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Wisdom Schools & Retreats
"Wisdom Schools are a format for integral learning that's based in some of the deepest roots for transformation and change in the Christian tradition. Wisdom schools are about awakening the yearning for a different kind of presence in the world and then developing the skills and the knowledge base to apply that, to transform your own life and the life of people around you."
--Cynthia Bourgeault
Upcoming Retreats
Thu, Jul 11Mercy Center BurlingameJul 11, 2024, 5:30 PM PDT – Jul 15, 2024, 1:00 PM PDTMercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAJul 11, 2024, 5:30 PM PDT – Jul 15, 2024, 1:00 PM PDTMercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAIn a society bombarded with the allure of external validation and perpetual striving, we often find ourselves caught in the relentless pursuit of relevance, accomplishment, and fleeting happiness. Yet, amidst this tumult, there exists a timeless wisdom that transcends the ephemeral promises of . . .
Fri, Aug 23Mercy Center BurlingameAug 23, 2024, 12:00 PM PDT – Aug 28, 2024, 4:30 PM PDTMercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA
Past Retreats
- Thu, Jul 11Mercy Center BurlingameJul 11, 2024, 5:30 PM PDT – Jul 15, 2024, 1:00 PM PDTMercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAJul 11, 2024, 5:30 PM PDT – Jul 15, 2024, 1:00 PM PDTMercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAIn a society bombarded with the allure of external validation and perpetual striving, we often find ourselves caught in the relentless pursuit of relevance, accomplishment, and fleeting happiness. Yet, amidst this tumult, there exists a timeless wisdom that transcends the ephemeral promises of . . .
- Fri, Aug 23Mercy Center BurlingameAug 23, 2024, 12:00 PM PDT – Aug 28, 2024, 4:30 PM PDTMercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA
Sun, Dec 31Online RetreatDec 31, 2023, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PMOnline Retreat
Wed, Dec 20ShelburneDec 20, 2023, 6:30 PM PST – Dec 21, 2023, 6:30 PM PSTShelburne, 291 OLD, Bostwick Farm Rd, Shelburne, VT 05482, USADec 20, 2023, 6:30 PM PST – Dec 21, 2023, 6:30 PM PSTShelburne, 291 OLD, Bostwick Farm Rd, Shelburne, VT 05482, USAThe Wisdom stream is at the contemplative headwaters of every religious tradition including Christianity. Wisdom takes many shapes and forms and is more concerned with the transformation of the human being than on a set of right beliefs. The Christian Wisdom lineage is about . . .
Mon, Nov 20Loon Lake Lodge & Retreat CentreNov 20, 2023, 6:30 PM PST – Nov 23, 2023, 12:00 PM PSTLoon Lake Lodge & Retreat Centre, 14500 Silver Valley Road, Maple Ridge, BC V4R 2R3, CanadaNov 20, 2023, 6:30 PM PST – Nov 23, 2023, 12:00 PM PSTLoon Lake Lodge & Retreat Centre, 14500 Silver Valley Road, Maple Ridge, BC V4R 2R3, CanadaHow do contemplatives engage the world when forest fires, floods, and political uproar are happening in our own backyards? How do we stand in contemplative wisdom and be present in depth to the beauty and suffering inherent to the web of life on this blue-green planet?
Fri, Aug 11BurlingameAug 11, 2023, 7:00 PM PDT – Aug 16, 2023, 7:00 PM PDTBurlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAAug 11, 2023, 7:00 PM PDT – Aug 16, 2023, 7:00 PM PDTBurlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAIn any moment, regardless of how significant or insignificant it may seem, we can offer ourselves as instruments, vessels, means by which worlds beyond can enter into this world, which has often been termed by several traditions ‘mixtus orbis.’
Mon, Jul 31St. Francis Retreat HouseJul 31, 2023, 6:00 PM PDT – Aug 04, 2023, 12:00 PM PDTSt. Francis Retreat House, 3918 Chipman Rd, Easton, PA 18045, USAJul 31, 2023, 6:00 PM PDT – Aug 04, 2023, 12:00 PM PDTSt. Francis Retreat House, 3918 Chipman Rd, Easton, PA 18045, USATogether we will pray these Sacred movements with all three centers of knowing, noticing their devotional impact and the way in which they grow and enhance our work with our second body, our Kesdjan body.
