Spring Emergence: A Seasonal Retreat

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A faint gauze of spring green is appearing on the prairie’s winter browns, welcoming you to look for your own signs of new growth. What is emerging can’t be hurried, but calls for patient restraint and holding a space for quiet wonder. This spring retreat invites you sit with the first indications of a new season of life – on the prairie and in your own life and heart. It will hold space for your hushed anticipation and gentle tending. Conversations about the season, walks on the prairie, naps, art, movement, journaling, great meals, and welcoming accommodations will all be …

What Now? A Retreat for Retiring Clergy

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What Now? Living as Faithful Stewards after Our Active Ministry has Ended A retreat for clergy nearing retirement or recently retired. For many of us clergy, it is hard to recognize how fully we live within the role or identity as pastor or leader. As we approach the end of our active ministry career, new questions of purpose, faithfulness and human connection emerge. This four-day retreat will be a chance for guided reflection on the significant questions emerging within the hearts and lives of clergy as they end their active ministries. Immersed in the rhythms of Benedictine life and using …

Holy Water, Sacred Flame: Rituals of Hope for a Climate Changed World

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Immerse yourself in the Celtic wisdom of Saint Brigid of Kildare, a 5th-century saint whose legacy blends ancestral, earth-based, embodied spiritual practice with a Christ-centered sacred flame of solidarity and hospitality with those on the margins. We will learn about how Saint Brigid inherited the attributes associated with the pre-Christian goddess Brigid, and then became “Mary of the Celts,” keeping alive a divine-feminine devotion within the heart of Christian spirituality. We will wonder, how Brigid, through devotional practices and seasonal ritual, might accompany us with healing and inspiration in our climate changed world. Brigid was associated with holy wells in …

Winter Rest: A Seasonal Retreat

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Winter is a season of slowing down. Days end earlier with less sunlight, poor driving conditions keep us close to home, lots of one-pot soups and stews simmer on the stove, more books get read. The earth rests under blankets of cold and snow and we long for some deep rest, too. This retreat is an invitation to stop striving and to settle into the silence of winter and the tranquility of the prairie’s seasonal stillness. It is also an invitation to consider our experience of interior winters, how we can best live in them, and to welcome how they …

Light & Shadow: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend

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Claim your space to come alive with a renewed sense of purpose within the paradoxes of these times. Join a supportive small group for reflection and facilitated practices that will help us co-create trustworthy relationships. Our time together is intended to bolster your courage to face today’s challenges, tend your spirit, explore sacred mystery and paradoxes and open to meaning in your life and your communities. This experience is one of several in a series on “Living in Paradox.” Attend one; attend all that you are able to join. Lodging is available; commuter rates are also offered. To learn more …

SoulCollage® Retreat: Tapping into Your Inner Wisdom

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Begin the New Year with a reflective process and set your compass for 2027. During this immersion within the calming environment of Holy Wisdom Monastery, you will be guided to create a personal deck of SoulCollage® cards which will be reflections of your spirit and community to guide you. These cards will be a catalyst for inner work. Using simple materials – magazines, scissors, and glue – you will embark on a journey that requires no artistic background. All you need is curiosity and a willingness to listen. You will learn the journaling process to unlock the wisdom hidden within …

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

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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. Good news: you don’t need to “clear your mind.” You don’t need special equipment. This class will focus on practice; …

Fall Fallowing: A Seasonal Retreat

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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. Conversations 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 …

Summer plentitude

Summer Plentitude: A Seasonal Retreat

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A riot of color on the prairie welcomes you to seek and celebrate your own abundance. This summer retreat invites you sit with the lush growth of the season – on the prairie and in your own life and heart. It will hold space for attention to both. Conversations 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 …

Wonder & Hope: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend

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Are you seeking ways to focus on positivity “these days”? Register and join us for a spacious weekend at Holy Wisdom Monastery for Wonder & Hope: A Courage & Renewal® Experience, May 29-31, 2026. Within the abundance of Holy Wisdom, our retreat sessions will focus on grounding ourselves within touchstones of presence, welcome, listening to our inner teacher, turning to the wonder of how grace moves in our lives, and carrying hope forward. Participants comment that “the welcoming spirit, the quiet, the art and poetry, the kindness and the experience of community” support their participation in a variety of experience during …