Advent Fireside Reflection and Meditation
December is often the busiest time of year with all the cookie baking, present buying and wrapping, decorations found, dusted off and hung. The days get shorter, the nights longer, the air colder.
December is often the busiest time of year with all the cookie baking, present buying and wrapping, decorations found, dusted off and hung. The days get shorter, the nights longer, the air colder.
Begin the New Year with the intention to get UNSTUCK! Spend this 13-week journey with CREATIVES like YOU!
Participants will be invited to find their way by engaging the imagery of the Tao in their poetic expression.
Through prayer and reflection, silence and conversation, questions and ponderings, may we come to know more deeply the Divine Feminine, Wisdom, Who yearns for us…Who delights in us!
Many of us are turned off to poetry because a high school English teacher thought poetry is about answers. Poetry is not about answers, it’s about questions.
In this one-day retreat, we will immerse ourselves in the spiritual wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, as well as early Christian hermits who sought solitude in the desert as a path to inner peace and divine union.
In a season when the world feels heavy and weary, Advent invites us to lift our eyes toward the Light that no darkness can overcome.
In today’s climate of turmoil, change, and stress, we may find ourselves distracted from our true source. This program invites you to detach from darkness and to remember the beauty, joy, and wonder of life itself.
We will learn the basics and the best tips ever when making pie dough.
World faiths and psychological analyses all agree: Communication expresses the real intention of the speaker and is the main tool we have to communicate, confront and persuade.
Today, we are in a monumental struggle, a spiritual reckoning, and a call to action. Challenging times require us to be strong, resilient, courageous, and compassionate while we embrace our interconnectedness and take meaningful action.
Life is a continuous cycle of beginnings and endings. Yet, as humans, we often struggle to embrace endings.
A time of prayer and reflection exploring the mystery of Wisdom, a female image of the Divine, and the means
It is becoming increasingly clear that we’ll need all the fortitude we can muster to remain strong and productive as we navigate today’s global and spiritual crisis, unfolding in a climate of chaos and injustice.
Spend an afternoon immersed in the Poetry of one of our greatest literary and visionary geniuses, Emily Dickinson.
A weekend of intense connection to self and others, using writing as a tool to retreat from our often too-busy lives of work and caretaking.
It is becoming increasingly clear that we’ll need all the fortitude we can muster to remain strong and productive as we navigate today’s global and spiritual crisis, unfolding in a climate of chaos and injustice.
Through observation, meditation, and journaling, we will explore our spirituality in nature as we go through the seasons of the year.
Step into a space where the land itself speaks. The Land Remembers Us, a new body of work by Indigenous Mexican-American artist Inkpa Mani, explores how memory, identity, and spirit live within earth, stone, and pigment.
In this three-hour session, you’ll be invited to step back from the noise of the mind and rest in the quiet awareness that’s always been there.
It is becoming increasingly clear that we’ll need all the fortitude we can muster to remain strong and productive as we navigate today’s global and spiritual crisis, unfolding in a climate of chaos and injustice.
Time to warm up with some great stock we can turn into soup.
The blessings of the Sermon on the Mount are meant to give us a blueprint for being aware of God in the things and people around us, no matter where we are.
Come away to a quiet place…. We offer these quiet days as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life, and to settle into the silence.
Mary Oliver is a favorite of poetry lovers of all ages for her lyrical, intimate, and sensitive poems, many of which use nature as a lens for exploring a wide spiritual spectrum of human emotions, from love and joy to sorrow and despair. The best Mary Oliver poems remind us to pause and take a breath, revel in our surroundings, and encourage us not to take anything for granted.
What does it mean to live as if all creation is sacred? What happens when we listen for God’s voice not only in scripture, but also in the wind, the waters, the stones, stars, and even our own bodies?
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected? This insightful presentation offers practical tools to help you reconnect with your inner purpose and move forward with clarity.
Learn meditative practices to open yourself to nature, connect with nature poetry, and then immerse yourself in the natural beauty at Wisdom House in this day-long poetry workshop.
Calling on examples in her own life, Sr. Jo-Ann Iannotti, will reflect on the themes of creativity and self-discovery through her practice of the two arts of poetry and photography.
A journey of discovering YOU and creating a Self Care routine to finding who you lost along the way.
Rekindle your creative fire! Poets of all levels, from beginner to advanced, come together to read, write, and recite. During this weekend intensive, we will explore three new strategies for poetry: motion, shift, & contrast.
Join us for a powerful and uplifting Spiritual Juneteenth Program as we honor the legacy of our ancestors, celebrate liberation, and embrace the spirit of resilience and faith.
In the spirit of St. Francis, who saw all creation as kin and every moment as sacred, this retreat invites us to slow down, listen deeply, and immerse ourselves in the wisdom of the natural world. Rooted in Franciscan mindfulness, we will explore how nature reveals the Divine and calls us into presence, compassion, and interconnection.
This daylong program will explore guided journaling as a path toward deepening our relationship with God.
My retreats are themed around the questions; “Where am I? - in relation to God, to myself and to the world”