Explore The Art of Vinemaking through four rich online courses that blend vineyard interviews, guided spiritual practices, and creative reflection tools.
For deeper formation, join the year-long online cohort with quarterly intensives that weave biblical teaching, personal stories, and spiritual practices through the nine vineyard seasons.
The Book
Return to Abiding in the Vinedresser
In a culture that measures fruitfulness by productivity, The Art of Vinemaking offers a countercultural and deeply compelling invitation: to return to the slower, sacred rhythm of abiding.
Through the rich metaphor of John 15, author and artist Bette Dickinson weaves biblical insight, personal story, and 17 original hand-drawn illustrations —creating a deeply visual and embodied reflection on what it means to be rooted in Christ in every season.
Online Cohort
The Art of Vinemaking Online Cohort
A year-long online cohort with quarterly 4-week intensives exploring the spiritual journey through the nine vineyard seasons, rooted in Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and abiding presence.
With 12 sessions, it weaves biblical teaching, interviews, creative practices, and guided reflection. Includes video teachings, workbook, audio resources, and the companion book The Art of Vinemaking.
The Journey
Experience The Art of Vinemaking Journey
A spiritual formation path that starts with an immersive 4-day retreat in Michigan’s vineyards, exploring rhythms of abundance and communion with God through creation.
Then a year-long online cohort with quarterly 4-week intensives, self guided online courses, and the book The Art of Vinemaking to guide you in abiding in the Vinedresser’s transforming work in your life.
What Season Are You In?
Find Your Season of the Vine
Take this free 5-minute quiz to discover which vineyard season reflects your spiritual life: Post-Harvest, Dormancy, Pruning, Bud-break, Growing, Flowering, Veraison, Harvest, or Wine.
Each result includes a guided reflection to help you abide in Christ through rhythms of surrender, growth, and offering. Uncover what God might be cultivating in you in this season of your soul.
Bette Dickinson
is a prophetic artist, writer, and speaker who invites audiences to connect with God through visual parables of the spiritual journey in her ministry, Awakening the Soul. She has partnered with organizations like Barna, World Vision, InterVarsity, Infinitum, and Community Christian Church to awaken hearts through beauty, wonder, and embodied spiritual practices.
She holds an MDiv in Pastoral Studies from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and is the author of Making Room in Advent and The Art of Vinemaking.
Bette lives in Traverse City, Michigan, with her husband and their two sons.