Please join us IN-PERSON for our fall Poetry as Portal event of listening, connecting, and wondering with James Crews and three Vermont poets: Julie Cadwallader Staub, Patricia Fontaine and Alison Prine. Honor the ways in which poetry opens and softens our hearts on the occasion of the release of James’s just-released book: Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Courage, and Self-Compassion.

Poetry As Portal is a seasonal series from WholeHeart that we host in the virtual space! In June, we are excited to bring Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and her heart-centric poetry to cultivating deep listening and curiosity in our own unfolding lives. Register for this evening of hope and inspiration.

Poetry As Portal is a new event series from WholeHeart that we’ll host seasonally in the virtual space! This March, we will highlight Vermont poet Julie Cadwallader Staub whose poetry is among our favorites for cultivating deep listening and curiosity in our own unfolding lives. Register for this evening of hope and inspiration.

WholeHeart is turning 10 this December! We’re celebrating a decade of cultivating spaces where we can show up in wholehearted community together. Acclaimed Vermont poet James Crews will be our special guest, and we will “chew on” and cherish the beauty of his poetic words for our times. Bring a friend along for this inspiring evening.

Be a part of WholeHeart-ed community for a day of in-person practice at Rock Point Center.

Join us to explore aspects of collective care on the cusp of this bountiful fall season to attend to the soil that grounds us to sprout new insights and learnings. We have been working  with the creative cycle of our organization and look forward to  sharing energy and excitement that’s brewing as we turn 10 years old later this year! Come add your voice and wisdom to make our community circle whole.

How do we cultivate the inner stability to listen generously to our own knowing, and discover the perspectives and humanity in others? This takes practice and a commitment to keep showing up over time. Listening Calls provide a place to learn, listen and practice in community.

For six sessions, a small group will gather virtually to explore practical skills and the spirit of generous listening. Staying in dialogue, especially when we are rattled, is challenging and needs places where we can strengthen our listening muscles.

WholeHeart Listening Circles are virtual spaces that explore listening practices as a way of opening new perspectives and learnings as we travel this complex life with wonder. This fall’s circle is intended to offer you a time for yourself to listen deeply to your own inner wisdom, and to engage in practices that will support you in your longing to offer care.

Please join us for a morning of reflection and connection. We are carrying so much in our heads and our hearts that needs digesting and honoring. Finding our way to meet each tay, each challenge, asks us to open in new ways - through clues and creativity rather than firm plans and schedules.

During these morning in-person gatherings, we will practice listening to our inner whispers by “finding poems” for our souls and creating small hand-folded guidebooks. These simple reflective practices require NO artistic skill or experience.

WholeHeart Listening Circles are virtual spaces that explore listening practices as a way of opening new perspectives and learnings as we travel this complex life with wonder. This fall’s circle is intended to offer you a time for yourself to listen deeply to your own inner wisdom, and to engage in practices that will support you in your longing to offer care.

Join us this fall as the days begin to shorten and we begin prepare to slow down and go inward . You are invited to enter into a seasonal and celestial journey to connect to the many ways of knowing. Unearth how you connect to darkness an essential tool to unweave oppressive language, systemic oppression as a way of decolonizing ourselves and society. We will wrap up our time together near the half waxing moon, holding the both/and of light and darkness. September 20-November 1, 2022.

WholeHeart and the Sisters of the Earth Community invite you to circle round in-person with the land of the Green Mt. Monastery to listen with the land to explore layers of relational living

“Throughout the natural world there is an intimacy of things with each other. The intimacy of the wind and the soaring raptors, the rain and the vegetation, the sea and the shore. So too the intimacy of the bee with the flower, the intimacy of the bluebird parents with the newly hatched young. We are part of an Intimate Universe. “

- Thomas Berry.

Join the WholeHeart community in person for a day at Rock Point Center after a two year pause. Come out of your homes, off your screens, and onto the land with others in the various circles of community that combine to make WholeHeart whole.

Please join us for a morning of reflection and connection. We are carrying so much in our heads and our hearts that needs digesting and honoring. Join us in exploring a way to move attention to our hands that know how to hold and create.

Unearthing how we connect to darkness is an essential tool to unweave oppressive language within ourselves and society. Join Yvette McDonnell, Spiritual Chaplain Intern, for a 3 -week, 1 hour each introductory exploratory calls: Relating to Darkness. This is an invitation to be curious about the layers and complexity of darkness and blackness through reflection, poetry, and music.

Are you holding space for others and looking for ways to explore your own leadership edges? This circle is created with you in mind. We will meet every other week for three months: April 8 - June 17, 2022, to listen in community without needing to perform or perfect. Facilitation can be isolating at times, so it is essential to find companions with whom you can laugh, question, wonder.

We're excited collaborate with All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne, Vermont to. offer SoulCollage© in the beauty of their sanctuary overlooking the lake. Imagery speaks in languages beyond words to reveal gateways into knowing and expression. Come play with collage as a way to befriend the layers of life through the creative intuitive practice of SoulCollage(c).

WholeHeart and Rites of Passage are excited to collaborate to offer space for listening to and through loss. Grief travels in its own way and timeframe, needing space for expression and teaching.