Enneagram Global Summit with Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault will explain the “Law of Three” as a tool for enlightened conflict resolution in this special curated Enneagram Summit for 2022.
Cynthia Bourgeault will explain the “Law of Three” as a tool for enlightened conflict resolution in this special curated Enneagram Summit for 2022.
Coming this November, an opportunity to join Cynthia and Wisdom Leader Heather Ruce for an online Advent Wisdom Retreat, based on "Integral Light Shining in the Dark: Exploring Advent through the Eyes of Jean Gebser and G. I. Gurdjieff." Watch for more details and registration coming soon.
A talk and Q&A conversation to benefit the Spirituality & Practice Redesign Fund – November 5, 2022 - 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm PT, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET – on Zoom Spirituality & Practice is delighted that Cynthia Bourgeault, our most popular e-course presenter, will be doing a special “Benefit Talk and Q&A […]
Join Benjamin Thomas and Jonathan Steele Tuesday evenings at 6 pm as, together with you, they embark on exploring this notion of personhood as a vehicle for animating the Body of Christ. COURSE DESCRIPTION: The relational field of exchange between human beings and the Divine is real. Throughout scripture, canonical and extra-canonical, one truth is consistently […]
Online Zoom event on Relearning Trust with Cynthia Bourgeault hosted by The Contemplative Society. Find details here...
Saturday September 24TH 2022- Community-wide WISDOM PRACTICE DAY, sponsored by Wisdom Waypoints! Sign up here >>>
This Wisdom event will be led (primarily in English) by our Camino Sabio community, the widening Spanish speaking Wisdom circle.
We'll be entering into the language of the parables, the ideas of Wisdom, prayer, temptation, miracles, and righteousness in the Gospels, along with the Sermon on the Mount, faith, and what the kingdom of heaven might look like.
Hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) This course builds on the foundations established in the Introductory Wisdom School. Learn how kenosis, or self-emptying, can lead to a participatory exchange between the finite and the infinite. Course Description A 14-week online course exploring the heart of God through the idea of Divine Exchange, […]
A round table dialogue with Laurence Freeman, Alan Wallace and Cynthia Bourgeault.
Free online event co-lead by Elizabeth Combs & Marcella Kraybill-Greggo. Join us for this Wisdom Community Solstice Gathering.
Cynthia Bourgeault will join Garrison Institute founder Jonathan F.P. Rose for a conversation on the common good. Over the last year, Cynthia has worked extensively on understanding the common good and its role in civil society in the United States. They will discuss her conception of the common good, its importance within the fabric of […]
CYNTHIA’S EASTERTIDE INVITATION/CHALLENGE: Further Reflections and Conversation Cynthia Bourgeault will offer a LIVE ZOOM gathering for the Wisdom Community Tuesday May 10, from 10:00 – 11:00am ET On Easter morning our teacher Cynthia Bourgeault offered our Wisdom Community this EASTERTIDE INVITATION/CHALLENGE: To acknowledge, explore, and live out of our second or kesdjan body these next forty days. Get to know it […]
Hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Learn what made Mary Magdalene one of Jesus’ most important and beloved disciples. Discover her legacy as an apostle to our times—revealing a path of conscious love that we too are invited to walk. Course Description An 8-week online course designed to challenge and expand your […]
An introduction to a little known contemporary mystical gem, The Mystery of Death by Hungarian-born Jesuit theologian Ladislaus Boros, which has been a mainstay of Cynthia’s own spiritual work for more than forty years. She teaches against the backdrop of our own point in history, “where death has weighed so heavily on people’s hearts these past few years and our own individual and collective terror of it has been so brutally exposed.”
With recordings daily from Palm Sunday through Easter, we will be exploring how the writings of Etty Hillsum, presented by Heather Vesey, deepen our experience of Jesus' own suffering and dying in Jerusalem during the last week of his earthly life. There is no fee for this program; it is part of the "Under a […]
GATHER WITH OUR WORLD-WIDE WISDOM COMMUNITY FOR A MONTHLY COLLECTIVE PAUSE for WISDOM PRACTICE Thursday, April 7, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET Embodiment with Heather Ruce Wednesday, May 4, 10:30 – 12:00pm ET Gospel of Thomas Lectio Divina with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo Thursday, June 9, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET Chant with Elizabeth Combs “It's very, very […]
April 5th, 7:30 - 9:30 pm FRENCH TIME ZONE - check your local time conversion. This event is part of the Unified Consciousness online teaching series with World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM)
Cynthia Bourgeault will be the keynote speaker for Contemplative Outreach of Colorado, speaking on “Thomas Keating: The Last Thirty Years,” in which she will explore his life as he passed through two significant stages of the journey – The Dark Night of the Spirit and the gradual awakening to the Unitive. This is a hybrid […]
This three month Embodied Wisdom Training offers opportunities for participants to cultivate and deepen Wisdom Practices in their own lives.
Free online community event co-lead by Penny Joy Day of South Africa & Marcella Kraybill-Greggo of PA, USA
Cynthia Bourgeault will be part of an International Women’s Day online event: Talk and Dialogue with Women about Women.
By juxtaposing some of the liturgical readings and themes of Lent with the invitations represented and reflected in the waning phases of the moon, we will be uncovering the responsibilities and opportunities in grief and grieving and death and dying.
Hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Discover the Christian Wisdom path and its relevance for us today. Awaken to your yearning for a different kind of presence and to develop the skills, knowledge, and actions for self-transformation. Registration: January 18 – February 16, 2022 Start Date: February 23, 2022 Course Description A […]
Join Benjamin Thomas for a 3-week gathering to explore Cynthia Bourgeault's new book 'The Corner of Fourth and Nondual.'
