Calendar

Program runs August 2025 - June 2026

At Abbey of the Arts we celebrate financial accessibility and strive to make all of our programs available to those who long to participate. We want to gather a core circle of financial supporters for the 2025-2026 academic year to help keep our offerings and our community open and accessible to all who desire a contemplative and creative life.

with Coke Tani

Join us for Loving into Justice: Pilgrimage through the Body, where we will co-journey into the intersectional Sacred Feminine's dynamic yet enduring presence for help in these times. We will open ourselves to encounter Her embodied wisdoms for anti-racism, reproductive freedom, anti-ableism and gender expansive/nonbinary affirmation.

with Aisling Richmond, Felicia Murrell, Jamie Marich, and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

In this four week program, join Abbey of the Arts Wisdom Council Members as we guide you through contemplative and action-based practices. Through rest and renewal we not only nourish ourselves, we can settle into what is most important for our spiritual growth and our capacity for resilience.

with Simon de Voil, Cassidhe Hart, and Aisling Richmond

This mini-retreat is part of our four part Deep Rest series exploring the energy of seasonal turning points and the gifts of deep rest. The Celtic hinge points of Autumn Equinox, Samhain, the Winter Solstice, and Imbolc offer the wisdom of living into a rhythm that honors the importance of times of rest as essential to our personal and collective wellbeing. Register for one or all of the mini-retreats.

with Simon de Voil and Deirdre Ní Chinnéide

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service and deepen into the moment through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Lydia Violet Harutoonian and Te Martin

In this four-part series, seasoned facilitator Lydia Violet Harutoonian, accompanied by community song leader Te Martin, will lead an in-depth immersion in the “Work that Reconnects” (WTR). WTR is Joanna Macy’s experiential group work that has helped thousands find clarity of vision and emotional sanctuary while living through this precious and precarious moment on our planet.

with Simon de Voil, Jamie Marich, and Polly Paton-Brown

This mini-retreat is part of our four part Deep Rest series exploring the energy of seasonal turning points and the gifts of deep rest. The Celtic hinge points of Autumn Equinox, Samhain, the Winter Solstice, and Imbolc offer the wisdom of living into a rhythm that honors the importance of times of rest as essential to our personal and collective wellbeing. Register for one or all of the mini-retreats.

with Simon de Voil and Polly Paton-Brown

Join us on the first Monday of every month for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Luther E. Smith

Our experiences of beloved community begin with crossing identity boundaries—our own boundaries, and those of neighbors, strangers, friends, family, and enemies. Beloved community is not only experienced in successfully connecting with other hearts. The joy of beloved community is also experienced in the process of embracing others. This retreat is designed to facilitate our commitment to the process.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Guest Teachers

Since 2008 we have posted an annual invitation to listen for a word to guide them in the year ahead. We would share a few short and simple practices with hundreds of people participating. Now Christine has published a book about the process and this retreat is a companion to it, providing additional guidance and support to contemplate what holiness is birthing within your soul. Each day there will be a different practice offered to inspire, challenge, and support you in listening for the word that wants to be spoken to your heart.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Jamie Marich

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, and Te Martin

This mini-retreat is part of our four part Deep Rest series exploring the energy of seasonal turning points and the gifts of deep rest. The Celtic hinge points of Autumn Equinox, Samhain, the Winter Solstice, and Imbolc offer the wisdom of living into a rhythm that honors the importance of times of rest as essential to our personal and collective wellbeing. Register for one or all of the mini-retreats.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Christine Valters Paintner and guest teachers

Our retreat 12 week companion retreat to the book The Artist's Rule will explore where the paths of the monk and artist meet. Drawing on monastic spirituality from the wisdom of desert, Celtic, and Benedictine traditions, we will explore together contemplative practices that support and encourage the flowering of our creative visions.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Deirdre Ní Chinnéide, and Nóirín Ní Riain

This mini-retreat is part of our four part Deep Rest series exploring the energy of seasonal turning points and the gifts of deep rest. The Celtic hinge points of Autumn Equinox, Samhain, the Winter Solstice, and Imbolc offer the wisdom of living into a rhythm that honors the importance of times of rest as essential to our personal and collective wellbeing. Register for one or all of the mini-retreats.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Te Martin

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Guest Teachers

Join us this Lent as we explore the wisdom of monks, mystics, and scriptures. We will discover a vital strand of the Christian tradition which deeply honors Earth as the place of sanctuary and revelation, of guidance, and witness to celebration.

with ValLimar Jansen

Through expressive arts, music, poetry, drama, movement, and silence, we will delve into the stories of seven African American visionaries—not just as historical narratives, but as universal calls to awaken the sacred within ourselves. This retreat offers a unique space to listen deeply, create freely, and connect with their enduring wisdom.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Dena Jennings

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Felicia Murrell

Love, as a way of being in the world, can be a transformative practice to guide how we show up in our lives amid tension and chaos. This two-hour retreat will offer a supportive space to widen and deepen our own compassionate listening practice and will also offer contemplative writing and guided meditation practices to cultivate inner strength and self-awareness.

with Kaitlin Curtice

Following the life cycle of a story, in this workshop Kaitlin will guide participants through how powerful stories become in the world and how we interact with and reclaim stories for love and kinship.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Soyinka Rahim

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Nóirín Ní Riain

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

From ecstatic joy to heartbreaking lament, the Psalms affirm every aspect of human life. With teaching, singing, and meditation, long-time Abbey collaborator Richard Bruxvoort Colligan (he/him) will guide us in an immersion of his favorite part of the Hebrew scriptures. Participants will be invited to sketch, doodle, journal, and create psalm-inspired poetry.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Melissa Layer

This 4-week program is a writing retreat focused on cultivating our kinship to creation through stories of saints and animals. These stories immerse us in a worldview that sees a connection to animals as a sign of holiness. They help to kindle our wonder and nourish an earth-cherishing consciousness in us.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Brother Richard Hendrick OFM Cap.

This retreat will examine the place of Intention and Attention as energetic directions of the soul in meditative practice.