WHJan18Program

House Since 1949
Programs January - April 2018
WHWisdom
PHOTO: JO-ANN IANNOTTI, OP

Wisdom House is an interfaith retreat and conference center presenting
programs in spirituality, education and the arts and offering hospitality for
organizations whose mission is consistent with that of Wisdom House.
Wisdom House’s mission is rooted in the Judeo-Christian Wisdom tradition
which supports the center’s commitment to sustainability and concern for
contemporary issues. The center is a ministry of the Daughters of Wisdom.
Ongoing Programs
Wisdom House Seven-Circuit Labyrinth
The labyrinth is open for walks during the daytime,
weather permitting. Guided Labyrinth Group Walks
include introduction, video, labyrinth walk and
reflection time.
Call to schedule a program for your group.
Suggested donation: $5 per person
Hatha Yoga with Barbara Putnam
Tuesdays: 5:30-6:45 pm
Call to register: 860-567-4465
or bdputnam@alum.mit.edu
Read more at: www.wisdomhouse.org
Artists & Writers Retreats
Concentrate on works in progress. Dates year
round. Application form at: www.wisdomhouse.org
Personal Retreats
Take time for spiritual renewal.
Visit wisdomhouse.org/personal_retreats.php
Journeying in the Spirit, Peggy Richard
2nd Saturday of each month, 10 am - noon
See page 2
Spirit Drumming, Susan Strand
3rd Saturday of each month, 10 - 11:30 am
See page 2
Contacts:
Carol Gould, Conference Coordinator — conference@wisdomhouse.org
Sr. Jo-Ann Iannotti, OP, Art and Spirituality Coordinator
and Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery — jai@wisdomhouse.org
Deborah Kelly, Executive Director — dk@wisdomhouse.org
Bonnie Mis, Program Manager — programs@wisdomhouse.org
Visit Wisdom House’s blog — atwisdomstable.blogspot.com
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229 East Litchfield Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759

NEW
PROGRAM
Saturday, January 13, 2018 | 10:00 am - noon
(2nd Saturday of each month)
Journeying in the Spirit
Peggy Richard
Monthly gathering of spiritual seekers using the works of Richard Rhor, OFM and other
contemporary spiritual writers to prompt their growth in the Spirit. Meetings will include time
for silent prayer, group discussion and encouragement for leading a contemplative-based life
of service. Read more at: www.wisdomhouse.org
To register: peggyrichard.ct@gmail.com | Donation: $5 given at the session in the Marie Louise Carriage House
January 19-21 | Friday, 6:00 pm dinner – Sunday lunch
Listening to Contemplative Voices: Celtic Spirituality
Peggy Richard
This weekend retreat in the 18th century Wisdom House Colonial Farmhouse will provide
an atmosphere immersed in Celtic Spirituality, exploring the earliest times of Christianity in
Ireland to its expansion in Scotland, England and Wales.
Experience a combination of contemplative practices – all with a Celtic focus.
Modern contemplative voices that reflect the Celtic tradition will be included.
Participant’s ability to look and listen for and recognize Celtic influences in contemporary
culture will be enhanced as we enter into our own “thin places.”
Fees: See page 10 | Program # PR 1-1921
NEW DAY
& TIME
Saturday, January 20, 2018 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
(3rd Saturday of each month)
Spiritual Drumming
Susan Strand
Drumming provides the perfect focus for a meditative experience. Each gathering starts with
the setting of our intentions for the session, flows into using a chant with drumming to center
the group and create the energy of community. Drum rhythms for the use of personal
meditation and quieting the mind will also be explored. Participants may bring any type of hand
drum, or they may use one of the drums or rhythm instruments that will be available.
For more information: www.wisdomhouse.org
To register: sstrand@snet.net | Donation: $5 given at the session in the Marie Louise Carriage House
January 20, 2018 – March 24, 2018
Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery
“Form to Formless”
Fernando Martinez
See the back cover for details.
Marie Louise Trichet
Art Gallery
JO-ANN IANNOTTI, OP
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Friday, February 9-11, 2018 | Friday, 6:00 pm dinner – Sunday lunch
Writing into the Dark to the Light
Davyne Verstandig
Joan Didion once wrote “Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.” Nothing
really is as we expect it to be – not the light, nor the dark. By writing into our dark places, our
difficult places, we will then emerge into the light with new understanding of the dark and the
difficult as being gifts as much as anything else. Writers of all genres are welcome.
