A Place to Heal
MICAH is a multifaceted facility for the practice and study of spiritual formation, leadership, healing, and art. A contemplative Christian center, MICAH provides sacred space to create a life with God.
MICAH is a multifaceted facility for the practice and study of spiritual formation, leadership, healing, and art. A contemplative Christian center, MICAH provides sacred space to create a life with God.
Spiritual direction typically focuses on a one-on-one discipline in which a practitioner works with one spiritual directee at a time or, perhaps, with a small group of spiritual directees. In partnership with the Center for Prophetic Imagination, our aim is to go beyond the one-on-one framework to include training for work in organizations, activist spaces, and from within larger social systems.
May – December 2023 • Dates and Times Vary
Program Fee: $200
In this spirit, we are pleased to offer an eight-month opportunity with The BTS Center, in which clergy and other spiritual leaders grounded in and/or informed by the Jewish and Christian traditions will have the opportunity to strengthen their holy hearing through group spiritual direction/companioning. Gathering monthly from May through December in groups of six over Zoom, each two-hour session will be centered on a prompt related to climate change, liminality, or uncertainty. And rather than a solution-seeking conversation, group members will respond from their hearts to that prompt and each other, together investigating spirit-centered responses.
More information about the facilitators and group meeting times is available on the webpage here
A New Video by Daniel Wolpert
Forgiveness is an important aspect of our spiritual journey and yet it is poorly understood. In this brief video I discuss the two aspects of forgiveness: inner and outer and how this deeper understanding can lead us to relate to forgiveness in a healthy and life-giving manner.
A New Video Series by Daniel Wolpert
Wealth inequality is evident everywhere we look, but do we understand it? Inside Big Numbers: Seeking the Public Good is a series of eight short videos by Daniel Wolpert exploring the nature of “Big Numbers” and their application to social issues. Join us on a journey to discover new ways to think about and discuss economic inequality and social policy in America. It’s time to challenge how things are and imagine how things should be.
Spiritual Practice and Climate Change
I love the wisdom practice. I am so grateful for your intelligent, compassionate offering, for how accessible it is, and for me, personally, what a beautiful affirmation of the way I live and relate to the world and others. This practice is so wonderfully applicable. So simply beautiful. And so very deep and rich. -Kathy Leo
Creation’s Wisdom speaks to the need for a spirituality during a time of massive climate change, crisis, and disruption. What does such a spirituality look like? What are the practices that can guide us? If creation is in crisis, then our spirituality must directly engage this creation and articulate a spiritual framework?
A Podcast on Contemplation in Action
Do contemplation and social action go together? Dan Wolpert answers with an unequivocal “yes”! Here, he talks about how grounding your outward life in a deeply spiritual inner life creates the sweet spot where real change begins.
A VideoCast with Daniel Wolpert and M Ashe VanSteenwyk
Transmission is a vidcast by Daniel Wolpert and M Ashe Van Steenwyk exploring radical spirituality amidst this pandemic. It is a collaboration between the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing and the Center for Prophetic Imagination.
A Video Series by Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Wolpert’s book, Creation’s Wisdom: Spiritual Practice and Climate Change, uses scripture and theology through the lens of modern science to address big questions and to explore the five elements—space, water, earth, fire, and air—as inspiration for embodied spiritual practice.
What is a Christian spirituality that speaks to the needs of people in an era of climate change? What practices can guide us? What is a helpful perspective? The answers lie in the elements of creation.
Here are six videos adapted from a program we offered in December 2020. These videos include an introduction and one video for each of the five elements. In each video Daniel Wolpert, author of Creation’s Wisdom, guides us into an encounter with the elements.
Healing and wholeness require more than a 15-minute doctor visit, a single appointment with your counselor, or a Sunday service. We take an individualized approach, offering insights and tools to explore health through he lens of mind, body, and spirit.
MICAH is a multifaceted facility for the practice and study of spiritual formation, leadership, healing, and art. A contemplative Christian center, MICAH provides sacred space to create a life with God.