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Aspen Chapel

Contemplative Work
at the Aspen Chapel and Beyond

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Heather is a graduate of Richard Rohr's Living School, and divides her time between working at the Chapel, and working with groups and individuals within the wider Wisdom Community.


Programs available currently:

An Advent virtual retreat, with Heather Vesey and Bill Redfield:
Click here for more info and to register.

“A Broken Hallelujah”
Following Bill Redfield’s visit to the Chapel in April 2023, as part of the spring speaker series, he and Heather Vesey created a virtual retreat - "A Broken Hallelujah", which ran from September 10th to November 12th, but is still available, and you can register and listen in your own time here.
Rather than avoiding, pushing away or denying the difficult things that happen in life, what if we actually found that it’s IN those very things we want to shun, that we find the most freedom, joy, growth and generativity? Do we want to live a sterile and sanitized hallelujah, or a real, beautiful, broken hallelujah? This program is a series of audio recordings, with their voices put to music, exploring the relationship between suffering and transformation.
For more info email heather@vesey.net

Wisdom Mentoring

A program looking at the one-on-one discipline and dynamic of "Wisdom Mentoring".

This is a series of recordings that draws on the lives and writings of poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the young Etty Hillesum who died in Auschwitz, and unpacks some of the inherent dynamics of living with and for each other. Exploring how it’s in relationship, in community, that we truly grow in to our fuller selves.
For more information and to sign up, click here.

Any donations in support of contemplative work at the Chapel can be made by clicking here, putting "contemplative work" in the comments box.
For more information contact Heather at heather@vesey.net




 
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We are Nicholas and Heather Vesey. 
We lead the services here at the Aspen Chapel most Sundays.
Have a look around our site. There are plenty of free courses to watch from our 'Wisdom from the Top of the World' page. Click here to go to it

If you are planning on a visit, here is some information as to what to expect:

When: We meet every Sunday at 9.30am for about an hour. If you cannot make it in person, you can live stream the event by clicking here.

Where: We are the chapel by the roundabout as you come into aspen. Specifically here.

What: We (Heather and Nicholas) come from a Christian Episcopal background, however our community draws from all the world’s wisdom traditions with the aim of learning together to live our lives more skillfully.

And there are local musicians from up and down the Roaring Fork Valley to play for us.

Every week we will focus on a topic within a theme.

Creating Space webAt the moment we are looking at what the topic of 'Creating Space'.
The way to create more harmony in our world is by us individually creating the space for harmony to come about.
How do we create the space for this to happen?
What is the technology involved in creating space for ourselves and others?



There will also be prayer and meditation, generally led by Heather, and Nicholas will give a talk on the topic for the day.

Finally, there is an opportunity for discussion and feedback as we pass the microphone around for everyone to join in.

Kids? We also offer childcare with younger children being looked after and given creative ways to look at a topic for the day.

Coffee and Yummies. After the service there is a food and drink reception for everyone to get to know each other a bit more.

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