Contemplative Revolution

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This episode is part of the series of monthly talks Wisdom Living & the Joy of Connection a journey through the roots of meditation in the Christian Tradition as experienced in the circumstances of modern life by younger people.   Learn more here    Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

This is the opening talk by James Alison of the retreat 'Basic Christianity: what does the “real thing” look like when all the kitsch has collapsed?' Online Seminar, 21-26 July 2020 Coming soon: James is leading a new online retreat from Bonnevaux! 5 - 9 May 2021: Basic Christianity: An Induction into the Life of Jesus the Forgiving Victim A 5-day retreat examining the central elements of the Chri...

This is the opening talk of the Monte Oliveto Retreat 2018 led by Laurence Freeman OSB and Giovanni Felicioni. This is also part of the course Being Alone Together which you can find in the Offerings section of the wccm.org website.    Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

This is part of the Meditation as a Modern Spiritual Path course available on the wccm.org website.    Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.    

This is part of the Monte Oliveto retreat which took place in 2015 led by Laurence Freeman OSB and Giovanni Felicioni. You can find the full content from the retreat in the online course Love and the Gift of Failure Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

This talk is part of the course the Eight Big Problems of Life available on wccm.org In this course,  Laurence will develop the schema of the “eight principal faults” and show how understanding them as patterned states of mind will help us to overcome them – making both meditations, relationships and daily life a great deal easier. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Att...

Bernard is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor emeritus of the University of Chicago, where he taught for thirty-four years before retiring in 2003. Since his retirement, he has continued to teach, lecture and write. His major work is a history of western Christian mysticism under the general title The Presence of God, seven volumes of which have been published between 1991 and 2017. To continu...

Sarah Bachelard is an internationally respected theologian, retreat leader and priest. She is the founder and leader of Benedictus Contemplative Church in Canberra, Australia and an honorary fellow at the Australian Catholic University. Sarah was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University where she studied theology with former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. She is the author of two books, Exp...

  Sarah Bachelard  is a theologian, retreat leader and priest in Anglican Orders. She lives in Canberra in Australia where she has taught in the areas of theology, ethics and spirituality at Charles Sturt University. She is currently director of Benedictus Contemplative Church. She is a member of the WCCM and was a keynote speaker at the John Main Seminar in Montreal in 2007 and at the John Main S...

Professor Peter Gilbert was Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at Staffordshire University. He worked as the Project lead of National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum and Chair of the National Development Team for Inclusion. His latest book is called Spirituality and Mental Health which promotes an understanding of people’s belief systems and proves the increasing importance of spiritua...

You can read the full article here About Herman Van Rompuy Herman Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent President of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. More recently, in 2018, he was one of the speakers at the John Main Seminar 2018, in Belgium addressing the theme  Politics and the management of division...

Servol is an organization of weak, frail, ordinary, imperfect yet hope-filled and committed people seeking to help weak, frail, ordinary, hope-drained people become agents of attitudinal and social change in a journey which leads to total human development.  Servol was born out of the challenges of the country’s Black Power Revolution of 1970 in which a number of persons and groups sought to chall...

You can watch the animation video What is Christian Meditation? by Paul Demeyer here.   Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

This is talk one of Sources of Wisdom,  an online retreat on essential teaching of meditation provided by The School of  Meditation.  The time of self-isolating and social distance that we are currently experiencing is a kind of extended Lent: a voluntary restriction which reminds us of the limited control we have in reality – at any time – over the circumstances of our daily lives. A willing and...

Australian researcher and academic, professor Anne Graham worked as a professor of childhood studies, leading research at a centre for children and young people . Anne Graham is Professor of Childhood Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University. A primary school teacher and sociologist by background, Anne has worked in teacher education fo...

Born on a farm in Alberta, Canada, Jack Murta entered politics young. Driven by a large dose of ambition, he was also guided by his faith and easy connection with ordinary people. After a successful career in Ottawa, he became involved in caring for the homeless of Ottawa while also nurturing the spiritual aspect of the lives of many politicians. As a meditator now for nearly 20 years, he became W...

Born in Canada, when she qualified as a medical doctor, Julia worked in North America, South Africa and other developing countries. She was struck by the embedded inequality in the developed world where she found people suffering conditions of life and neglect on par with those in the poorest parts of the word. This led her to work for the UN on HIV and child health issues. Encountering the Bhutan...

This podcast Waiting is Being Fully Present was held by Father Laurence Freeman during the Bonnevaux Advent retreat in 2019.    Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

This is part of the Contemplative Through The Crisis programme held in April 2020.  You can read more about Kim's reflection here .  Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

Liz Watson has been a member of WCCM for over 20 years and now focuses on teaching meditation in a variety of settings, leading retreats in the UK and beyond, and offering spiritual direction. These talks are part of a Contemplative Path Through the Crisis programme. You can learn more about it here.    Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial Licens...

Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes.  This talk is part of the Contemplative Path Through the Crisis Programme. You can read more HERE    Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.  

Originally from Hong Kong, FR. JOSEPH H. WONG, O.S.B. Cam, is a Benedictine monk of the Camaldolese Congregation. He holds BA in English literature from London University, MT from the same University, and STD from the Gregorian University in Rome. Fr. Wong is a member of the Pontifcal Academy of Teology and has taught systematic theology at the Salesian University in Rome. As a monk of the Monaste...

"The heart is the very spiritual symbol, the place of prayer...is the store room which keeps things fresh and available, from which we can receive enrichment and nourishment." says Laurence in this talk. "When you pray go into your inner room, the heart." It's a dynamic symbol: as we enter into our heart, our inner room , the symbol of the heart reminds us that we're doing something dynamic. The p...

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