Integrated Wisdom for a Broken World

A Vision for Healing What Is Fractured

Our world is experiencing multiple, interwoven crises—ecological collapse, social fragmentation, spiritual fatigue, and economic injustice. Inspired by Laudato Si’, this work responds to Pope Francis’ call for integral ecology: a way of living that heals our relationship with God, one another, culture, and the earth itself.

Rooted in the Benedictine tradition and enriched by Indigenous wisdom, science, and Catholic Social Teaching, these programs offer practical pathways for communities seeking not just reflection, but transformation.

Fr. Anselm Adodo, OSB

Fr. Anselm Adodo, OSB is a Benedictine monk, priest, scholar, and social innovator whose life bridges contemplation and action.

A monk of Ewu Monastery (Nigeria) and currently resident at St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, Fr. Adodo brings over three decades of monastic life into conversation with real-world challenges of health, ecology, and economics.

He is the founder of Pax Herbals, Nigeria’s leading herbal medicine research and production center, and the originator of Communitalism—a community-centered economic philosophy aligned with Catholic Social Teaching.

His work integrates:

• Benedictine spirituality (ora et labora, stability, stewardship)
• Indigenous and African wisdom traditions
• Scientific research in ethnobotany and medical sociology
• Community-based economic innovation

Fr. Adodo is the author of Integral Community Enterprise in Africa, Healing Plants of Nigeria, and Nature Power. His scholarship and lived experience demonstrate that faith, science, culture, and economics are not separate domains, but dimensions of one integrated human vocation.

Lectures • Workshops • Retreats • Seminars

Fr. Adodo works with faith communities, academic institutions, NGOs, business leaders, and social movements seeking holistic approaches to renewal.

Core Areas of Engagement

Integral Ecology in Practice
Exploring Laudato Si’ through the lived wisdom of Benedictine stewardship—how prayer, work, and rhythm of life can shape ecological responsibility today.

Indigenous Knowledge & Holistic Health
Dialogue at the intersection of traditional medicine, ethnobotany, and modern health systems, emphasizing community-based healing and cultural dignity.

Alternative Economic Imagination (Communitalism)
A practical framework for community-centered economics that moves beyond extractive capitalism toward cooperation, human dignity, and shared flourishing.

Spiritual & Ecological Renewal
Retreats and guided reflections that reconnect Eucharist, earth, and daily life—cultivating an ecological spirituality grounded in faith.

Fr. Adodo offers more than theory. His teaching is grounded in lived experience—building enterprises, restoring traditions, forming communities, and praying the rhythms of monastic life.

This is a “lived theology” that speaks to contemporary realities:

• Accessible without being simplistic
• Spiritually deep without being abstract
• Visionary yet grounded in practice

Engagements are tailored, but participants often experience:

• A practical understanding of integral ecology
• New ways to integrate faith, culture, and science
• Insight into sustainable, community-rooted economics
• Renewed commitment to stewardship, hospitality, and hope

From Hostility to Hospitality

Healing Ourselves • Healing the Earth • Healing Our Communities

Hospitality is at the heart of the Benedictine way of life. St. Benedict taught that every guest is to be welcomed as Christ—and from this practice of welcome emerged the very idea of the hospital.

This workshop explores how healing begins with hospitality: toward the self, toward others, and toward creation.

Fr. Adodo invites participants to recognize that hostility toward the earth mirrors inner and social fragmentation. When we learn to welcome again, healing becomes possible.

Key Themes

• Hospitality toward the self: inner peace as the foundation of peace
• Hospitality toward the other: compassion in a divided world
• Hospitality toward creation: from domination to relationship
• Hospitality as social design: Communitalism as an economic ethic of care

Ideal for: faith communities, formation programs, educators, justice and ecology groups.

A Benedictine Framework for Regenerative Leadership

For executives, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders

The organizations that endure are those that align with the logic of life itself.

This executive-level workshop reframes business not as a machine, but as a living system—drawing on ecology, the Rule of St. Benedict, and Fr. Adodo’s experience in community-based enterprise.

A “business with a soul” is not idealistic—it is resilient, trusted, and future-ready.

Strategic Lenses

• Biomimicry & regenerative strategy: learning from nature’s zero-waste economy
• Benedictine stewardship: stability, hospitality, and care for people and place
• Communitalism: balancing profitability with community well-being
• Ethical leadership: innovation rooted in interdependence

Outcomes

• Greater organizational resilience
• Purpose-driven culture that attracts talent
• Deeper stakeholder trust

Long-term legacy beyond short-term extraction 

A Retreat in Silence, Prayer, and Integral Ecology

Location: St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota

This immersive retreat invites participants into the healing rhythm of monastic life—where silence speaks, nature teaches, and prayer grounds the soul.

Set within the 2,500-acre St. John’s Arboretum, the retreat integrates Benedictine prayer, ecological awareness, and contemplative presence.

The Experience

• Participation in the Divine Office
• Periods of sacred silence
• Visio Divina walks—nature as prayer
• Reflection on Laudato Si’ as lived theology

Why This Retreat Matters

• Restores attention in an age of distraction
• Reunites faith and care for creation
• Heals inner fragmentation mirrored in ecological crisis
• Models community as a living ecosystem of grace

This is not an escape, but a return to center.

These offerings are adaptable for diverse contexts—retreat centers, universities, dioceses, congregations, NGOs, and leadership teams.

If your community is seeking depth, integration, and practical hope, you are invited to begin a conversation.

Let us explore together what healing, hospitality, and integral living might look like in your context.