We welcome you to WholeHeart’s The Weekly Oasis - a space of refuge you can count on each week to practice rest and presence, to access inspiration and hope, and to cultivate greater healing and wellness at home and in community.
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.
This spring, we invite you to take time to listen to what is alive in you just after the solar eclipse of the new moon in April, a potent time for identifying new patterns, clues, and practices to sustain you in the shifting energetics of these times. How do we ground and strengthen ourselves in these times of great rupture, while remaining open-hearted and relational?
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.
We invite you to begin 2024 by gathering and listening to your own way of knowing in the midst of life’s sorrows and joys. Heartbreak and loss coexist alongside experiences of great love and beauty. And increasingly, we feel the intensity of these oscillations in our lives. Whether it’s the societal divides or ecological breakdowns of our time, or personal losses closer to home, it’s helpful to carve out a space with other trusted journeyers to reflect upon and integrate the changes afoot. Please join this Circle of Trust© as an act of self-care and collective care.
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.
The Vermont Courage Cohort meets seasonally to practice the principles, tools and habits of The Center for Courage & Renewal, based on the work of activist and educator, Parker J. Palmer. By gathering over the arc of seasons, people have a chance to cultivate connection over time and weave a container that builds brave space for inner and outer work.
“Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” -Parker J. Palmer
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.
Please join us for a year of practice in community, centering earth and our relations with whom we share this planet, this time, these moments as a way of engaging in collective care. Second Sunday Earth Circles are a way of coming together across ecosystems to hear the voices of the planet.
Whether you have participated in the Weekly Wellness calls over the past year and a half or you’re just arriving, we invite you to be a part of the Summer Wellness Series.
We invite you to join a small circle in the hills of Vermont to spark your courage to BE in generative relationship with yourself, others, and earth. During these challenging times in the world, how you show up matters, so taking time to align and listen is essential. Together, we will listen to our innate ways of knowing; have time in community to connect with land, others, and the whole self; re-envision our lives from a lens of relational justice; and re-imagine our collective interdependence.
Personal well-being is interconnected with communal well-being. This requires commitment and care, especially in these times. WholeHeart is standing with you by supporting wellness practices at home and in community.
Each week we start the week with a wellness message to infuse a bit of attentive care into your week. We invite you to close the week in a community of practice with an hour of reflection and connection.
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.
In the tradition of deep listening, WholeHeart primarily convenes community circles of practice. Through listening with others, our own life questions often find new perspectives to guide us forward.
At times, having the chance to be listened with one attentive and skilled listener can bring focus to the questions we are living. We are pleased to share an opportunity with you this spring for one on one Spiritual Companionship, offered by Julie Brooks, ordained interspiritual minister.
Winter is the season of deep listening. Whispers that we carry inside of us and the earth are starting to stir. When we take the time, we can hear our body’s wisdom and align with what is calling in the world around us. Rather than resolutions, Let’s begin 2023 in deep relationship.
We invite you to this Circle of Trust(c) to renew your courage for these challenging times in the world. You are needed, we all contribute to the whole. Let’s connect with our deep truths to cultivate seeds of wonder, courage and inquiry.
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.
The Vermont Courage Cohort meets seasonally to practice the principles, tools and habits of The Center for Courage & Renewal, based on the work of activist and educator, Parker J. Palmer. By gathering over the arc of seasons, people have a chance to cultivate connection over time and weave a container that builds brave space for inner and outer work.
“Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.”
Parker J. Palmer
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.
We are pleased to share an opportunity with you for one on one spiritual companionship, offered by Yvette McDonnell, Spiritual Chaplain Intern. Yvette has a long connection with WholeHeart and is conducting her clinical pastoral education experience this summer and fall with the WholeHeart community. Yvette brings care, compassion and the ability to access questions that open new perspectives and reconnect with perhaps forgotten ways of knowing.
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.
This Listening Circle of Care offers time for yourself, to listen deeply to your own inner wisdom, and to engage in practices that will support you through the ordinary and unpredictable moments of everyday life. If you are holding questions around offering care for yourself and others, the invitation is open for you. Join others in this journey of deep listening.
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.
This Caregiver’s Listening Circle offers time for yourself, to listen deeply to your own inner wisdom, and to engage in practices that will support you through the ordinary and unpredictable moments of everyday life. If you are a Caregiver/Care-Partner, either personally or professionally, the invitation is open for you. Join others in this journey of deep listening.
“Spend enough time with the Earth and She will tell you what you need to know. She already knows you, no matter where you are.”
gkisedtanamoogk The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations
Deepen your connection with Earth for 2 days in January and commit to 101 days of daily earth practices to stay in conversation and commitment. with land and relational justice.
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: January 14- March 25, 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.
