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Below are on line, streamed events like conferences, talks, and workshops relating to silence and contemplative living. |
Do remember to scroll all the way down the page, otherwise you'll miss some great events happening SOON that take place across more than one day!
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online events at one point in time |
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events spread across different weeks |
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Virtual events on one date or consecutive days
(scroll past the end of this list for the list of events across multiple dates)
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Closer Thank Breath online day retreat
The Universal Christ (Richard Rohr's book) Saturday 5th October, 3-4.30pm, UK time with Jana Rentzel from Closer Than Breath In this retreat Jana presents The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr’s groundbreaking explanation of the transformative Christ Mystery – the mystery of Divine Incarnation that can be experienced by all.In this workshop, you will learn eternal truths that will enrich meaning and purpose in your life and deepen your contemplative practice. |
Cost: $15 (c. £11.50)
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9th in a 12 month virtual course (Feb 24-Jan 23)
Thomas Merton: Interspiritual Pioneer - Modern Mystics School from Spiritual Wanderlust, with James Finley 5th Oct, 5pm, UK time, but recorded link to watch any time What does it look like to be a mystic today? Thomas Merton is the ninth from whom we'll begin to learn what 20th Century mystics across different traditions have to teach us about our own journey towards divine union. The course has 90+ minute videos with renowned guest speakers like James Finley, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Carl McColman and Kelly Deutsch, with additional text-based materials you can access any time to support your learning. |
Cost: from $27 USD pcm
Scholarships available |
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Contemplative CP & Enneagram Retreat
Your Inner Light with Nhiem Vuong, Saturday 19th October, 3pm-9pm, but all content accessible at a later date online for registrants. This retreat is for those who seek to apply Enneagram wisdom to deepen or catalyze their contemplation and transformation. This gathering is ideal for those who have some familiarity with both the Enneagram and contemplative practices (in particular, centering prayer). However, all levels are welcome and you are invited to 'come as you are' and trust you will be blessed with what you need in this season of your journey. |
Cost: $60 (c. £45)
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WCCM's 2024 Beholding Divine Beauty Series
Consecrated Ground: Realising Earth's Goodness with Sarah Bachelard, Tuesday 15th Oct, 6.30-8.30pm, UK time How do we realise the goodness of earth? How do we come truly to be at home here? The world’s wisdom traditions teach there’s a necessary journey to be made, a pilgrimage without and within. In this talk, Sarah Bachelard explores themes of place and displacement, pilgrimage and belonging, wondering how we learn to relate to earth so as to stand on holy ground. |
Cost: £20 (c. £15)
All 10 in series: £140 |
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Poetry & meditation (also in person: London)
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Wed 16th Oct, 6.30-9pm, on line and at Meditatio Centre, London with Prof Mark Burrows Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Mark and hear him talk about his beautiful new translation of the ever-popular with meditators, Rilke’s, Sonnets to Orpheus, on the centennial of their first publication. You can learn more about his book by clicking here. |
Cost: £20
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Third in series of three online talks: WCCM
The Unfinished God in a Techno-Driven World with Ilia Delio & Laurence Freeman, 19th Oct, 7.30-9.30pm French time Technology is our fastest evolver today. It is radically changing our world. In centuries past, religion dominated culture by stabilizing society & advocating norms of unity. Has technology replaced religion in our own time? If we can't imagine religion taking shape in technology, then we eliminate the religious depth dimension of the most significant development in human becoming. |
Cost: £20 (conc. £15)
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8th of 10 in WCCM's Into the Mystics series
The 10 lectures run from 23rd Jan-17th Dec 2024 Edith Stein Bernard McGinn & Peter Tyler, 23rd Oct, 6.30-8.45pm UK time This series is designed to help you to begin to plumb the wisdom that some of the greatest Christian mystics offer to the contemporary world. Teilhard sought to bring together a Pan-Christic sense of mystical oneness with the modern view of evolution. Although he was often misunderstood and attacked, Teilhard’s life and writings have been treasured by modern mystics. |
