We encourage you in the grounding and joyful practice of working with your own hands.
Workshop Hospitality
Art, Making and Spiritual Direction
Project-Based Classes
You will find more information below about these offerings.
To learn more, take part, or develop a experiential learning project tailored to your community, please write or call.
Workshop Hospitality
You are invited to stop by the Workshop this late summer and autumn on Tuesday, 9am-12noon and Wednesday, 4-7pm.
You are welcome to help with current projects, or ask me about something specific you would like to try to learn.
Right now I’m working on some small furniture and tools, a lamp, and studying plans for small sailing skiff.
We can enjoy some contemplative tinkering or sketching, a prayer pause, a coffee break or a late afternoon snack.
Anonymous Machinist in British Shipbuilding Plant
Classes and Group Spiritual Direction
As an offering of Wild Indigo Guild and the Boat and Table, I will offer an Advent Class, Mondays 4pm and 7pm Pacific Time, November 25-December 23.
Keeping Afloat
We will consider contemporary interpretations of five durable, ancient practices of the christian faith. These can help us keep afloat amidst the upwellings and unravellings we experience in life and spirit.
Reading the Land
“Reading”…land, ecology, water…spirit and body…dreams…scripture…images…lectio divina…reading what you need…symbols and daily bread
Praying in Time
life and prayer occur in time…liturgy of the hours…pauses…pray now…seasons and cycles…precious time…
Accompanying Others
listening…befriending…eating together…inviting truth…bearing with…
Nearing Stillness
making room for quiet…peacework…silence and contemplative stillness…peace of the wild-er worlds…
Working with your Hands
hands in the dirt,… to the plough…activities of daily living and care…hands leading where the soul would go…your hands
In five 1-hour sessions we will consider a short teaching from on the practices, art and short readings from scripture, ancient and modern writers for group meditation, and and share a guided conversation about how you currently practice these, and ways you might practice them in new ways of living and expressing faith.
This class will follow up a book study with John Creasy on Brian McClaren’s book “Life After Doom” starting Sept 23, as an offering of Wild Indigo Guild and Open Door church. To join the book group, write to John at johnxcreasy@me.com.
We hope that the book study and Advent class together offer you practices and perspectives, in the face of much that might weigh you down with anxiety or despair, for a hopeful path of compassionate faith and action, more fully human on earth each day.
The Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, Diego Velasquez
Project-Based Classes
Candle-Holder
This class is intended for complete beginners, so that you gain familiarity with basic woodworking tools, materials, skills and safety, as well as confidence to pursue further learning and making. It is a nice way to prepare for the Christian season Advent, and other religious traditions in which light figure.
This class is very portable, and would be a lovely activity for church, youth group, scouts or others.
You will learn about:
wood and lumber dimensions,
how to measure, mark and cut to a line with a handsaw,
how to cut a simple joint with saw and chisel, gluing,
and how to bore a hole with a brace and bit.
You will also take home ideas of how to finish your project, and even build another!
Your candle-holder can be a perfect way to make times of prayer and celebration felt in new ways.
Community-Builds: Benches & More
