Gatherings
Inner Ground enjoys offering workshops, formation circles, and retreats. We host both in-person and online gatherings, seeking to provide myriad opportunities for folks to join in community as we tend our spiritual lives. Some of our gatherings are free and others have a fee. Through the generosity of our donors, we are able to offer scholarships for all of our paid offerings. If you are interested in obtaining a full or partial scholarship for one of our upcoming events, please reach out to us via email - 2innerground@gmail.com
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Please enjoy these free resources as a gift to support your inner journey.
2nd Annual Love Your Neighbor Art Exhibit
Sunday, September 27
2:00-4:00
Weir-Jordan House Greensboro
Featuring 10 artists and over 25 original works of art.
Join us for an afternoon of community, live music, refreshments, and beauty as we celebrate the power of art to inspire connection, spark conversation, and affirm our shared call to love our neighbors.
Tickets are free, but we do ask that you reserve one so we can track attendance.
With deep gratitude to our sponsors:
Marilyn Wolf and the School at Space for Conscious Living
St. Francis Springs Prayer Center
Open Hearts Community
Weir-Jordan House
Sheila Wentzel Yoga & Somatics
Patrick & Anita Wilson
Betsy Blake Photography
Guided Meditative Nature Walk
Guided Meditative Nature Walk
Saturday, August 16 at 5:30 AM
Piedmont Environmental Park, High Point
Join us for a peaceful nature walk designed to help you slow down, reconnect, and be fully present in the beauty of creation. Brooks Johnson will guide our time as we immerse ourselves in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of nature. Whether you are seeking relaxation, inspiration, or a deeper connection with yourself and the natural world, this experience offers a meaningful opportunity to pause and reflect.
Healing Rhythms Drum Circle
Sunday, August 2 at 3:00
6309 W. Friendly Avenue Greensboro, NC
Medicine for the Body & Soul
Join us for a fun hour of rhythmic play and deep nourishment for the body and soul. This circle is open to beginners and experienced drummers alike. We provide the drums or you can bring your own.
Suggested donation: $5 at the door.
September 14 at 10:45
Our monthly Singing Circle is a fun and nourishing gathering. We learn and sing paperless short songs in the ancient oral tradition. Singing is an embodied practice that offers deep connection with others and ourselves. It’s an opportunity to gather up some joy, courage and hope for the living of these days.
We meet in the chapel at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.
Let us know that you plan to attend by filling out the form at the link below.
Taizé Prayer Service
Friday, October 16, 2026
5:15 PM
Chapel at Christ UMC
410 N. Holden Road, Greensboro, NC
A contemplative candle light service featuring simple, repetitive chant-songs, short scripture readings and an extended period of reflective silence. A small ensemble of musicians provides support and guidance for this time of sung prayer.
“Heartwork”: Rilke’s Call to Live the Questions in Fraught Times
with Dr. Mark Burrows, PHD
Weekend Retreat, March 12-14, 2027
Trinity Center, Salter Path, NC
1 room remaining!
In one of his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke encourages us to “live the questions,” a call that is as compelling as it is demanding. Because we want clear answers and are often impatient with ambiguity. We expect certainty and avoid complications. But the questions invite us to open ourselves, in wonder, to life’s mystery. They deepen us, inviting us to linger with what we cannot know. To embrace darkness, which is usually uncomfortable.
In this retreat, we’ll probe a selection of Rilke’s writings from his poems and letters to explore what he called “heart-work.” Our approach will welcome newcomers to Rilke’s poetry as well as those more familiar with his writings.
Mark S. Burrows is a prize-winning poet and translator and stands as one of the leading interpreters and translators of Rilke’s poetry today. His interest in spirituality and his ability to open poems as spaces of discovery are what characterize his retreats as transformative events. Mark lives and writes in Camden, Maine. www.soul-in-sight.org
Autumn Reading Circle:
How to Not Be Afraid by Gareth Higgins
Join us this fall as we read Gareth Higgins’ new book, How Not to Be Afraid. Higgins is a storyteller, author and activist who was born in Belfast during the Troubles in nothern Ireland. He has been involved in peacebuilding communities and helped found the Wild Goose Festival. In this book he doesn’t dismiss the very real fear we feel, but instead invites us into stories and practices that offer us ways to process our feelings and experiences and bravely cultivate substantial, generative love.
Pick up a copy from your local bookstore and read along with us this fall. We’ll offer a couple of gatherings for discussion and to engage wiht some of the reflective practices that Higgins includes at the close of each chapter.
Join our Morning Prayer gathering, each Monday at 8 AM (EST). Come as you are. Come weekly. Pop-in on occasion. Sink into this space for communal prayer. We'll engage a variety of prayer practices during our gatherings - all of them invitations to pause and rest in the Presence of the Loving One. Send us an email to receive the Zoom link - 2innerground@gmail.com.
