Rolling Ridge Programs
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Reserve the Rolling Ridge Prayer Chapel
Rolling Ridge has a dedicated onsite Prayer Chapel that can be reserved for spiritual direction. If you are a spiritual director and would like to book this space at the Ridge to meet with your directees, please complete this online room reservation request. Please indicate the date(s) and time(s) you would like to reserve the […]
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Listening Collective: First-Time Membership Payment
The Listening Collective is a gathering of kindred hearts connecting with God, the Source of Life, ourselves and all creation. As a professional organization, we enrich the art and skills of deep listening, share practices, stories, and resources, and feel the warmth of peer-led support and encouragement in the life-giving vocation of soul companioning. Rolling […]
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Introduction to Spiritual Guidance - Journey of the Soul and Listening as an Act of Justice - Learning to Listen in Painful and Anxious Places - Discernment in the Journey: Joining Contemplation and Action - Discernment with Communities: Incarnational Soul Tending - Missional Imagination of the Spiritual Director in Context What to Expect: - Taking […]
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SoulCare for Clergy
With John Kiemele
As you care for your congregation, who cares for you? We at Rolling Ridge are here for you! Research shows that experiencing prolonged challenges, persistent disruptions, endless stressors, disorientation, compassion fatigue, or emotional exhaustion over an extended length of time erodes our sense of well-being and limits our capacity to respond in positive, flexible and […]
SoulCare with Artists 2024-2025
With Larry Jay
This online group meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST. SoulCare with Artists invites you to join your creative spirit with other creative spirits as you lean into your union with the Creator Spirit. SoulCare with Artists creates a safe and sacred online space for the artist in you to connect with others as […]
Worship with the Woods: Listening for Nature's Sermon
Join us as we connect all people, God and creation through nature contemplation on the fourth Sunday of each month, year round. Celebrate the Divine presence in all things as we seek to live in harmony with everyone and everything. Transform yourself and renew the Earth as we worship together on the beautiful shore of […]
Soul Care for Spiritual Directors
As spiritual directors/companions/deep listeners, we know the gift and challenge of listening in these times. While you companion and care for others through your deep listening practice, we at Rolling Ridge are here to care for you via SoulCare for Spiritual Directors. This online SoulCare experience offers hospitable and confidential space to connect with God/Source of Life […]
Lenten Companioned Retreat with Quiet Day
With Larry Jay
The season of Lent is a time of reflection as we prepare for Easter and the journey with Christ from crucifixion to resurrection.  Whether clergy or laity, we invite you to slow down and begin this upcoming lenten season on retreat at the Ridge. Our Lenten Companioned Retreat allows you to join us for up to three […]
Worship with the Woods: Listening to Nature's Sermons
With Larry Jay
Join us as we connect all people, God and creation through nature contemplation on the fourth Sunday of each month, year round. Celebrate the Divine presence in all things as we seek to live in harmony with everyone and everything. Transform yourself and renew the Earth as we worship together on the beautiful shore of […]
Rohr Action and Contemplation Small Group
Do you receive the Daily Meditations sent by Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation? Have you read a book by Richard Rohr? Have you participated in the CONSPIRE conference hosted by CAC? Are you a graduate of the CAC Living School? Have you participated in a Men's Right of Passage with Father […]
3rd Thursday SoulCare
With John Kiemele
Because living a vibrant spirituality is no easy journey in our current society, we all need support and encouragement to find and sustain our way. Â Join us on the third Thursday of each month for "SoulCare" - a Rolling Ridge online group that creates a welcoming and sacred space for you to connect with others […]
Worship with the Woods: Listening to Nature's Sermons
