Retreats & Events

Video interview on Poetry and Creativity

On the Spiritual Wanderlust Podcast, an interview with Kelly Deutsch

Teaching at Bon Secours Retreat Center:

Welcoming Divine Love: A Quiet Day with Poetry

November 11 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm

$75

“Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back” writes the poet George Herbert. We know we are invited to love God, but we don’t always find it easy to receive or even to experience God’s love for us. The words of poetry can help us to move into our hearts, to listen, and to respond to the love that always surrounds and blesses us. This one-day silent retreat will use poetry, Scripture, and other creative media to invite and deepen our meditations on what it means to love and to be loved, in the embrace of the Holy. Lunch is included. Guided by Dr. Kathleen Henderson Staudt.

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Teaching at Adelynrood School for Spiritual Direction

Co-leading Adelynrood School for Spiritual Direction, June 15-19 and August 3-7, 2026

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Quiet Day (past): “Praying with Poetry in the Green World”

June 5, 2024 at Adelynrood Retreat and Conference Center,Byfield Massachusetts

Learn how the practices of reading and writing poetry can open us up to the lively holiness in ordinary things — and especially in the green and growing world around us. Leader Kathy Staudt’s recent poetry collection follows the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen in exploring the spiritual energy of “greenness” (Viriditas – Hildegard’s word), the hidden life that pulses through all of the natural world. Drawing on Kathy poems as well as poets that have inspired her, this quiet day will invite participants to listen to poetry in prayerful ways, to share in times of silence, to enjoy the gardens and green spaces of Adelynrood, and to try writing poetry of their own. The day will include poetry readings, periods of corporate silence for meditation and writing, and some opportunities for small group sharing.