It Is What It Is: We Are Who We Are – Monte Oliveto RetreatOngoing
This mystical truth is proven when we discover that silence allows us to be who we are and God to be who God is. ...
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).
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
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Online Series
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)
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
Contemporary Anxiety
A contemplative response to three of the big issues facing us in the 21st century.
- 11 march - 29 october, 2024
- 3 Sessions
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 Six Week Course online with Laurence Freeman.
- 3 February - 24 March 2025
- 6 Sessions
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
October 2024
Consecrated Ground: Realising Earth’s Goodness
In this talk, Sarah explores themes of place and displacement, pilgrimage and belonging, wondering how we learn to relate to earth so as to stand on holy ground. ...
Edith Stein
Edith Stein (1891-1942) was born in a Jewish family but abandoned her faith as an adolescent. After studying philosophy, she converted to Catholicism in 1922 and eventually became a Carmelite nun. The author of both spiritual and philosophical works, her conversion did not save her from Nazi persecution and she died at Auschwitz in 1942. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998. ...
The Unfinished God in a Techno-Driven World
Technology is our fastest evolver today and it is radically changing our world. In centuries past, religion dominated culture because it stabilized society and advocated norms of unity. Has technology come to replace religion in our own time? ...
November 2024
Forum pour une Terre en Crise 6: Semer les graines d’une écologie contemplative
English below - simultaneous translation will be available for this ...
Teenage Mystics: Educating Our Saviours To Be
Children and young people often have moral clarity, creativity, courage and energy. Older people like us easily become hidebound by habits and beliefs that make necessary adaptations to our lives look quite impossible: a condition of paralysis from which we need the young to rescue us – before the end of days swallows us up. ...
The Marriage of Wisdom and Prophesy
Each tradition has its unique blend between the prophetic and the wisdom. ...
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
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. ...
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