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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.

  • 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.

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.

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.

Contemporary Anxiety

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

The Future of Wisdom and Intelligence

A Series of 4 Round Table Discussions on Thursday Evenings
In Partnership with the Scientific and Medical Network

Feeling the Way

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

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.

Save The Date

Events for WCCM and Bonnevaux in 2023

  • 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
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

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
December 2024
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