Programs

Winter Gatherings

Flexible Dates

In the heart of winter, join us for a few days of peace, reflection, and renewal. Experience the deep solace of the season and restore your inner calm. Whether your gather as a group of family or friends, stay in a quiet place where you can create your own personal retreat; do yoga, read, meditate…contemplate. […]

Beauty & Solace for Mid-Winter

With Lois Huey-Heck and Murray Groom

December 3 - 17, 2025
Online - Zoom

As Earth tilts on her axis and the nights grow long in the north, we’re invited into a season including both quiet reflection and gatherings around the fire. Fire, light and darkness are featured in many festivals such as Advent, Winter Solstice, 12 days of Christmas, Epiphany, New Years and myriad rituals from many world […]

Writing in the Dark of the Year IV

With Kelsey Andrews

January 13 - February 17, 2026
Online - Zoom
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 7, 2026.

This six-week workshop is for folks at all levels who want to write—in any genre or style—in community in an encouraging, gentle, and exploratory way. We’ll build our fluency and skill with carefully-selected prompts and exercises, as well as by learning to listen like a writer for what’s strong in each other’s work. We’ll connect […]

Discernment in Times Like These

With Lois Huey-Heck and Grainger Brown

January 14 - 28, 2026
Online - Zoom
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 6, 2026.

Let’s travel together in the territory of deep knowing. Let’s keep company with others who know this way and have left us their travel stories as guides. Let’s ponder how discernment is a shift from “decision-making" to anchoring in Presence. Let’s consider discernment as an ongoing orientation toward life and Spirit — not a once-in-awhile […]

The Season of Bright Sadness & Times Like These

With Lois Huey-Heck and Murray Groom

February 18 - March 4, 2026
Online - Zoom
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 10, 2026.

“Dust and ashes touch our face” begins the Lenten hymn of the same name by Brian Wren. We are invited to re-member that we are both stardust and clay vessels and as such we will know joy and sorrow. This season of turning invites us to another re-set, a return to the land of our […]

Touched by Words: The Companionship of Poets 2026

With Tim Scorer

March 10 - April 14, 2026
Online - Zoom
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 2, 2026.

With just a splash of words on a page, poets can take us to the heart of things. We suddenly see the concerns of a day or a lifetime through a frame of words that are full of spirit, meaning, and beauty. In these six Tuesday evening gatherings we will read poems and have the […]