Fees: See page 10 | Program # DV 2-911
Saturday, February 10, 2018 | 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
Self-Care Saturday: Connect, Reflect and Project
Gabriele Davis
Ease into a place of quiet connection as you reflect on and release activities of the past year.
Embrace your future with hope, clarity, focus and a feeling of expansiveness and generosity.
Bring a journal for reflection time. All ages are welcome. Wear comfortable clothes.
Fees: Early Registration before Feb. 3: $60 (Includes lunch)
Registration after Feb. 3: $75 (Includes lunch) | Program # GD 2-10
Saturday, February 10, 2018 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm
From Wisdom’s Table: Take the Chill Off with Hearty Chowders
Chef Margaret Jacobs
Join Wisdom House Head Chef Margaret Jacobs to create bountiful bowls full of savory
ingredients simmered to produce a tempting meal of hearty chowder.
The three chowders we will prepare are:
Cajun Seafood and Sweet Potato Chowder
Ham Potato and Corn Chowder
New England Clam Chowder
Samplings and recipes will be included!
Fees: Early Registration before Feb. 3: $25 | Registration after Feb. 3: $30 | Program # MJ- 2-10
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 | 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
The Tree That Survived the Winter: From Grief to New Life
Mary Fahy, RSM
A program for anyone going through a difficult time, experiencing a life transition or loss.
Using this “adult” parable of a tree surviving a bitter winter, you will learn to appreciate how
the abundances we are given can ease us through feelings of anger, abandonment and loss to
emerge with new feelings of hope, love and faith. The book The Tree That Survived the Winter
will be available for purchase.
Fees: Early registration before March 3: $60 (Includes lunch)
Registration after March 3: $75 (Includes lunch) | Program # MF 3-10
March 30-April 1
Land Sabbath
Wisdom House is closed to observe a Land Sabbath – a time of healing and renewal for
ourselves and our earth. We commemorate those days of Christ’s final suffering, death, silence
and resurrection. Wisdom House reveres these days of quiet before the Easter feast.
229 East Litchfield Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759
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Saturday, April 21, 2018 | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Walk In Beauty: Celebrating the Gifts of the Earth
Thomasina Levy
Leslie Johnson
Reawaken your senses to the beauty of the spring season as you recharge your creative spirit
and rejuvenate your humanity in this experiential workshop. Affirm your deep connection with
the natural world through explorations in music and creative writing and walking the
Wisdom House outdoor labyrinth. Please bring a notepad.
Fees: Early Registration before April 13: $60 (Includes lunch)
Registration after April 13: $75 (Includes lunch) | Program # TLLJ 4-21
Saturday, April 21, 2018 | 9:30 am – 3:00 pm
The Spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin – Session 2
Sally Campbell Woodhall
Teilhard de Chardin’s mysticism is one of action in and through the world. It calls us to a
covenant with God and creation. As a scientist, his mysticism encompasses the Cosmic, the
Human, and the Christic dimensions of life. Teilhard’s legacy is clearly present in the spirituality
of ecology and interfaith dialogue. He offers us a new and creative way of understanding our
roles as contemplative and participatory members of the earth community.
Fees: Early Registration before April 14: $60 (Includes lunch)
Registration after April 14: $75 ((Includes lunch) | Program # SCW 4-21
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Upcoming Events in 2018 will include:
June 1-3
July 13-15
July 13-15
July 15-20
July 15-20
July 21
October 26-28
Women’s AA/ALANON Retreat Weekend – Shane Phelan, CMA
“World Wisdom Bible” – Rabbi Rami Shapiro
“Me, Myself and I” – Memoir Workshop – Davyne Verstandig
Directed Retreats – Cathleen Murtha, DW, Andrée Grafstein
Guided Retreat – “How Shall We Pray?” – Guest Presenters TBA
Sketching and Arranging: Ikebana Freestyle
Flower Arrangement – Shoko Iwata
“Intuition and Spiritual Creativity” – Don Bisson, FMS
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Presenters
Gabriele Davis
Yoga Alliance registered yoga instructor. On staff in the Mind Body Spirit department at
Mountainside, a drug and alchohol addiction treatment center. Founder of Bright Energy
Yoga which offers yoga classes and workshops throughout Northwestern Connecticut.
