photograph by Lois-Huey-Heck
Wisdom for Times Like These
Online with Lois Huey-Heck and Murray Groom
Three Wednesdays: May 7, 14, 21, 2025
6:30 – 7:30 pm Pacific time
(followed by an optional guided conversation from 7:30 to 8:15 pm Pacific time)
We live in a time of great unsettledness with threats that can evoke fear, anger, denial, and deep sorrow. In times like these, where divisiveness is intentionally sown, we need connection with kindred souls. We need encouragement to love our neighbours as ourselves and love the Holy with all our heart and mind. We seek a long view which is found in the wisdom of Earth, Indigenous peoples, saints, sages, mystics, and prophets. Our connection to Spirit is essential. From across time, space, and tradition, a wealth of wisdom is available to us. Let’s keep company with this!
You are invited to three evening gatherings. We will come together in the spirit of Sacred Pause where inspiration and sustenance – ancient and new – will be our companions. Come and engage in wisdom teachings, spiritual practices, silence, prayer, sound, and image.
You are welcome to stay on afterwards from 7:30 to 8:15 pm for a guided conversation on the themes of the evening.
Ages: 18+
The cost for three sessions via Zoom is $107
Book now and receive 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 26, 2025.
Bursary Available: The Naramata Centre Heartwood Bursary is available for most programs, based on financial need. If cost is a barrier to participating in this program, please consider applying for the bursary. Click here to apply
This event is offered through the partnership of Pacific Jubilee and Naramata Centre.
Lois Huey-Heck
has been living with sleep-interrupting questions about life, death, and the mystery of a cosmos-without-end since elementary school. She says, “In this season, it’s the fragility of Earth and human communities that’s keeping me up at night. I have so much grief for the Earth herself and for the most vulnerable of Creation, which is most of us now. Offering “Wisdom for Times Like These” is my response to a personal need to dive deeply into fear, sorrow, and anger where I encounter a living Wisdom that is equal to the precariousness of our times. I am committed to find and co-create communities that are Love in a world that needs wisdom, faith, realism, and resilience now more than ever.”
Lois was with Wood Lake Publishing for 29 years. She was a program mentor in the Pacific Jubilee SoulGuiding program and was director of spiritual nurture at Naramata Centre. Lois offers spiritual accompaniment to her household that ranges in age from five to 82. She also offers individual spiritual direction and online retreat leadership — all in the hope of wholeness.
Learn about Lois’ spiritual accompaniment practice here
The Reverend Doctor Murray Groom
is an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada. Retired from parish ministry, he now exercises his vocation as a spiritual director/soul guide. He regularly conducts extended retreats into Silence at Bethlehem Centre in Nanaimo and at Naramata Centre in the Okanagan Valley. His prevailing interests include the role of the guide on pilgrimage, the interface of the wild with the tame, the wisdom of global mythologies and the well-being of his family. When not travelling with his wife Susan, he lives in the South Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island.
Learn about Murray’s spiritual accompaniment practice here