Writing on the Wild Edges: St. Brendan’s Voyage as Creative Guide

May 12, 2025 – May 13, 2025 @ 4:00 pm IST – 5:30 pm IST –

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, Nóirín Ní Riain, Deirdre Ní Chinnéide, and guest artists

Join us for a 5-day virtual journey that is part writing retreat and part inner pilgrimage. We will be exploring St. Brendan’s story as a map for our own creative process. Each day we will consider an aspect of how the story invites us into our creative practice and we will engage in various writing explorations together.

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Monk in the World Guest Post: Jean Wise

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Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, We hope you have had a restful summer. We always cherish this time of quiet reflection and dreaming into the new academic year of programs. I have savored having some time to simply be and deepen into the sacred rhythms of life.  Some of my time this summer has been spent […]