Our programs will feed your spirit and give you a sense of belonging. Are you searching for something spiritual or a greater connection with the Earth?
Listen to well-known speakers and authors, participate in one-time and ongoing programs, book groups, nature walks, and much more.
March 5, 2025
9:00 am
Sign-up for this free Lenten Series to receive regular email updates throughout Lent regarding the threats of plastic and how you can participate in, and encourage others to, live a plastic-free life!
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
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.
March 26, 2025
9:00 am
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
March 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
March 26, 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
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.
April 4, 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
April 5, 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.
April 5, 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
April 8, 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.
April 8, 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
April 10, 2025
6:30 pm
Discover Thomas Berry’s landmark work, The Dream of the Earth, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988. This transformative book offers a visionary framework for planetary well-being and redefines our relationship with the Earth. Facilitated by Katie Gozum
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
April 17, 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.
April 20, 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
April 22, 2025
6:00 pm
Earth Day is an invitation to come together and collectively honor our relationship with creation. Through prayer and ceremony we give thanks and witness to each other and to the Earth that sustains us. Facilitator: Ellen Wiggins
April 26, 2025
3:00 pm
Come join us for a talk by Sister Helen Prejean on how the catechism of the Catholic church’s teaching on the death penalty has changed, and how we respond to it.
April 30, 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
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.
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
May 5, 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
May 9, 2025
7:00 pm
We will gather as one community to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, with prayer, art, readings, music, and reflection! Facilitator: Kathy Sherman, CSJ
May 17, 2025
10:00 am
Spend a morning among the trees and flowers of the beautiful courtyard at The Well. Reconnect with nature during this slow invitational walk led by a Certified Forest Therapy Guide. Facilitator: Maura Neuffer
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.
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
July 10, 2025
9:00 am
Join us for a deep dive retreat into these questions as we immerse ourselves with the Earth Community. We welcome you to our 155 acres called Green Mountain Monastery, a sacred space which holds the resting place of Thomas Berry. Facilitated by Sr. Gail Worcelo
July 6, 2025
9:00 am
Join Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew to explore memoir as a spiritual practice. Whether you write as a form of private prayer, as a gift for family and friends, or for publication, this week-long retreat welcomes you into the transformational possibilities of writing. Facilitated by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
