Are you wanting to expand your spiritual life?  Looking for a safe place to explore? Our offerings will stir your imagination and animate your sense of wonder.

Yoga
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January 22, 2025
6:30 pm

Observe and listen to your body, calm your mind and connect with your “true self.” Appropriate for all levels. Drop ins welcome. Facilitator: Karen Payne

Summoned to Care for Our Common Home
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January 23, 2025
9:30 am

Is your parish participating in the Summoned to Care Series? Register here! Facilitator: Pat Bergen, CSJ

Prayerful Pause
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January 23, 2025
4:30 pm

No matter where we are in the world, we are ONE Community and we need each other. Drop in and connect meaningfully with others via Zoom. Every week at 9 AM (CT) on Mondays and Wednesdays, and every Thursday at 4:30 PM (CT). Meeting ID: 448 814 3358 Passcode: gift

The Well's 25th Birthday Bash!
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January 25, 2025
9:30 am

Come join us for a morning of fun and celebration! There will be an opportunity to win raffle prizes, participate in a scavenger hunt, and learn more about our mission, our spiritual community programs and so much more!

Hope at the Crossroads
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January 26, 2025
12:00 am

Do you find yourself in a time of transition or loss, standing at the threshold between the past and an unknown future? Have you lost hope given recent world events? Join our online community to find hope and connection. Facilitated by Dr. Patricia (Pat) Bombard, BVM

The Sacred Universe | Book Group
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January 28, 2025
6:30 pm

Join our book group as we explore The Sacred Universe, a collection of essays by Thomas Berry, a renowned scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest. Together, we’ll rediscover the human spirit within the sacred totality. Facilitated by Judith Keller.

Imagine This
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February 1, 2025
8:00 am

These monthly sessions will engage participants in exercising their imaginations through paying attention to dreams, contemplating art, reflection, and presentation. Facilitator: Pat Bergen, CSJ.

Unrequited Love: Crucified Black Jesus
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February 1, 2025
9:00 am

Reflect with Haman Cross III’s powerful painting “Unrequited Love.” This moving artwork depicts a suffering Christ who weeps at the societal and individual cross of systemic racism, yet longs that Love can still bear fruit in racial reconciliation and reparation in our country.

Come and Paint
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February 1, 2025
9:30 am

These reunion sessions bring participants to a greater self-awareness through painting. Participation open to previous “Come and Paint” or “Paint Your Soul” retreat participants. Facilitators: MaryHelen Crispo and Gillian Romano

Wild Belongings: St. Brigid's Day/Imbolc
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February 2, 2025
2:00 pm

Wild Belongings invites us into a deeper experience of Divine revelation through relationship with the land and creatures near us. Facilitators: Ellen Wiggins, Bob Kent

Unrequited Love: Peace Circles
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February 6, 2025
9:30 am

Join sessions facilitated by Fr. Dowling, inspired by the artwork and insights of Mr. Cross. Engage in insights, prayer, reflection, and personal sharing to build a foundation for understanding privilege and addressing systemic racism as active Christians. Facilitator: Fr. Larry Dowling

Circle of Light
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February 7, 2025
9:30 am

Join us once a month as we engage in meditative prayer to transform ourselves and the world. Our primary spiritual practice is Whole Body Mystical Awakening, in which we encounter God beyond us, within us, beside us, and in all of creation. Facilitator: Bob Kent

Finding Inner Peace: A Yoga & Art Retreat
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February 8, 2025
9:00 am

Find inner peace and stillness this winter season. We will have yoga, art, and silence for individual prayer. All levels of experience with yoga and art are welcome! The retreat day will be a chance to slow down and match nature’s quieting around us.  Facilitator: Katie Dorner

Reiki Circle
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February 11, 2025
10:00 am

Join us for our in-person Reiki Circle to activate the healing energy you were born with, feel more calm, optimistic and empowered. Monthly | Second Tuesdays | In-Person at The Well. Facilitated by certified Reiki practitioners.

Celtic Soul Gatherings
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February 11, 2025
6:30 pm

Meet in small groups, once a month, to listen and share our deeper truths in response to sacred writings, poetry, music, and art coming out of Celtic Christianity and related traditions. Facilitators: Bob Kent, Ellen Wiggins

Dusable Museum | Day Trip
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February 15, 2025
10:00 am

Join us at The DuSable Museum to explore Black History with a docent-led tour and engaging discussion—reserve your spot today!

