Visit the Abbey of the Arts online retreat platform to access your programs:

New *Soul Care for Compassionate Listeners* Session added on Fridays

2010-2011 Soul Care for Compassionate Listeners

Professional and personal growth through supervision and the expressive arts for Spiritual Directors, Chaplains, Counselors, & Pastors committed to compassionate listening and care of souls.

with Kayce Stevens Hughlett, MA, LMHC & Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE

October 2010-May 2011 – Monthly group meeting on Friday mornings in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA

Please Note: Our first two groups filled quickly so we have added a third group on a different set of Friday mornings (see flyer for specific dates & details)

Limited to 6 participants

$600 for all 8 sessions / $100 non-refundable deposit to hold your place

Please visit this link for more details and registration

Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist – Update

Just five two spots left in the fall session of this class!  Register today!

You might also enjoy

Sacred Time ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Our featured self-study retreat this month is Sacred Time, the companion retreat to my book of the same title.  Here is an excerpt from the introduction to the book: We live in a breathless world. Everything around us seems to move

Read More »

New Interview with Christine Valters Paintner

Christine was featured in an interview with AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast on the intersection of creativity and monastic spirituality. In addition to being a Benedictine Oblate, Christine is Jesuit educated, with degrees from Fordham and Santa Clara Universities, and has written a library of books

Read More »

Monk in the World Guest Post: Krissy Kludt

I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Krissy Kludt’s reflection and poem Of Dust and Water. Several years ago, I texted my father from a snowbound house in Tahoe,

Read More »