Outdoor Labyrinth Dedication
On August 15, 2016, Wisdom Ways held a dedication for the two recently installed outdoor labyrinths on the Carondelet Center grounds: The Garden Labyrinth and the Chartres Labyrinth.
Superior Light
Fascinated by the layering of colors in the depths of the forest and the grassy meadows they surround, Rita Beyer Corrigan is currently working with landscape images of northern Minnesota, especially along Lake Superior. The contrast of and reflective nature of water set against the land forms of both rocks and trees also call her to record their images.
Boundless Compassion Retreat with Joyce Rupp
Join Joyce Rupp in exploring this vital quality from many dimensions, including science, medicine, theology, spirituality, sociology, and psychology. During this week-long retreat, you will explore your personal and professional experiences of compassion, re-energize your ability to offer loving kindness, and go forth with a renewed commitment to be a compassionate presence for yourself and those who are in the midst of pain, struggle and transition.
Exploring Exposure
In these prints, Kate Gray interprets her experience living in Morocco, translating her thoughts and ideas about culture, religion, femininity, and a sense of home and community into designs that are meant to ask questions, not answer them.
Home: An Evening with Kevin Kling
Storyteller Kevin Kling engaged us with thoughtful questions: What constitutes home? How are we formed by community, faith and family? Does it define us, give us our identity? When we leave can we ever truly return? How does home provide resiliency in times of loss?
A Morning for Writers: Craft Talk & Process with Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye believes that poetry calls us to pause. “There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.” Come listen as Nye reads her poems, reflects on poetry as an act of spiritual devotion, and probes the ways that poetry and literature help open our hearts to one another.
An Evening of Poetry and Reflection: Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye believes that poetry calls us to pause. “There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.” Come listen as Nye reads her poems, reflects on poetry as an act of spiritual devotion, and probes the ways that poetry and literature help open our hearts to one another.
Brushed Back To Life: Healing From Illness Through Intuitive Painting and Poems
This 34-painting, 31-poem exhibit shares Ron Duffy’s feelings and experiences living with chronic illness. Starting with confusion, anger, frustration, and isolation, he moves toward hopefulness, joy and making peace with the situation, seeing his experience with fresh eyes-more acceptance and less judgment.
Tents of Witness: Genocide and Conflict
Tents of Witness: Genocide and Conflict is a multimedia, multicultural, multigenerational exhibit designed to educate people about genocide; explain the causes and consequences of genocide; present action steps to prevent it; and remember those in our own communities who have fled from these atrocities and whose families and communities have been destroyed.
Red Roads and Blue Highways: An American Journey in Song and Word
Highly acclaimed author Kent Nerburn and Larry Long visited Wisdom Ways for an evening of songs, stories and music that expressed how their time with First Nations peoples has changed their hearts and transformed their lives.