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Events with Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault

A note about Wisdom Schools:

For information and answers to common questions about Cynthia Bourgeault’s Wisdom School structure and schedule, please refer to her FAQs.

For opportunities to participate in an online Introductory Wisdom School, see the offerings available through the Center for Action & Contemplation HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, MANY EVENTS WILL HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR POSTPONED.

PLEASE CONTACT THE EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR MORE INFORMATION.

06 Feb - 06 Feb 2021 Buddha at the Gas Pump - Interview with Cynthia Bourgeault Coming up on Saturday, February 6th Cynthia Bourgeault will once again be the guest of Rick Archer, host of the widely popular conversation series Buddha at the Gas Pump (BATGAP). The interview will be live-streamed at 2pm ET, and available on the BATGAP YouTube channel after that. See details here. You can find Cynthia’s 2017 appearance on BATGAP here.
18 Feb - 01 Apr 2021 Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm with Cynthia Bourgeault - Online In this e-course hosted by Spirituality and Practice, Cynthia Bourgeault will explore the gifts of the Imaginal realm, in a way that can help us adopt a larger perspective and make a difference today using the cosmic assistance available to us all. She will be introducing us to the teachings in her latest book, EYE OF THE HEART: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm, but approaching the material in a fresh and practical way. Cynthia offers this description of the offering: While this course is loosely based on my book Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm, it’s not an online book study or a Reader’s Digest version of the original. I’m very aware that we’re undertaking this work as a collective Lenten offering, and against the backdrop of a global pandemic. These two parameters will frame both my choice of topics and the way I approach them. Rather than presenting a general overview I’ve chosen to stick with just one or two main themes (the ones most immediately relevant to our current planetary crisis.) And I’ve paved the pathway with spiritual practice—pairing each lesson with a specific practice that will help you put it into practical application—a “value-added” feature you won’t find in the book itself. You don’t have to buy the book to do this e-course, although I hope that many of you will find yourself drawn to do so, since we are barely scratching the surface here. The e-course will begin the Thursday after Ash Wednesday, February 18, and conclude on Maundy Thursday, April 1. Format includes 13 email essays by Cynthia Bourgeault including suggested practices and questions for your conscious reflection. Participants will have access to an online practice circle, and two scheduled live sessions where Cynthia will address student’s questions. Full details and registration available on the Spirituality & Practice course listing here. *** About EYE OF THE HEART: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm – by Cynthia Bourgeault** This groundbreaking book shares the evolution of Cynthia Bourgeault’s spiritual journey and offers a new map to understanding energy and our collective reality. In Eye of the Heart, Cynthia Bourgeault investigates the imaginal realm–an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. It is invisible to the physical eye, but clearly perceptible through the eye of the heart. You can find a number of podcasts and interviews here, where Cynthia illuminates the Imaginal and some key insights offered in her EYE OF THE HEART book.
03 Mar - 08 Jun 2021 Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault - Online This online course is hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Course Overview Cynthia Bourgeault is a long-time student of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths and is a core faculty member of the CAC and Living School. Christian Wisdom teachings have been around since the earliest days of Christianity; Cynthia teaches from that ancient perspective in ways that suit today’s world. Arising from an in-person Wisdom School that Cynthia led for 200 students, this online course integrates her teachings and contemplative practice to offer an embodied experience. Wisdom isn’t something you get from a guru or a reward for performing certain actions. Wisdom is about inner work and transformation. Wisdom isn’t knowing more; it’s knowing more deeply, with more of yourself. Wisdom is caught more than taught. This course explores the Wisdom way of knowing and growing. Cynthia invites us to awaken to our yearning for a different kind of presence and to develop the skills, knowledge, and actions for our own transformation. No prior experience with Cynthia’s Wisdom Schools is required; however we do recommend some familiarity with Cynthia’s books or talks. This course serves as the prerequisite to any of the advanced courses of Wisdom Schools Cynthia provides, including The Divine Exchange hosted online by CAC starting June 16, 2021. Complete details and course registration available here: Introductory Wisdom School Registration is now open until course is full or February 24, 2021, whichever comes first.
