Our culture surrounds us with external images telling us who we are, what we should buy, how we should think. But what about the images inside our souls? Ann and Barry Ulanov state in their book “Religion and the Unconscious “ that image comes before word. How do we get in touch with these images? And how do these interior images inform our spiritual journeys, our very lives from the inside out?
Join Peggy Thompson as she invites us to explore creativity. We will use color, symbol, metaphor, rhyming, and repetition. We will spend time with our spirituality using meditation, silence, and synchronicity in order to touch viriditus– the green sap of the Holy Spirit as Hildegarde of Bingen would say. Let’s experience how creativity empowers our spiritual journeys and the journeys of those we companion.
Peggy Thompson is an artist (50 years), a spiritual director (26 years), retired chaplain (35 years ) and United Church of Christ minister. She received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her M-Div from United Theological Seminary and spiritual direction certification from the Cenacle Retreat Center, (now Sacred Ground). Peggy is also certified to teach Centering prayer through Contemplative Outreach.
Peggy loves to examine the relationship between creativity and spirituality by combining art-making, with contemplative consciousness. She has a studio in the Northrup King Building in the Northeast Arts District.
Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality and Loyola Spirituality Center look forward to bringing you this next installment of our online Spiritual Directors Development series.
We will meet by Zoom Monday January, 26, 2026 from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (central time).
Cost: $20 (Scholarships available upon request.)