Experience a welcome that heals.
We creates spaces of deep attention for people, leaders, and communities learning to listen for the life of God already stirring among them.
Through spiritual direction, retreats, organizational care, communal listening, and writing, we make room to notice what is happening beneath the surface—and to respond with greater freedom, courage, and love.
Let’s attend to what is trying to find a voice in you.
Maybe there is something in you that is asking for more attention.
A longing we cannot quite name.
A life that no longer fits its old shape.
A grief asking to be witnessed.
A question that refuses an easy answer.
A community sensing that something needs to change.
Listening House exists for these places.
We create hospitable spaces where people and communities can slow down, listen deeply, and become more attentive to the presence and movement of God in the life they are actually living.
Sometimes the container is one life.
Sometimes the container is a community.
In both, we practice a kind of attention that does not rush to diagnose, fix, or resolve. We listen beneath the obvious. We make room for mystery. We attend to what is becoming.
And together, we discern what love might ask of us next.
Ways to enter
Soul Care / Spiritual Direction
A listening space for the life you're actually living.
One-on-one accompaniment offers a place to bring the whole of your life into the presence of God—the beautiful and bewildering, the holy and ordinary, the places of longing, grief, transition, exhaustion, resistance, and becoming.
Spiritual direction is not about being given answers. It is the practice of becoming more attentive: to your own life, to the movements of your soul, and to the God who may already be nearer than you know.
Marymount Studio
A place set apart for listening.
Tucked beside a garden in a neighborhood in Chattanooga, Marymount is a small retreat house created for those who need enough quiet, beauty, and care to hear what is stirring beneath the noise.
Come for a few hours or stay overnight. Rest. Pray. Walk. Make something with your hands. Receive spiritual direction. Sit in the garden. Sleep. There is no need to arrive with an agenda.
Marymount is simply a place to be received—and to become receptive again.
Poetics of Welcome
Words for a more attentive life.
Poetics of Welcome is the writing life of Listening House—essays, poetry, theology, and practices exploring attention, beauty, hospitality, spiritual formation, and the mysterious movements of love.
These writings ask what becomes possible when we stop standing over our lives as problems to solve and learn instead to come near enough to listen.
Leadership & Community Care
Listening to the life of a community.
Organizations have souls, too.
Churches, nonprofits, ministry teams, and the people who lead them carry stories, desires, wounds, tensions, gifts, and questions that can be difficult to hear amid the urgency of the work.
Listening House partners with leaders and communities to create spaces for deeper attention and discernment through staff soul care, clergy care, leadership accompaniment, retreats, facilitated conversations, and communal listening experiences.
Sometimes that means offering confidential one-on-one care to the people carrying an organization's work. Sometimes it means gathering around a table and listening together. Sometimes it means accompanying leaders through a season of transition, conflict, discernment, or change.
We begin by listening.
Let’s chat and see what you need.
Reaching out for care is often intimidating. Let’s start gently with a 30 minute introduction and see if we would be a good fit.
Welcome to Listening House. My name is Kaysie and I am a trauma-informed spiritual director, creative facilitator, artist, poet, and mama.
I love designing spaces for deep listening and creative healing.
My life has taken me through many soul landscapes: spiritual wilderness, vocational burnout, creative rebirth, relational rupture & restoration, spacious friendship with God, and a reclamation of my own voice and calling.
Creative Rest Personal Retreats
Nestled in the serene sanctuary of my intimate backyard art studio in Chattanooga, TN, Creative Rest is a personal day retreat designed just for you. Step away from the noise of life and enter a sacred time of rest and play and listening. Let me guide you into what feels gentle and easy on your soul, which could be an art journaling practice, or taking a long bath in the soaking tub, or sitting quietly in the garden or greenhouse. This time is just for you, and I’m here to help you enter creative rest.
Online Workshops + Retreats
Soulful, intimate, and thoughtfully curated, I lead workshops on soul care practices, story work, artistic reclamation, and restful art creation. Join me for the next one!
If you have lost a sense of belonging — to a community, a church, a family, a marriage, a version of faith, a version of yourself — you are welcome here.
For women who are confronting the voices of self-hatred, shame, and smallness, and are waking up to the dormant beauty that is already within them.
For women who tired of knowing all the right answers, and are learning to experience friendship with God that actually transforms us.
You are welcome here.
Testimonials
“Spiritual direction has given me a time to rest in the presence of God and listen for His voice with a wise companion. Kaysie masterfully facilitates this time with gentleness, curiosity, and eye-opening questions that help me discover what’s under the surface. She has an uncanny way of putting words to what’s already in my heart. She has been a compassionate witness to my story, a welcoming presence to my grief, and someone who enters into my spiritual wrestling with me. I am especially appreciative of Kaysie‘s knowledge of the body’s inextricable role in trauma and healing. She understands me in a way that few ever have. There are not adequate words for the sacredness of our time together in God‘s presence, but I am grateful that God led me to Kaysie and continues to lead our time together.”
— Karina B.
“I found a lot of what I was seeking during this retreat - grounding, accountability and accessibility to rest and the Spirit, and a beginning journey of inward peace more intentionally. I truly felt like this time began to undo a lot of what the last couple years had formed in my life, and I don't think I've had such a real tangible experience like that before.”
— Laura H.
“Kaysie was such a gracious guide for our retreat. I appreciate her gentle invitation to engage in whatever ways felt helpful. It took the pressure of feeling like I had to explain some of the recent trauma I’ve experienced. It was so nice to be able to listen to others and have time/space to process a little more of my own story. I liked how she integrated faith, scripture, and prayer without being dogmatic or oppressive. She encouraged us to be present and open to hearing how the Spirit was speaking to us or what he might be showing us. The time we spent learning about and then practicing centering prayer was so grounding for me and I was thankful for Kaysie introducing me to that type of prayer.”
— Rachel G.
Kaysie's presence and space are holy ground and it's been a privilege to sit in her chair and be heard. Leaving her space I always feel lighter and with a more clear picture of God and His love and tenderness towards me. Spiritual direction to me is best described as slowing down and taking time to intentionally see God in my story. I am so thankful for the opportunity to learn from Kaysie and have her walk alongside my journey as I navigate towards being whole emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
— Ryn T.
