Sacred Sessions: Winter Edition 2025
The leaves have fallen. It’s time to slow down, huddle in, and nourish the parts of our lives that sustain us.
The Winter Edition of the Sacred Sessions offers six-sessions that fostering depth of connection. The first two sessions, as well as the last, feel into the season as a process necessary for the emergence of spring. The middle sessions form a three-part exploration of alive conversation, where listening is speaking and speaking is listening.
Hosted by Madelaine Ley, a philosopher from TU Delft, each session combines a unique weaving of philosophy, art, science, contemplative practice, and collective reflection. Wonderfully, the Sacred Sessions is now a growing collective of people seeking deeper connection in the Delft area.
Bring warm clothes! We’re mostly in a warm room but like to experiment by doing practices in the main part of the church, which is quite cold in the winter.
Doors open at 19:30h for tea and chitchat, event starts at 20h.
Sessions
Dec. 17th: What Nourishes Us
In the year’s darkest days, let’s momentarily forget the periphery and huddle into what beats at the core. In an intimate setting over cozy drinks, we’ll share with each other the things that deeply nourish us. We can take this clarity forward into the winter season.
We have very special guests joining with gifts of poetry and music. Madelaine’s parents!
Jan. 7th: Winter as Verb
Drawing on Katherine May’s idea of wintering, we feel into the season as a verb. Our culture is often stretching towards building and innovation, but any newness requires hibernation, retreat, mulling over, and rumination. Let’s see what gifts these neglected processes have to offer.
Jan. 21st: Vibrant Stillness
There’s a lot of running around these days, isn’t there? This session finds magic in simple instructions: Stop. Be together.
Feb. 11th: Deep Listening
Even if it’s happened only once, we all know the profound feeling of being listened to deeply. In this session we’ll experiment with listening skills by attending to the space around us, to one another, and to ourselves.
Feb. 25th: Resonance
Building from the previous two sessions on stillness and listening, we’ll now find our voice. Playing with the acoustics in the Oude Kerk, we’ll explore how speaking is always a dance of attunement between our bodies and our surroundings.
March 11th: Growing Pains
Thawing out hurts. Birth requires pushing. Sprouting means rupture. This session tends to the growing pains of the upcoming spring season, offering a chance to think about what’s to come.