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This retreat was recorded live September 8–12, 2024, at Sorrento Centre in British Columbia, Canada. This purchase includes an MP3 audio download with a total running time of approximately 20 hours, along with a comprehensive list of resources offered by Heather Ruce at the event. In a time of global crisis and shifting paradigms, how can contemplative practice help us navigate the transformation of consciousness? Drawing on the work of Cynthia Bourgeault, G.I. Gurdjieff, Jean Gebser, and others, this Wisdom School led by Heather Ruce focuses on awakening presence in our three centers of intelligence—intellectual, emotional, and body—and cultivating practices that support individual and collective transformation. Participants are guided through practices of self-observation, self-remembering, conscious labor, and intentional suffering as ways of embodying a Wisdom way of knowing and participating in what is needed for the whole. Heather situates these teachings within the broader context of Gebser’s evolving structures of consciousness, inviting us to serve as Wisdom hospice workers for what is passing away and Wisdom midwives for what is emerging. As this is a LIVE recording you may notice some audio variability and background noise. Heather Ruce, M.A., is a Wisdom spiritual director who companions individuals and facilitates Wisdom practice circles, retreats, and Wisdom Schools focused on the Christian Wisdom tradition. She offers teaching and guidance in Centering Prayer, Christian meditation, sacred chant, lectio divina, conscious work, and embodiment practices—all in service of waking up and putting on the mind of Christ. Learn more at heatherruce.com