HYBRID Making Peace with a Changing World
In this workshop, Making Peace With A Changing World, we will explore the many nuances and consequences of our relationship with change and the concept of “durable adaptability” - a mindset and framework that helps reduce our fears while turning change into an ally.
Mary Oliver’s Thirst: Poetry, Loss and the Longing for God
Together we will explore Thirst (2006), the luminous collection Oliver wrote after the death of her partner. In Thirst, Oliver opens her heart to loss while stepping more deeply into the language of prayer, praise, and spiritual yearning.
Quiet Days Retreat
Come away to a quiet place…. We offer these quiet days as an opportunity to disconnect from the busyness of life, and to settle into the silence.
Directed Retreats with Various Spiritual Directors
Step away from the demands of daily life and into a sanctuary of peace. Our five-day retreats invite you to slow down, breathe deeply, and embrace the stillness that allows your soul to awaken.
Many Paths to God Retreat
On our spiritual journey together we will explore the prayers and and spiritual rituals of our neighbors as a way to honor and appreciate how they can aid us on our path to hope and new life.
Soul Matters
Soul Matters is a monthly meeting, 4-month program that offers the opportunity to explore, deepen, and nurture our spirituality in community with other Companions.
HYBRID Sustaining the Sacred Soil: A Professional Development Series for Spiritual Leaders
This enhanced training is for those who minister to others spiritually, These areas of ministry would include Spiritual Directors, Clergy, Hospice Workers, Chaplains, Spiritual Coaches, Stephen Ministers, Yoga Instructors, and people who teach spiritual topics.
Gallery Opening: “Between Realms” by Amber Maida
Join us at Wisdom House for the opening of an exhibition by Connecticut artist Amber Maida, whose mixed media paintings and sculptures explore spirituality, healing, ancestry, nature, and the connections between past and present.
Creative Disruption: Imagination, Calling, and Courageous Leadership in Changing Times
Creative Discernment is a contemplative weekend retreat designed to support spiritually grounded leaders, seekers, and change makers who are navigating seasons of transition, uncertainty, or vocational reimagining.
Field Sketching and Nature Journaling Retreat
We will have the opportunity to slow down and become familiar with the beautiful surroundings at Wisdom House Retreat Center in late September when all of the natural world is in it’s beautiful transitional phase called fall/autumn.
Aging Well Health & Business Fair
Join us for a welcoming and informative gathering designed to support healthy aging and strengthen connections across our community.
ZOOM Women’s Retreat: How to Stay Open When Love Hurts
This 2-hour online workshop guides women through embodied practices, breath work, movement, self-reflection, and group witness to meet love’s pain in a way that feels expansive and empowering.
When the Landscape Listens-the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson
One of our greatest literary visionaries, Emily Dickinson explored the vast spectrum of consciousness, from anguish to ecstasy.
Practicing the Presence of God
This day-long workshop is a welcoming space to slow down, deepen your awareness of God's presence, and renew your spirit.
Be Human, Be Happy, Be YOU!
A journey of finding inner lightness, freedom, and ease by connecting to our bodies through our senses, movement, and stillness.
Finding Our Way: The Labyrinth, Meditations, Freewriting
Buddhist priest Brian Vaugh and poet Sandy Carlson will lead a day of reflection, meditation, and freewriting.
Centering Prayer: Resting in the Silence at the Heart of All Things
Our day will consist of practicing together—giving ourselves to periods of silent prayer, learning the method and its gentle discipline of letting go, considering the wisdom of simply being with what is, and reflecting on how Centering Prayer opens onto a profound stillness that seekers of every tradition will find familiar.
Women's Writing Retreat
A time of intense connection to self and others, using writing as a tool to retreat from our often too-busy lives of work and caretaking.
Emotional Healing through Expressive Writing Retreat
Peter Yaremko, an author and poet, leads participants in this weekend program to focus on poetry and their own well-being – a little oasis in which to bask in the beauty of healing words and learn to tap into their inner wellspring of creativity.
A.C.E. Your Essential Story - Storytelling with Authenticity, Clarity, and Engagement
Learn to tell your story. The one yearning to be told.
In Our Right Minds
Dale Allen, filmmaker, veteran of corporate and commercial communications, and bestselling author shares her film “In Our Right Minds” followed by dynamic engagement and discussion.
Making Music with Oil Pastels
You are invited to bring your curiosity, sense of play and creative spirit to a one day exploration/celebration of music, art and oil pastel!
Burning Bright: Poetry of William Blake
Join us for a generative workshop in which we explore the poetry and paintings of William Blake, taking a deep dive into ten of his major poems, to see how we can apply Blake’s creative tension between opposing dualities into our own writing.
ZOOM Get Your Ducks in a Row: Preparing for End of Life
Most families are unprepared for one of life’s most inevitable moments, not because they don’t care, but because no one taught them how to prepare.
