--- title: Community Gatherings | Empowering Connection and Creativity | Praxis description: Our community gatherings foster confidence, creativity, and connection through workshops, fitness, and meaningful conversations focused on personal growth. --- [![The Church of the Holy](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Church%20of%20the%20Holy%20logo.png?width=1855&height=2029&name=The%20Church%20of%20the%20Holy%20logo.png)Homepage](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org?hsLang=en) - About - [Core Beliefs](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/beliefs?hsLang=en) - [FAQ](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/faq?hsLang=en) - [Newsletters & Quotes](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/newsletters-quotes?hsLang=en) - Religious Comparisons - [Christianity](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/christianity?hsLang=en) - [Judaism](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/judaism?hsLang=en) - [Buddhism](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/buddhism?hsLang=en) - Library - [The Beginning Myth](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/genesis?hsLang=en) - [The Great Mother](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/mother?hsLang=en) - [The Two Paths](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/two-paths?hsLang=en) - [The Laws of Conscience](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/law?hsLang=en) - [The Living Scripture](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/canon?hsLang=en) - Gatherings - [Gathering Rituals / Events](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/liturgy?hsLang=en) - [Rites of Passage / Life Transitions](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/rituals?hsLang=en) - [The Work / Volunteering](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/mission?hsLang=en) - [Ministries / Clubs](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/ministries) - Leadership - [Structure](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/ecclesiology?hsLang=en) - [Becoming Clergy](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/advancement?hsLang=en) - [Clergy & Trustees](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/clergy?hsLang=en) - [Clawgy / Animal Ministers](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/clawgy?hsLang=en) - [Saints / Guides](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/saints?hsLang=en) - Get Involved - [Donate](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/donate?hsLang=en) - [Volunteer](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/volunteer?hsLang=en) - [Partner](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/partner?hsLang=en) [Join the Community](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/membership?hsLang=en) - About - [Core Beliefs](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/beliefs?hsLang=en) - [FAQ](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/faq?hsLang=en) - [Newsletters & Quotes](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/newsletters-quotes?hsLang=en) - Religious Comparisons - [Christianity](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/christianity?hsLang=en) - [Judaism](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/judaism?hsLang=en) - [Buddhism](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/buddhism?hsLang=en) - Library - [The Beginning Myth](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/genesis?hsLang=en) - [The Great Mother](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/mother?hsLang=en) - [The Two Paths](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/two-paths?hsLang=en) - [The Laws of Conscience](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/law?hsLang=en) - [The Living Scripture](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/canon?hsLang=en) - Gatherings - [Gathering Rituals / Events](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/liturgy?hsLang=en) - [Rites of Passage / Life Transitions](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/rituals?hsLang=en) - [The Work / Volunteering](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/mission?hsLang=en) - [Ministries / Clubs](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/ministries) - Leadership - [Structure](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/ecclesiology?hsLang=en) - [Becoming Clergy](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/advancement?hsLang=en) - [Clergy & Trustees](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/clergy?hsLang=en) - [Clawgy / Animal Ministers](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/clawgy?hsLang=en) - [Saints / Guides](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/saints?hsLang=en) - Get Involved - [Donate](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/donate?hsLang=en) - [Volunteer](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/volunteer?hsLang=en) - [Partner](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/partner?hsLang=en) [Join the Community](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/membership?hsLang=en) # Praxis: The Work ## The Ministries ### The Sunday Society Recurring community gatherings designed to cultivate confidence, connection, creativity, and curiosity. Through conversation, reflection, storytelling, and shared exploration, participants develop the skills needed to navigate life with greater flexibility, fulfillment, and self-trust. - **Tea & Tarot:** Intuition, symbolism, and the stories we tell ourselves - **The Writing Workshop:** Finding your voice through reflection and creativity - **The Community Circle:** The art of listening, connection, and meaningful conversation - **Wine & Weird:** Philosophy, curiosity, and ideas worth getting lost in - **Love & Loss:** Exploring grief, remembrance, change, and the enduring impact of what has mattered to us. Each salon offers a different doorway into reflection and conversation, but all share a common purpose: helping people live with greater confidence, fulfillment, flexibility, and wonder. ### Community Clubs ##### Cooking Club We gather to learn new ways of thinking about food: the sacred art of turning raw material into love and nourishment. We focus on flavor and utilizing what we have to create what we want to enjoy and share with those we love. It's the ultimate transformation. Where even spoiled ingredients become compost for our garden club, becoming new life. ##### Garden Club A great meal starts with great produce. We learn the art of cultivation, building confidence in ourselves, and the agency to create our own meals from soil to table. ##### Book Club Reading is a lost art necessary of revival. We meet for discussion of book themes and concepts related to values that help us better understand our environment and ourselves. ##### Craft Club Instead of endless consumption, we learn to make necessary items or rehab old items from everyday materials. This can be making candles, soap, dying, knitting, sewing, and more. **Fitness Ministries** ### Forest Bathing Leave behind the surface noise of daily life and submerge your senses in the living, breathing woods. This is more than a walk in the forest: it is a conscious immersion into the native network of the planet. **What You Will Experience:** - **A Shift in Resonance:**Learn how trees lower stress hormones and bring your body back into harmony with *The Great Mother.* - **The Subterranean Web:**Discover the "Wood Wide Web": the profound mycorrhizal fungal networks that allow trees to communicate, share resources, and care for one another across the forest floor. - **The Family Architecture:**Explore the deep, maternal family structures of ancient Mother Trees, learning how they actively recognize, shelter, and pass down generational knowledge to their saplings. ![Volunteers Needed](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/hs-fs/hubfs/BL(1)-1.png?width=300&height=72&name=BL(1)-1.png "Volunteers Needed") ![Seeking Partnerships](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/hs-fs/hubfs/BL(1)-3.png?width=300&height=72&name=BL(1)-3.png "Seeking Partnerships") ### Power Hour The body is sacred. Caring for it is doctrine. Morning and evening sessions, offered both in-person and online. Activities will be varied between low, mid, and high intensity: same community, every pace included, no one excluded by fitness level. Location flexible: church space when available, partner gyms, yoga studios, and community centers by arrangement. Partnerships with local fitness facilities welcome. [mailto:hello@holychur.ch](mailto:hello@holychur.ch) Indigenous Acknowledgement *It’s important to acknowledge that the patterns and beliefs described—consciousness as relational, intelligence as distributed, nature as sentient—would not be revelations to many indigenous peoples worldwide. These truths have been maintained through oral traditions, lived practice, and direct relationship with the land for thousands of years.*  *As a Maine-based church, we honor the Wabanaki Confederacy—the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Micmac, and Abenaki peoples—upon whose unceded ancestral lands and waters we gather and practice.* *The suppression of indigenous wisdom and the severing of humans from land-based consciousness have been catastrophic. The Church of the Holy emerges from within that brokenness, attempting to rebuild bridges through the language of the culture that did the breaking.* **[Privacy Policy & Terms of Service](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/privacy-tos?hsLang=en)** · **[Legal](https://www.thechurchoftheholy.org/legal?hsLang=en)** · The Church of the Holy © 2026. All rights reserved.