The Marriage of Wisdom and ProphesyOngoing
Each tradition has its unique blend between the prophetic and the wisdom. ...
Annual Programme
Online Events are organised by WCCM, and On-the-Ground Events are organised by l’Association Abbaye de Bonnevaux – Centre pour le Paix (ABP).
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Online Series
No More Special Pleading
Openness to LGBT people and their issues is basic to Christianity.
- 23 January - 24 April, 2025
- 4 Sessions
- £70 for all sessions
- £20 for single session
The Risk of Living Together
Increasingly, people in affluent societies are choosing to live alone. Traditional ways of forming relationships especially those demanding personal commitment have been damaged by ‘progress’. Technically we may advance but are we humanly regressing?
- 4 February - 11 November, 2025
- 8 Sessions
- £140 for all sessions
- £20 for single session
Learning to Meditate in Lent
Four weekly online sessions to start the journey of meditation with Laurence Freeman
- 17 March - 07 April, 2025
- 4 Sessions
Women Mystics:
Guides in the Life of Prayer
Dr. Jane Williams together with well-known practitioners of prayer and theology will lead a six-talk series on their favourite women mystics.
- 8 May - 27 November, 2025
- 6 Sessions
- £100 for all sessions
- £20 for single session
Beholding Divine Beauty
In 2024 the theme for our online series will explore Beauty, Goodness and the Act of Creation in all senses, including art, theology and social justice.
- 16 january - 10 december, 2024
- 10 Sessions
- £140 for all sessions
- £20 for single session
Into the Mystics
Bernard McGinn, the most preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition, will lead a 10 talk series on his favourite mystics and why he believes they still speak to us today.
- 23 january - 17 december, 2024
- 10 Sessions
- £140 for all sessions
- £20 for single session
The Future of Wisdom and Intelligence
A Series of 4 Round Table Discussions on Thursday Evenings
In Partnership with the Scientific and Medical Network
- 23 may - 12 december, 2024
- 4 Sessions
- £55 for all talks
- £15 for single talk
Feeling the Way
Continuing the Journey of Meditation- A Four Week Course online with Laurence Freeman.
- 19 May - 9 June 2025
- 4 Sessions
Contemporary Anxiety
A contemplative response to three of the big issues facing us in the 21st century.
- 11 march - 29 october, 2024
- 3 Sessions
Save the Date: John Main Seminar and Pre-Seminar Retreat at Bonnevaux
This year, the Seminar will be held at Bonnevaux and led by Herman Van Rompuy and Laurence Freeman. The Seminar will be preceded by a 3-day preparatory retreat.
- 14 - 17 November, 2022 (Pre-Seminar Retreat)
- 17 - 20 November, 2022 (John Main Seminar)
- Location: Bonnevaux & Online
Seeing What St. Paul Saw
St Paul is usually misunderstood. Understandably, because he was an intense personality, a volcano of vision and passion. But failing to see what he is teaching is to miss out on one of the great sources of wisdom.
- 28 March - 28 November, 2022
- 4 Sessions
- £60 for all sessions (Get 1 free)
Future of Intelligence
In this series of round table dialogues, we will explore integral intelligence: the several balanced and unified forms of intelligence that humanity is gifted with. Speakers in the series will draw on left and right hemisphere styles of attention and investigate the unique nature of spiritual intelligence, the risks of AI, and finally that art of socio-political intelligence.
- 21 april - 24 november, 2022
- 4 Sessions
- £50 for all talks
- £15 for single talk
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Individual Events
November 2024
Etty Hillesum
The Dutch Jew, Etty (Edith) Hillesum (1914-1942), is an unlikely mystic. After a rather aimless youth, the pressure of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Holland during 1940-42 moved Etty to a life of love and service for all humans, both the persecuted and even the persecutors. Her realization of the universal love of God, as reflected in her Diaries, is a remarkable witness to new forms of mysticism in the modern world. ...
December 2024
Building a Parish Rooted in Contemplation and Ecumenism
An online event hosted by Fr Jim Caffrey and the Parish of Balally, Ireland with Laurence Freeman OSB ...
The Mystical Language of Music: Dylan, Son or Daughter of the Sea
In this talk we will visit the role of music in key periods in social history, and illuminate how often arts, music, poetry, pottery, painting and sculpture rise to the challenge of healing the incoherence of society. ...
Ethical Wisdom and Intelligence
ln this round table dialogue, Satish Kumar, for 43 years editor-in-Chief of Resurgence Magazine, along with Dr Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy, and Inge Relph, Executive Director and co – Founder of Global Choices, will explore Ethical Intelligence and the practical implications of a new integrated intelligence. ...
John Main
The Irish-English lawyer and later monk, John Main (1926-82), developed a style of contemplative prayer that owed much to both Buddhist practices and the meditative traditions of Christianity (e.g., John Cassian, Meister Eckhart, the Cloud of Unknowing). Main wrote little during his lifetime, but his teaching on prayer and the mystical life have been enshrined in numerous posthumous works and recordings. ...
Christmas Eve Vigil
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. A gift is not just a cheap novelty, but something that brings newness, renewing our relationships and changing our way of being. Join us as we await the gift of Jesus’ birth and reflect on the mysteries of the Incarnation. ...
Christmas Day Contemplative Eucharist
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. A gift is not just a cheap novelty, but something that brings newness, renewing our relationships and changing our way of being. Join us as we await the gift of Jesus’ birth and reflect on the mysteries of the Incarnation. ...
April 2025
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