One Sacred Community
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February 16, 2025
11:00 am

Join us in gathering as an intentional spiritual community for monthly ritual and reflection, rooted in the reality that All is One, and facilitated through shared leadership and lay participation. Facilitators: Bob Kent, Susan Brownell, Pat Trakselis, Jan McCabe

Climate Café
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February 19, 2025
10:30 am

As the ongoing threat of the climate and environmental emergency becomes increasingly evident, find ways process and bear the many complex and dysregulating emotional responses that emerge. Facilitated by Karina Conrad, CDP, LCPC & Kerri DiMonte

Growing Your Knowing
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February 20, 2025
10:30 am

During these 12 classes we will explore creating more space in one’s awareness for one’s soul self coming to relate to one’s “self system” as a living sanctuary for Spirit. Facilitator: Tim Sperduto.

Trivia Night | 2025
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February 21, 2025
6:00 pm

Join us for Trivia Night, a fun-filled event like no other. You can register on a team or sign up solo, and we’ll put you on one. Hosted by volunteers Bill Stauffer, Will Stauffer and Miles Dobis.

Science and Scripture
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February 26, 2025
10:30 am

Are you seeking a deeper understanding of scriptures? Do you wonder if the scriptures whisper about the laws of nature, energy, electricity? Facilitator: Evelyn Lobo, SSpS

Healing Our Land | Aspirational Justice
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February 27, 2025
6:30 pm

Rev. Dr. Spicer will share the philosophy of Aspirational Justice and its constructs of Truth Telling, the Symbolic, the Institutional and the Tangible. He will then discuss how Aspirational Justice is a direct response to the manifestation of Environmental Justice.

Cosmic Smashbooking®
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March 1, 2025
9:00 am

Grounding in the sacredness of Earth, in the sacredness of the Cosmos, Cosmic Smashbooking®(CSB) is an intuitive art form. It is a fusion of intentional creativity and self-discovery through art journaling. Facilitated by Dr. Ann Viernes

Lenten Plastic Fast
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March 5, 2025
9:00 am

Deepen your spiritual connection with the Divine by participating in a Lenten fast from plastic. After Easter, we will have a celebration on April 22, Earth Day!

At-Home Lenten Retreat
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March 5, 2025
7:00 pm

Spend one half hour per day in prayer and meet with a retreat director five times for one half hour during this 3-week retreat. Spiritual Directors: Pat Bergen, CSJ, Celeste Cotter, CSJ Barbara Boyd, Evelyn Lobo, SSpS

Conversation with Jan Richardson
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March 15, 2025
10:00 am

Jan has engaged the chaotic labyrinth of grief as an artist and writer, bringing poetic grace and honesty to the complexities of loss. We will talk with Jan about the endurance of love, the stubbornness of hope, and the solace of creative practice.

Wild Belongings: Spring Equinox
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March 23, 2025
2:00 pm

Wild Belongings invites us into a deeper experience of Divine revelation through relationship with the land and creatures near us. Facilitators: Ellen Wiggins, Bob Kent

Sacred Universe Award 2025
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March 29, 2025
10:00 am

The Well is excited to host a star-studded event on its 25th anniversary. Join Sr. Gail Worcelo, Dr. Brian Swimme, and Dr. Louis Savary, recipient of the 2025 Sacred Universe Award, for a day of inspiration and connection.

The Dream of the Earth | Book Group
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April 3, 2025
6:30 pm

Join our book group for The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry. Details coming soon! Facilitated by Katie Gozum

Painting the Journey | Lenten Art Retreat
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April 11, 2025
4:00 pm

A Three Day Retreat where you will immerse yourself in a gently guided intuitive creative process of painting your own portal to your future self. Learn how art can be medicine. Facilitated by Dr. Ann Viernes

Long Have I Waited
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May 1, 2025
6:30 pm

Franciscan Father Ed Shea invites us to take look at some of the many moments of divine intimacy with women in the earthly life of Jesus and beyond.

Wild Belongings: Feast of Beltane
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May 4, 2025
2:00 pm

Wild Belongings invites us into a deeper experience of Divine revelation through relationship with the land and creatures near us. Facilitators: Ellen Wiggins, Bob Kent

Charting a Course Retreat
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May 6, 2025
9:00 am

Join us for a transformative 4-day retreat exploring the profound impact and significance of change and transition in our lives, the world and in the evolution of life. Facilitated by Margaret Silf

Does God Need Us?
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May 21, 2025
4:30 pm

God is not so much delighted by the world but dependent on the world for God’s own fullness of life. We will explore Teilhard’s insights with regard to the significance of the cosmic Christ, Christian life and the Church. 

Silver Soiree | Annual Fundraiser
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May 31, 2025
12:00 am

Details coming soon!

Wild Belongings: Summer Solstice
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June 22, 2025
2:00 pm

Wild Belongings invites us into a deeper experience of Divine revelation through relationship with the land and creatures near us. Facilitators: Ellen Wiggins, Bob Kent