The Presence-Centered Life:

Be With Jesus to Become Like Him

A Presence-Centered Life is a guided six-week pilgrimage into the formative experiences that shaped the life of Jesus and continue to shape ours today. Together, we will explore how God's presence meets us in obscurity, wilderness, grief, friendship, calling, and surrender. Through teaching, reflection, contemplative practice, and spiritual direction, you'll learn how to recognize God's voice, cultivate deeper intimacy, and participate in His transforming work.

Your 6-week Journey

Week 1: Introduction

Discerning the Voice of God + Anatomy of the Soul

Learn foundational practices for recognizing God's presence and understanding the inner landscape of your spiritual life.

Week 2: Formed in Obscurity

How the Secret Place Solidifies Identity

Discover how hidden seasons become sacred places where God establishes identity and intimacy.

Week 3: Wilderness Refinement

Overcoming the Three Temptations of Life

Explore how God uses wilderness seasons to refine desire, strengthen trust, and deepen dependence.

Week 4: A Forward-Facing Life

Private Consecration Before Public Visibility

Learn how faithfulness in hidden places prepares us for influence and responsibility.

Week 5: When Friends Scatter

Betrayal as a Doorway to Dependence

Discover how disappointment, betrayal, and relational loss can become invitations into deeper union with God.

Week 6: The Glory of Cruciformity

Resurrection Power After Loss

Explore how grief, surrender, and death become pathways to resurrection life and spiritual authority.

Included in Your Experience

Digital Prayer Journal

A custom-designed journal with weekly prompts, reflections, and spiritual exercises to help you document God's activity throughout your six-week journey.

Weekly Experiential Practices

Formation practices designed to engage the whole person—including body, mind, and spirit—as pathways into deeper communion with God.

Weekly Live Spiritual Direction Gatherings

Spirit-filled teaching combined with contemplative exercises, guided reflection, and relationally safe group connection. This is not a lecture-based course. It is an interactive spiritual formation experience where the goal is not simply to learn about Jesus, but to be formed by His presence.

Worship Playlists & Resources

Curated resources to help you cultivate an ongoing awareness of God's presence between sessions.

Meet Your Guide

Tanya Godsey

For more than 30 years, Tanya Godsey has helped individuals cultivate a deeper awareness of God's presence through ministry, spiritual direction, inner healing, and creative expression.

As an ordained minister, spiritual director, artist, and founder of Redeeming the Story Retreats, Tanya brings a unique blend of theological depth, pastoral wisdom, and experiential formation to every space she leads. She holds a degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Christian Counseling and is the author of Befriending God.

Raised in an immigrant church as a pastor's daughter, Tanya's understanding of the Gospel was formed in a community where faith was lived, not merely taught. It was a place where the hungry were fed, the lonely found family, the homeless were welcomed home, and the love of Jesus became a way of life.

Today, Tanya's passion remains the same: creating environments where people can encounter God more deeply and learn to recognize His movement in every part of their story. She believes lasting transformation happens not through striving, but through God's presence.

"God is continually inviting us into intimate relationship and a deeper awareness of His presence. Spiritual direction helps us notice and respond to that invitation." - Richard Foster

Meeting Schedule:

Monday, October 12th 4:30-6:30 | 6:30-8:30 CT

Monday, October 19th 4:30-6:30 | 6:30-8:30 CT

Monday, October 26th 4:30-6:30 | 6:30-8:30 CT

Monday, November 2nd 4:30-6:30 | 6:30-8:30 CT

Monday, November 9th 4:30-6:30 | 6:30-8:30 CT

Monday, November 16th 4:30-6:30 | 6:30-8:30 CT

Participants:

This is a group for women only with a max of 12 participants. If you cannot participate for these dates or you're interested in a future coed group, please add yourself to the interest list to be informed for possible future groups.

Location:

On zoom. Details will be sent after registration.

Refund Policy:

All registrations and payments are non-refundable. If an unforeseen emergency or other uncontrollable circumstance prevents you from participating, please contact us as soon as possible. We will review requests on a case-by-case basis and work to determine an appropriate solution when possible.