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)
Hosted by WCCM: Online day retreat
One-Day Retreat with Henry Shukman, Sat 4th May, 9.30am-4.30pm (also in person at WCCM's Meditation Centre, London EC1R 1XX) Henry looks forward to hosting his first ever retreat in the heart of London. This will be a one-day retreat, containing periods of silent sitting, guided meditations, talks, and Q&A. The Meditatio Centre is a beautiful and peaceful setting, that offers a vibrant and welcoming oasis in the heart of a busy city. Also in person in London. In person cost £60, scholarships available |
Cost: £30
Scholarships available |
Closer Than Breath online mini-retreat
Contemplation & Enneagram with Logan Jones, Sat 4th May, 3-4.30pm, UK time Prioritizing contemplation illuminates the inner terrain that the Enneagram powerfully names and maps. As we practice letting go of and consenting to the Spirit's presence and action within, we know that life and Spirit are actively dismantling the false self's unconscious emotional programs for happiness. Our time together will highlight the Contemplative dimension of the Enneagram & to show how it functions as a dynamic map & a powerful instrument for our spiritual journey. |
Cost: $ USD (c. £12)
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Online lecture
Holding Our Planet: Wisdom's Work in Transforming Crisis with Cynthia Bourgeault, available as RECORDED Live: Tuesday 7th May, midnight-Wed 8th May, 2am, UK time! Cynthia will invite us to reflect on our role of renewal as we stand on the brink of a major planetary tipping-point. What is needed for nurturing conscious, thoughtful, prayerful human beings who can act with agency, rootedness, and compassion? Dialogue and a Q&A time. |
Cost: $25 USD (c. £20)
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WCCM's 2024 Beholding Divine Beauty Series
Being Naturally Intelligent in a Technological Society with Marco Schorlemmer Tuesday 4th June, 6.30-8.30pm, UK time Over past centuries, scientific research and technological development have been the main instruments of human liberation. They have brought increasing creative freedom to individuals and societies. But at the source of our techno-science, there is the intelligence that lies at the origin of all scientific inquiry. |
Cost: £20 (c. £15)
All 10 in series: £140 |
4th in a 12 month virtual course (Feb 24-Jan 23)
Bede Griffiths: The Hindu-Benedictine Monk from Spiritual Wanderlust, with Adam Bucko 11th May, 5pm, UK time, but recorded link to watch any time What does it look like to be a mystic today? Bede Griffiths is the fourth from whom we'll begin to learn what 20th Century mystics across different religious 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 lots of additional text-based materials you can access any time to support your learning. |
Cost: from $27 USD pcm
Scholarships available |
Online talk from CAC
Courage and Resilience with Brian McLaren Friday 17th May, 6pm UK time, 10am Pacific Time A special online event with acclaimed theologian Brian McLaren, exploring the “un-peaceful, uneasy, unwanted feeling” when facing the realities of today’s world. Using the themes of his upcoming book, Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart, Brian will examine our frustration, despair, and anxiety — and discover how we can create a sincere and hopeful commitment to action for the common good. |
Cost: from $5 USD
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First of four series: Wisdom & Intelligence
Artificial Wisdom and Intelligence with Ilia Delio, Rowan Williams and Peter Russell 23rd May, 6:30-9pm, UK time, 19:30-22:00 CEST Ilia Delio, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian, along with Bishop Rowan Williams, British theologian and ex-Archbishop of Canterbury and Peter Russell, a leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality, will explore Artificial Intelligence and the practical implications of a new integrated intelligence. |
Cost: £15/ £55 all 4
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5th of 10 in WCCM's Into the Mystics series
The 10 lectures run from 23rd Jan-17th Dec 2024 Teresa of Avila Bernard McGinn & Stefan Reynolds, 28th May, 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.Teresa of Avila founded the Reformed branch of the Carmelite Order. In 1560 a mystical experience led her to write about her life, initiate reform and to write classic texts of the mystical life u+such as The Interior Castle. |
Cost: £20 (conc. £15)
All 10: £140 (c. £120) |
5th in a 12 month virtual course (Feb 24-Jan 23)
Sister Wendy Beckett: The Hermit Art Critic from Spiritual Wanderlust, with Robert Ellsberg 1st June, 5pm, UK time, but recorded link to watch any time What does it look like to be a mystic today? Art critic, Sister Wendy Beckett is the fifth from whom we'll begin learning what 20th Century mystics across different religious 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 & Kelly Deutsch, with lots of additional text-based materials to access any time to support your learning. |
Cost: from $27 USD pcm
Scholarships available |
Second in series of three online talks: WCCM