With Larry Jay
Join us as we connect all people, God and creation through nature contemplation on the fourth Sunday of each month, year round. Celebrate the Divine presence in all things as we seek to live in harmony with everyone and everything. Transform yourself and renew the Earth as we worship together on the beautiful shore of […]
SoulCare Summit RETREAT 2024: Being Wholly Present
With Larry Jay
SoulCare Summit 2024: BEING WHOLLY PRESENT Contemplative spirituality is the heart of our programming at Rolling Ridge, but you may be wondering: What is contemplative spirituality? Very simply, contemplative spirituality is becoming wholly present to the Holy Presence in everyone and everything. Over the coming years, Rolling Ridge plans to focus our programming to help […]
Soul Care: Aging into Freedom-4th Wednesday
With Sandra LaPerche
Join us for a new monthly SoulCare group to voice the consolations and desolations of growing older and wiser. We will talk about the ways we continue to move forward with hope despite some of the limitations and losses of aging. We will share the spiritual practices that bring us strength and courage. We will […]
Worship with the Woods: Listening to Nature's Sermons
With Larry Jay
Join us as we connect all people, God and creation through nature contemplation on the fourth Sunday of each month, year round. Celebrate the Divine presence in all things as we seek to live in harmony with everyone and everything. Transform yourself and renew the Earth as we worship together on the beautiful shore of […]
Deep Listening in the Neighborhood 2024-2025
With John Kiemele, Cris Kerekes and Jackie Trotter-Dove
Deep Listening in the Neighborhood is an advanced training in missional spiritual direction and deep listening that immerses us into the heart and movements of The Holy within our particular relational contexts. Through this practice-based cohort, we aim to listen deep into Spirit and wide into our neighborhoods. In nine online sessions, we will explore: […]
Soul Care: Aging into Freedom-2nd Wednesday
With Sandra LaPerche
Join us for a new monthly SoulCare group to voice the consolations and desolations of growing older and wiser. We will talk about the ways we continue to move forward with hope despite some of the limitations and losses of aging. We will share the spiritual practices that bring us strength and courage. We will […]
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Advent Prayer Journey 2024
As we prepare our hearts for Christmas, we invite you to join Rolling Ridge for an ONLINE Advent Prayer Journey.  Each Sunday during the weeks of Advent (beginning December 1st and concluding December 29th), we will offer ONLINE reflections and contemplative sharing at the Vesper Hour from 6:00 to 7:00 pm eastern.  Low: An Honest Advent […]
Advent Companioned Quiet Day Retreat
With Larry Jay
In the busy-ness of the Christmas season, we invite you to come away to the Ridge for an IN-PERSON retreat. Â As we make time to embrace the waiting and settling in, we will breathe in the hope, joy, peace and love that this time of Advent offers. Our Advent Companioned Retreat allows you to join […]
Advent Companioned Quiet Day Retreat~ Lorena & Guests
With Larry Jay
In the busy-ness of the Christmas season, we invite you to come away to the Ridge for an IN-PERSON retreat. Â As we make time to embrace the waiting and settling in, we will breathe in the hope, joy, peace and love that this time of Advent offers. Our Advent Companioned Retreat allows you to join […]
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Rohr Book Study: Breathing Under Water
With Larry Jay
Join us for our next book study as we finally get to Richard Rohr's "Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps." Â We meet ONLINE on the first and third Sundays of the month from 3:00-4:30 pm eastern. Click here for a link to the book To survive the tidal wave of compulsive behavior and […]
Spiritual Resiliency: Befriending your body for holistic health
With Carrie Ives
Spiritual Resiliency is an invitation to reconnect all parts of health. If you live with a chronic illness - or even if you don’t! - learning and reflecting on the interconnection of all pieces of health and wellness can be transformative. It's about befriending your body, even if you feel like your body has betrayed […]
Walking the Talk: A Pilgrimage with Peace Pilgrim
With Stephanie Rutt
