https://www.ellenburany.org/home daily 1.0 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/6a45f90a-0c1d-4806-b4df-a054a9a365a3/AdobeStock_361974168.jpg Home Seasons Retreats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/7cba9994-2b4d-42ae-9a2d-741ded12a03a/lantern.jpg Home Coaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/d0ecb82a-e65a-4602-8a4b-2d74d8d359dc/first_scrolling.jpg Home Prayer Ministry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/cea90c1e-6b4b-4716-83e3-a1ff48f8991e/shutterstock_323571221.jpg Home Grief Groups & Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1619845293710-WQ8HKSPPAMLJ6DJMH84L/roots-in-the-soil.jpeg Home Cultivate Groups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1619573157638-AU6YQP1O8PQL8ODQAMZL/Compass+Image.jpg Home - Discernment Discernment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/bebe36f1-57ad-4065-ba60-dd99870d91ff/lightstock_55416_small_ellen.jpg Home Rhythms Retreats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/34786911-6aaa-473b-84bc-c2c319a42c1d/SpiritualDirection.jpg Home Spiritual Direction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/563cf58c-2396-4c44-8d30-dcee6adfe0fe/Renew+Retreats.jpg Home Renew Retreats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/6121adb9-1c86-4123-80a4-527ab0e3e2b4/bench+near+ocean.jpg Home Sabbaticals https://www.ellenburany.org/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-05 https://www.ellenburany.org/who-i-am daily 0.75 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1622927753939-1O12Y7GQ2XFBSXANEZ3M/IMG_6349.jpeg Who I Am - About Ellen Ellen Burany is passionate about empowering and supporting leaders and helping them walk into a deeper intimacy with God that informs every aspect of their work, ministries, and lives. With over 30 years of ministry experience, for over 20 years, Ellen has poured into and walked with hundreds of Christian leaders worldwide through spiritual direction, coaching, consulting, speaking, retreats, and the creation of formational resources. Ellen works with Novo, holds a B.A. in Psychology, an M.A. from Talbot School of Theology in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, and is a certified coach through Creative Results Management. https://www.ellenburany.org/what-i-believe daily 0.75 2023-01-08 https://www.ellenburany.org/services daily 0.75 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1619840496814-PEGSJJE1J4QNTRZSLDYJ/Compass+Image.jpg Services - Discernment At times, leaders come to a place where they are at a crucial decision or transition point in their life or ministry. Through a structured discernment process that you invite a small group of others in your life or ministry to join, I will help you listen for God’s invitations. Using helpful tools (including prayer, assessments, and reflective exercises), I will lead you or your leadership team through a process that will help you discern where God is leading you in your life or ministry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1619821730959-F9K1F8E4TDM2GIYBQRZ4/bench+near+ocean.jpg Services - Sabbaticals Sabbaticals are sacred seasons that have the potential to be life-changing for a leader. Immersing yourself in a sabbatical can offer essential rest, renewal, and a deeper connection to God and His purposes. It can equip you to step into your next life or work phase with increased peace, understanding, and vision while steering you towards habits that will serve you well in the future, ensuring sustainable life and ministry for years to come. I coach and walk with pastors, missionaries and other Christian leaders throughout their entire sabbatical process, providing: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1619844367359-FBPXRX5LBZTODW9FTNJJ/roots-in-the-soil.jpeg Services - Cultivate Groups Cultivate Groups are small monthly gatherings that provide a safe space for leaders or pastor’s wives to deepen their relationships with God, grow in discernment, and walk with God in the transformation the Spirit is doing in their hearts and lives. These groups also provide leaders with a place to experience confidential support and connection with God and others. Each month includes time for individual reflection with God and space for processing or group spiritual direction with one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1619844523174-IBAY17Z5C4AH2BGRPJFW/Cultivate+Photo.jpg Services - Renew Retreats Renew Retreats are one-day retreats designed to refresh you as a Christian leader. These are days for you to intentionally draw away and disconnect from the busyness and distractions of life so you can exhale, reflect and experience the rest and renewal only the Spirit of God can give you. As a result, you can step back into all aspects of your life and leadership more refreshed, present, and connected to the Lord, yourself, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/cfaabeea-5ace-4a9c-adda-ae787ada4dab/AdobeStock_361974168.jpg Services - Seasons Retreats Ecclesiastes 3 tells us that there is a time and