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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)
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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
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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
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Contemporary Anxiety

A contemplative response to three of the big issues facing us in the 21st century.

  • 11 march - 29 october, 2024
  • 3 Sessions
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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
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Feeling the Way

Continuing the Journey of Meditation- A Six Week Course online with Laurence Freeman.

  • 3 February - 24 March 2025
  • 6 Sessions
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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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Save The Date

Events for WCCM and Bonnevaux in 2023

  • 01 january - 31 december, 2023
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  • Individual Events
October 2024

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. ...
Prof Bernard McGinnProf Peter Tyler
23 Oct, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm
Online
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November 2024

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. ...
Guy Claxton
12 Nov, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Online
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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. ...
Prof Bernard McGinnLiz Watson
26 Nov, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm
Online
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December 2024
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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. ...
Satish KumarDr Tess LawrieInge Relph
12 Dec, 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Online
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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. ...
Laurence FreemanProf Bernard McGinn
17 Dec, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm
Online
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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. ...
Laurence Freeman
24 Dec, 2024
10:00 pm
Online
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