to share this love between us. Being filled, I am amazed how much divine love flows out! Thanks and Blessings of love to you, Colette, and to all who have shared this retreat."

Laurel

California
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"Thank you, Colette. I now have more clarity on the difficulty of my transition. I have left this workshop with two symbols to contemplate. Great workshop. Thank you for your facilitation over the the group. You are simply wonderful."

Lisa

Anaheim
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"Wonderful retreat. Colette is great. I really like the gentle and easy way she led us. Love the art project. Love not having an agenda and her suggestion at the beginning to just relax and go with it. I like that this retreat led us somewhere—had content and worked toward deeper insights and meaning. Really liked Colette’s style of facilitation. Please offer it again! I’d love to bring friends."

Krista

California

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