Through Wisdom Tree Collective, I've curated a collection of in-person and online retreats offered by me and other trusted facilitators, I hope to see you at one of them!
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Book Ends Circle
A new book club featuring children’s books for grownups.
Host Beth Brighton, a 2nd year student in Wisdom Tree Collective's Spiritual Direction program, offers three free sessions beginning with her own book, The Wisdom Tree.
Creating and hosting the book club is Beth's final project in the SD training.
Circle meeting dates:
ENCORE EVENING: May 30th, 7:00pm CST
June 6, 9:00 am CST
August 1, 9:00 am CST
Register for free and you will receive meeting reminders. Registering once will register you for access to all three meetings.
A new book club featuring children’s books for grownups.
Host Beth Brighton, a 2nd year student in Wisdom Tree Collective's Spiritual Direction program, offers three free sessions beginning with her own book, The Wisdom Tree.
Creating and hosting the book club is Beth's final project in the SD training.
Circle meeting dates:
ENCORE EVENING: May 30th, 7:00pm CST
June 6, 9:00 am CST
August 1, 9:00 am CST
Register for free and you will receive meeting reminders. Registering once will register you for access to all three meetings.
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Life Lectio
Seeking Wisdom in All Seasons
Are you desiring more wisdom for your life?
Through a new spiritual practice based on an ancient one, Wisdom Tree Collective co-founder and spiritual director, Kasey Hitt, will guide you through Life Lectio as you take a leaf from the sacred text of your own life and open your eyes to how Wisdom is right where you are!
Spring Life Lectio: Encore Session: Sun., June 9th at 7:00 pm CST
Summer Life Lectio: Sunday, August 18th 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST
Fall Life Lectio: Sunday, October 20th 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST
Winter Life Lectio: Sunday, December 15th 7:00 - 8:00 pm CST
Zoom link will be sent closer to the date. Register here.
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Have you ever considered becoming a Spiritual Director?
Do people come to you for help in making decisions? Do conversations easily turn to God or spirituality?
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Apply for our Fall 2024 Cohort today!
Online gathering the third Tuesday of each month from 9:00am-11:00am CST, beginning in September.
Acceptance decision made within two weeks of receiving all application materials
Whether you have been drawn to Spiritual Direction as a vocation or you desire to listen and sit with others like a Spiritual Director, I offer an online, Wisdom-based certificate through Wisdom Tree Collective's School of Spiritual Direction.
1st year: Focus is on nurturing you, the Spiritual Director-in-training
2nd year: Focus is on discovering the type of Spiritual Director you are meant to be as you begin to sit with people in Spiritual Direction
An optional in-person class & retreat offered at Monastery Immaculate Conception at the end of Year One.
$3100. Payment plan and Financial Assistance available.
Learn more at www.wisdomtreecollective.com/school-of-spiritual-direction
Do people come to you for help in making decisions? Do conversations easily turn to God or spirituality?
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Apply for our Fall 2024 Cohort today!
Online gathering the third Tuesday of each month from 9:00am-11:00am CST, beginning in September.
Acceptance decision made within two weeks of receiving all application materials
Whether you have been drawn to Spiritual Direction as a vocation or you desire to listen and sit with others like a Spiritual Director, I offer an online, Wisdom-based certificate through Wisdom Tree Collective's School of Spiritual Direction.
1st year: Focus is on nurturing you, the Spiritual Director-in-training
2nd year: Focus is on discovering the type of Spiritual Director you are meant to be as you begin to sit with people in Spiritual Direction
An optional in-person class & retreat offered at Monastery Immaculate Conception at the end of Year One.
$3100. Payment plan and Financial Assistance available.
Learn more at www.wisdomtreecollective.com/school-of-spiritual-direction
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Navigation Science, Resilience, and Spirituality
A Poolside Conversation with Kim Working
Physicist, spiritual director, and WTC co-founder Kim Working invites us to discover the intersection of science and spirituality. Taking the experience of being literally lost, Kim will guide us using map and metaphor, compass and compassion to understand how lostness helps us discern where we are and where we’re going. This time together is an imaginative exercise in resilience.
Saturday, June 22, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST. Cookout and program at the home of Kim Working and Mary Francis Jording.
Register by Monday, June 17. Limited to 12 participants. Register here: https://www.wisdomtreecollective.com/store
A Poolside Conversation with Kim Working
Physicist, spiritual director, and WTC co-founder Kim Working invites us to discover the intersection of science and spirituality. Taking the experience of being literally lost, Kim will guide us using map and metaphor, compass and compassion to understand how lostness helps us discern where we are and where we’re going. This time together is an imaginative exercise in resilience.
