Poetry & Warm-Hearted Lunch Winter Series, Mulmur, Ontario. Canada
A small gathering around a beautiful table, with poetry read and considered, nourishment for body and soul. Hosted by Candice and Alissa Price.
March 21, 2025: Theologies of Tenderness in Poetry
Poems to illuminate the fleeting temples we may create from our small kindnesses and attentive greetings one to the other, how blessings can be gifted by animals and plants and sky.
Poetry & Warm-Hearted Lunch Winter Series, Mulmur, Ontario. Canada
A small gathering around a beautiful table, with poetry read and considered, nourishment for body and soul. Hosted by Candice and Alissa Price.
March 14, 2025 : Theologies of Tenderness in Poetry
Poems to illuminate the fleeting temples we may create from our small kindnesses and attentive greetings one to the other, how blessings can be gifted by animals and plants and sky.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
March 11, 2025 : Growing Pains
Thawing out hurts. Birth requires pushing. Sprouting means rupture. This session tends to the growing pains of the upcoming spring season, offering a chance to think about what’s to come.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
February 25, 2025: Resonance
Building from the previous two sessions on stillness and listening, we’ll now find our voice. Playing with the acoustics in the Oude Kerk, we’ll explore how speaking is always a dance of attunement between our bodies and our surroundings.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
February 11, 2025: Deep Listening
Even if it’s happened only once, we all know the profound feeling of being listened to deeply. In this session we’ll experiment with listening skills by attending to the space around us, to one another, and to ourselves.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
January 21, 2025 : Vibrant Stillness
There’s a lot of running around these days, isn’t there? This session finds magic in simple instructions: Stop. Be together.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
January 7. 2025 : Winter As Verb
Drawing on Katherine May’s idea of wintering, we feel into the season as a verb. Our culture is often stretching towards building and innovation, but any newness requires hibernation, retreat, mulling over, and rumination. Let’s see what gifts these neglected processes have to offer.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
December 17, 2025 : What Nourishes Us
In the year’s darkest days, let’s momentarily forget the periphery and huddle into what beats at the core. In an intimate setting over cozy drinks, we’ll share with each other the things that deeply nourish us. We can take this clarity forward into the winter season.
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
This Week - The Art of Redemption
Conversations over Poetry and a Warm Hearted Lunch, Mulmur, Ontario, Canada
NEW DATE ADDED
Here is an invitation to gather with myself, Candice, and Alissa Price, aka The Contemplative Cook, over a delicious lunch to consider, through the artistry of poetic language, how we may find sacredness and compassion in the most ordinary of circumstances in our every day lives . . .
Conversations over Poetry and a Warm Hearted Lunch, Mulmur, Ontario, Canada
PLEASE NOTE, THERE ARE NO PLACES LEFT ON THIS DATE.
Here is an invitation to gather with myself, Candice, and Alissa Price, aka The Contemplative Cook, over a delicious lunch to consider, through the artistry of poetic language, how we may find sacredness and compassion in the most ordinary of circumstances in our every day lives . . .
Sacred Sessions in the Oude Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.
This Week - Grief as a Praise Song
Conversations over Poetry and a Warm Hearted Lunch
The places at this table are full now, though doubtless you can gather others at your table too, for a generous and sweet conversation.
Here is an invitation to gather with myself, Candice, and Alissa Price, aka The Contemplative Cook, over a delicious lunch to consider, through the artistry of poetic language, how we may find sacredness and compassion in the most ordinary of circumstances in our every day lives . . .