Cost: £20 (conc. £15)
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A day with Eckhart & Zen (also in person)
Speaking the Silent Word: Learning to Empty Ourselves Sat 2nd Nov, 10.30am-4pm, online and at Meditatio Centre, London with Dr Rebecca Stephens One of the greatest apophatic spiritual teachers is medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart. His teachings remain as vital and rich today as when first delivered and contain much to challenge the meditator. His words have a strong resemblance to Zen Buddhism and Eckhart was claimed as a ‘spiritual ancestor’ by the great Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. |
Cost: £20)
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10th in a 12 month virtual course (Feb 24-Jan 23)
Simone Weil: The Deep Feeling from Spiritual Wanderlust, with Laurence Freeman 2nd Nov, 5pm, UK time, but recorded link to watch any time What does it look like to be a mystic today? Simone Weil is the ninth from whom we'll begin to learn what 20th Century mystics across different traditions have to teach us about our own journey towards divine union. The course has 90+ minute videos with renowned guest speakers like James Finley, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Carl McColman and Kelly Deutsch, with additional text-based materials you can access any time to support your learning. |
Cost: from $27 USD pcm
Scholarships available |
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WCCM's 2024 Beholding Divine Beauty Series
Teenage Mystics: Educating Our Saviours To Be with Guy Claxton, Tuesday 12th Nov, 6.30-8.30pm, UK time Children and young people often have moral clarity, creativity, courage and energy. Older people (like us) easily become hidebound by habits and beliefs that make necessary adaptations to our lives look quite impossible: a condition of paralysis from which we need the young to rescue us – before the end of days swallows us up. |
Cost: £20 (c. £15)
All 10 in series: £140 |
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9th of 10 in WCCM's Into the Mystics series
The 10 lectures run from 23rd Jan-17th Dec 2024 Etty Hillesum Bernard McGinn & Liz Watson, 26th Nov, 6.30-8.45pm UK time This series is designed to help you to begin to plumb the wisdom that some of the greatest Christian mystics offer to the contemporary world. The Dutch Jew, Etty Hillesum (1914-1942), is an unlikely mystic. After an aimless youth, her realization of the universal love of God, as reflected in her Diaries, is a remarkable witness to new forms of mysticism in the modern world. |
Cost: £20 (conc. £15)
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Last of four series: Wisdom & Intelligence
Ethical Wisdom and Intelligence with Satish Kumar, Tess Lawrie and Inge Relph Thursday 12th December, 6:30-9pm, UK Time Satish Kumar, for 43 years editor-in-Chief of Resurgence Magazine, Dr Tess Lawrie, Director of Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy, and Inge Relph, Executive Director & co–founder of Global Choices, will explore Ethical Intelligence & the practical implications of a new integrated intelligence. |
Cost: £15 or £55 all 4
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WCCM's 2024 Beholding Divine Beauty Series
Teenage mystics: Educating our saviours to be with Guy Claxton, Tues 12th Nov, 6.30-8.30pm, UK time Children and young people often have moral clarity, creativity, courage and energy. Older people like us easily become hidebound by habits and beliefs that make necessary adaptations to our lives look quite impossible: a condition of paralysis from which we need the young to rescue us – before the end of days swallows us up. |
Cost: £20 (c. £15)
All 10 in series: £140 |
Virtual events on multi-dates
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New e-course from Spirituality & Practice
Thomas Keating's The Secret Embrace with Cynthia Bourgeault Monday 16th Sept - Fri 11th Oct Guided by Cynthia and through the shimmering facets of Thomas' poems, you'll glimpse key aspects of his final journey of transfiguration. The course will be set on the foundation of the question 'How do we live in this world of pain and uncertainty with the courage and unity that come from turning toward the stillness, the transfiguration?' |
Cost: $80 USD (c.£60)
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WCCM six-session, meditation teaching
Feeling the Way: Continuing the Journey of Meditation with Lawrence Freeman, 6.30pm UK time (7.30pm CET) Weds: 26th Aug, 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd Sept, & Mon 2nd Oct Feeling the Way: Continuing the Journey of Meditation… discovering new ways of seeing ourselves, our neighbours, the planet and God. Please join us for this six week online course with Laurence Freeman. This course will be in English with French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch interpretation. |
