Year: 2019

Three Wisdom retreats in six weeks. The first was Teilhard and Gurdjieff in Conversation at Claymont, followed by a six-day silent Centering Prayer retreat in Hartford, and then back to […]

Read More

…To be “a bit braver in the next hour…” ~ G.I.Gurdjieff At the Claymont Society for Continuous Education, in Charles Town W Va, October 28 through November 3, 2019, an […]

Read More

Presence.  Sadness. As I was gathering my belongings to make the trip back home at the end of the retreat “Reclaiming the Mystical Heart of Christianity: How Centering Prayer Can […]

Read More

How I have come to use this methodology? What might it offer to you? “The Consent of Advent,” a virtual Advent retreat, will begin on Sunday December 1 and continue […]

Read More

Last November, nearly a year ago now, a large number of us gathered at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, NY to participate in Cynthia Bourgeault’s retreat on Centering Prayer and […]

Read More

This past September Sarah and I planned a contemplative retreat for our two-week stay at a cottage in Maine. This was an experiment, to see if we could use recordings […]

Read More

For Wisdom: this is an experiential piece I penned on what I refer to as the phenomenon of “contemplative homelessness.” As a longtime social justice advocate, I remain highly cognizant […]

Read More

What follows is an article on the Desert Fathers and Mothers retreat that Cynthia Bourgeault led in Tucson Arizona in the winter of 2018. Beautifully crafted by Jo Taylor for […]

Read More