Fri, May 26BurlingameMay 26, 2023, 3:00 PM PDT – Jun 01, 2023, 12:00 PM PDTBurlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAMay 26, 2023, 3:00 PM PDT – Jun 01, 2023, 12:00 PM PDTBurlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA" As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love." (John 15:9) In many of Jesus' sayings we can find an invitation to a deeper contemplative way of being, so relevant for our Centering Prayer. 'Abide in my love', for example, can also be translated as 'abide in mercy'
Sun, Apr 09The Centre for Spiritual RenewalApr 09, 2023, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDTThe Centre for Spiritual Renewal , Langley BCApr 09, 2023, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDTThe Centre for Spiritual Renewal , Langley BCHoly Saturday marks Jesus’ journeys into the heart of the earth in which he not only encounters the most constricted, cut off and hurt states of human consciousness in the collective false self but allows love to reach them and weave them into the whole. Meanwhile Mary Magdalene, the Tower, keeps ..
Mon, Apr 03Bethlehem CentreApr 03, 2023, 5:30 PM PDT – Apr 06, 2023, 12:00 PM PDTBethlehem Centre, Nanaimo, CanadaApr 03, 2023, 5:30 PM PDT – Apr 06, 2023, 12:00 PM PDTBethlehem Centre, Nanaimo, CanadaHoly Week is more than a series of events surrounding the final days of Jesus’s earthly life that we are to commemorate. We can enter this sacred week from the inside as a way of mutual accompaniment in which we are concurrently embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeles
Sat, Apr 01Multifaith CentreApr 01, 2023, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDTMultifaith Centre, Victoria BC, CanadaApr 01, 2023, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDTMultifaith Centre, Victoria BC, CanadaOn this Lenten Day, we will prepare ourselves to enter Holy week from the inside by embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeless passage. Let’s join together in community to learn and practice Wisdom, weaving in the transformative currents of surrender, three centered . .
Fri, Feb 17BurlingameFeb 17, 2023, 6:00 PM PST – Feb 22, 2023, 12:00 PM PSTBurlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USAFeb 17, 2023, 6:00 PM PST – Feb 22, 2023, 12:00 PM PSTBurlingame, 2300 Adeline Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA“From time immemorial Wisdom Schools have emerged in times of global crisis or on the cusp of great leaps in human consciousness in order to help shepherd our planet through the transition." ― Wisdom Waypoints, Cynthia Bourgeault
Sun, Jan 01Online RetreatJan 01, 2023, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM PSTOnline RetreatJan 01, 2023, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM PSTOnline RetreatOnline Morning Reflective Retreat: The year is almost over and a new year is just about to spring forth. This shift to a new year marks a threshold that has been entered into as a moment to pause, ponder and prepare, to learn something about ourselves and about what life is telling us as we begin..
Fri, Dec 02Leaning Into BlessingDec 02, 2022, 4:00 PM PST – Dec 04, 2022, 12:00 PM PSTLeaning Into BlessingDec 02, 2022, 4:00 PM PST – Dec 04, 2022, 12:00 PM PSTLeaning Into Blessing"The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before...So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon."
Wed, Nov 30Online Gurdjieff Movements ClassNov 30, 2022, 3:00 PM PST – Dec 28, 2022, 4:15 PM PSTOnline Gurdjieff Movements ClassNov 30, 2022, 3:00 PM PST – Dec 28, 2022, 4:15 PM PSTOnline Gurdjieff Movements ClassThe Movements, which develop a certain quality of relaxed and alert attention, were given very precisely by Gurdjieff as a powerful tool for growth. They create exceptional conditions for transforming the body into a place where the forces of intelligence, feeling, and action can freely expand. . .
Mon, Oct 31Online RetreatOct 31, 2022, 4:30 PM PDT – Nov 02, 2022, 6:00 PM PDTOnline RetreatOct 31, 2022, 4:30 PM PDT – Nov 02, 2022, 6:00 PM PDTOnline Retreat****The ZOOM Link will be sent out again 1 hour before the start time**** We often focus on spring’s Paschal Triduum, from dusk on Holy Thursday through dusk on Easter Sunday, as a chance to move inward and journey with Christ through our own passage of death to life. . .
Tue, Oct 25Online Wisdom CircleOct 25, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDTOnline Wisdom CircleOct 25, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDTOnline Wisdom CircleThe Gurdjieff Exercises are seated attention practices that work that work to relax our three-centers and bring them into coherence. They are intended to open us to more subtle substances of love, mercy, hope, compassion, gentleness, and strength to name a few . . .- Mon, Oct 24Online Wisdom CircleOct 24, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDTOnline Wisdom CircleOct 24, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDTOnline Wisdom CircleThe Gurdjieff Exercises are seated attention practices that work that work to relax our three-centers and bring them into coherence. They are intended to open us to more subtle substances of love, mercy, hope, compassion, gentleness, and strength to name a few . . .
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