Visit: www.brightenergyyoga.com
Mary Fahy, RSM
Spiritual director, former pastoral care director at The McAuley, West Hartford, CT;
author of The Tree That Survived the Winter and A Time for Leaving.
Chef Margaret Jacobs
Head Chef at Wisdom House; Graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY.
Worked at the United Nations Plaza Hotel in New York City and has over 30 years of cooking,
baking and business experience in the culinary arts.
Leslie Johnson
Award winning writer whose short stories have been awarded the Pushcart Prize with the
Pushcart Press publication. Her fiction has been broadcast on NPR, appeared in Norton’s Best of
the West Anthology and published in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals. Teaching
artist of Connecticut Office of the Arts where she leads interactive writing workshops and
professional development seminars. Visit: www.lesliejohnsonwriter.com
Thomasina Levy
Award winning musician and Connecticut State Troubadour (2005/2006). Teaching Artist for
the Connecticut Office of the Arts where she assists fellow artist, educators, schools and
museums incorporate the arts into their programs. Facilitator of Music Improvisation. Her
music has been aired in over twenty countries across the globe and she has created recordings
and instructional books for children and adults. Visit: www.thomasina.net
Fernando Martinez
Artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Studied bioengineering at Polytechnic Institute of
Technology and furniture design and fine arts at S.U.N.Y. , Purchase, NY; opened his own
woodworking and art studio in 1995. Presently residing in Port Chester, NY. His woks have
been in shows in the P-Café in New Rochelle, NY, at the Lotus Wellness Center in
Greenwich, CT, at the Miranda Fine Arts Gallery and the Art-Miami Solar Gallery
in East Hampton, NY, and other East Coast venues.
Barbara Putnam, RYT-200
Began her personal yoga practice in 1970 and completed her training at Peaceful Way
Wellness School in July of 2015. She seeks to share the healing effects of yoga on body, mind
and spirit and encourage self-awareness, and curiosity about exploring the human potential.
Peggy Richard
Holds an MA in Pastoral Theology from St. Joseph College of Maine. Will facilitate a new
monthly program at Wisdom House “Journeying in the Spirit” beginning January 2018. Student
in J.P. Newell’s program: The New England School of Celtic Consciousness. She is a
retired library media specialist.
Susan Strand
Graduate of the Womens’s Leadership Institute at Hartford Seminary; organist at the Church
of Christ Congregational in Goshen, CT; long time experience playing African drums and
rhythms, and giving drumming programs at Wisdom House since 2011.
Davyne Verstandig
Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the Hartford Campus of the University of Connecticut.
Published books of poetry, Pieces of the Whole and Provisions. Her work also appears in the
anthologies Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World; Songs of the Marrow Bone; Where Beach
Meets Ocean; This One Has No Name and the Connecticut Poet Laureate Anthology.
She has performed improvisational work "composing on the tongue" painting and poetry
at The Knitting Factory and Housing Works Café in New York City. CT. She is Poet Laureate
of Washington, CT. Visit: www.davyneverstandig.com
Sally Campbell Woodhall
Former director of the Guild for Spiritual Guidance; Holds an MA in Theology, Fordham
University; Founding Head of the Woodhall School, Bethlehem, CT, author of Teilhard de
Chardin: Pilgrim, Prophet, Mystic.
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JO-ANN IANNOTTI, OP
229 East Litchfield Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759
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DIRECTIONS
Wisdom House is on the corner of Clark
and East Litchfield Roads in Litchfield.
FROM ALBANY: (75 mi): Rt. 90E/ Mass
Pike to exit 2, Lee, MA; Rt. 20E to Rt.
8S to exit 42, right on Rt. 118W; 2
miles to Clark Road on left.*
FROM BOSTON: (130 mi.): Rt. I-90W/
Mass Pike to Sturbridge; I-84W to exit
39, just after 39A, Farmington; Rt. 4W
to Harwinton, Rt. 118W, 4.5 miles to
Clark Road on left.*
FROM BRIDGEPORT: (45 mi.): Rt. 8N
to exit 42, left on Rt. 118W; 2 miles to
Clark Road on left.*
FROM HARTFORD: (30 mi.): I-84W to
exit 39, just after 39A, Farmington; Rt.
