See below for available online courses, monthly gatherings and program opportunities. Check back soon for more 2025 updates!
Light for Dark Times: Tending Brigid’s Fire Through the Ages |
January 31 - February 2, 2025
Time: Friday at 3pm through Sunday at 2pm Location: Wellspring Retreat Center, Germantown MD Leaders: Lindsay McLaughlin, Leah Rampy, Lisa Bardack, and Katy Gaughan Join us for this women's retreat, a weekend’s immersion deep into the glowing heart and soul of the Sacred Feminine with stories of Brigid and women who exemplify her wisdom, in whose lineage we stand.
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Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees: Connection & Collaboration |
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Time: 10am to 4pm Location: Well for the Journey, 120 W. Seminary Ave, Lutherville-Timonium, MD Leader: Leah Rampy Join sought after retreat leader and wisdom teacher, Leah Rampy, for this day-long retreat at the Well where we’ll look to the ancient spiritual and ecological wisdom that trees have to offer. These elders who have graced Earth far longer than the human family demonstrate living in community and collaborating for mutual benefit.
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Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees - In-person Retreat |
March 28 - 30, 2025
Time: Friday at 6:30pm through Sunday at 1pm Location: Prairiewoods Retreat Center, 120 E Boyson Rd, Hiawatha, IA Leader: Leah Rampy Our connections to the living world have frayed, and it’s difficult to find our way back to the relationships and possibilities for which we long. Yet, there is wisdom available to us for living in these fraught times; there is guidance close at hand that can point the way to healing and wholeness for our days and the times beyond.
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Singing the Trees: Reweaving Connections in Edge Times“When I am among the trees…they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily…” —Mary Oliver
“Earth and soul cry out for conversation….It is time to reweave connections for the sake of mutual thriving.” —Leah Rampy, Earth & Soul:Reconnecting amid Climate Chaos |
April 11 - 13, 2025
Time: Friday at 5pm through Sunday at 2pm Location: Wellspring Retreat Center, Germantown, MD Leader: Leah & David Rampy and Lindsay McLaughlin Living amid growing loss, we yearn for connections that offer solace and possibility. In the place where language fails, music invites us into ever-deeper relationships with all beings – and with our heart’s longing. Trees, our elders who have graced this Earth far longer than the human family, beckon us to wisdom, beauty, and peace.
Join us as we sing and chant, engage in rich conversations, embrace attentive silence around and within, and exchange intangible, priceless gifts with the trees around us. Note: You need not consider yourself a singer nor even feel that you can carry a tune; all are welcome to join in! |
Ongoing Programs
Contemplative Leadership Seminar: With Hearts Wide Open
Through six modules of content videos and audio, we will explore compassion and power as dimensions of contemplative leadership. This seminar offers space for reflection and support for contemplative practice at a time in our world where contemplative leadership is needed now more than ever. Offered in partnership with Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Leader: Leah Rampy Location: Online |
Church of the Wild ~ Two Rivers is an emerging community, meeting in the midst of and sharing with the abundant life all around us. Our intent is to deepen our connection to the Holy by being more fully present, open and available in each moment. We learn from the earth and trees, the waters and sky, and from all living beings, human and non-human. Located where the winding Shenandoah joins the majestic Potomac River, we are nurtured by beauty, silence, and communion.
Founder and Leader: Leah Rampy Time: Meets the 1st Sunday of each month, 3 - 5pm Locations: Shepherdstown, WV and surrounding areas. |
The Spiritual Wisdom of Trees: Insights from Our Elders
A provocative 6-part program examining the ancient wisdom trees offer us for living into our deep spiritual and ecological connections with each other and Earth. Guided and self-guided available. Offered in partnership with: The Center for Spirituality in Nature Leaders: Leah Rampy & Beth Norcross Time: Self-Guided open now Location: Online |
Testimonial
Just wanted to let you know how much I am appreciating The Spiritual Wisdom of Trees course/exploration/journey. I am learning things I did not know, and have certainly had my awareness expanded and deepened as I continue my walks around the lake near my home. I notice much more than I used to. Thank you for your leadership in this.
Blessings, Mary
Blessings, Mary