Shouting, Cancelling, Signalling: Christ and the Anxieties of Speech with Sarah Bachelard, 15th June, 10:30-4pm, UK time Today, speaking on a whole range of issues seems profoundly fraught. Flagrant untruth and hate are asserted without consequence or effective critique; speech is scrutinised for traces of ‘cancellable’ thought or attitude. Dialogue, questioning and honest disagreement often seems unattainable. Can Christ redeem our (un)civil discourse? How might contemplative practice make possible different forms of exchange and allow us to inhabit our words anew? Also in person at Meditatio. |
Cost: £25 (conc. £15)
In person, London, £40/£20 |
6th of 10 in WCCM's Into the Mystics series
The 10 lectures run from 23rd Jan-17th Dec 2024 Frances de Sales Bernard McGinn & Edward Howells, 25th June, 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. In his efforts at Church reform, and especially in his two influential works, The Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God, the genial figure of Francis de Sales set the stage for much of the mystical piety of modern Catholicism. |
Cost: £20 (conc. £15)
All 10: £140 (conc. £120) |
WCCM's 2024 Beholding Divine Beauty Series
Adventure in Uncertainty: Back to the Future with Inge Relph Tuesday 7th May, 6.30-8.30pm, UK time Do you find it hard to equate ‘... it was Very Good' with the great unravelling of the natural and geopolitical world we see about us? What if dissolution is all part of creating the Good? Perhaps seeing the world with fresh eyes, including a lens of Indigenous and feminine wisdom and recovering a sense of awe and connectedness, can help us navigate back to the future we long for. |
Cost: £20 (c. £15)
All 10 in series: £140 |
Save the date! WCCM Seminar
The John Main Seminar 2024 with Archbishop Jason Gordon, in person and online Indiana, USA, Monday 8th - Sunday 14th July, 2024 How we can act hopefully in a collapsing civilisation with such hostile forces of de-humanisation? How can we understand contemplation in this social & spiritual crisis? In facing these hard questions, we will consider the twin path of contemplation & synodality: a faith-filled, hopeful way to a better world & a fuller humanity. Practicing synodality will replace the usual silent retreat. |
Cost: tbc
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6th in a 12 month virtual course (Feb 24-Jan 23)
Thomas Berry: The Eco-Spiritual Priest- Modern Mystics School from Spiritual Wanderlust, with Ronald Rolheiser 13th July, 5pm, UK time, but recorded link to watch any time What does it look like to be a mystic today? Thoms=as Berry is the third from whom we'll begin to learn what 20th Century mystics across different religious 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 lots of additional text-based materials you can access any time to support your learning. |
Cost: from $27 USD pcm
Scholarships available |
Second of four series: Wisdom & Intelligence
Embodied Wisdom and Intelligence with Guy Claxton and Phyllida Anam-Aire 25th July, 6:30-9pm, UK time, 19:30-22:00 CEST Prof Guy Claxton, expert in cognitive science along with Phyllida Anamaire, Irish writer and poet, and Giselle Genillard, trauma worker and midwife will explore Embodied Intelligence and the practical implications of a new integrated intelligence. |
Cost: £15 or £55 all 4
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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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Virtual events on multi-dates
In descending date-start order: those starting soonest at the bottom!
Do also look at the online courses, here.
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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Closer Than Breath: A three-week online course
Contemplation First, Then the Enneagram: Contemplative Enneagram Course Mondays 13th, 20th & 27th May, 6-8pm UK time (1-3pm ET) with Logan Jones This 3-week course (NOT for enneagram beginners) is aimed as resourcing your journey of spiritual unfoldment by reintroducing you to the Enneagram as a dynamic map of the inner territory. Things spark and become clearer when we highlight the Contemplative dimension of the Enneagram and applying these insights jumpstart your spiritual journey and inner work. |
Cost: $60 USD until 6th May (c. £48)
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A seven week online course
The Franciscan Way Begins 24th April, registration from now to 16th April. Featuring Richard Rohr A unique window into Franciscan thought and practice. St. Francis of Assisi's path closely adheres to Jesus’ way of simplicity, justice, and inclusivity through a counter-cultural movement that values vulnerability and union over power and independence. Students will learn about the history, persons, and themes of the Franciscan Way, including the Alternative Orthodoxy, Univocity of Being, and the Great Chain of Being, and develop contemplative practices to support freedom from the dominant ego self. |
Cost: $120 USD (c.£95)
Bursaries until 10th April |
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 |
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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