“I am a pilgrim, a wanderer. I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until I am given shelter and fasting until I am given food.” Peace Pilgrim From 1953 – 1981, twenty-eight years, this silver-haired woman, known simply as Peace Pilgrim, walked, lived, and spoke to all whom […]
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Gateways to God 2024-2026 Tuition Payment
Click here for the brochure. Submit your online application here. Personal Reference/Referral form Spiritual Autobiography Application Questions: 1. Describe your earliest religious/spiritual experiences. 2. Who or what are the persons, books, and experiences which have influenced your life and faith journey? 3. Explain how your experience and understanding of God/Jesus/the Holy Spirit has developed and […]
Spiritual Seekers Series
With Kris Girrell and Jennifer Revill
Join us ONLINE for a new Spiritual Seekers Series at Rolling Ridge First Tuesdays of the month (February to June 2025) 7:00 to 9:00 PM eastern Increasing numbers of people consider themselves to be “Spiritual but not Religious.” And they have questions like: “How do I find a community of other spiritual seekers and explorers?” […]
Way Of The Heart 2025
With John Kiemele, Janet Kessenich and Henry Schoenfield
We live in unpredictable, fear-filled, uprooting times. Where do we find stability? How do we avoid getting hijacked into despair? How do we discern the important among the urgent? “Way Of The Heart” is a 10-week learning cohort that helps us maintain or regain our center and equips us for courageous living. We will begin […]
SoulCare: Befriending Your Body
With Carrie Ives
Does your body not “fit in the boxes” that society expects? Do you feel that your body has betrayed you - whether by fighting against itself, fighting against you, or just falling apart? Do you have a long-standing illness or condition that makes your daily life a bit harder than most? Do you have an […]
Lenten Prayer Journey 2025
With Larry Jay
As we prepare for Easter, we invite you to join Rolling Ridge for an ONLINE Lenten Prayer Journey during the Vesper Hour from 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST, beginning March 9th, the Sunday after Ash Wednesday, for 7 weeks through Easter on April 20th. Although optional, the book, Rise: An Authentic Lenten Devotional by John […]
Inviting Wholeness into Focus: Listening for Your Body's Wisdom in Winter and Lent - Lenten Retreat 2025
With Amy Hunter
As winter gives way to spring, we prepare for new life. Following the Christian tradition, you might seek to keep a Holy Lent. Or you might look to the unfolding season for leadings about how to move from hibernation to stirring awake. Religious and cultural messages might make this season gloomy and penitential. How can […]
Tune in, Tune up! The Healing Power of Sound - Lenten Retreat 2025
With Janet Kessenich
When the instruments of the orchestra are in tune, the symphony sounds glorious. When your system – made up of an orchestra of physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual elements – is in tune, you move through life harmoniously, aligned, with ease. The healing power of sound helps you tune in to your deepest self. It then […]
The Gift of Story: Finding the Sacred in the Details - Lenten Retreat 2025
With Stephanie Rutt
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou Stephanie Rutt recently released her memoir, Dancing on the Moon: The Non-Ordinary Life I Never Saw Coming, a Spiritual Memoir. Her collection of stories are like snap shots, some like the old, faded pictures with the crinkled edges you might find […]
Faith and Art: Let's make Ukrainian Easter Eggs! - Lenten Retreat 2025
With Eliza Goodell
How can we deepen our journey of faith?   Whether it is to make unique Easter eggs or learn a craft which is soulful and community-building, this ancient art form of painting Ukrainian Easter Egg ties together faith, spirituality, and unexpected beauty. As part of our Lenten Series, you will learn how to decorate eggs using a […]
Embodying Holy Week: Tai Chi Rhythm in the Paschal Mystery - Lenten Retreat 2025
With Rev. Dr. Hyuk Seonwoo
The gentle and slow movements of Tai Chi come from a simple, cyclical rhythm of “loosen-empty-push.” “Ready-set-go” or “the interaction between the potential energy and kinetic energy” might be a more accessible term for Tai Chi rhythm. In Tai Chi, emptying simply means “loosening” a little bit more. And the slight change creates momentum, which […]