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Meditation with Young Meditators

  • About

The World Community for Christian Meditation believes that the contemplative tradition is not only for the seasoned practitioner or the monastic cell — it belongs equally to the young, the searching, and the beginning.
The WCCM Young Adults Programme exists to walk alongside university students, senior secondary school students, and educators as they discover the depths of their own inner life. Through a growing network of structured pathways, we accompany young people into contemplative practice, spiritual formation, and genuine human development. 

Our work takes shape in several ways:

  • Retreats — We offer immersive retreat experiences at Bonnevaux, WCCM’s international centre in France, and in Brazil, creating spaces of silence, community, and transformation for young adults seeking something deeper.
  • Spiritual Intelligence in Education — A dedicated programme designed for schools and universities, equipping students and educators with the tools to cultivate spiritual intelligence, inner awareness, and reflective capacity in academic and institutional settings.
  • Ongoing Spiritual Formation — Beyond individual events, we support young people in the sustained development of their spirituality and interiority — through meditation groups, formation resources, and accompaniment within the wider WCCM community.

At the heart of everything is a simple conviction: that young people deserve access to the ancient wisdom of the Christian contemplative tradition, and that this tradition, when encountered authentically, has the power to transform not only individual lives but the communities and institutions they inhabit.
Whether you are just beginning to explore meditation, deepening a practice already underway, or looking to bring contemplative approaches into your work in education — you are welcome here.

  • Young Adults Meditation Groups
There is much to learn about the tradition of Christian mysticism, which enriches us, stimulates us, balances us and leads us to experience the Spirit that inhabits us. WCCM helps meditators find their way in this tradition. The basis of meditation lies not so much in study, but in practice.
 
WCCM’s Christian meditation groups are open to young adults aged 18 to 45. Everyone is welcome and the meetings are free.
If you want to learn to meditate, starting out in a group can be very enriching. During these meetings (of around 40 minutes), we read sacred texts from the contemplative tradition, meditate for 20 minutes and share our spiritual friendship through the practice of silence.
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  • Retreats for Young Meditators

What if your perceived weaknesses were actually your greatest strengths? Spend five days at Bonnevaux exploring “living from the inside out.” No masks, no performance—just Christian meditation, embodied movement, and a global community of seekers (ages 18–45).

Trade the noise for the French countryside and deepen your spiritual journey.

Young Adults Retreat 2026
  • Spiritual Intelligence in Education
"Cultivate your inner life. Transform the world around you." "More presence, less autopilot."

An online, 12-week journey for students and educators who believe education is more than grades, assignments, and career goals — and who want to develop the inner life alongside the outer one.

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  • Volunteering at our Retreat Centre

Bonnevaux is the spiritual home of the World Community for Christian Meditation. It is a global Centre for Peace rooted in the practice of silence, stillness, simplicity and openness to all.

Bonnevaux can offer an opportunity to begin or deepen your spiritual journey, by finding inner clarity and peace. Volunteers come to share in our life and work. The great variety of backgrounds and age allows spiritual friendship to flourish in enriching ways. 

Volunteering Opportunities
  • Books

In this ebook, Tayna Malaspina Bonifácio invites the reader into the heart of Christian meditation – not as a technique to be mastered, but as a way of being in the world. Drawing from her own journey through loss, faith, motherhood and the search for a deeper spiritual life, she weaves together personal stories, contemplative wisdom and insights from thinkers such as Viktor Frankl, Thomas Merton and Laurence Freeman. Each chapter opens a threshold: on grief, vulnerability, work, nature, hope and the relationship with God.

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  • Subscribe to Free Resources

To support you in taking that next step, we have created a free 8-part email series, Breathe and Balance: Your 8-Week Guide to Modern Life, designed to help you seamlessly weave contemplative practice into the structure of your everyday routine. It’s completely free, gentle in pace, and designed to support you wherever you currently are on your path.

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Breathe & Balance: Your 8-Week Guide Through Modern Life

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  • Get the App

We have a brilliant app for youngsters to time their meditation sessions. Young meditators can listen to the instructions and opening song in Spanish, English or Italian and choose how long they want to meditate for. Click on the image to download the app now.

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  • Contact
Taynã is a WCCM oblate and International Coordinator of Meditation for Young people. She started her work in the community with a meditation project with children. She graduated in Social Communication with a master’s degree in Social Psychology. Today, she coordinates the WCCM young project. 
Tayna Malaspina

Taynã Malaspina

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