Cost: donations
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Series of four round-table discussions
The Future of Wisdom and Intelligence 23rd May: Ilia Delio; 25th July: Guy Claxton; 19th September: Scherto Gill; and 12th December: Satish Kumar 19:30-20:00 Central European Summer Time (6:30-9pm UK) In this series we will explore the several balanced and unified forms of intelligence that humanity is endowed with. Beginning with a session on the topical issue of AI, moving on to embodied intelligence, heart intelligence and finally ethical intelligence. This integration of intelligences is needed to co-create a humane, heart-centred and ethical world for future generations. |
Cost: £55 all 4
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WCCM 4-session, online meditation teaching
(also streamed to watch with others at Meditatio Centre, London) Learning to Meditate with Lawrence Freeman, 17th & 24th April, 1st & 8th May, 6.30pm, UK time These sessions are designed to help anyone who wants to learn to meditate. Each week we will review the practice with down to earth advice and also at its deeper meaning. Each session last for one hour and includes a talk, meditation session, question and sharing with Fr Laurence. |
Cost: free
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NEW Turning to the Mystics Podcase: Series 9
The Way of a Pilgrim with Jim Finley and Kirsten Oates Begins Monday 18th March, listen on demand In this, the new ninth series in the Turning to the Mystics podcase, Jim Finley addresses the anonymous, 19th century Russian mystical text, The Way of a Pilgrim for spiritual guidance, all the while exploring the practice of the Jesus Prayer. A weekly podcast, with teaching from Jim and session of a Q&A - including listeners' questions - with Kirsten Oates. |
Free
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Series of three online talks from WCCM
Contemporary Anxiety with Jason Brown, Sarah Bachelard and Ilia Delio 11th March, 15th June & 29th October, respectively A contemporary response to three of the big issues facing us in the 21st century that seem to be of great concern to us all today: the climate emergency, artificial intelligence and culture wars. Join our renowned speakers on these issues to discuss if our contemplative practice can see us developing a more helpful perspective and response. |
Cost: £20 each (conc. £15)
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A 12 month virtual course (Feb 24-Jan 25)
The Modern Mystics from Spiritual Wanderlust From 3rd February 2024 to 11th January 2025 What does it look like to be a mystic today? Learn what the mystics of the 20th century across different traditions - people like Simone Weil, Thomas Merton, Caryll Houselander and Thich Nhat Hanh - have to teach you about your own journey towards divine union in 90 minute videos with renowned guest speakers like James Finley, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Carl McColman and Kelly Deutsch. Lots of additional text-based materials to support your learning. |
Cost: from $27 USD pcm
Scholarships available |
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Ten lectures in WCCM's Mystics series, 2024
Into the Mystics with Bernard McGinn, 23rd Jan-17th Dec 2024, 7:30-9:45pm For contemporary searchers after God, this series is designed to help you to begin to plumb the wisdom that some of the greatest Christian mystics offer to the contemporary world. It is an introduction, an opening, an invitation, to begin (or continue) reading, meditating on, and appropriating the teaching of major Christian mystics. The goal of these lectures and discussion is not to explain the mystics, but to facilitate how to learn to listen to them. |
Cost: £140 for 10, £20 each
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Ten lectures in WCCM's 2024 series
Beholding Divine Beauty: And God saw that it was very good 16th January - 10th December, 7.30-9.30pm French time 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. As we struggle with ecological as well as political and economic emergencies, a deeper understanding of beauty, goodness, and creativity may release both the joy and wisdom we need to stay centred and draw on the most life-giving and positive powers of our shared humanity. |
Cost: £140 all 10
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Five 'watch anytime' lectures
WCCM's 2022 lecture series: Unified Consciousness: One Mind, One Heart Unified Consciousness was the WCCM theme for 2022. The essential reality of the consciousness of mind and heart is a shared insight of all spiritual traditions as well as of the greatest scientists of the modern era. In a series of talks throughout the year, spiritual teachers, social leaders, thinkers and writers with contemplative wisdom explore its meaning for us today. |
Cost: free
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