Do Not Go Gentle: Poetry of Dylan Thomas
Join us for a generative workshop in which we explore the poetry of Keats, Dickinson, Frost, and many modern authors to see how we can apply Keats’ theory of negative capability to our own writing.
ZOOM Series: Peace of Mind Planning
In this warm, practical, and encouraging five-week course, you'll learn the essential steps to organize your wishes, reduce uncertainty, and create greater peace of mind for yourself and those you love.
Being Mindful of God Being Mindful of Me
This program will focus on being mindful of God's presence in our lives and how we can notice God being mindful of us.
Summer Solstice-Radiance and Expansion
The Summer Solstice is the peak of light - a celebration of warmth, movement, connection, and the fullness of life. It’s a season of outward energy, vibrant presence, and heart-forward living.
Ars Poetica: The Art of Poetry Retreat
During this weekend intensive, we will explore theories and definitions of modern poetry, trying them on to see what fits for us. Seeking inspiration in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and many others, we’ll view their work as springboards or launchpads into our own creativity.
ZOOM Energetic Healing Workshop: Emotional Mastery of Body-Mind
Go beyond traditional talk therapy with powerful techniques to transform emotional clutter into clarity and peace.
Juneteenth Celebration: Freedom and Peace
This will be a time for reflection, education, and joyful community gathering as we honor the end of slavery in the United States.
Gallery Opening: Pigment & Pitch with Regina Ottman
Join us for an evening celebrating the work of artist Regina Ottman, whose abstract paintings are shaped by her rare experience of sound-to-color synesthesia — the ability to “hear colors.”
ZOOM Heartspace Circle of Support
Together, we explore new ways of relating to ourselves, our hearts, and the challenges we face, personally and professionally, without bypassing reality or becoming trapped inside it.
Two Free Grief Workshops
For those who need support and want to give support in their grief journey
Life Can Be Easier: How to Stop Overcomplicating It
This interactive presentation is for anyone tired of feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like life is always harder than it needs to be.
ZOOM Healing & Hospice at the Bedside: Engaging the Senses for Comfort and Connection
This presentation explores how sound, touch, scent, taste, and visual connection can still reach people when so much else is falling away. Even when memory fades or conversation stops, the senses can offer comfort, grounding, connection, and moments of peace.
HYBRID What Are You Afraid Of?
In this workshop, Fear – What Are You Afraid of?, we will explore the complexities of fear - both personally and collectively. How our fears protect us, control us, and, with courage and understanding, be transformed into positive, life-affirming change.
ZOOM Facing Your Fears
In this workshop, Facing Your Fears, we will explore strategies for facing our fears with Jason Laramore, who will share his experience as a combat veteran in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Book Signing: Distilled Spirits: Coffee & Recovery with Robert Piazza
Come celebrate the release of Robert Piazza’s award-winning debut collection of poetry, Distilled Spirits: Coffee & Recovery, a book of villanelles depicting addiction versus recovery.
Be Human, Be Happy, Be YOU!
A transformative mindfulness workshop designed to help you Be Human, Be Happy, and Be You! Led by Raditia, a mindfulness teacher and award-winning author, this session offers a safe and nurturing space to reconnect with yourself and others while exploring mindfulness as a way of being.
The Three Amigos: Our Sacred Texts: The Foundation of Faith
We will open up what we believe about the "sacred texts" of our faith traditions that form the foundation of our awareness of and our belief about the Holy One.
A Time for Transformation and Growth with Inspired Vibrations
A heart-centered journey to rediscover who you are and who you may have lost along the way.
ZOOM Emotional Healing through Poetry
This ninety-minute Zoom program is not an academic class focused on crafting "good" writing, but a contemplative experience that explores how celebrated poets create uplifting and spiritually healing poems.
Farewell to Clutter: How to Really Let Go
Is clutter holding you back from the life you truly want? Is it time for you to really let go?
Finding Balance
Explore combining the meditative Zentangle Method with the balance of Yin & Yang symbol to create mindful, detailed works of art.
Men's Recovery Retreat
This retreat is themed around the questions; “Where am I? - in relation to God, to myself and to the world”
ZOOM Sharing Heartspace for Healing & Hospice
Rooted in language that gently invites awareness of our non-dual nature, this offering provides essential tools for conscious caregiving and soulful bedside presence. It is especially supportive for caregivers, loved ones, and death doulas seeking grounded, heart-centered ways to accompany others through profound transition.
Yoga for Gardeners
Yoga practice designed to enhance our physical ability in the garden and spend time practicing the asana
Songs of Praise, Songs of Mourning: An Environmental Poetry Workshop
In this daylong workshop, poet/artist Steve Parlato will share poems celebrating the beauty of the natural world and addressing its increasingly fragile state.
Field Sketching and Nature Journaling Retreat
We will have the opportunity to slow down and become familiar with the beautiful surroundings at Wisdom House Retreat Center in April, when all of the natural world is coming alive.
Emotional Sobriety for Women in AA, Alanon and ACOA Recovery
Come join in a weekend of reflection, connection and renewal.