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!

• Fall Life Lectio: Sunday, October 20th 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST
• 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.

Spirituality and the Elderly 

Every year we offer the opportunity for graduates from our School of Spiritual Direction to present their year two project.

As we age our spirituality changes and we may find ourselves in a different place from where we were when we were younger. Join Kathy Bodri as she offers:

• Ways for the elderly to deepen their spirituality
• Ways for a spiritual director to work with the elderly
• Ways to work with those with Alzheimer's or dementia

A Zoom link will be sent after registering.

Introducing the ARTE of WE: A Wisdom Website, Resource, and Community

Every year we offer the opportunity for graduates from our School of Spiritual Direction to present their year two project.

Being an eclectic spiritual seeker, Lauree Morris knew right from the start that she wanted to spend her second year creating an online resource to support and connect others who choose a unique spiritual path.

Join her on Thursday, September 5th at 7:00pm-8:00pm CST on Zoom as she shares about her process of creating ARTE of WE. Her website includes six wisdom tradition practitioners who have joined in the journey and offer their unique perspectives to help us explore what might just be a fit for where we find ourselves in our own wisdom practices. Says Lauree, “It has been a wild and crazy year of planning, learning, and creating the website, resource, and community I dreamed of!

A Zoom link will be sent after registering.

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, offers her third free session on September 5th as part of her second year project exploring the wisdom found in children's books. 

Circle meeting dates: 

• Thursday, September 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):

"Poems & Art shared by the WTC Centering Prayer Community" (May)

The World Wisdom Bible edited by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (texts from the major world religions, June-November)

June: "Ultimate Reality & The Eternal I"

July: Centering Prayer Circle Summer Break

August: "The Self or Mind and The Nature of Wisdom"

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 27-20, 2025

Online Certificate in Spiritual Direction

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