November 2025 Newsletter
- The Contemplative Society
- Nov 2
- 4 min read
“Every seeing, no matter how calamitous to the ego, is an enhancement of Being….”
– Cynthia Bourgeault: “Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening,” Page 132.
In This Month’s Issue…
Reflect with Leslie Sandra Black on Energy Healing: A Contemplative Practice.
Journey in image through TCS’s “A Wisdom School on Wisdom Rhythms & Relationships, held with Heather Ruce @ Sorrento Centre”.
Explore Contemplative Activism in Challenging Times, through an online retreat with Cynthia Bourgeault, to be held on November 29, 2025.
Learn about Legacy Giving.
Listen for God’s promptings through Here I Am, an Advent 2025 retreat with Therese DesCamp, Lorie Martin and Milla McLachlan, to be held on December 11, 2025.
Participate in AGM 2025 of TCS, to be held on Thursday 20 November 2025, from 6:30-8:30pm Pacific Time, via Zoom, when you are or become a TCS member.
Energy Healing: A Contemplative Practice
by Leslie Sandra Black
Fr Thomas Keating taught “Divine Therapy” through “opening to the Presence and Action of God within”. His core contemplative practice is Centering Prayer; mine is Energy Healing. As a contemplative method, energy healing helps us connect with the present moment and encourages transformation. With mindful intention, practitioners can support holistic wellness and spiritual growth, following the modelling of Jesus. Let’s reflect on a couple of sessions....
Journey in image to “A Wisdom School on Wisdom Rhythms & Relationships, held with Heather Ruce @ Sorrento Centre,” October 05 to 09, 2025.
*All photos courtesy of Thomas Esakin.
The Contemplative Society Presents…
Contemplative Activism in Challenging Times.
An online retreat with Cynthia Bourgeault.
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2025
Time: 10 am – 12 pm Pacific Time (PT)
This online live teaching time with Cynthia embraces the sacred calling to be “Contemplatives with grit!”
Legacy Giving
“Everything is breathing and receiving and giving back from everything else at all levels of being … fundamentally this is the dance – it is the only language in which God can speak the word ‘love’”.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault, The Divine Exchange
Legacy Giving is a stewardship practice where you identify in your will a specific gift or bequest to go to a charity of deep meaning to you so that your support of that charity can continue through your estate. Legacy Giving is an opportunity for contemplatives from all walks of life to contribute gifts to TCS that offer a positive impact on the contemplative activities of the Society while having no impact on your daily financial considerations.
To learn more about Legacy Gifts, visit HERE.
To explore making a Legacy Gift to The Contemplative Society or to identify that you have already made a Legacy Gift to TCS in your will, contact us in confidence at admin@contemplative.org to arrange for a private conversation.
The Contemplative Society Presents…
Advent 2025 – Online Retreat:
Here I Am.
With Therese DesCamp, Lorie Martin and Milla McLachlan.
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Time: 6:30 to 8:30pm Pacific Time
Participate in the Annual General Meeting 2025
of
by becoming a member of TCS.
Our AGM 2025 is being held on:
Thursday 20 November 2025,
From 6:30-8:30pm,
via Zoom.
To renew as or to become a member of TCS, please visit:
A donation of any amount applied to a TCS membership qualifies a person to become a member of the Society.
All souls in TCS’s community are welcomed to join TCS as a member and participate in the decision-making of the Society as it occurs at an AGM.
New members who sign-up prior to AGM 2025 will be e-mailed with the meeting details and documentation. All current members of TCS have been e-mailed the formal Notice of AGM 2025 and provided with access to meeting documentation.
Please Note:
Immediately following the TCS 2025 AGM, members are invited to participate in a fifteen-minute presentation/discussion, “Swimming Upriver” (used as a spiritual metaphor), during which the Board of Directors would like to share their discernments about TCS’s future, and invite your wise response. To be facilitated by Gerald Morton and Therese DesCamp.
This “Swimming Upriver” image came to TCS’s Board during a retreat it held last month October 2025 and after a visit made to the Adams River salmon run.
TCS is a non-profit society and registered charitable organization in Canada run by a volunteer board and a dedicated circle of contemplatives. It was formed in Victoria, BC, Canada in 1997 to serve an emerging contemplative renewal, and to support and spread the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault and other distinguished Wisdom teachers. We lovingly carry forward this work, adapting to the changing needs of the present and future, while anchoring ourselves in the ancient Wisdom tradition.
We would love for you to join us as a member and to help sustain and build our offerings with a donation of any amount.
Please visit our website to find out more about membership & support options.
PO Box 23031, Cook St. RPO
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada, V8V 4Z8
E-mail: admin@contemplative.org
Telephone: +1.250.381.9650
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