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
The space between words: How to read the Bible and other Sacred texts
In this series Laurence Freeman will help us rediscover the art of reading any sacred text contemplatively, by learning to engage with the books that make up the Hebrew and Christian Bible.
- 25 September, 2023 - 30 September, 2024
- 9 Sessions
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
Learning to Meditate
Four weekly online sessions to start the journey of meditation with Laurence Freeman.
- 17 april - 8 may, 2024
- 4 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
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
2024 Programme - Save the Date
2024 Major Annual Events to save on your diary
- John Main Seminar: July 8-14
- Monte Oliveto Retreat: October 6 - 13
- WCCM Pilgrimage (destination TBC): October
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Individual Events
April 2024
May 2024
Artificial Wisdom and Intelligence
In this round table dialogue, Ilia Delio, a Franciscan Sister ...
June 2024
Being Naturally Intelligent in a Technological society : Recovering the Axiological and Creative Dimensions
Over the last centuries, scientific research and technological development have ...
Pools of Grace: The Gift and Call of Contemplative Church
A WCCM in the UK and Meditatio Gathering with Rev Dr Sarah Bachelard ...
Shouting, Cancelling, Signalling: Christ and the Anxieties of Speech
We live in a time when speaking on a whole range of issues seems profoundly fraught. In some contexts, flagrant untruth and hate are asserted seemingly without consequence or effective critique. ...
July 2024
“One eye sees, the other feels” – drawing as a sacramental act of contemplative engagement
Paul Klee’s epigram of seeing acknowledges sight as a formal, ...
“To See a World in a Grain of Sand”
The beauty and goodness of creation can sometimes be forgotten ...
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