Meditation Timer

Meditation Creates Community

John Main OSB

WCCM is a global contemplative family in the Christian tradition committed to serving the unity of all

About Us

2021 is the 30th anniversary of the launch of WCCM. In this time we have been growing as a global contemplative network, a spiritual family rooted in Christian faith. Committed to building a way of peace in our time of conflict, we serve unity among all to build a community of faith composed of people with many beliefs. Meditation for us is a way to open the common ground of humanity. So we work with other faiths and the secular world to develop the consciousness needed for a new, just way of living as a human family in harmony with our natural environment.

Introducing 2021

The WCCM Year of Health

The sixty-seven National Coordinators of WCCM are engaging in many different ways with the theme of health from a contemplative perspective. To lead this year’s reflection process, a series of monthly seminars are being led by Dr Barry White and Fr Laurence Freeman.

We live in the golden age of medicine. Breakthroughs, cures and life-expectancy have all flourished with medical science. The present Covid-19 pandemic shows the value and necessity of this dimension of medicine. It seems, to many medical practitioners and to patients, that we have gained so much but neglected something essential: our capacity for deep and transformative healing.

Join Us Live

We offer a range of regular opportunities to share immediately with other meditators in silence, body work, worship and teaching

Visit Our Retreat Centre

Bonnevaux centre for Peace

The international home of a monastery without walls, Bonnevaux is developing on the site of a 12th century Abbey energised by centuries of contemplative silence in the humane spirit of St Benedict. A resident community lives here in the spirit of Benedictine wisdom following a daily rhythm of life, balancing daily times of prayer, work and study. Hospitality for guests, retreats and conferences share the peace of Bonnevaux with many so they can transmit it to others.

Upcoming Retreats & Events

Our events offer many opportunities to learn to meditate and to integrate the practice into daily life, to deepen its fruits in the service of others, to share the experience of meditation inclusively, coming to self-knowledge in the discovery of our interconnectedness

The Desert Blooms: Lent Retreat

Led by Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni
25-28 Feb

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Wisdom Living & the Joy of Connection

A series of talks for younger adults by Laurence Freeman
March-December

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Mind Melds Science and Spirit: A day online on consciousness

With Revd Don MacGregor, retired Anglican Priest and author
13 March

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Online Offerings

Learn the essentials of meditation, contemplative Christianity, inter-faith dialogue, and both personal and social transformation.

FREE

How to Meditate

A 3-part mini-course showing you the basics of how to start your meditation journey

FREE

Lent 2021 Daily Reflections

Laurence Freeman leads a contemporary path through the rich themes and symbols of Lent

Free for Supporting Members

Sources Of Wisdom

A 6-part retreat for a time of self-isolating and social distance

$69.99

The Good Heart

John Main Seminar 1994 featuring The Dalai Lama

We are growing as a community of meditators in more than 100 countries, committed to developing a contemplative Christian life for our time and to dialogue between religion, science, business and art, body and mind. At the heart of this community is the meeting of many weekly groups, both physically and online, which introduce the essential teaching of meditation and help to deepen the inner journey. Personal transformation leads then to social and global transformation.

"Experience is the Teacher"

Meditators speak of the fruit of silence

"By being in silence, saying and listening faithfully to the mantra and not judging, I can sometimes touch that deeper source of peace, love and presence within me. Every moment I am spending with the silence, the silence is also spending with me and doing his lovely work that has to be done. It helps me to be more gentle with myself, to be more present to others and to love more freely. It makes me more human".

"My introduction to meditation in the Christian tradition in August 2004 was akin to discovering an oasis in a desert. I had been wandering this spiritual desert for more than 20-years but finally I had a place to call home".

"Meditation started out as a way for me to find balance and clarity. By God’s blessings, quite early on in my practice, I discovered an infinitely profound reward – personal communion with God that is deeper than what I had previously experienced".

News & Updates

Where have WCCM Weekly Readings & Teachings gone?

The Weekly Teachings and Weekly Readings have been moved under the new website so that they can be always accessible to meditators. You will now

Laurence Freeman talks with Bere Island Community Radio: The Favorite Five

In a Desert Island Discs format, Laurence speaks with Bere Island Community Radio about his life and history with the island lensed through some of his favourite

Sensing God: Learning to Meditate During Lent

Listen here to Laurence Freeman’s reading out the introduction to his book Sensing God, a practical introduction and guide to meditation in the Christian tradition and illuminated by scripture. It shows how to meditate during Lent.

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