Save The Date – Events for WCCM and Bonnevaux in 2023

Speakers

• Andrew Harvey
  

  Andrew Harvey

  Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, teacher, and the author of more than 40 books, including the critically acclaimed The Hope; Son of Man, and Savage Grace with Carolyn Baker. Born in south India in 1952, Harvey has devoted much of his life to studying the world’s mystical traditions, including intensive study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sufi mysticism.

• Cynthia Bourgeault
  

  Cynthia Bourgeault

  Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, and theologian. For thirty years she worked closely with Fr. Thomas Keating as a student, editor, and colleague and has taught and written extensively on Centering Prayer. She is a core faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation and founding director of an international network of Wisdom Schools. In addition to her work on Centering Prayer, she is the author of numerous other books on the Christian Mystical and Wisdom tradition, including The Wisdom Jesus, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, and her most recent, Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm.

• Giovanni Felicioni
  

  Giovanni Felicioni

  Giovanni (Bonnevaux Associate Director) has been a part of the WCCM since the beginning, being involved in its official foundation in 1991. He is an Oblate, a certified Advanced Rolfer™, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and Yoga Teacher.

• Laurence Freeman
  

  Laurence Freeman

  Fr Laurence is a Benedictine monk of the Monastery of Sta Maria di Pilastrello, Lendinara, in the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

• Martin Laird
  

  Martin Laird

  Martin Laird, O.S.A., is an Augustinian friar, and Professor of Early Christian Studies at Villanova University. Laird is the author of three highly-regarded books on Christian contemplative spirituality: Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation, A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness and Contemplation, and An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation and Liberation. He is also the author of an academic monograph, Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith. He lectures widely through the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.His books are deeply grounded in the Christian tradition and yet are accessible guides to how silence integrates into prayer and everyday life.

• Rowan Williams
  

  Rowan Williams

  Bishop Rowan Williams has recently retired as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and before that was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012.  He has written widely on theology, spirituality and literature, and his most recent books include Candles in the Dark and (with Mary Zournazi) Justice and Love: A Philosophical Dialogue.  He has a long history of engagement with WCCM.

• Sarah Bachelard
  

  Sarah Bachelard

  Sarah Bachelard is a theologian, retreat leader and founder of Benedictus Contemplative Church, based in Canberra, Australia. Sarah gave the 2019 John Main Seminar on the theme ‘A Contemplative Christianity for our Time’, and her books include Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis, and Poetica Divina: Poems to Redeem a Prose World. She loves to discern connections between the wisdom of tradition, contemplative practice and our lived experience.