This year, give yourself the gift of a contemplative retreat. Join Mary Lou Logsdon and Tracy Mooty for a morning where you can pause, prepare to embrace the sacred season of Advent with loving focus, hear the Nativity story anew, and find a companion from that story with whom to journey through the month of December.

This event is being offered through Saint Thomas Becket Catholic Church. Registration is now full for this event. Please contact info@sacredgroundspirit.org if you are interested in being put on a waiting list.

Join us November 19, as Victor Klimoski invites us to explore Nature as Text and Testimony.

There is no single pathway to explore and nurture one's inner journey. What is often common for many seekers, however, is the intuitive sense that the natural world provides a language for naming one's discoveries, questions, and wonderments along the way.

This session explores how creation influences our efforts to name for ourselves life's revelations.

Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality and Loyola Spirituality Center look forward to bringing you this next installment of our online Spiritual Directors Development series.

Join Sam Rahberg and your spiritual direction colleagues for an interactive webinar as we explore how to help individuals name, accept, befriend, and integrate their fears into the rich tapestry of their spiritual journeys.

Unfortunately, this offering needs to be rescheduled. Please stay tuned for more information.

Come let your soul play and explore with images and imagination in this Intro to SoulCollage® class led by Jane Pellizzer.

SoulCollage® is a creative process that uses images and imagination to engage with soul and access intuition. By creating a quiet, reflective environment you will be invited to exhale, move from your head to your heart, and choose images that call to you. By cutting, pasting and assembling a collage with those images you will make cards that are meaningful to you.

We all long for wholeness and healing--for our bodies and souls and for our world. Sacred Ground, in collaboration with Carondelet Village, is once again offering an evening service, open to all, for prayers for healing.

Join us for an evening of music, a mass led by Fr. Matt Linn, SJ, and the opportunity to pray silently for one another in prayers, as we take turns giving and receiving God's healing love that is always beyond words.

Join us Tuesday, October 15 as Rev. Dr. Janet Johnson presents Looking through an Obscure Lens to See Better: Personal and Systemic Cultural Work Related to Broadening and Deepening Our Relationship with the Divine.

Rev. Janet will draw on her experience and work as an African American Woman of Faith and share how looking through an obscure lens deepened her own faith and helped her become a more effective spiritual director and teacher. Drawing on these learnings, she will invite us to dialogue on how we can become advocates of culturally effective spiritual formation curriculums with a keen eye to identify interference in broadening and deepening relationships with the divine.

Spiritual companions do not listen in a vacuum. Life is interactional, and our bodies continually respond, in the moment, to the people and situations we experience. When we learn to welcome, befriend, and trust our body’s felt senses, our ability to welcome and listen to others with ease and groundedness expands. Inner Relationship Focusing invites us to befriend our body’s “freshly felt sense” as a means to wisdom, inner healing, and living whole.

Spiritual Director and Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher, Kim Isaak will lead this 2-part, online series Sept. 30 and Oct. 14. Spiritual directors will learn to use Inner Relationship Focusing to welcome, describe, and relate to a bodily felt sense and the partial selves that arise in us.

Join us to celebrate and share the gifts of the Sacred Ground Community and transformative listening. The morning will include a Braver Angels presentation on how to listen to differing political views.

Groundings returns September 17! We look forward to welcoming Katherine Piderman as she shares wisdom gleaned from Mayo Clinic’s Hear My Voice research project.

We all hold a treasure of spiritual experiences which have blessed and challenged us. What happens when we explore, understand, integrate, preserve, and share these experiences with someone we can trust? Come discover the invitation Mayo Clinic’s Hear My Voice research project holds for all of us.

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of Ronald Rolheiser’s The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality.

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. And bring your questions!

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of Mark Nepo’s Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of Valerie Kaur’s See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

We look forward to welcoming Joan Olson as our May Groundings speaker

With our aging population, many of us will be companioning people who are facing the end of their lives. What issues come up as death approaches? What might we need to pay attention to in our own lives? And what might we learn from those who have walked this path?

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. And bring your questions!

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of Richard Rohr’s From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality.

We look forward to welcoming Claire Bischoff as our April Groundings speaker

You don’t have to be an artist to experience and enjoy praying with art. Come explore two forms of artistic prayer: praying with icons and prayer doodling.

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of Jack Kornfield’s After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path.

We look forward to welcoming Rev. Dedra Herron-Slack as our March Groundings speaker.

Who has the authority to parse out that which is sacred for another? For so long those with power have pushed out the perspectives, stories, and experiences of anyone who isn’t white. It is time that we open our minds and hearts to that which is outside of the narrowly-defined idea of “sacred / contemplative” and make space for Spirit to move in all its mystery.

How do we decolonize contemplative practices so we include all people, especially African Americans, without doing more harm? How can we be more inclusive and sensitive creating “brave” space for everyone who desires to enter into contemplative communities?

Rev. Herron-Slack will share how she curates culturally-based contemplative experiences and why these experiences are necessary.

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. And bring your questions!

Are you feeling uneasy? Maybe your old beliefs, values, and ways of doing things aren’t working anymore. Maybe you feel called to create something new, but you don’t know what that is – much less where to start. Do you find yourself wishing someone would just fix everything? We are entering a time of adaptive change; we need to develop new values, new skills and new ways to connect.

This class will explore adaptive change and the common pitfalls each enneagram type may experience and extraordinary gifts they bring. There will be chances for discussion and questions and participants will leave with some growth and self-care specific to their type. No prior enneagram experience is required.

This workshop will be rescheduled for Fall 2024.

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of John O’Donohue’s book Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on our Yearning to Belong

We look forward to welcoming Dan Johnson as our February Groundings speaker.

Whether you are well versed in the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatian Spirituality or Ignatius of Loyola, or are just starting to look into these, this gathering is for you. Using parts of Ignatius’ own story and prayer, we will see how imagination and wondering are key gifts for recognizing and trusting how the holy is moving at the core of our lives.

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. And bring your questions!

Join Sacred Ground for an online discussion of Osheta Moore’s book Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace.

We look forward to welcoming Osheta Moore as our January Groundings speaker.

Race is one of the hardest topics to discuss in America. Many Christians avoid talking about it altogether. In "Wade in the Water of Belovedness" Osheta Moore will help us explore the intersection of contemplation and activism through the lyrics of a cherished Negro Spiritual.

How do we face the pressing issues of our day? Or tackle the burning issues in our hearts? How do we know what is ours to do? And how do we do it?

In this day retreat, we will use meditation and intuition to create large drawings of images within each of us that describe our passions and dreams to create our futures with hope.

From our images we will lay out our dreams and passions in specific doable pieces on a one year time line.

Self-Compassion is a crucial part of self-care and healing. Yet it’s often so much easier to offer compassion to others than it is to offer to ourselves. Spiritual director Gina Norman will lead participants through a self-compassion guided meditation she created. She hopes it will help you get started on your own path to being gentler, kinder, and more understanding, patient, and loving toward yourself.