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Past Events
Access to recordings of the presentations listed below (unless otherwise noted) are available.
October 14, 2025 - Let's Talk About Sex: Understanding How We've Been Woven Together, with Kalyn Falk, MA
Have you ever found yourself wondering how conversations about sexuality became so complicated—or feel too self-conscious to approach the topic at all? Or perhaps you’ve been curious about how sexuality connects to your spirituality and the way you relate to yourself, others, and the Divine. This workshop offers a gentle and thoughtful space to explore those questions together...
October 1, 2025 - Nourishing Inner Stillness: Psychospiritual Resilience in Times of Change, with Allie Kochert, MA, LPC, CSD
Resilience is the ability to rebound from adversity - and when we have connection to our psychospiritual wellness, we can feel more hopeful and strong as we face the challenges of fear, worry, and anger. In this workshop, we'll have a time of poetry for presence and guided mindfulness meditation as we re-orient ourselves to our roots and restore connection to the inner compass.
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September 27, 2025 - Paul the Dynamic Disciple: From Tribal Zealot to Global Missionary, with Sr. Teresita Kambeitz OSU
In this scripture series we will follow Paul’s story as he grows from intolerant religiosity to all-embracing faith in Christ Jesus where “there is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female” (Gal. 3:28). Where are we on this path?
September 10, 2025 - Befriending Shame: How to be Present to the Feeling We Most Want to Avoid, with Janelle Schneider
Shame is an emotion we all encounter in our human experience. Yet, by its very nature, it is one of the most difficult emotions to be present to. Our instinctive response to shame is to hide - hide from the feelings, hide from ourselves, and hide from others. In this workshop, we will learn how shame affects us in our three centres: body, heart and head; explore tools that can assist us as we pay attention to our shame; and learn how to uncover the gifts shame offers to us.
March 6 - June 19, 2025 - The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within, with Sarah Donnelly and Nancy Phillips
An eight-part book study. The renowned author and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner takes readers on a new kind of an inner journey to discover the heart of God. Eight stages of the pilgrim's way - from hearing the call to coming home - are accompanied by scripture stories of great biblical journeys and the author's unique and creative practices of prayer, writing, and photography.
June 17, 2025 - Praying in Colour: A Creative Retreat, with Kathy Berken
Maybe you love color. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractible or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. Perhaps you struggle with a short attention span, a restless body, or a tendency to live in your head. Maybe your prayers feel more like a list for Santa Claus than a love letter to God, or you’re just bored with the same old prayers you’ve said since you were a toddler. Maybe you’re not sure that anyone out there is listening, or you just feel deep in your bones a hunger to know God better. This workshop is more of a retreat - it will introduce you to a new and engaging way to pray.
June 11, 2025 - Befriending Shame: How to be Present to the Feeling We Most Want to Avoid, with Janelle Schneider
Shame is an emotion we all encounter in our human experience. Yet, by its very nature, it is one of the most difficult emotions to be present to. Our instinctive response to shame is to hide - hide from the feelings, hide from ourselves, and hide from others. In this workshop, we will learn how shame affects us in our three centres: body, heart and head; explore tools that can assist us as we pay attention to our shame; and learn how to uncover the gifts shame offers to us.
June 3, 2025 - Near Death Experiences: Hope, Hypoxia and Hypothesis, with Rev. David Maginley
The hope offered in all religions, and held by humanity through the ages, is that we are so much more than mortal. Explore the surprisingly common accounts of those who slip across to the other side and return. Recent studies indicate NDEs are experienced by at least half of patients at the end of life, and 1 in 10 patients who have faced a health crisis. When supported by health care providers and family, these events offer the ultimate opportunity to grow in love and evolve consciousness.
May 20, 2025 - Kything: Communion with the More-Than-Human World, with Shawn Sanford Beck
THIS WORKSHOP WAS NOT RECORDED - Kything is a "psycho-spiritual technology" inspired by the fiction of Madeleine L'Engle and developed by the priest and psychologist team of Louis M. Savary and Patricia H. Berne almost 40 years ago. In this new revision of the technique by GreenSpirit Chaplain Shawn Sanford Beck, you will explore the theory and experience the practice of using your deep imagination to engage with the more-than-human persons of the green world around you. Remember: Creation is always speaking; it is often we who are not listening. Kything will help you rectify that situation.
May 20, 2025 - Free-Form Intuitive Mandala Making for Well-being, with Jean Epp-Gauthier
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to mandalas, set an intention or theme for their mandala, and have the time to create their mandalas. This recording includes the conversation between Jean and some of the participants, and from this conversation you will learn more about mandala symbolism, your choice of colour and forms, and glean possible meaning and insights your mandala may have for you.
May 13, 2025 - Rooted in Love: Navigating a Coup Without Losing Heart, with Kalyn Falk
This workshop will explore practices for staying spiritually grounded in times of global uncertainty. Through reflection, discussion, and embodied practices, we will explore how love, connection, and intentional care can sustain us through empathy fatigue, burnout, and the search for purpose in uncertain times. ​
May 7, 2025 - Dreams: Gifts of Wisdom, Insight, and Guidance, with James Schmeiser
Suppose someone told you that there was something [someone] that/who was available to you every night, that/who presented you with the truth about your own life and inner being, a truth that was tailor-made to your individual needs and particular life-story, that offered to guide you throughout your lifetime, and connect you with a source of wisdom far beyond yourself. And, to pursue this even further, that this gift would be given not only for personal insight, but for an awareness and guidance for the larger community.
