Advent Retreat : Living Takes TimeOngoing
This spiritual season reminds us that living takes time. The speed and stress of today’s world can arrest our human development and block the stages of growth. ...
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).
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2023
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Online Series 2022
Unified Consciousness: One Mind One Heart
The Common Insight of all Spiritual Traditions and of the Greatest Scientists
- 18 January - 13 December, 2022
- 10 Sessions
- £140 for all sessions (Get 3 free)
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)
Evening Talks Series
The diverse speakers in this series bring common gifts to share with us as we deal with the challenges of our lives and the uncertainties about the future. Wisdom, intelligence and especially a lively and deep contemplative perspective. They become guides and inspiration for the journey we must follow through the year.
- 07 March - 05 December, 2022
- 4 Sessions
- £60 for all sessions (Get 1 free)
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
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Online Series 2023
Metanoia
"Let your minds be remade"
- 17 january - 12 december, 2023
- 10 Sessions
- £140 for all sessions (Get 3 free)
- £20 for single session
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.
- 30 January - 18 December, 2023
- 9 Sessions
- £105 for all sessions (get 2 free)
- £15 for single session
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Individual Events
December 2022
Christmas Eve Vigil 2022
As we give and receive presents this year let us be aware of what we are doing -- an ancient ritual of affirming peaceful relationships. But Christmas also symbolizes that our existence itself is gift. ...
Contemplative Eucharist – Christmas Day 2022
As we give and receive presents this year let us be aware of what we are doing -- an ancient ritual of affirming peaceful relationships. But Christmas also symbolizes that our existence itself is gift. ...
February 2023
Transformed by Silence – Intensive Silent Meditation Retreat
This retreat gently and silently leads us into the experience of metanoia, a deep and lasting conversion of heart that arises out of the practice of meditation and learning to be at ease with silence. ...
Renewal and Recommitment: Ash Wednesday Contemplative Mass from Bonnevaux
Join the Bonnevaux community and meditators from around the world as we enter the mystery of Lent. Laurence Freeman will lead us in the Ash Wednesday service and administer ashes both in-person and virtually. ...
March 2023
The Wisdom of the Desert: Freedom to Change – Lent Retreat
The season of Lent invites us to purify and let-go, which reminds us of an important lesson: we have the freedom to change. Join Laurence Freeman on this retreat as we explore this aspect of the Lenten season. ...
A Benedictine Wisdom School
The retreat offers balanced movement from prayer to work, from intellectual stimulation to silence—and back again. ...
April 2023
The Mystery of Easter is Being Remade
The mysteries of Holy Week allow us to enter into an ancient process of storytelling, ritual, and meaning-making. By sharing in the passion and death of Jesus, we also share in his resurrection, allowing our minds and hearts to be remade. ...
Easter Vigil
The long silence of Saturday ends with a succession of powerful ancient symbols in the Vigil service which begins with the lighting of the Easter Fire under the Easter Tree in the valley of Bonnevaux. ...
Easter Sunday Contemplative Eucharist
If you couldn’t come to the Vigil, you will be welcome to celebrate Easter with us at Bonnevaux today and sing the great Alleluia. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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