season for everything. As a leader, you experience different seasons in your life, leadership, ministry, and even your walk with God. What God invites or calls you to in one season might differ in another. This retreat offers space for you to seek God, reflect with him, and become more aware of the seasons in which you find yourself. It also helps you recognize God’s invitations in each season so you can more greatly live into the abundant life God has for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/2d582453-deb1-499e-a8a9-8cf7063be078/1207889605-huge.jpg Services - Spiritual Direction Spiritual Direction provides a confidential space focused on helping you recognize and respond to what God is doing in your heart and life, including your work or ministry. This time set aside each month enables you to grow in your awareness of how you relate with God (beyond just head knowledge), deepen your intimacy with Him, and live all of your life out of that intimacy. I generally offer Spiritual Direction through monthly individual meetings or in groups of three or more, but I also provide Spiritual Direction for married couples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/6a87d7a1-291f-449f-a8cf-9f3833615704/shutterstock_323571221.jpg Services - Journeying with God Through Grief As we go through life, we meet loss in many ways—through the death of a loved one, a broken relationship, or the loss of a job. We might encounter it in the form of sickness, a dream unfulfilled, or through our sin or the sins committed against us. We might not always recognize it, but we sometimes meet it as a result of transition—even a transition to something good, because we're leaving other things behind. And wherever there is suffering or loss, there is grief. As leaders, it is essential to learn not only to acknowledge our grief but walk through it with God. If https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/7cba9994-2b4d-42ae-9a2d-741ded12a03a/iStock_000021143809_Double.jpg Services - Coaching/Consulting Coaching helps you attune to the Holy Spirit, gain greater awareness in various areas of your life, set goals, and move into action as you say “yes” to God. Through coaching or consulting, I provide support for leaders or groups of leaders in every season and area of life and work, including: Sabbaticals or transitions Establishing rhythms of life and work Integrating your walk with God with all of life Exploring new Spiritual practices Integrating your life with God into your work Integrating spiritual formation into your ministry Receiving coaching or consulting provides the support you need to discern and pursue all that God desires for you, your team, your church, or your organization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/1629346418571-6Z5H8664GAHFFXM1IDF2/lightstock_55416_small_ellen.jpg Services - Rhythms Retreats Rhythms are regular phases of time that include activities and rest that bring life to a person. Establishing rhythms helps us give attention to all areas of our lives, to live into the fullness of how God created us, and to steward the whole of our hearts and lives well. This retreat gives you space and structure to examine the various areas of your heart and life with God and create, with Him, rhythms that will serve you in your current season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/d0ecb82a-e65a-4602-8a4b-2d74d8d359dc/first_scrolling.jpg Services - Prayer Ministry Our lives are all impacted by The Fall. And none of us are immune to struggles, sickness, sin, and woundings of our souls. As leaders, we need safe spaces to pray with others and seek God to touch our bodies and souls with healing so that we can live and lead from a place of greater wholeness and freedom. Healing Prayer is a gentle and Spirit-directed process of prayer that invites a person to open their heart to the healing presence of God. It is often a place where God meets a person with His kindness and Truth and where He often brings a more profound sense of His love, presence, peace, and relief. https://www.ellenburany.org/donate daily 0.75 2024-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/5e22d4d3-9ace-4ce6-80b4-428fca93d695/Giving.jpg Donate or Pay https://www.ellenburany.org/about-my-ministry daily 0.75 2023-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606781102360ec658d773c3c/e37b480c-e749-4c62-81f6-8f351639a0e4/AdobeStock_361974168.jpg About My Ministry - Helping Leaders Thrive in Every Season Ecclesiastes 3 tells us that there is a time and season for everything. As leaders, we experience different seasons in our lives, leadership, ministries, and even our walks with God. What God invites or calls us to in one season might differ in another. This is why I offer various forms of confidential support that help you more deeply abide in Jesus and recognize God’s invitations in every season of your life and leadership. As I serve you, my aim and prayer is that you more greatly live into the abundant life God desires for you. https://www.ellenburany.org/events daily 0.75 2025-02-10