What does it mean to become a wisdom elder? What is the job description? And who do we look to for steering guidance as we take up our invitation toward luminous possibility?

Wisdom Schools are a format for integral learning that’s based in some of the deepest roots for transformation and change in the Christian tradition. Wisdom Schools are about awakening the yearning for a different kind of presence in the world and then developing the skills and the knowledge base to apply that, to transform your own life and the life of people around you.

In this five-day silent retreat, Cynthia will be teaching from her newly published book, Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic, in a deep dive into Thomas Keating’s final visionary insights on Christian nonduality and planetary Oneness

We will be returning to the perennial wisdom of the Desert fathers and mothers in this quintessential desert setting, considering how they speak to the impasse of our own times. NOTE: This event is now full.

The 4th Annual Online Centering Prayer Summit on January 25-26 offers a sacred space to move beyond personal peace to embrace a shared, universal connection with the Divine and all of creation. Guided by renowned contemplative teachers, including keynote speaker Cynthia Bourgeault, we’ll explore how contemplative prayer not only deepens our relationship with God but also weaves us closer to one another, illuminating our shared journey.

Celebrating the centenary anniversary of his visit and Movements performance at Harvard, the conference will focus on the legacy and teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, a charismatic philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and “dance teacher“ from the early twentieth century. Gurdjieff taught the “Fourth Way”, which was aimed to connect practices involving emotions, body and mind, as a way of reaching higher states of consciousness, and awakening from the state of “walking sleep”.

This retreat aims to help participants bring “skillful means” to the current social and ecological situation imperiling the planet. These means include forbearance, strength, compassion, right timing, spiritual generativity, and personal mettle.

A Benedictine wisdom school for contemplatives who want to venture deeper into the arts and artists who want to venture deeper into contemplative prayer. The five-day teaching retreat will offer a rare, hands-on opportunity to explore the deep, mutually nurturing relationship between spirituality and the arts at the heart of the Benedictine Monastic tradition.

Aspen Chapel is hosting a 2024 mini-retreat program, The Voice of the Feminine, both online and in-person. Cynthia will speak on nondual wisdom using her new book, The Corner of Fourth and Nondual.

Cynthia Bourgeault and Paulette Meier will be teachers at the third and fourth residencies for this year long Quaker based School of the Spirit. First residency takes place over President's Day Weekend, February 15-19, 2024. Through 5 residencies and 4 virtual gatherings, over a 12-month period, with ongoing small groups and accountability groups, this program invites participants into a crucible of transformation.

A free, 8-day online event featuring over 55 world-renowned meditation teachers exploring the rich breadth and depth of meditation across various traditions and practices. Cynthia Bourgeault will present live on day 5, January 27, speaking on Centering Prayer and its role in spiritual deepening. Lifetime access of all videos, transcripts, audios, plus additional content is available for purchase. 

Join the 3rd Annual Centering Prayer Summit for a two day journey exploring depths of Centering Prayer and the future of contemplative community. Cynthia Bourgeault will hold the opening address on Centering Prayer: The Next Forty Years.

Stay tuned for more information about the usual Gurdjieff birthday gathering in Claymont bracketing the traditional January 13 feast.

How many of you would be interested in a small Ground Luminosity retreat at my new small retreat/house in Rockland, Maine during this classic “thin space” week in Advent?

Teachings from the Desert Fathers and Mothers on classic Advent themes - offered by Spirituality and Practice.

How do contemplatives engage the world when forest fires, floods, and political uproar are happening in our own backyards? How do we stand in contemplative wisdom and be present in depth to the beauty and suffering inherent to the web of life on this blue-green planet?

This teaching retreat is aimed at mature contemplatives of all spiritual pathways who are deeply concerned about the global crisis (cultural, ecological) imperiling our continued human existence on the planet and who wish to deepen their capacity to bring “skillful means” to the situation: forbearance, strength, compassion, right timing, spiritual generativity, and personal mettle.

NOTE: This retreat is FULL

Cynthia Bourgeault will be one of two presenting speakers at The Faith Practice Biennale in Oslo, Norway.

Cynthia will be giving a retreat at the Refugium at Løgum Kloster in Denmark. The teaching will be based on Cynthia’s highly acclaimed lenten e-course on “Mystical Hope Today” (Spirituality & Practice, winter 2023), integrated with insights from the 2021 Løgum Kloster retreat on the imaginal world.

This will be the usual fall gathering of the core group that has been working together at Claymont for the past three years. The theme will be “The Care and Nurture of Second Body,” and the work will have its usual Gurdjieffian flavor, featuring conscious labor, intentional suffering, movements, Gurdjieff exercises, plus a deeper dive into the Building Kesdjan body.

An 8-week online course designed to challenge and expand your view of Mary Magdalene and her role in the Gospels. Learn what made Mary one of Jesus’ most important and beloved disciples and discover her legacy as an apostle to our times—revealing a path of conscious love that we too are invited to walk.

This year’s annual John Main Seminar at the Bonnevaux Abbey in France will include a 3-day pre-seminar meditation retreat September 11-14, followed by the featured seminar from September 14-17. Event leaders include Cynthia Bourgeault, Andrew Harvey, Giovanni Felicioni, and Laurence Freeman. Hosted by the World Community for Christian Meditation.

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. Hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation.

A 14-week online course exploring the heart of God through the idea of Divine Exchange, Cynthia Bourgeault’s framework for the Christian Wisdom tradition. Learn how kenosis, or self-emptying, can lead to a participatory exchange between the finite and the infinite.