You can listen and watch the content from this retreat at wccmplus.orgΑπό τον Laurence Freeman

You can listen and watch the full series on WCCM+ at wccmplus.orgΑπό τον Laurence Freeman

You can listen and watch the full series by subscribing to WCCM+ at wccmplus.orgΑπό τον Laurence Freeman

If you’ve enjoyed listening to this podcast, You can watch the full Speaker Series on wccm+ at wccmplus.orgΑπό τον Sarah Bachelard

If you're interested in exploring the topic of how meditation can heal trauma, we recommend the course Meditation - A Healing Response to Trauma here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Laurence Freeman, Tim Kelly

Herman is the key speaker of the John Main Seminar 2022, The Challenge OF Democracy: The Challenge TO Democracy, from 14 to 20 November.Από τον Herman Van Rompuy

Martin Laird OSA works regularly with the World Community for Christian Meditation. To learn more visit wccm.orgΑπό τον Martin Laird

This audio is part of talks 1 and 2 of a series of Meditatio Talks that were held in 2015. Podcast image from Jpeter2, from PixabayΑπό τον Rowan Williams

In this podcast, you’ll listen to the first talk of the retreat The Tightrope of Moderation which was held during Bonnevaux 2020 Lent Retreat by Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni. The first talk's titled Getting Ready for the Mysteries.Από τον Laurence Freeman, Giovanni Felicioni

You can watch all previous episodes by Kim hereΑπό τον Kim Nataraja

You can learn more and register for Contemplating Earth course by Jim Green on wccm.org hereΑπό τον Jim Green

For more outreach initiatives on the topic of climate, please visit the Outreach Nature & Environment page on wccm.orgΑπό τον Liz Watson

This is an audio extract from module 1 Now/Apocalypse as part of the online course 'Contemplating Earth' by Jim Green This course has a particular scope and intention. We want to focus on a fundamental aspect of the human response to this stark uncovering of our current endangered situation. Because the challenge now facing us is so total – so imme…

This talk was part of a Meditatio talk held in London in 2017.Από τον Marco Schorlemmer

If you're interested in listening to the full seminar, you can explore the course 'Hope for the Future' on the wccm.org websiteΑπό τον Laurence Freeman, Rowan Williams

Listen to Pascale Callec, the French National coordinator, she’s been part of WCCM for 10 years. She works in public services management and facilitating the expression of the common good is her deepest motivation. She’s committed to the ecological transition alongside her husband. This talk was part of the short talks from the online John Main Sem…

This talk was recorded during the pre-retreat of the 2018 John Main Seminar with the theme Experience and Meaning. This resource is free for all Supporting Members or can be purchased as an individual offering. More here: https://wccm.org/offerings/experience-and-meaning/Από τον Laurence Freeman

To see all resources from past Advent retreats, please visit the WCCM.org website hereΑπό τον WCCM

In this podcast, Father Laurence Freeman speaks about meditation in the monastic tradition. The word tradition is a dynamic word: it means 'transmission', it's a process in which we are constantly receiving, adapting and passing on -the very nature of the Gospel, a transmission of a living word.Laurence then continues on talking of John Main as a c…

Learn more about the next John Main Seminar on this page here on wccm.orgΑπό τον WCCM

To access the full content from the retreat, please visit the online Course Health, Healing, WholenessΑπό τον Laurence Freeman

If you've enjoyed watching this video, you can become a Supporting Member and get access to the full course here: https://wccm.org/offerings/silence/Από τον Laurence Freeman

This is part of the Monte Oliveto 2018 retreat - Being alone together - which you can access on the wccm.org website here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον laurence freeman

Get access to the full Milestones course here on the wccm.org website Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Laurence Freeman

Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Stefan Reynolds

This episode is part of the series of monthly talks Wisdom Living & the Joy of Connection a journey through the roots of meditation in the Christian Tradition as experienced in the circumstances of modern life by younger people. Learn more here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.…

This is the opening talk by James Alison of the retreat 'Basic Christianity: what does the “real thing” look like when all the kitsch has collapsed?' Online Seminar, 21-26 July 2020 Coming soon: James is leading a new online retreat from Bonnevaux! 5 - 9 May 2021: Basic Christianity: An Induction into the Life of Jesus the Forgiving Victim A 5-day …

This is the opening talk of the Monte Oliveto Retreat 2018 led by Laurence Freeman OSB and Giovanni Felicioni. This is also part of the course Being Alone Together which you can find in the Offerings section of the wccm.org website. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.…

This is part of the Meditation as a Modern Spiritual Path course available on the wccm.org website. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Laurence Freeman