Saturday, June 22, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST. Cookout and program at the home of Kim Working and Mary Francis Jording.
Register by Monday, June 17. Limited to 12 participants. Register here: https://www.wisdomtreecollective.com/store
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Online Centering Prayer Circle
Practicing a holy pause from speaking and doing to rest in the Divine Embrace and listen for the Sacred in text, art, and music
Beginners and long-time practitioners invited to join Kasey for Centering Prayer & Meditation every Friday from 9-10 am CST (except for our July summer break).
The Centering Prayer Circle begins by being guided into 20 minutes of silence followed by these opportunities for Lectio Divina, Visio Divina, and Audio Divina (reading, looking, and listening with the eyes and ears of the heart):
"Poems & Art shared by the WTC Centering Prayer Community" (May)
The World Wisdom Bible edited by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (texts from the major world religions, June-October)
June: Ultimate Reality & The Eternal I
July: Centering Prayer Circle Summer Break
August: The Self or Mind and The Nature of Wisdom
September: Who are the Wise?
October: The Way
November: Living Wisely & Dying Wisely
"The Spirituals & Wisdom of Sister Thea Bowman" (December)
Register here.
Practicing a holy pause from speaking and doing to rest in the Divine Embrace and listen for the Sacred in text, art, and music
Beginners and long-time practitioners invited to join Kasey for Centering Prayer & Meditation every Friday from 9-10 am CST (except for our July summer break).
The Centering Prayer Circle begins by being guided into 20 minutes of silence followed by these opportunities for Lectio Divina, Visio Divina, and Audio Divina (reading, looking, and listening with the eyes and ears of the heart):
"Poems & Art shared by the WTC Centering Prayer Community" (May)
The World Wisdom Bible edited by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (texts from the major world religions, June-October)
June: Ultimate Reality & The Eternal I
July: Centering Prayer Circle Summer Break
August: The Self or Mind and The Nature of Wisdom
September: Who are the Wise?
October: The Way
November: Living Wisely & Dying Wisely
"The Spirituals & Wisdom of Sister Thea Bowman" (December)
Register here.
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Backyard Pilgrimage to the Black Madonna
Mystery. Stillness. Storytelling. History.
The oldest depictions of The Black Madonna date back to the Middle Ages (although some legends claim that Luke the Evangelist painted the first). Estimates suggest that there are between 450-500 Black Madonna artifacts scattered across Europe in shrines, roadside chapels, and cathedrals each built on the site where people encountered her likeness and experienced healing, protection from war and disease, a transformation of some sort. Each painting or likeness narrates a story about the nature of human longing and the possibilities around divine intervention.
What might an innovative practice of ethical devotion to The Black Madonna offer modern pilgrims whose journey begins “in their own backyard" where the holy summons us to reimagine new possibilities for being--where religion meets public life. Please join our workshop to learn and engage in spiritual practice that does not dismiss the world nor its problems but leans into contemporary human struggle from an ancient practice.
Rev. Dr. Amy Steele is offering this seminar as part of her second year study in Wisdom Tree Collective’s School of Spiritual Direction. She is also the Dean of the Upper Room Chapel in Nashville, TN.
Zoom link will be sent closer to the date. Please check your spam folder if you have not received it by August 17th.
REGISTER HERE.
Backyard Pilgrimage to the Black Madonna
Mystery. Stillness. Storytelling. History.
The oldest depictions of The Black Madonna date back to the Middle Ages (although some legends claim that Luke the Evangelist painted the first). Estimates suggest that there are between 450-500 Black Madonna artifacts scattered across Europe in shrines, roadside chapels, and cathedrals each built on the site where people encountered her likeness and experienced healing, protection from war and disease, a transformation of some sort. Each painting or likeness narrates a story about the nature of human longing and the possibilities around divine intervention.
What might an innovative practice of ethical devotion to The Black Madonna offer modern pilgrims whose journey begins “in their own backyard" where the holy summons us to reimagine new possibilities for being--where religion meets public life. Please join our workshop to learn and engage in spiritual practice that does not dismiss the world nor its problems but leans into contemporary human struggle from an ancient practice.
Rev. Dr. Amy Steele is offering this seminar as part of her second year study in Wisdom Tree Collective’s School of Spiritual Direction. She is also the Dean of the Upper Room Chapel in Nashville, TN.
Zoom link will be sent closer to the date. Please check your spam folder if you have not received it by August 17th.
REGISTER HERE.