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January 2023
May 2023
Risking Delight
This retreat is an opportunity to contemplate what it means to rejoice always, living, working, leading and loving from a renewing and refreshing place—risking delight. ...
What happens when church goes quiet?
Join this online conversation with Sarah Bachelard and Laurence Freeman as they reflect on what is being learned about how a contemplative church may connect with and communicate to our age. ...
June 2023
Radical Regeneration: Christ Consciousness and Sacred Activism
This retreat offers the maps and the practices from the Christian, Hindu and Buddhist traditions which will demonstrate to the participants how much sacred power and illumination they always have at their disposal. ...
“Love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease . . . . “ (Hadewjch of Antwerp)
In this online conversation with Laurence Freeman, Andrew Harvey will introduce the medieval mystic, Hadewjch of Antwerp and explain how he was changed and inspired by entering so deeply into her vision and spirit. ...
July 2023
Protected: The Art of Friendship: Finding Oneself in the Other
Friendship is about coming to know another person in the deepest aspect of their identity. In this sense, friendship is not just getting along, it is communion. When we know someone beyond their superficial identity, we also come to know our own true identity. In this retreat, Laurence Freeman will teach about the communion and oneness of friendship. ...
August 2023
Protected: ‘Quo Vadis?’ Where are You Going?
A Meditation retreat at Bonnevaux is an opportunity for usefully reflecting on our achievements and experience and what we leave behind us that will make the world a better place. ...
September 2023
New Wine, New Skins
John Main Seminar 14-17 September 2023
A wineskin was usually made of goat or sheep skin to store or transport wine. Putting new wine into old skins while it was still fermenting risked breaking the skin and losing the wine. Jesus uses the metaphor to illustrate the perennial freshness of the revolution he began and continues to drive – his empowering call to a renewed consciousness that will manifest new forms and structures of human life. Christians pray that this ‘reign of God will come on earth as in heaven’. ...
November 2023
Good Measure, Pressed Down and Overflowing: How Contemplation Shapes our Action
This retreat will look at the example and teaching of those who combine a profound contemplative practice with active involvement in the service of the vulnerable. ...
December 2023
Waiting for Change, Waiting for Transformation – Advent Retreat
As we wait for the coming of Christmas, we realize that change and transformation take time. This retreat will teach us how to patiently wait for change and to know when the time is right for change. ...
The Gift of the Always New: Christmas Eve Virgil
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. A gift is not just a cheap novelty, but something that brings newness, renewing our relationships and changing our way of being. Join us as we await the gift of Jesus’ birth and reflect on the mysteries of the Incarnation. ...
The Gift of the Always New: Christmas Day Contemplative Eucharist
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. A gift is not just a cheap novelty, but something that brings newness, renewing our relationships and changing our way of being. Join us as we await the gift of Jesus’ birth and reflect on the mysteries of the Incarnation. ...
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