4W to Harwinton, Rt. 118W; 4.5 miles
to Clark Road on left.*
FROM LONG ISLAND: Take Port
Jefferson Ferry to Bridgeport; Rt. 8N to
exit 42, left on Rt. 118W; 2 miles to
Clark Road on left.*
FROM NYC: (100 mi.): I-684N; I-84E
to exit 20, Rt. 8N to exit 42, left onto
Rt. 118W; 2 miles to Clark Road on
left.*
FROM PROVIDENCE: (105 mi.): Rt.
6W; Route 384W; 84 West (OR Route
44 West; 74 West; 84W) through
Hartford to Exit 39, just after 39A,
Farmington; Route 4W to Harwinton;
Route 118W; 4.5 miles to Clark Road
on left.*
FROM LITCHFIELD CENTER: Rt. 118
East for 2-3/4 miles to Clark Road
on right.
* Drive 1/10 mile and turn left into
guest parking. Enter brick building
through porch on left.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
TO WISDOM HOUSE:
Metro North from Grand Central
Station services Waterbury.
1-877-690-5114.
Bonanza Bus Lines leaves Port
Authority and services Southbury
and Waterbury. 1-888-751-8800.
Taxi service, Patriot Taxi,
860-869-4111.
Valley Cab, 860-482-9400.
The Wisdom House logo expresses its mission of hospitality with roots in
the Judeo-Christian Wisdom tradition and the spirit of the Daughters of
Wisdom. The triangle symbolizes divinity; the pitcher and bread represent
the nourishment Wisdom House offers for body and soul.
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NEW! Early Registration
enables Wisdom House to plan
for the program’s viability.
Online Registrations provide
immediate confirmation.
Consider registering online at
www.wisdomhouse.org
Registration Fees for all
programs include any meals
during the program’s time and
handouts.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Cancellation: Wisdom House
retains $25 of the total fee on
day programs and $75 of the
total fee on weekend programs.
If Wisdom House cancels a
program, all fees will be returned.
Rooms: See below for rates for
overnight programs.
Meals: All meals are prepared on
premises with salad, vegetable
and protein choices. We do not
create individual special meals.
Those with severe food allergies
may supplement our offerings
and store their own items in
guest refrigerators and use guest
microwaves. All meals provide
a balance of nutritional foods.
WISDOM HOUSE REGISTRATION FORM
Mail completed form and payment to: Wisdom House, 229 East Litchfield Rd., Litchfield, CT 06759
Program # Date(s) Title Fee Total
Make check or money order payable to: Wisdom House.
Enclosed
Total Due
MEALS: See GENERAL INFORMATION above.
FEES: Included are: program, accommodations, meals and refreshments.
DAY PROGRAMS: See each listing for fee.
WEEKEND PROGRAMS: (Please check one)
These are the fees for the weekends of:
_____January 19-21, 2018 – Early Registration before January 10, Program #PR 1-1921
_____February 9-11, 2018 – Early Registration before February 2, Program #DV 2-911
OVERNIGHT FEES (per person):
Early Registration
_____$160 Commuter
_____$285 Private Room / private bath
(limited, please give second choice)
_____$255 Private Room / hall bath
_____$230 Shared Room / private bath
_____$215 Shared Room / hall bath
Registration (after Early date)
_____$180 Commuter
_____$305 Private Room / private bath
(limited, please give second choice)
_____$275 Private Room / hall bath
_____$250 Shared Room / private bath
_____$235 Shared Room / hall bath
____ Enclosed is my check. (Please, one check per program)
Note: Scholarships are available.
Name:__________________________________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________________________________
City:_______________________________________ State:__________ Zip:_____________
Day Phone:___________________________________ Other Phone:________________________
E-mail (Print clearly please):__________________________________________________________________
Roommate Name & E-mail
(Overnight Program)________________________________________________________________________
___ Scholarship assistance needed.
___ Enclosed is a donation to the Wisdom Fund for scholarships.
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Form to Formless
Fernando Martinez
January 20, 2018 -
March 24, 2018
Opening Saturday, January 20, 2018, 3 - 5 pm
Artist Lecture January 20, 2018, 3:30 pm followed by reception
Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery
MLT Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 am - 4 pm
(860) 567-3163
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WISDOM HOUSE
Retreat and Conference Center
229 E. Litchfield Rd.
Litchfield, CT 06759
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