Nurture Your Spirit to Find Calm in the Chaos of Our World
How would you answer the following questions at this point in your life?
- What is your spirit inviting you to EXPLORE?
- What SPIRITUAL PRACTICES help you to reconnect with yourself and God / Spirit / the Holy / the Divine (or however you define the Sacred)?
- What are you LONGING for?
- How do you nurture your PASSIONS?
- Do you believe you are living your most AUTHENTIC LIFE?
- Do you take enough time in your life to SIMPLY BE?
Sycamore Spirituality Center invites you to get to know us and make a connection with us. We are here to tend our Midwest regional community in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana to help individuals deepen their spiritual lives through contemplation and experience a renewed sense of community belonging.
Are You Ready to Embark on a Transformative Spiritual Journey?
Our two-year program called Contemplation in Everyday Life starts in Sept. 2024 and runs through May 2026. It is open to anyone interested in a contemplative exploration of her/his/their spirituality – regardless of your faith, religion, or spiritual tradition, even if you have no formal faith, religion, or spiritual tradition. Take some time to explore who we are and discover if you’d like to take the next step on your spiritual journey with us.
A day of Silence
– Hafiz
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.
A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvelous lute and drum.
Our Values
Formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2003 by cofounders Mary Farmer, Fred Middendorf, Linda Reynolds, Ginny Schaeffer, Rita Senn, and Steve Thieneman, Sycamore Spirituality Center, Inc., is a community of spiritual directors that:
- Affirms the reality and mystery of the Sacred in all of life.
- Seeks to discern the presence of the Sacred through a contemplative stance.
- Seeks to listen and respond to the unfolding invitation of the Sacred.
- Believes that the Sacred relates to us through love, compassion, justice, inclusivity, truth, responsibility, freedom, and intimacy.
- Believes in the universality of all faiths and religious and spiritual traditions.
- Is committed to being inclusive and invites anyone who is seeking a greater connection with the Sacred, regardless of one’s faith, religion, or spiritual tradition, including those with no formal faith, religion, or spiritual tradition.
How
– Hafiz
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened.
Our Mission
Sycamore Spirituality Center’s ministry focuses on:
- Offering ongoing education, retreats, and contemplative experiences for the community
- Providing spiritual direction and supervision
- Teaching our community about the ministry of spiritual direction
- Supporting and nurturing the Sacred in the community of spiritual directors
- Training new spiritual directors
Learn About Our Center
Founded in 2003, Sycamore Spirituality Center, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides training and support for spiritual directors and others seeking a more contemplative, intentional, compassionate, and peaceful spiritual path through life.
Explore Contemplation in Everyday Life
This contemplative, experiential program is a two-year interfaith/interspiritual community formation journey for anyone interested in deepening their spirituality that cultivates the noticing and savoring of experiences of the Sacred to grow in love and compassion and develop greater inner calm and peace in your daily life.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Sycamore is comprised of a diverse group of trained spiritual directors who believe in sharing their lived experiences of contemplation and teaching others how to listen more closely to the spiritual movements in their lives.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
– Rumi
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