Spaces for this offering are now FULL and registration has closed. Be sure you are on our mailing list to hear about future offerings.
Spaces for this offering are now FULL and registration has closed.
Join Elizabeth Combs and Susan Latimer to Chant the Light Chanting is an integral aspect of our transformative wisdom path, having the capacity to open us deeply and immediately into our own inner light and the One Light. In this participatory mini-retreat, the season of Epiphany and expanding Light will guide us. We will chant […]
Cynthia Bourgeault along with Ted Jones will provide the keynote address on “The Evolving Consciousness of Thomas Keating” Join this 2-day Virtual Summit to learn and practice with Centering Prayer leaders from around the world: January 15-16, 2022 Keynote address: Sunday, January 16th, 2:00-3:30pm EST Hosted by Keith Kristich of Closer Than Breath SUMMIT REGISTRATION […]
A VIRTUAL WISDOM PROGRAM It is such a pleasure and privilege for me to offer these programs of recordings for you. I am so grateful for your generous reception of them. Each program tempts me to do something a little bit different, and this program will be no exception. This program, “Epiphany Stories of Transformation,” […]
Cynthia Bourgeault shares her personal decision-making method in a four-week online course plus live video conference January 2-29, 2022
There is a Luminous Darkness Online Wisdom Solstice Event “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:5) “There is a luminous darkness” the kind that Mary waited and pondered in. Join event facilitators Susan Cooper in the North and Beth O'Neil in the South for Practice Presence […]
CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT will once again be presenting at the ENNEAGRAM GLOBAL SUMMIT A FREE ONLINE EVENT DEC 6 – 10, 2021 Each Enneagram Global Summit session is a journey — exploring the wounds and growth edges of each type, and offering invitations for wholeness and integration as we embrace the qualities of all nine points […]
Through weekly recordings and optional Friday Zoom groups, this program will run through Advent, from Sunday, November 28 through December 24, 2021.
Join this 6-week introductory course on Christian Wisdom, co-facilitated by Benjamin Thomas and Jonathan Steele. Through the modalities of teaching, spiritual practice, and group engagement, Benjamin and Jonathan will co-create a container for Wisdom exploring six living themes of the Western Contemplative path.
“It was often thought, from a kind of false evangelism, that to reduce Christianity to some gentle philanthropy was to honor it. But unless it is seen to be the most. realistic and. cosmic of faiths and hopes, nothing has been understood of its ‘mysteries.’” —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon In an inclusive […]
In this teaching retreat based on the recently republished mystical classic by Hungarian-born Jesuit Ladisalus Boros, we will be exploring the moment of death from both a personal and a christological perspective. Following Boros’ lead, we will attempt to live our way into his challenging insight (received through mystical revelation) that “Death gives man the […]
This 4-week, 12-session online course from September 6 - October 1 is hosted by Spirituality and Practice. Registration is open. Sign up now!
Join us August 28 for our first bi-annual Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening Wisdom Practice Day.
Join us August 17 - November 16 for our online 4-month Tuesday Wisdom Practice Book Circle. We will cultivate a Wisdom way of knowing through the study of Cynthia's Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening.
Through weekly recordings and optional Friday Zoom groups, this program will run from late Summer, 2021, until just before Thanksgiving, 2021. By journeying through desert and forest, the Wisdom transformation can be deepened and Wisdom can be further integrated. This program will conclude with an introduction to Wisdom Mentoring. Over the past years I have […]
This introductory Wisdom School offered by the Center for Action and Contemplation is open for registration through August 1. Sign up now!
Cynthia Bourgeault is a long-time student of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths and is a core faculty member of the CAC and Living School. Christian Wisdom teachings have existed since the earliest days of Christianity; Cynthia teaches from that ancient perspective in ways that suit today’s world. Join Cynthia as she leads you on […]
Cynthia Bourgeault will reflect on Teilhard’s experience of Christ as person and what this meant to his understanding of an evolutionary process that draws us with hope into the future.
Whether we speak of the Gurdjieffian atmosphere, the Gebserian aperspectival, the aura or simply the energy field around us, directly felt experience for the spherical can powerfully shift our awareness of ourselves in the world. Drawing on physically grounded awareness practices from the millenia old Taoist tradition (known primarily through tai chi and qigong) in […]
In light of our ongoing need to tend our grief and welcome others’ grief in these times, we offer these circles once a month. May these circles provide a place for us to hold all the forms that grief may take — personal loss of all types, planetary suffering, the deep pain of racist oppression, […]
This eCourse includes over 40 sessions filmed live during a five-day Imaginal Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault at the Valle Crucis Conference Center in North Carolina August 16-21, 2020. The Course materials have been formatted and organized for easy access and use in an eCourse format, while carefully preserving the daily rhythm and structure of […]
This Wisdom Retreat offers both teaching and practices on the content and themes of The Wisdom Jesus, as we travel together during these 50 thin days between Easter and Pentecost. In her book Cynthia Bourgeault describes Jesus as: “First and foremost a wisdom teacher, a person who clearly emerges out of and works within an […]
This monthly gathering is for those grounded in the Wisdom lineage and practices in which we seek to know God and our world with more of ourselves through the three centers of our heart, mind, and body. This experiential gathering is designed to expand our capacity to be awake to racism in ourselves and systems of […]
Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart by Cynthia Bourgeault (2003) Once a month starting in 2020 ~ January through June Note: this class is now full. Please stay tuned for upcoming Northeast Wisdom online groups to be announced! The Wisdom way of knowing is about using our whole being […]