Rev Dr Cynthia Bourgeault In-person: Mindfulness and Contemplative Wisdom
Rev Dr Cynthia Bourgeault In-person: Mindfulness and Contemplative Wisdom
St Paul’s Church Lorrimore Square SE17 3QU
Friday, 24 March 2023, 11 am – 4.30 pm. Tea & coffee from 10.30 am
We are delighted to inform you that Cynthia Bourgeault will be in London on Friday, 24 March, on her way back to the US and will be giving a day teaching, in person, entitled Mindfulness and Contemplative Wisdom.
More details are below and on the Booking Website, including a discount voucher to buy the book.
In this day-long teaching retreat, Cynthia Bourgeault will formally introduce Dr John Teasdale’s acclaimed new book, What Happens in Mindfulness. John Teasdale will be with us on the day.John Teasdale’s book skillfully weaves together cutting-edge scientific research on the brain as a single field of dynamically interacting subsystems with classic spiritual teachings on attention, inner awakening, and compassionate action. We will explore three areas that intersect closely with the Centering Prayer-based contemplative wisdom path that Cynthia has been unfolding these past two decades: kenosis (or surrender), non-identification, and three-centred awareness. In the light of John Teasdale’s expansive new map, these can now even more clearly be seen not simply as devotional practices leading to personal holiness but as evolutionary practices leading to the emergence of “holistic-intuitive knowing” and a deepening capacity—both cognitive and moral— to approach the world in the spirit of “creative whole-making.”
John Teasdale is a longtime member of the British Contemplative Wisdom Circle, a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and one of the three co-founders of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for treating major depression.Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude in her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule travelling globally to spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. Her roots are firmly planted in the Benedictine monastic tradition, her wings soar in the Christian mystical lineage, and her wisdom is tempered by daily mindfulness and embodiment. An emeritus faculty member at The Center for Action and Contemplation, she was honoured as one of the 100 most spiritually influential living people in 2021.
PLEASE NOTE the new venue: St Paul’s Church, Lorrimore Square SE17 3QU
St Paul’s, just south of the river, is very accessible by public transport, ( It is also outside the congestion zone)
Suggested Ticket price is £30
Please contact info@silenceinthecity.org.uk if you’d like to make an alternative donation ( more or less).
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
With every good wish and gratitude for your support,
Jill Benet