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Dear Friends and Fellow Meditators, ANNUAL APPEAL – PLEASE HELP US TO CONTINUE OUR MISSION DONATE  Thank you for reading this annual appeal letter and helping us to continue
he latest issues of Meditation News, the UK Community Newsletter, is now available to download and read here for free. If you have subscribed to the printed edition of the UK
Booking is now open for next year’s National Gathering at Highgate House, Creaton, Northamptonshire during the weekend of 5-7 June. The cost is £295 per person. Becoming Whole – Meditation
A phrase has been rattling around in my mind recently – it is ‘Sacred Oneness’. I don’t know where it comes from. Maybe one of you can tell me? When
From the 2nd to the 4th of June, the tranquil setting of Ampleforth Abbey played host to a unique and moving event: The Joy of Encounter, a Meditatio and WCCM
In mid-July, the Bristol Centring Prayer group invited members of the WCCM to share an afternoon of meditation and Qi Gong. We met at the Frenchay Quaker Meeting House to
A silent meditation retreat, Monastery of Christ Our Saviour, Turvey, Nr Bedford The words of the great Persian Sufi poet Rumi speak to each of us – and to humanity
The ‘School’ is the name given to the Community’s foundational resources for learning to meditate. This suite of resources is developed internationally and designed to be adapted and delivered nationally
In January this year, everyone registered on the WCCM in the UK database with an email address which is about 1500 people were invited to take part in an online
Our weekly meditation group in Monmouth is thriving with an average attendance of twelve. We are fortunate to be able to meet in the Priory, which used to be a
The Answer by James Johnson To be stillto absorb silenceto hear without listening to see without looking to try without tryingto not even tryto not tryto bejust bethat…is all you
Meditation creates community. Meditators who experience personal transformation through a daily practice seek to express this in ways suitable to their own path. Oblation is one of these. The World
We hope you enjoy watching this short video of the recent Joy of Encounter retreat provided by Terry Doyle. https://youtu.be/CPm-uocFifY?si=lkAHfQJ52r2_1C_amBV4js_E Original post (March 2025) WCCM’s Outreach theme for 2025 is
Just Turn Up! the meditator’s companion, a practical guide by Julie Roberts. This 16 minute YouTube video is an excellent summary of Julie’s book designed to encourage everyone to keep
The School is the name given to the Community’s foundational resources for learning to meditate. This suite of resources are developed internationally and designed to be adapted and delivered nationally
The latest issues of Meditation News, the UK Community Newsletter, is now available to download and read here for free. The WCCM International Newsletter will be added as soon as it
Laurence Freeman started his recent series ‘Learning to Meditate in Lent’ by talking about Acedia which derives from the Desert Wisdom Tradition. He quoted from Thomas Merton, 60 years ago
‘I was very close to my grandparents. I went to stay in school holidays with my maternal grandfather. I called him Data. In the evenings, when my mother and the
Spiritual nudges can be very insistent. On a particular day recently I heard this phrase in a secular context: ‘If you invite me I will come,’ and I felt a
News from the Wales Area Many of you will recognise and perhaps even have visited St. Davids Cathedral. Its origins were established over 1500 years ago when Dewi Sant (Saint
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