Join Candice at the Shelburne Library for a thoughtful conversation on the blessing and gift of modern poetry. Listen. Rest. Consider. Be restored. Step out of your story into someone else’s, and return to the world with a new lens. 

April is poetry month. Candice will offer a small chat on the blessings of modern poetry, with select poems read and discussed. Refreshments offered. Conversation encouraged.

A quiet evening of thoughtful reflection on the language of possibility that poems offer.

A small gathering around a beautiful table, with poetry read and considered, nourishment for body and soul. Hosted by Candice and Alissa Price.

March 21, 2025: Theologies of Tenderness in Poetry

A small gathering around a beautiful table, with poetry read and considered, nourishment for body and soul. Hosted by Candice and Alissa Price.

March 14, 2025 : Theologies of Tenderness in Poetry

Poems to illuminate the fleeting temples we may create from our small kindnesses and attentive greetings one to the other, how blessings can be gifted by animals and plants and sky.

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

March 11, 2025 : Growing Pains

Thawing out hurts. Birth requires pushing. Sprouting means rupture. This session tends to the growing pains of the upcoming spring season, offering a chance to think about what’s to come. 

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

February 25, 2025: Resonance 

Building from the previous two sessions on stillness and listening, we’ll now find our voice. Playing with the acoustics in the Oude Kerk, we’ll explore how speaking is always a dance of attunement between our bodies and our surroundings. 

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

February 11, 2025: Deep Listening 

Even if it’s happened only once, we all know the profound feeling of being listened to deeply. In this session we’ll experiment with listening skills by attending to the space around us, to one another, and to ourselves.

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

January 21, 2025 : Vibrant Stillness 

There’s a lot of running around these days, isn’t there? This session finds magic in simple instructions: Stop. Be together. 

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

January 7. 2025 : Winter As Verb

Drawing on Katherine May’s idea of wintering, we feel into the season as a verb. Our culture is often stretching towards building and innovation, but any newness requires hibernation, retreat, mulling over, and rumination. Let’s see what gifts these neglected processes have to offer. 

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

December 17, 2025 : What Nourishes Us

In the year’s darkest days, let’s momentarily forget the periphery and huddle into what beats at the core. In an intimate setting over cozy drinks, we’ll share with each other the things that deeply nourish us. We can take this clarity forward into the winter season.

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

This Week - The Art of Redemption

NEW DATE ADDED

Here is an invitation to gather with myself, Candice, and Alissa Price, aka The Contemplative Cook, over a delicious lunch to consider, through the artistry of poetic language, how we may find sacredness and compassion in the most ordinary of circumstances in our every day lives . . .

PLEASE NOTE, THERE ARE NO PLACES LEFT ON THIS DATE.

Here is an invitation to gather with myself, Candice, and Alissa Price, aka The Contemplative Cook, over a delicious lunch to consider, through the artistry of poetic language, how we may find sacredness and compassion in the most ordinary of circumstances in our every day lives . . .

75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Madelaine is your host.

This Week - Grief as a Praise Song

The places at this table are full now, though doubtless you can gather others at your table too, for a generous and sweet conversation.

Here is an invitation to gather with myself, Candice, and Alissa Price, aka The Contemplative Cook, over a delicious lunch to consider, through the artistry of poetic language, how we may find sacredness and compassion in the most ordinary of circumstances in our every day lives . . .