“Creativity is oxygen for our souls.” Julia Cameron

Join spiritual director, artist, and retreat leader Peggy Thompson for a day dedicated to creating in community. Peggy will walk us through the process of making a Japanese bound journal that you will take home at the end of the day. Creating your own journal invites you to create a safe space to reflect and explore your “one wild and precious life” as Mary Oliver would say.

Please bring a bag lunch and paper or cloth that you love that means something to you for the purpose of your book. Will you be creating a prayer journal? A dream book? A day book? This paper or cloth will be glued to your journal’s covers. All other materials will be provided.

Cost: $25

Peggy Thompson is an artist (50 years), a spiritual director (26 years), retired chaplain (35 years ) and United Church of Christ minister. She received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her M-Div from United Theological Seminary and spiritual direction certification from the Cenacle Retreat Center, (now Sacred Ground). Peggy is also certified to teach Centering prayer through Contemplative Outreach.  

Peggy loves to examine the relationship between creativity and spirituality by combining art-making, with contemplative consciousness. She has a studio in the Northrup King Building in the Northeast Arts District.