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SUMMARY:Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness can be a powerful tool to identify your physical\, mental and emotional habits and needs. Becoming more familiar with your own mind and its patterns can help you relate more directly to whatever is happening in your life – including difficulty and pain – and discover greater balance and ease. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was created in 1979 and has been widely taught and scientifically studied around the world; research has shown positive improvements in physical and psychological symptoms. \nGood news: you don’t need to “clear your mind.” You don’t need special equipment. This class will focus on practice; there will be time for instruction\, reflection\, and dialogue – but at its heart mindfulness is experiential. A variety of practices will be introduced\, including sitting\, walking\, and gently moving\, and participants will be invited to practice at home between classes (with guided instructions included.) Some of the themes include patience\, trust\, letting-be\, and stress reactivity and response. \nNo experience is necessary\, this class welcomes beginners (and skeptics)\, as well as anyone with experience with mindfulness or contemplative practice. Come as you are – even thoughts\, emotions and problems can be avenues for discovering more wisdom and compassion. \nIf you are unsure\, you are welcome to attend the free virtual info and orientation session via Zoom Tues.\, Sep. 29\, 6:00-7:30 pm\, to learn more about the program and decide if you would like to register. Make sure you register for the info session so you receive the Zoom link. \nSchedule – All times 6:00-8:30 pm\, all locations RGH 113 unless otherwise noted\nThe orientation session will be online\, and all other sessions and Day of Mindfulness take place in-person at Holy Wisdom Monastery. \n\nTuesday\, Sep. 29th – Virtual Info & Orientation Session (over Zoom) – 6:00-7:30 pm\nTuesday\, Oct. 6th – Session 1\nTuesday\, Oct. 13th – Session 2\nTuesday\, Oct. 20th – Session 3\nTuesday\, Oct. 27th – Session 4\nTuesday\, Nov. 3rd – Session 5\nTuesday\, Nov. 10th – Session 6\nSaturday\, Nov. 14th – Day of Mindfulness – 9:00 am-3:00 pm (lunch included)\nTuesday\, Nov. 17th – Session 7\nTuesday\, Nov. 24th – Session 8\n\nOptional meals: Dinner at the monastery is available at 5:15 pm each Tuesday for an additional $23. We offer buffet-style meals prepared by our chef from fresh\, healthy\, locally grown ingredients. With 48 hours notice\, please contact retreats@holywisdommonastery.org to reserve a meal. \nInstructor – Dan Tyler\n \n\nDan Tyler is a qualified teacher of MBSR through UCSD’s Center for Integrative Health\, and is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. For nearly two decades\, he has practiced and studied yoga and meditation\, including periods of silent retreat. \n  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \nCost\n$410/person – includes all sessions and lunch on Sat.\, Nov. 14 \nRegister\nThe registration deadline for this series is October 4\, 2026. Class size is limited to 16 and a waitlist will open when the limit is reached. \nCancellation policy – if you register but must cancel your registration\, you can receive a 75% refund up until Oct. 4\, 2026. After that\, a 50% refund is available until the retreat starts. \nClick register today below to register for the free info and orientation session or register for the course which includes the info and orientation session. \n \n  \n  \n  \nWhat others have said about Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Dan Tyler:\n“I would recommend this course to everyone. Who doesn’t deal with stress on a daily basis and who wouldn’t benefit from learning strategies to help make life more peaceful. Each person has a personal story and life experiences that are challenging to deal with throughout their life. Knowing and practicing the strategies associated with mindfulness training can help manage everything from the smallest stressors to the great ones that shake one’s foundation.”
