Life Lectio: Seeking Wisdom in All Seasons

Are you desiring more wisdom for your life? Through a new spiritual practice based on an ancient one, Wisdom Tree Collective co-founder and spiritual director, Kasey Hitt, will help you let the Holy Wind blow through the story of your life to see what leaves are being invited to loosen, what it is time to "let be" or "let go" so that you might trust in the love of God and rest in Wisdom's embrace.

• Winter Life Lectio: Sunday, December 15th 7:00 - 8:00 pm CST on Zoom

$25.00 USD Value - Pay What You Can

The price shown is for one Life Lectio class.

Whatever you are able to pay for Life Lectio supports our instructors and helps us continue to offer experiences like this one. We are grateful for your support of Wisdom Tree Collective!  

Please do not let cost stand in the way of your participation. Reach out to Kim Working for financial assistance with this offering.

Book Ends Circle

A book club featuring children’s books for the child in all of us!

Host Beth Brighton, a recent graduate in our Spiritual Direction program, will continue to offer this book club through December.

Explore the wisdom found in children's books. 

Circle meeting dates: 

•  December 5th, Noon CST

Register for free and you will receive meeting reminders through our tech platform Kajabi Communities where the Live Meeting takes place.

Centering Prayer Circle

Practicing a holy pause from speaking and doing to rest in the Divine Embrace and listen for the Sacred in text, art, and music

Beginners and long-time practitioners invited to join Kasey for Centering Prayer & Meditation every Friday from 9-10 am CST (except for our July summer break).

The Centering Prayer Circle begins by being guided into 20 minutes of silence followed by these opportunities for Lectio Divina, Visio Divina, and Audio Divina (reading, looking, and listening with the eyes and ears of the heart):

"The Spirituals & Wisdom of Sister Thea Bowman" (December)

Sunrise Circle

Join Wendy Shafer and Kim Working as they host a Wednesday morning prayer circle.

Kim and Wendy will focus on the Center for Action and Contemplation’s longstanding daily offerings, frequently featuring the work of Fr. Richard Rohr. The theme for this year is resilience.

Participants will meet virtually using Kajabi, on Wednesday mornings. Please sign up to receive the CAC Daily Meditation and read the Tuesday message prayerfully before we meet.

The circle begins at 7:00 am CST, and after a brief greeting moves to lectio with the Tuesday CAC meditation. That is followed by contemplative silence and concludes with a poem, prayer, or reading.

Sign up for CAC meditations at https://cac.org/daily-meditations.

Resting in God's Wisdom: A Silent Retreat for Changing Times

Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, IN

March 27-30, 2025

Life is full of change. We're all in the midst of global change. Maybe you are experiencing personal change, too--a divorce, illness, parenting toddlers or teenagers, adjusting to an "empty nest," a job change, perimenopause, family or work conflict, death of a loved one, becoming a grandparent, retirement...what brings change is endless. Sometimes the loneliness is overwhelming, the burden too heavy. Jesus knew something about social and personal change and challenges. He also knew something about carrying burdens and how they are lighter when not carried alone.

Enter his invitation found in Matthew 11:28-30:
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

The world needs people who live freely and lightly.

Our time will include an introduction to being on a silent retreat along with receiving the still relevant 16th century wisdom of St. John of the Cross on navigating "Dark Night." Allow the unknown to be a place where you can rest in the loving presence of the God who is beyond all knowing.

Uninterrupted time to rest, explore, create and rediscover.

7 of 11 spaces available.
Fee is $525 for:

• 9 meals
• 2 half hour sessions of Spiritual Direction
• Private Room and Bath
• All materials included
• Limited amount of scholarships available.

Want to make it possible for someone else to attend? You can either gift a retreat to someone you love or you'll have a chance to contribute to the fund during the checkout process. Your generosity in contributing to our scholarship fund is greatly appreciated!

Online Certificate in Spiritual Direction- 2024 is FULL (Registration for Fall 2025 coming in January)

For those who desire to become Spiritual Directors, companioning others with compassion and wisdom on their spiritual journeys.  Rooted in the contemplative Christian tradition of inner experience of God's healing, guiding love, cultivated through silence and solitude, listening and discernment.  Grown and enriched by collective wisdom arising through all of Creation -- ​at all times, in all places, through all people and traditions.

Program Objectives:

• Personal healing and growth as you live with program material and contemplative practices over time so as to invite a deeper discovery of the Divine Presence and your Authentic Self
• Deepening your ability to listen for and discern Wisdom as it manifests within and around you
• Offering you skills and tools to assist you in becoming a compassionate, wise companion and guide for others