Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

Join us for Groundings November 18, 2025 as Bill Huebsch invites us to explore a Contemporary Vocabulary with which to Speak of the Holy One.

Moving beyond the old images of a distant, absent, male deity (often pictured as “two men and a bird”), we will focus on  images of the Holy One that Jesus gave us and spell out this fresh vocabulary: how it helps us pray, how it shifts our trust, how it invites us to walk with Holy Mystery. Whether you’ve grown weary of clichéd language or are simply hungry for deeper connection, this gathering invites a re-imagining of the Divine in ways that open our hearts and challenge our assumptions.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

This online workshop is a part of Sacred Ground and Loyola Spirituality Center’s Spiritual Director Development Series.

Vibrant spiritual direction practices change and grow over time. Shifts in our connection with God and others influence how we understand, feel about, and do this ministry. Each season of spiritual direction holds unique gifts of wisdom and energy. What if we were intentional about leaning into the gifts of these seasons by sharing insights: honoring where we are and offering hope for moving forward? Whether you are a newly formed spiritual director or have been practicing for decades, together we will encourage and inspire one another to nourish and grow this ministry. 

Our lives are richer, our hearts bigger, and our world more whole when we maintain a learner’s stance and learn to listen deeper than differences.

Join us Oct 21, 2025, as Rev. Dr. Janet Johnson and Rev. Doug Federhart help us explore: what having a learner’s stance means; what can get in the way of our being open and curious; and some practices that can help us go beyond perceived differences.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

Join us Sept 16 2025 as Scott McRae leads us through the threefold path of Spiritual Growth; the journeys of the ego, the soul, and the Spirit.

In this Groundings session, each of the three journeys will be explored through a symbolic image, core concepts, steps for navigating the journey, a spiritual practice for growth, and a vision of “homecoming” that reveals the gift of the journey. Through teaching, reflection, and small and large group conversation, we’ll cultivate a deeper fluency in the inner landscape of the spiritual life.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

How does one become a spiritual director? How do you know if becoming a spiritual director is your next step?

Listen to spiritual directors share about their calling to this ministry.

Hear from representatives from local spiritual direction training programs, including Christos Center for Spiritual Formation, Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality, the Franciscan Spirituality Center, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and the spiritual direction certificate program at St. John's School of Theology and Seminary,

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. Bring your questions!

Discipline starts with a spiritual practice. It’s just every day, every day, every day. — bell hooks

In August 2024, Bill McDonough embarked on the 40-day, 500-plus mile Camino de Santiago de Compotela pilgrimage across Spain and carried with him bell hook’s thoughts on practice.

Join us as he shares what this experience is teaching him about spiritual practice for our “every day, every day, every day” in this difficult age.

In this day of contemplative reflection, Monique Keffer will invite you to experience a variety of spiritual practices designed to open your heart gently, and then send you forth to keep your spirit alive with resources to continue the practices at home.

Registration for this Event is Currently Full. Please contact info@sacredgroundspirit.org if you would like to be put on a waiting list should space become available.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

This online workshop is a part of Sacred Ground and Loyola Spirituality Center’s Spiritual Director Development Series. Join us for this online panel discussion on supporting directees going through a deconstructing faith. We will pool together our knowledge and experiences to give participants language, understanding, and resources as they accompany directees through a faith that has left them feeling lost.

“They not like us!” —Kendrick Lamar’s words echo a reality that many of us wrestle with, whether consciously or unconsciously. How do we minister to people who don’t look, think, or live like us? How do we confront our own biases and bridge divides in a world that often thrives on separation?

Join us for a powerful and interactive conversation led by Rev. Paul Slack, VP of Lutheran Social Services, as we engage in honest dialogue about embracing difference in ministry.

Join us April 15, 2025 as Diane Millis, Ph. D. invites us to remember who we are.

It’s easy to forget who we are and who we were created to be.  We live in a wounded world that keeps telling us who we should be rather than imploring us to remember who we are.  We are God’s beloved.

In this Groundings session, we will explore two questions:  (1) How might those of us who offer spiritual direction continue to claim more fully our identity as God’s beloved? 

(2) What are the specific approaches we can draw upon for helping our directees reconnect with those lost soul parts and pieces of themselves who long to know them once again? 

“Creativity is oxygen for our souls.” Julia Cameron

Join spiritual director, artist, and retreat leader Peggy Thompson for a day dedicated to creating in community. Peggy will walk us through the process of making a Japanese bound journal that you will take home at the end of the day. Creating your own journal invites you to create a safe space to reflect and explore your “one wild and precious life” as Mary Oliver would say.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. Bring your questions!

Join us March 18, 2025 as Mary Noble Garcia and Carolyn Kolovitz invite is to a somatic experience of the Enneagram.

Our Enneagram habits are automatic patterns woven into the neural pathways of our bodies. When we are caught in these patterns, shifting into our felt-sense can bring us to a place of freedom.

 This session provides an opportunity to experience a felt-sense of the Enneagram through guided meditations, stories, somatic exercises and discussion.

Begin your Lenten journey with intention and peace. Come discover and experience how praying the labyrinth can enhance your faith and spiritual life.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

Join us Feb. 18, 2025, as Rev. Dr. Blair Pogue invites us, as members of our spiritual communities, to foster a culture of curiosity about what the Holy Spirit might be up to in the lives of our neighbors.

What role can spiritual directors play in helping their faith communities learn to listen more deeply to God and their neighbors?

This online workshop is a part of Sacred Ground and Loyola Spirituality Center’s Spiritual Director Development Series and is designed for spiritual directors who have a basic understanding of the Enneagram system and their own Enneagram type.

Sacred Ground’s Online Sacred Circle is an inclusive space for belonging. It is a space to be heard, held, and to just be in community. We will gather online by Zoom the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 10am.

This contemplative gathering will use a “third thing”—a reading, poem, or prompt for reflection. Participants will have the option of sharing in a smaller group. This is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be present to one another’s stories.

Come learn about Sacred Ground’s Spiritual Direction Formation & Training Program! Meet our faculty. Hear from recent graduates. Bring your questions!

Join us January 21, as Matt Linn, SJ invites us to explore Living Now the Gifts of the Near-Death Experience

While giving retreats in over 60 countries, Matt Linn, SJ would ask retreatants when they most experienced God’s love.  Despite diverse cultures, he would hear similar stories from people who nearly died and met a loving Light that radically changed their life. After this experience, these individuals could more deeply love God and others (both living and deceased), forgive deep hurts, drop addictions, discern with new clarity, and then lovingly live out their life-changing decisions.  In this session, we will explore how the near-death experience teaches us to receive these gifts now without a near-death experience.

This year, give yourself the gift of a contemplative retreat. Join Mary Lou Logsdon and Tracy Mooty for a morning where you can pause, prepare to embrace the sacred season of Advent with loving focus, hear the Nativity story anew, and find a companion from that story with whom to journey through the month of December.

This event is being offered through Saint Thomas Becket Catholic Church. Registration is now full for this event. Please contact info@sacredgroundspirit.org if you are interested in being put on a waiting list.

Join us November 19, as Victor Klimoski invites us to explore Nature as Text and Testimony.

There is no single pathway to explore and nurture one's inner journey. What is often common for many seekers, however, is the intuitive sense that the natural world provides a language for naming one's discoveries, questions, and wonderments along the way.

This session explores how creation influences our efforts to name for ourselves life's revelations.