URL:https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/mbsr-26/
LOCATION:Holy Wisdom Monastery\, 4200 County Road M\, Middleton\, WI\, 53562\, United States
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SUMMARY:We Shall Overcome: Wisdom from Rev. Joe Ellwanger – CCR Celebration of Ministry Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:In the current political and social realities\, people of faith are increasingly feeling called beyond the walls of the church to stand courageously alongside people facing oppression and injustice\, but how do we sustain that effort over time? Join the Center for Clergy Renewal at Holy Wisdom Monastery for a lunch and conversation with Rev. Joseph Ellwanger. Pastor Joe began a prophetic public witness during the first Civil Rights Movement alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, continued that witness through community care and advocacy work at his second congregation\, Cross Lutheran Church in Milwaukee\, and at 93\, is still fighting for justice. Venice Williams\, who began her ministry with him at Cross\, will invite him share with us how we can keep believing we shall overcome and stay committed to the hope of the Gospel. This event is a fundraiser for the Center for Clergy Renewal to support its care for the pastors who care for God’s people. \nYour $40 fee includes $19 to cover the cost of your meal and a $21 donation supporting the Center for Clergy Renewal\, which helps clergy root deeply into God’s love\, grow in community and scatter seeds of hope for a flourishing world. The $21 donation portion is tax-deductible. \nSchedule\n\n11:40 am – Arrival and introductions\n11:45 am – Optional midday prayer\n12:00 pm – Lunch\n12:30 pm – CCR video and invitation to support the program\n12:40 pm – Interview of Rev. Joseph Ellwanger by Venice Williams\n1:15 pm – Q&A\n\nCost & Registration\n$40/person. Please register by October 5\, 2026. There are no refunds for cancellations.\nYour $40 ticket includes $19 to cover the cost of your meal and a $21 tax-deductible donation for support of the ministry of the Center for Clergy Renewal. \n$15/video recording of conversation.\nIf you are not able to join us for lunch at Holy Wisdom Monastery\, we are offering a recording of the conversation for $15\, which is a tax-deductible donation. \n  \n \nAbout the Speakers\nJoseph Ellwanger is a Lutheran Christian clergyperson. He served an African American congregation in Birmingham\, Alabama\, St. Paul Lutheran\, from 1958-1967. Under his leadership the congregation grew from 30 to 300 members. It was during this time that he became involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He served as President of the Birmingham Council on Human Relations\, the only bi-racial community organization in Birmingham in the 1960s. He participated in demonstrations led by Dr. King in Birmingham in 1963 and in Selma in 1965. \nJoseph led 72 participants in the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama demonstration in Selma on March 6\, the day before Bloody Sunday\, in solidarity with the Voting Rights Movement. Dr. King chose him\, at the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery march\, along with 13 other pastors active in the 1965 demonstrations\, to meet with Alabama Governor George Wallace. He was also chosen to be part of a national group of 17 religious leaders to meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson in March\, 1965\, immediately before the Selma-to-Montgomery march\, to urge passage of the Voting Rights Act. After the devastating 1963 dynamiting of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church\, he was asked by the parents of Denise McNair\, one of the four girls tragically killed\, to participate in the combined funeral service set for three of the girls. \nJoseph’s second congregation\, Cross Lutheran\, was in the African American community of Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. He was pastor of the congregation from 1967 to 2001\, where he helped develop a racially integrated congregation\, with service and advocacy programs that reached out to low-income people. He was influential in the formation of Project RETURN in 1980\, a prison reentry ministry\, which grew out of the Social Ministry Committee at Cross\, and he led Cross Church to become a Sanctuary congregation in 1983. The church also housed the beginning of the Hunger Task Force of Greater Milwaukee. He helped to launch a congregation-based interfaith justice organization in Milwaukee\, MICAH\, that addresses issues including mass incarceration\, joblessness\, transit inequities\, and voter suppression. \nIn retirement Joseph worked from 2002 to 2012\, as an organizer for WISDOM\, a statewide organizing network\, helping to develop congregation-based organizations that work on justice issues in cities throughout the state of Wisconsin. He is currently involved in ministry at Hephatha Lutheran\, also located in the central city of Milwaukee. And he cochairs the Milwaukee County Transitional Jobs Collaborative. \nHe has written a book\, Strength for the Struggle\, a volume that gleans stories and learnings from the Civil Rights Movement and from 55 years of urban ministry\, published in 2014\, by HenschelHAUS Publishing Inc.\, Milwaukee. \nVenice Williams is an author\, healer\, herbalist and lay minister. She is the Executive Director of Alice’s Garden Urban Farm and the Fondy Farmers Market. She operates the Kujichagulia Producers Cooperative market in Sherman Phoenix Marketplace (Milwaukee)\, which sells products made from Alice’s Garden and her network of artisans. She is also a lay minister for The Table\, a 1st-century-style worshipping community in the 21st century that resides within a church space she has also cultivated as a vocational hub for Black artists\, doulas\, chefs\, yoga instructors and other caring professionals.
