Good Work: a new book by Laurence Freeman
Laurence Freeman defines good work as ‘work that brings out the best in the people who do it, and brings enduring benefit to those who are influenced by it’. This book is about how meditation helps to make work good work, while transforming the workplace environment through more humanly rich and enjoyable encounters. The first part concentrates on the fundamentals of meditation – as a universal and inclusive practice found in all wisdom tradition. It then shows how the experience enriches the experience of work itself with meaning. In the second part of the book, successful leaders from the corporate world who practise meditation speak from experience about the value of a contemplative approach to work and leadership.
The emphasis throughout is on practice rather than theory. The language is inclusively secular. The approach is wisdom-based rather than a merely physical or psychological one.
The spark for this book came from a series of talks Laurence Freeman gave to the staff at DP Architects, Singapore in January 2017, where they now continue to meditate every morning before work begins.
John Main Seminar 2019: A Contemplative Christianity for our Time
New video on Meditation with Children in Mexico
The Community in Mexico launched recently a video on the visit of Laurence Freeman to the Teresian School in in Mexico City (December 2017). It shows principals, teachers, parents and children speaking on the meaning and importance of meditation in the school.
Meditation with Children is highlighted by Trinity TV in Trinidad
The Trinity TV (Trinidad) in partnership with WCCM showed recently a special episode on Meditation with Children:
Opportunity to Live, Work and Meditate Alongside the Marginalised in Middlesbrough
Meditatio are pleased to announce they are partnering with the Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough to offer a very exciting Volunteering opportunity for 3 people from our meditation community to spend some time living and working from the John Paul Centre in the heart of Middlesbrough. The required funding is currently being sourced to provide a small stipend and living costs for the successful applicants.
The vision is to establish a small Contemplative Community that will develop a daily meditation programme whilst also to volunteer within the centre helping to build a compassionate and relational response to its service users, many of whom have entrenched problems with homelessness, addiction, mental health , loneliness and isolation. Indeed many of the town’s most marginalised adults visit the John Paul Centre on a daily basis. The project will be supervised by Terry Doyle who is an Oblate with WCCM and has many years experience of working with the client group.
The vision has the full backing of Fr Laurence Freeman as well as Bishop Terence Drainey and offers the chance to nurture and share our meditation practice as handed down by John Main. Indeed, the John Paul Centre is a flagship for the Diocese combining prayer and social action which complements the work of Meditatio by embodying the symbol of the WCCM of the two doves on the chalice; one representing the inner work of healing through prayer and contemplation; the other representing the natural outpouring of compassionate social action in our communities.
This will be a challenging yet hugely rewarding opportunity for anyone who feels the call to share the gift of meditation as well as the very real and gritty work of getting alongside people living on the very margins of society. You will need to be in a position to commit to 6 to 12 months living in Middlesbrough, and have a daily meditation practice already embedded.
If you feel you would like to know more about this opportunity then please contact Terry Doyle by email on terry-doyle@live.co.uk
Visit the website and register now
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