23 Mar - 28 Mar 2021 POSTPONED: Ground Luminosity Retreat with Cynthia Bourgeault NOTE: This event has been postponed indefinitely until further notice. This silent, Centering Prayer-based retreat will prepare practitioners to enter more deeply into the Christian season of Holy Week, that mysterious liturgical “thin place” where light and darkness, birth and death, heaven and earth, apocalyptic rumblings and tender new birth all draw very close together. The mystically attuned heart can approach this cosmic wellspring—or wormhole— and begin to read here “the signs of the times,” drawing from it both the strength and lucidity to live courageously in a world apparently adrift. The purpose of this retreat will be to attune our hearts, both individually and collectively. Grounded in the rhythm of the classic Centering Prayer immersion retreat, our time together will include three daily periods of formal meditation, sacred chanting and body prayer, and teaching by Cynthia Bourgeault drawing particularly on Thomas Merton, Rumi and the work of Ladislaus Boros elucidated in his magnificent book, Mystery of Death. These three anchor us in the cosmic heart from which all else flows. Location: Garrison Institute, Garrison
23 Apr - 27 Apr 2021 POSTPONED: Retreat with Cynthia Bourgeault POSTPONED: Due to current COVID situation and restrictions and the Canada/US border closure, we will be postponing our planned April 2021 retreat with Cynthia Bourgeault. We are hoping to reschedule to September 2021 or Spring 2022. As soon as a new date is confirmed we will post here and circulate details. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
16 Jun - 21 Sep 2021 The Divine Exchange with Cynthia Bourgeault - Online This online course is hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Course Overview Cynthia Bourgeault is a long-time student of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths and is a core faculty member of the CAC and Living School. Christian Wisdom teachings have existed since the earliest days of Christianity; Cynthia teaches from that ancient perspective in ways that suit today’s world. Join Cynthia as she leads you on a path of discovery through The Divine Exchange, her metaphysical framework for the Christian Wisdom tradition. Cynthia teaches on the power of exchange: giving and receiving in a framework that embraces everything—information, goods, energy, sustenance, etc. She weaves that give-and-take into an interdependence of existence that is dynamically and divinely animated. Seeing that dynamism of exchange as a dance of abundance epitomized in the Trinity, Cynthia reveals this idea of exchange as being the heart of God and the ground of the Christian Wisdom path. Cynthia invites you to carry these teachings forward as part of your life, supported by practices designed to help you take this wisdom into your body. Note: This course has teachings that are built on Cynthia’s foundational material and would not work well for students new to this path. A prerequisite for this course is the online Introductory Wisdom School course or any of Cynthia’s introductory, in-person Wisdom Schools. Complete details and course registration available here: The Divine Exchange Registration for this course opens on March 1, 2021 and closes on June 9 or as soon as the course fills, whichever comes first.
24 Sep - 26 Sep 2021 CONSPIRE Capstone Conference with CAC CONSPIRE 2021 is presented by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Friday, Sept. 24 – Sunday, Sept 26, Albuquerque, New Mexico Gather online and in person to learn from and dialogue with the core-faculty of the Center for Action and Contemplation—Cynthia Bourgeault, James Finley, Barbara Holmes, Brian McLaren, and Richard Rohr—teaching together for the first time. The capstone conference in a seven-year series on Richard Rohr’s alternative orthodoxy. Discover your place in the emerging contemplative community of people committed to the intentional work of personal transformation, embodied practice, and engaged living. More details on the CONSPIRE 2021 conference here. If you’d like to get registration information when it becomes available, sign up on the CAC site here.

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Events with Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault

A note about Wisdom Schools:

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, MANY EVENTS WILL HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR POSTPONED.

PLEASE CONTACT THE EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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