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 guide you through Life Lectio as you take a leaf from the sacred text of your own life and open your eyes to how Wisdom is right where you are!

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

$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.

Writing for Your Soul's Sake

How can we use language to tend our souls? We can do it by crafting the stories of our hearts.

We can honor our Selves, and our Creator, by telling the stories we are meant to tell. Whether that’s a novel, a memoir, or a family history; whether you want to publish one day or simply share your words with friends. It all counts. And it starts with writing for yourself. That’s what we’ll be about during our time together: claiming our stories, honoring our voices, and taking the next best steps in our creative journeys.

This workshop is not about critique or comparison, and you needn’t consider yourself a “real writer” to participate. You simply need to honor your voice and listen to the leanings of your soul. It’s as easy—and as challenging—as that.

Please have a journal or laptop available to you during the workshop. Zoom link available upon registration and reminder sent the day before the event.

Facilitated by Amy-Lyles Wilson, a published writer and longtime workshop/retreat leader. Amy-Lyles believes it is the sharing of our stories that saves us. Toward that end, she helps people get to the heart of the matter through words. She has co-authored or contributed to several books and written for a host of publications, as well as served as adjunct professer and writer in residence. Amy-Lyles has faciliated groups in Mississippi, Tennessee, online, and at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. She serves as Contributing Writer & Editor and Instructor for Wisdom Tree Collective.

Learn more about Amy-Lyles here: www.amylyleswilson.com 

$25.00 USD Value - Pay What You Can

The price shown is for this one Writing for Your Soul's Sake class.

Whatever you are able to pay for Writing for Your Soul's Sake 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 World Wisdom Bible edited by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (texts from the major world religions, June-November)

September: "Who are the Wise?"

October: "The Way"

November: "Living Wisely & Dying Wisely"

"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.

Registration Coming Soon:

Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, IN

March 27-30, 2025

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

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