May 6, 2025 - Green Burials: Your Legacy, and a Gift to the Planet, with Richard Rosin
Many of us have spent our lives reducing our impact on our planet, from recycling and composting to lobbying and keeping our lawns chemical free. Natural Green Burials (how we have taken care of our dead long before there was a funeral industry) is the 'traditional' form of burial, practiced by many cultures and growing in popularity worldwide. Our environmental legacy lives on long after our hearts stop beating. We have much to do to prepare. This workshop takes a refreshing look at this topic.
April 19, 2025 - Waiting in the In-Between: A Spiritual Journey Through Change, with Kalyn Falk
How do we move from what was to what will be? This workshop invites participants to explore the experience of disorientation, transition, and change through the lens of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. This is a time to honor what has been, sit with the unknown, and open ourselves to new possibilities.
March 25, 2025 - Three Seeds of Ecological Spirituality, with Shawn Sanford Beck
THIS WORKSHOP WAS NOT RECORDED - GreenSpirit Chaplain Shawn Sanford Beck offered participants the opportunity to learn about “three seeds” of Christian Animism, Green Priestcraft, and the Rune of Sophia. For many, these will be entirely new concepts and forms of spirituality, each of which has the potential to deepen our relationship with the living Earth and all the more-than-human neighbours with whom we share this precious life.
January 9, February 13, March 13, 2025 - Radical Reverence: Jesus and Unnamed Women in the Gospels, with Sr. Teresita Kambeitz OSU
Honour, admiration, respect, compassion, esteem, tribute, appreciation, trust - these are some of the responses of Jesus in his encounters with unnamed women in the gospels. In these presentations we will aim to view these women through his eyes as we reflect on his radical responses toward these “nobodies” of his time and inaugurates a new world in which “there is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female” (Gal. 3:28).
March 11, 2025 - Holding the Tension: Moving Beyond Either/Or Thinking, with Kalyn Falk
Some tensions in life are not problems to be solved but polarities to be held—dynamic forces that invite wisdom rather than resolution. Polarity management is a powerful framework that moves us beyond either/or thinking into a deeper awareness of wholeness. Grounded in non-dual wisdom, this approach teaches us to embrace paradox, recognizing that opposing forces are often interdependent.
March 8, 2025 - Exploring Your Domestic Monastery, with Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI
God is more domestic than monastic and is found more in your home than in your church. The domestic can also be the “monastic.” Your marriage, your family, and your work can be your own monastery. The alarm clock that wakes you in the morning is your monastic bell and your work and duties each day are your monastic rhythm. Monks have secrets worth knowing. This presentation will draw wisdom from the monastic tradition to shed light on our own human and spiritual journey.​
February 11, 2025 - When Faith Hurts: Exploring Religious Trauma and Spiritual Healing, with Kalyn Falk
Trauma is a powerful, adaptive tool for safety and survival. However, unprocessed trauma can impact our emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This workshop will explore the nature of trauma, its effects on the body, and its intersection with spirituality.
February 7, 2025 - Bless to Me This Day: Celtic Prayers for Daily Living, with The Rev. Mary Earle
The Celtic tradition give us a daily rota of prayers which attended to the minutiae of daily living with an loving awareness of God’s presence. This workshop explores those traditional prayers recorded in the 19th century, and we will follow those models in order to write prayers that are particular to your own context. We will reflect on how we actually spend our days (not how we think we do), and seek to weave prayer into those moments.
January 22, 29, February 5, 2025 - Aspects of the Resurrection of Jesus, with Don Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Session 1 - The Resurrection of Jesus and Western Reason. Session 2 - The Resurrection of Jesus Enlarges Our Hearts. Session 3 - A Role for Christians (and Others) in the Resurrection of Jesus.
January 14, 2025 - Taking Another Look at God: Renewing Our Images of the Holy, with Kalyn Falk
What do we imagine when we think of God? How do we see God? Where do we look to see the Holy? This workshop guides participants in exploring their evolving understanding of God and how it influences self-perception and spiritual well-being. Drawing from Jungian and Gestalt theories, we’ll uncover hidden distortions and heal patterns that may hold us back. As faith shifts and we grow in awareness, we open ourselves to deeper, transformative views of the Divine, fostering hope and personal renewal.
December 10, 2024 - Living with an Expansive Faith, with Kalyn Falk
As faith deepens and integrates, life becomes an expression of our journey’s growth, rooted in intimacy with the Divine and extending toward others and creation. This workshop explores how to live faithfully in this stage, with attention to the unique call and challenges, or “shadow,” it may bring.
December 2, 2024 - Praying in Colour, with Kathy Berken
NO RECORDING AVAILABLE. THIS EXCELLENT WORKSHOP IS OFFERED SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR. Maybe you love colour. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractable or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. This workshop will introduce you to a new and engaging way to pray. See the recording for June 17, 2025 to experience this fun and creative retreat.
November 27, 2024 - A Beginner's Guide to Lectio Divina, with Sr. Mary Coswin OSB
Join Sr. Mary and others in exploring a centuries-old prayer practice which is both accessible and transformative. ​
November 12, 2024 - Your Journey of Faith: Exploring the Stages of Spiritual Growth, with Kalyn Falk
Have you thought about how your faith has changed over the years? In this workshop, we’ll introduce two key frameworks for understanding stages of faith formation.
November 2, 2024 - Naming the Present Moment: Searching for Nurturing Metaphors in a Time of Receding Transcendence, with Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI
Not everything can be fixed or cured, but it should be named properly! Jesus called this “reading the signs of the times”. How do we do that? This session will try to name our faith situation today, particularly as it relates to our faith lives.
October 30, 2024 - From Grief to Mission, with Sr. Teresita Kambeitz OSU
With the aid of visuals, reflections will be offered on the Easter encounter between Mary Magdalene and the Risen Lord, who leads her from “grief” to “mission.” He begins the process gently by calling her to forgiveness of the disciples, thus liberating and empowering her to make the most important announcement in human history.
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