Photograph by Lois Huey-Heck
Discernment in Times Like These:
Distinguishing the Surface Storm from the Deeper Currents
Online
with Grainger Brown and Lois Huey-Heck
Three Wednesdays: January 14, 21, 28, 2026
6:45-8:30 pm Pacific Time
Let’s travel together in the territory of deep knowing. Let’s keep company with others who know this way and have left us their travel stories as guides. Let’s ponder how discernment is a shift from “decision-making" to anchoring in Presence. Let’s consider discernment as an ongoing orientation toward life and Spirit — not a once-in-awhile event. We’ll explore the art of discerning, and reflect on our experiences. We’ll practise self-compassion and deep listening for the truth of our own beings, the Wisdom of the Holy, the embrace of Creation, and the companionship of kindred souls.
During these three January nights, we’ll be companioned by word and image, music and silence, and one another. As we quiet into deep reflection, we’ll be listening, sensing and feeling beneath the surface storms for the deeper currents of what’s true, right, and integral.
This event is the fifth in a series of contemplative online events for “times like these" offered through the partnership of Naramata Centre and Pacific Jubilee.
AGES: 18+
The cost for three sessions via Zoom is $110.00
Bursary Available: The Naramata Centre Heartwood Bursary is available for most programs, based on financial need. If cost is a barrier to participating in this program, please consider applying for the bursary. Click here to apply
Grainger Brown
is a licensed marriage family therapist (since 1985) and spiritual director living in Sacramento, California. Grainger completed the Pacific Jubilee Program in 1998 and then was on staff for six years. He has a spiritual direction private practice and works part-time as a psychotherapist for a large national hospital chain. The marriage between psychotherapy and spirituality is of special interest to Grainger.
Lois Huey-Heck
seeks to find, participate in, and seed community experiences of deepening into the fullness of our true selves and then asking the discerning question, “What is mine to do?” The way of discernment came as a gift to Lois during her training as a spiritual director. She is deeply grateful to be working with Grainger Brown — a longstanding discernment mentor for her. She values community experiences that help us lean into the long view of Spirit—and the imperative to BE love—as vision and practice equal to the precariousness of our times.
Lois worked at Wood Lake Publishing for 30 years, was a program mentor for the Pacific Jubilee SoulGuiding program, and was director of spiritual nurture at Naramata Centre. Now Lois offers spiritual accompaniment to her multi-generational household (age six to 83) as well as individual spiritual direction and online retreat leadership. Learn about Lois’ spiritual accompaniment practice here.