The work we do as poets and authors is impacted by location: our location on a map, but also our interior location – where our thoughts and feelings are when we write, and at what stage we are as artists and people. If we are living along a body of water there is a good …
View course details “The Integrity of Place in Poetry and Writing”
Discover the life-changing potential of memoir writing in this weekend intensive designed to take both experienced writers and beginners deeper into their hearts and their pasts. A deeply spiritual act, writing creates distance from which understanding takes root, helping you to know yourself and examine how the events in your life have shaped you. Instructor …
View course details “Your Life as Story”
This retreat at Holy Cross Monastery in the Hudson Valley offers opportunities for both those new to the Centering Prayer and those who have an established practice. During the retreat, one will experience integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, community and the rhythm of this Episcopal Benedictine monastic community’s worship and prayer life. The …
View course details “Centering Prayer Retreat”
How do poets communicate their faith? What do they say about it? Do they have anything to offer us on our own meandering journeys to God? Through an in-depth study and use of lectio-divina, we will experience poems that surprise, delight and reflect upon the presence and action of God in our lives. Please note …
View course details “The Faith of Poets [in silence for Lent]”
This retreat will focus on an exploration of early Christian Wisdom literature, paying particular attention to the Gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Philip. These three texts came to light in the mid-20th century and give us important insight into the development of early Christianity and the Christian mystical tradition. We’ll look at what they …
View course details “The Luminous Gospels”
The Twelve Steps have been a tool for millions of people recovering from alcoholism, addiction to drugs, food, gambling, sex, and others, as well as people whose lives have been touched by addicts and alcoholics. The 12-Step “movement” has been called the most important spiritual development of the past century. And yet, the Steps in …
View course details “Twelve Steps for Everybody: An Invitation to Growth”
Join us for a special retreat and workshop in learning to draw mysteriously interwoven and beautiful knots, step by step. These beautiful knotted forms are less complex than the ancient manuscripts of Kells, Lindisfarne and others might lead you to believe and can be another way to connect with the inner spirit through drawing. This …
View course details “Introduction to Celtic Knotwork”
This retreat offers the opportunity to apply the Enneagram to your spiritual work. We will use group instruction, individual and group processing, movement, and meditation to help work directly with your own Enneatype via the Enneagram Institute’s Levels of Development. The Levels provide us with deep insight into how our Enneatype functions and help us …
View course details “Spiritual Work with the Enneagram”
Spend some time with a director and a good deal of time in silence. This is a retreat in which prayer and silence will be practiced as an invitation for deeper union with God and in which each participant will work with a spiritual director chosen by the monastic community. *Short written assignment before the …
View course details “Individually Directed Retreat”
Lent is ‘com-passiontide’: we experience both God’s probing of our harshness and withholding and the gentle pressure of God’s grace, drawing us to embrace the gift of divine compassion for ourselves and all others. As we approach once again the Passiontide that celebrates God’s ultimate revelation of love in Jesus’ self offering on the Cross, …
View course details “Compassiontide: A Lenten Retreat with Martin Smith”