This is part of the Monte Oliveto retreat which took place in 2015 led by Laurence Freeman OSB and Giovanni Felicioni. You can find the full content from the retreat in the online course Love and the Gift of Failure Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.…

This talk is part of the course the Eight Big Problems of Life available on wccm.org In this course, Laurence will develop the schema of the “eight principal faults” and show how understanding them as patterned states of mind will help us to overcome them – making both meditations, relationships and daily life a great deal easier. Soundtrack: Aouro…

Bernard is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor emeritus of the University of Chicago, where he taught for thirty-four years before retiring in 2003. Since his retirement, he has continued to teach, lecture and write. His major work is a history of western Christian mysticism under the general title The Presence of God, seven volumes of which hav…

Sarah Bachelard is an internationally respected theologian, retreat leader and priest. She is the founder and leader of Benedictus Contemplative Church in Canberra, Australia and an honorary fellow at the Australian Catholic University. Sarah was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University where she studied theology with former Archbishop of Canterbury R…

Sarah Bachelard is a theologian, retreat leader and priest in Anglican Orders. She lives in Canberra in Australia where she has taught in the areas of theology, ethics and spirituality at Charles Sturt University. She is currently director of Benedictus Contemplative Church. She is a member of the WCCM and was a keynote speaker at the John Main Sem…

Professor Peter Gilbert was Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at Staffordshire University. He worked as the Project lead of National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum and Chair of the National Development Team for Inclusion. His latest book is called Spirituality and Mental Health which promotes an understanding of people’s belief system…

You can read the full article here About Herman Van Rompuy Herman Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent President of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. More recently, in 2018, he was one of the speakers at the John Main Seminar 2018, in Belgium addressing t…

Servol is an organization of weak, frail, ordinary, imperfect yet hope-filled and committed people seeking to help weak, frail, ordinary, hope-drained people become agents of attitudinal and social change in a journey which leads to total human development. Servol was born out of the challenges of the country’s Black Power Revolution of 1970 in whi…

You can watch the animation video What is Christian Meditation? by Paul Demeyer here. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Paul Demeyer

This is talk one of Sources of Wisdom, an online retreat on essential teaching of meditation provided by The School of Meditation. The time of self-isolating and social distance that we are currently experiencing is a kind of extended Lent: a voluntary restriction which reminds us of the limited control we have in reality – at any time – over the c…

Australian researcher and academic, professor Anne Graham worked as a professor of childhood studies, leading research at a centre for children and young people. Anne Graham is Professor of Childhood Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University. A primary school teacher and sociologist by ba…

Born on a farm in Alberta, Canada, Jack Murta entered politics young. Driven by a large dose of ambition, he was also guided by his faith and easy connection with ordinary people. After a successful career in Ottawa, he became involved in caring for the homeless of Ottawa while also nurturing the spiritual aspect of the lives of many politicians. A…

Born in Canada, when she qualified as a medical doctor, Julia worked in North America, South Africa and other developing countries. She was struck by the embedded inequality in the developed world where she found people suffering conditions of life and neglect on par with those in the poorest parts of the word. This led her to work for the UN on HI…

This podcast Waiting is Being Fully Present was held by Father Laurence Freeman during the Bonnevaux Advent retreat in 2019. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Laurence Freeman

This is part of the Contemplative Through The Crisis programme held in April 2020. You can read more about Kim's reflection here. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Kim Nataraja, Laurence Freeman

Liz Watson has been a member of WCCM for over 20 years and now focuses on teaching meditation in a variety of settings, leading retreats in the UK and beyond, and offering spiritual direction. These talks are part of a Contemplative Path Through the Crisis programme. You can learn more about it here. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is li…

Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes. This talk is part of the Contemplative Path Through the Crisis Programme. You can read more HERE Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommer…

Originally from Hong Kong, FR. JOSEPH H. WONG, O.S.B. Cam, is a Benedictine monk of the Camaldolese Congregation. He holds BA in English literature from London University, MT from the same University, and STD from the Gregorian University in Rome. Fr. Wong is a member of the Pontifcal Academy of Teology and has taught systematic theology at the Sal…

"The heart is the very spiritual symbol, the place of prayer...is the store room which keeps things fresh and available, from which we can receive enrichment and nourishment." says Laurence in this talk. "When you pray go into your inner room, the heart." It's a dynamic symbol: as we enter into our heart, our inner room , the symbol of the heart re…

Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HERE Watch all talks from this series HERE Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Sarah Bachelard

In this talk Bede Griffiths invites to reflect on the message Father John Main has left us as a way to discover for ourselves the tradition of this wisdom, the knowledge of God through love. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.Από τον Bede Griffiths