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  • The Quest for Healing and Home – The Great Search 2

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    The Quest for Healing and Home – The Great Search 2 We hope you can join us at Holy Wisdom Monastery for The Quest for Healing and Home – The Great Search 2 from May 9-11, 2024. In 2022 John Philip Newell began a second series of annual retreats to address the deep spiritual yearnings of this moment in time and to help give birth to new beginnings in our lives and world.  The Great Search 2 is the second of a three-part series of annual retreats led by the Celtic teacher John Philip Newell and his colleague Cami Twilling ...

    $340

  • Summer Stewards

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Are you worried about climate change but don’t know what to do? Would you like time away for reflection, discernment and prayer? Do you want to deepen your spirituality in a setting that connects your faith with care for the earth? Be a Summer Steward at Holy Wisdom Monastery for six days in July. Live the monastic rhythm of prayer, work and rest in a progressive, inclusive community whose mission includes being in right relationship with the earth and one another. Join us for prairie and oak savanna restoration, gardening, reading and spiritual conversation. Share your experiences, reflections and questions ...

    $200

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Stability You are invited to attend Conversations about Our Benedictine Life – Stability, starting in September 2024. These events will provide opportunities to talk with others about the value of stability and to learn a bit about stability as a feature of Benedictine spirituality. Each gathering will be a time to share reflections on our ideas, experiences, and beliefs about stability, Benedict's teachings, and what spiritual gifts are to be discovered in a life where a practice of stability is central. The gatherings will be between 60 and 90 minutes in length. They will include time for reflections, for the ...

  • Advent: To Seek and to Save the Lost (in-person)

    Advent: To Seek and to Save the Lost
    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    The Advent season returns us to the incarnation of the Christ-spirit and its power to restore us in hope and renew us in purpose. This series takes its starting point from the Gospel of Luke where Jesus says he has come "to seek and to save the lost." Sometimes the language of saving doesn't always set easily with us. Nor does the suggestion that we are somehow lost! Yet, in setting aside time to listen with the ear of our hearts to Jesus, to Luke, to each other and to our own inner longings – we may find ourselves newly ...

  • Advent: To Seek and to Save the Lost (virtual)

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    The Advent season returns us to the incarnation of the Christ-spirit and its power to restore us in hope and renew us in purpose. This series takes its starting point from the Gospel of Luke where Jesus says he has come "to seek and to save the lost." Sometimes the language of saving doesn't always set easily with us. Nor does the suggestion that we are somehow lost! Yet, in setting aside time to listen with the ear of our hearts to Jesus, to Luke, to each other and to our own inner longings – we may find ourselves newly ...

  • Neurographic Art: A Contemplative Practice

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    This class is full. Begin the new year with a contemplative practice through art. Learn about neurographic art, watch a demonstration and try your hand at creating a piece of art. No experience necessary. Participate in a meditative process based on mindfulness that can relieve anxiety, reduce stress, help you find peace and clarity, express inner feelings and walk away with a beautiful piece of art. All supplies are included in the program fee. Schedule 8:45 am – Arrive and choose a workspace 9:00 am – Art instruction and time to create neurographic art 11:45 am – Event ends 11:45 ...

    $35

  • Prone to Wander

    Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States

    Please join us for Prone to Wander with Joanna Harader. The Center for Clergy Renewal and the Spiritual Nourishment department are hosting a morning retreat with Rev. Joanna Harader at Holy Wisdom Monastery on Saturday, February 8, from 9:00-11:30 am. This is for any church members or leaders who would appreciate time to pause and reflect on the theme of wilderness as we prepare for Lent. Joanna is part of our Contemplative Renewal Immersions community and a Mennonite Pastor from Kansas. She is also author of an Advent Devotional, Expecting Emmanuel. Prone to Wander: A Lenten Journey with Women in the Wilderness is her new Lenten devotional, coming out in ...

    $15