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TEACHING

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Workshops, Classes & Retreats

SEE BELOW for CURRENT and UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES 

and EVENTS, BOTH ONLINE and IN-PERSON

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QUIET in the RUINS

Finding Peace, Joy, and Equanimity

in a Time of Catastrophic Change

A workshop on contemplative practices,

mystical theology, and personal transformation

Drawing from the heart of ancient Christian mysticism and ascetical theology, and from the deep well of Indo-Tibetan wisdom, Father Brendan will guide participants in an exploration of powerful tools and approaches to life and spiritual practice, offering fresh ways of thinking and being in the world—and some new (and very ancient) ways of approaching religion—that can not only make our spiritual lives more fruitful, but also ease the psychological burdens inherent to our time and place in history.

Next Offered: 6/9/23 @ Episcopal Church of the Nativity, San Rafael, CA (11:00am - 6:00pm)

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Next Offered: To Be Announced

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A LIGHT IN THE EARTH

MYSTERY SCHOOL OF ANCESTRAL CELTIC WISDOM

A one-year, immersive experience of deep spiritual formation, learning, and community, framed by the wisdom of indigenous Celtic myth, folklore, spirituality, and lifeways.

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Next Offered: To Be Announced

Are you ready to embark on a journey of profound spiritual transformation with the rich support of indigenous European wisdom? Are you hungering for deep roots, for connection to greater Beauty, to a restored sense of interbeing and interrelationality with the living Earth? Are you drawn to an immersive experience of ancient Gaelic and other Celtic myth, spirituality, and lifeways? Do you long to be part of an intimate community of spiritual learning, healing, and renewal? 

 

If so, then perhaps you’re being called by the Ancestors to explore a new and ancient pathway of spiritual formation and initiation, to pierce the veil between worlds, to connect with the tutelary souls and mythic wisdom-streams of the great Celtic traditions, and with the vital, unseen dimensions of the sacred Land on which you walk.

 

You are, in that case, most warmly welcomed and invited to embark on a seven-month sacred journey with author, spiritual director, priest, scholar of religion and native Celtic traditions, Brendan Ellis Williams. In this immersive journey of formation and transformation, you will be shaped both experientially and conceptually in the sacred lifeways of Brendan’s ancestral traditions of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh spirituality, and prepared in heart, mind, and soul for a culminating experience of sacramental initiation. This will be a journey of profound connection, healing, restoration, learning, re-rooting, rewilding, and re-membering.

Please note that Mystery School is now being offered in alternating years.

For more information, click here : 

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