Upcoming Programs &
Directed Retreats

January 8 - 26, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Bring your arts and crafts supplies on Wednesdays from 10am-12pm to explore your creativity in a community setting. Feel inspired by surrounding yourself with other creatives and take time for yourself to focus on your artistic medium(s). There is no need to register for this event.

February 21 - 23, 2025
3:00 pm - 12:00 pm

Move beyond the surface to write your inner-most self! Join us at Marywood February 21st-23rd, 2025, to explore novel strategies for deepening your writing, with writers and presenters Greg Renz, Tammy Barthels, and Monica Lobenstein. Plenty of writing time, networking with other writers, and the inspiration of Trout Lake and the frosted forest at Marywood…

February 25, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

There is a centuries long tradition of Christian mystics, and we will focus on three of them: St. Catherine of Siena (14th century), St. Teresa of Avila (16th century) and Thomas Merton (20th century). We’ll be exploring common threads in their revelations that have endured over the years. We can gain insight into how to…

March 4, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dreaming of warmer days and early mornings filled with birdsong? Springtime bird watching offers the opportunity to slow down, look around, and appreciate the blessings that you discover. Join us for a 2-hour program that will highlight how this enjoyable outdoor activity invites birders to become present to their surroundings and practice gratitude to the…

March 9 - 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 12:00 pm

Did you know that we all have at least one soul place? “A “Soul Place” is a space or place that you feel particularly drawn to, and that makes you feel ‘at home’. It is your soul’s true home in nature, a place where you feel as much a part of it, as it does…

March 25, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for Ecstatic Dance on February 15th from 3-5PM. No dance experience necessary–flow freely and dance to connect with your Mind, Body, and Spirit. To register, click here. Please pay at the door by cash, credit card (2.75% fee), or check.

March 27, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us virtually March 27th from 6:30-8PM CST for a transformative webinar exploring a spiritual approach to dealing with eco-grief, and intergenerational action for our common home. Join us for an inspiring and insightful webinar addressing eco-grief and climate anxiety. To register, click here.  Featuring an expert in the field, this event will explore the…

March 31 - 2, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Join us March 31-April 2, 2025 to start or continue watercolor learning! This three day workshop will run from 9-3 each day and be focused on essentials in watercolor painting, exercises in the basics such as brush handling, control of lights and darks and learning controls with water and paint.   Bring your own watercolor supplies: tube…

April 15 - 17, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

It is so much easier and more satisfying to start a pastel painting with an underpainting applied to the working surface!  Join us April 15-17, 2025, from 9-3 as we will explore a different underpainting method daily. Tuesday: Pastels over a dark underpainting Wednesday: Pastels over a multi-toned colored underpainting Thursday: Pastels over a pre-planned…

May 1 - 3, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Painting with a Large Brush is one of the best ways to get a dramatic look to a painting is by using a large brush in applying the paint because one is concentrating on the large brush strokes the painting develops quickly. Brusho paints are colorful particle pigments that will be used with the big…