URL:https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/center-for-clergy-renewal-celebration-of-ministry/
LOCATION:Holy Wisdom Monastery\, 4200 County Road M\, Middleton\, WI\, 53562\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for Clergy Renewal,Community of Communities
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SUMMARY:Centering Prayer Groups - 2nd Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Centering Prayer Groups \nAll are welcome to join our two centering prayer groups which meet on alternating Wednesdays. Both incorporate a short reading and time for silent prayer or meditation. \n\n1st and 3rd Wednesdays\n\n7:00-8:00 pm\nRetreat & Guest House Room 10\nIncludes a short walking meditation in between periods of seated meditation\nFor more information contact Barb Abbott\, 608-284-7424\n\n\n2nd and 4th Wednesdays \n\n2:30-3:30 pm\nMonastery Oratory –\nTwo\, 20-minute periods of seated meditation with a 5-minute break\nFor more information contact Carole Kretschman\, 608-577-3243\n\n\n\nWe feel the presence of the Holy One even more strongly than when we center by ourselves. … Our prayer has less outward distractions for that hour than if we center at home. … Having the group supports us in our prayer life.
URL:https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/centering-prayer-groups-2nd-wednesday/2026-10-14/
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SUMMARY:Conversations About Our Benedictine Life: Silence
DESCRIPTION:The mission of Holy Wisdom Monastery is to weave us together in a shared way of life. These conversations are an opportunity to learn more about Benedictine spirituality\, about the Rule of Benedict\, and to talk with others about the gifts and challenges of living a Benedictine life. During the time together\, we will contemplate short readings about silence\, have an experience of it\, and learn the practices that help to deepen the experience of it. We grow together in our shared life way of life through small and large group conversations. \nParticipants can expect a flow of silence\, reflections on readings and quotes\, small and large group conversation as well as a closing prayer. \nThese sessions are open to any adult who relates to any of the Holy Wisdom Monastery communities. \nDates/Times\nIn-Person \n\nWednesday\, October 14 – 1:00-2:30 pm\nSunday\, November 1 – 10:30-11:30 am\nSunday\, November 22 – 10:30-11:30 am\n\nVirtual (over Zoom; link will be provided after you register) \n\nThursday\, October 8 – 6:30-8:00 pm\nTuesday\, October 20 – 6:30-8:00 pm\n\nCost\nThere is no cost to the participants of these sessions. \nRegister\nThe registration deadline for each session is the day before the event you wish to attend.
URL:https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/bc-silence-oct-14/
LOCATION:Holy Wisdom Monastery\, 4200 County Road M\, Middleton\, WI\, 53562\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community of Communities,Oblates,Sunday Assembly
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SUMMARY:Fall Fallowing: A Seasonal Retreat
DESCRIPTION:A changing landscape palette…the final harvests from the garden…the departure of migratory creatures…these seasonal milestones are reminders to notice and integrate past growth\, honoring it for its role in nurturing future growth. This fall retreat invites you to pause and mark transitions – on the prairie and in your own life and heart. It will hold space for attention to both. \nConversations about the season\, walks on the prairie\, naps\, art\, movement\, journaling\, great meals and welcoming accommodations will all be a part of what you can expect when you arrive. A renewed connection to nature and to yourself\, along with joy in the plentitude and abundance of the season are what you can expect to take with you when you leave. \nSeasonal Retreats\nEach season this year\, we will offer a different seasonal retreat. They will open spaces where each different season can offer its unique wisdom to us in the changing seasons of our lives. Each retreat is a two-day\, one-night experience at Holy Wisdom with cozy accommodations\, delicious meals\, spacious time periods for solitude\, reading and rest and contemplative conversations with other retreatants. There will also be a variety of opportunities to explore the prairies and the season and discover their gifts for you.  \nFall Fallowing Date/Times\nFri.\, Oct. 16\, 1:00 pm – Sat.\, Oct. 17\, 4:00 pm\, 2026 \nCost\n$295/person ($260/person early bird registration until September 9th\, 2026) \nThe cost of the retreat includes program\, meals (Friday dinner\, Saturday breakfast and lunch) and overnight room. \nRegister\nThe registration deadline for this retreat is October 9th\, 2026\, or when the retreat fills. \nCancellation policy – if you register but must cancel your registration\, you can receive a 75% refund up until October 10th. After that\, a 50% refund is available until the retreat starts. \nAfter you register\, if you would like to request a double room with another retreatant or if you have other questions about accommodations\, please contact us at retreats@holywisdommonastery.org. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/fall-fallowing-26/
LOCATION:Holy Wisdom Monastery\, 4200 County Road M\, Middleton\, WI\, 53562\, United States
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