Join Br. Mark for an on-line retreat that will support you to explore four ancient, traditional mystical paths — contemplative stillness, the via positiva of awe and wonder, the via negativa of letting go, and the via creativa of divine expression.
Hungering for Wisdom, the Divine Feminine, in your life? You are not alone.
At the start of Lent, we invite you to join us for a three-part on-line series of Taizé Prayer Services and Guided Meditation, a time to slow down, reflect, and deepen our connection with the Mystery of God.
This workshop is designed to introduce the concept of legacy letters.
This workshop is designed to introduce the concept of legacy letters.
The final segment of this year’s Thomas Merton’s 55th Anniversary series will focus on Merton’s personal growth through his interaction with the 20th Century.
Wisdom House is pleased to partner with The Center at Mariandale and welcome Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, for its St. Catherine of Siena Environmental Summit.
Remembering Thomas Merton. An American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion.
The eight modes of Gregorian Chant contain layers of meaning beyond the text itself which can offer us a path to deeper insights. In this workshop we will explore the sound-world of Gregorian Chant through listening and meditation.
The legend of the Lamed-Vav and the challenge of being a blessing can inspire us to work subtly for the welfare of persons and the planet. Explore how to become Lamed-Vavniks in this online retreat.
The Sacred Feminine is the primordial image of Divine manifestation, expressed within religious traditions and myriad cultures throughout the ages. She is our intuitive knowing of sacred presence as Mother Earth and our desire for mutually enhancing relationships within all that is. This program is in partnership with the Guild for Spiritual Guidance.
Gather online through Zoom for a 5-week series. Come join us to learn from our spiritual ancestors — among others, Moses and Samuel, Mother Mary, apostles Peter and Paul, and twin sisters Martha and Mary — about how we’re each and all called by God in our own particular time and place. “What in God’s Name Are You Doing?” will support you with how, in love, God invites us each and all to participate.
The Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James, is a thousand-year-old sacred pilgrimage that traverses northern Spain, extending 500 miles from Saint Jean Pied de Port in the French Pyrenees Mountains to the city of Santiago de Compostela near the Atlantic coast. Experience the Camino through stories and photographs, as the author of the memoir Into the Thin, Stephen Drew of Morris, explores the inner and outer act of pilgrimage, and the transcendent healing found along these ancient roads.
This workshop, information and training about Human Trafficking in CT will show participants how to recognize human trafficking and what can be done.
The focus of this session will be forging new energetic connections to yourself and the world around you. Sound Healing promotes new neurological pathways to develop in the brain and Grace and Kristen will lead you through a meditation to promote healing on a cellular level. Reconnect body, mind and spirit to create internal alignment and leave seeing the alignment in life.
The Bible is a library of stories of our spiritual ancestors. They are our spiritual DNA. Join us for a three week series in which we will explore what these encounters with sacred family members an strangers can tell us about ourselves and the wonder and challenge of being alive.
Join us for an online retreat to make a surprising spiritual discovery: the “Beatitudes” taught by Jesus and the “Noble Eightfold Path” taught by the Buddha are parallel in number, method, and spiritual teachings. Each are an eight-fold path to healing and wholeness, inspiring us to where and how we are to spiritually focus our attention
It's time for Spring Cleaning! Clear the clutter and set new intentions. Learn about the KonMari Method and visualize your ideal home environment. Engage in exercises to help clear mind clutter and bring clarity. Participants will create a personal Vision Board to bring home and use as a tool to ground their tidying journeys at home.
In this “Angels in the Dark” workshop, you will envision one of your “angels,” and learn how to easily paint it, even if you have never picked up a brush before. You may begin to feel how exciting it is to express both what scares you and sets you free! You will have ample time to paint on your own, while being supported by George and a small group of participants.
Join us at the start of Lent for a weekly online series of Taizé Prayer Services and Guided Meditations. Taizé is a service of meditative singing and quiet reflection that also invites us into a generous use of silence.
The program will include a series of eight- 1 ½ hour workshop sessions using Zoom. Sessions will be recorded for those who can’t attend a session. The topics will explore the processes and techniques that move us with meaning into the developmental stage of aging and living fully as an elder.
Depending on the needs of those who attend this session, Cy will teach several steps in a Jungian approach to journaling for the spiritual life. Please bring a notebook and pen. If you have had a dream, a prominent memory, or any incidents you’d like to further understand, please write up your dream for your private journaling in this workshop.
In this online series, you will explore how human friendship is sacramental, beginning in creation, as God sought to place God's own love of relationship in all creatures; and, you will be encouraged to explore the thin places where you are most fully alive, those relationships in life that have helped us to grow in love: love of each other and love of God.
A virtual class (via Zoom) dedicated to all visual artists seeking to show their work, receive critique from the instructor and peers, and discuss their ideas within the context of art history and current culture The term “ is a broad view that includes visual arts as well as music, film, dance, performance, and writing.
The challenges of this time of great unknowing and spiritual dark night are considerable. Join us as we share spiritual practices, insights and resources in dialogue with Cynthia Bourgeault, Ilia Delio and Pema Chodron as guides for the path unfolding before us.
This workshop is for those who attended the first session on October 17. The presenter, Cy Varland, will teach the next several steps in a Jungian approach to journaling for the spiritual life. Please bring a notebook and pen. If you have had a dream you’d like to further understand, please use word processing to write up your dream and bring several copies with you.
Each Gospel “houses” a distinct image of Jesus. Each calls us to know him more fully within these four unique story structures. Come and explore the architecture of each Gospel so that you can know Jesus more intimately through these sacred texts.
In this practical, 3-hour online workshop, spiritual teacher and renowned author Philip Goldberg draws from his latest book, Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times, and nearly five decades of study and experience. All spiritual traditions teach that we each have a sanctuary of peace and a fortress of strength within us, at the core of our Being. Access to this inner refuge is vital, especially in difficult times.
Are you curious about how your soul and the Light within you might guide you and give you strength? In this workshop, Cy Varland will teach the initial, foundational steps in a Jungian approach to journaling for the spiritual life.
Join us for a weekend retreat to expand your awareness of the Christian Wisdom path and its relevance to our realities today. Br. Mark will guide you in contemplative ways of knowing and growing, with a variety of perennial wisdom texts and practices. You will have an opportunity to look into sacred stories, art, and poetry, and experience personal story-sharing and spiritual practices, that take a penetrating look at the world as it truly is, in all its beauty and gift (as well as its pain and injustice).
The Interior Life Seminar is a reading and discussion group over Zoom using resources from philosophy, religion, poetry, and psychology. While the readings may be familiar to participants, the methodology is unique: how can we use the principles, life models and stories to apply fruitfully in our everyday lives?
