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A Contemplative Christianity for our Time

October 29, 2020 by katecoombs Leave a Comment

A new online course with Rev Dr Sarah Bachelard

This online course is based on five talks with the overarching title “A Contemplative Christianity for Our Time”, given by Sarah Bachelard at the John Main Seminar in 2019. The talks take on the most urgent issues facing not just the future of the Church and Christianity, but also that of the world itself. Sarah’s contribution to the seminar was described by Laurence Freeman OSB as “a breakthrough in the understanding of modern Christianity”.         

Sarah reviews the history of the Christian contemplative tradition, paying particular attention to its revival over the past sixty years. She examines its current place and function in the life of the church. This proves to be a starting point for an even wider and more radical analysis of the role of Christianity in our increasingly secular times – in a world which, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s words, has come of age. What kind of claim – if any – does the Christian narrative have in such a world, where it seems to have lost not just meaningful authority, but any purchase at all? This is the central question to which Sarah’s talks constantly return her listeners, encouraging us to take nothing for granted, to be ready to surrender our perhaps long-cherished ideas and models of reality which might, however, be no longer valid or effective in the world. Helping us to see through the strategies of both a nostalgic conservatism and a potentially infantilising liberalism, this redefining of contemplative Christianity makes it inspiringly clear that our practice of Christian meditation might just be the great gift of hope that the world now so desperately needs.

To enrol on this course click here. You can take the course at your own pace and in your own time. We wish you all the best and trust that the course will help to deepen your faith and practice.

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Meditation as a Healing Response to Trauma

September 17, 2020 by katecoombs Leave a Comment

AN ONLINE SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP HOSTED BY MEDITATIO

The practice of meditation within a cultural and wisdom tradition has been shown to help refugees heal these invisible wounds of trauma.

In 2019, the UN refugee agency reported 26 million refugees and over 4 million asylum-seekers worldwide. We need a public mental health response to help forcibly displaced individuals to heal from trauma.

Meditatio is convening leaders in the field of meditation, mind-body medicine, and global mental health to explore meditation as a healing response to trauma. All those interested in learning about the healing practice of meditation and an effective way of sharing with refugees and other survivors of trauma are welcome to attend.

MEDITATION AS A HEALING RESPONSE TO TRAUMA. AN ONLINE SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP WITH LAURENCE FREEMAN OSB, DR GREGORY FRICCHIONE, DR RICHARD MOLLICA AND OTHERS 

Symposium Thursday 15 October 9.00am – 12.00 US Eastern Time/2.00 – 5.00pm UK Time
Workshop Friday 16 October 9.00 am – 12.00 noon US Eastern Time, 2 — 5pm UK Time

Thursday: Symposium – The Art and Science of Meditation as a Healing Response to Trauma 

Presenters
Laurence Freeman OSB, Director of World Community for Christian Meditation and of Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, Marçay, France
Gregory Fricchione MD, Associate Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and the Chester M. Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry at MGH, Boston, Massachusetts
Richard Mollica MD MAR, Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts
Ashok Gurung MA, Biomedicine, Researcher, Co-Founder Bhutanese Community of Pittsburgh, Mental Health First Aid instructor and meditation group leader, Pittsburgh, PA
 

Friday: Workshop – Developing a Meditation Support Group for Refugees and Asylum-seekers 

Presenters
Timothy Kelly MA MSW, Meditatio Council, Program Specialist, Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Marie Carlson PhD, Clinical Psychologist at the Center for Survivors of Torture, Austin Texas
Ailsa Adamson, Project Manager of Methodist Asylum Project (MAP) in Middlesbrough, England
Giovanni Felicioni, Associate Director, Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, Marçay, France
Odile Boekwa, Center for Survivors of Torture, Meditation Support Group, Austin, Texas

Register to attend HERE

NB Registration closes Wednesday 14 October 10 am UK time

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A Faith Response to Climate Change

August 18, 2020 by katecoombs Leave a Comment

Can we face the reality of the science on climate and species extinction while holding on to faith, hope and love? This day will tell the truth about the science, grieve for all that is lost and explore what God and the future may be requiring of us now.

JOIN US ON SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER AND LEARN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Ruth studied Chemistry at Oxford and worked in the semiconductor industry in Somerset, Paris and California. She co-founded Operation Noah and is Information Officer for the national charity Green Christian. With others, she started Christian Climate Action in 2012, which uses non-violent direct action in the face of climate breakdown.

Filed Under: Environment, Meditatio, News Tagged With: EVENT ENVIRONMENT

Conversations with Leaders who Meditate- new book available now

August 18, 2020 by katecoombs Leave a Comment

In these conversations, leaders holding responsibility at a global level speak about the practice of meditation and its place in their lives, personally and professionally. They bear witness to the need for an enlightened approach to leadership where responsibility, vision and success find meaning in the deeper dimension of personal integrity and altruism, and where contemplation is inseparable from action.

The introduction defines clearly the meaning and purpose of meditation and offers a simple teaching of the practice.

Available from Medio Media here

Filed Under: Leadership, Meditatio

Meditation and Earth

July 13, 2020 by katecoombs Leave a Comment

Meditation & Earth by Deborah Guess helps us to engage with the growing crisis of environmental destruction and climate emergency faced by the entire world. At its heart is the recognition that – collectively and individually – we need to change our habits. We are invited to look, with increased urgency, at how meditation can help us to save the planet.

Available now! Click on the image to order your copy.

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