Bible and a meditation practice
Interview with Petr Vacik and Vladimir Volrab The Bible is a fundamental source for a Christian life. How are the Bible texts related to a meditation practice? Is there something like a contemplative approach to the Scripture? What about the more difficult parts of it? In this video, Vladimir Volrab, WCCM National Coordinator for the […]
Art Show in a Time of Crisis
Judi and Paul Taylor are the international coordinators for the WCCM Friends program and in this video they give an overview of the project ‘Art Show in a Time of Crisis’. In this video we get introduced to Judi and Paul and learn how the project started. “There was a sense it was time to […]
Where is home? Meditation and accompanying refugees
Liz Watson, a long standing meditator, former UK National Coordinator, meets in conversation with Alex Holmes, also a meditator and WCCM National Coordinator in Scotland. Alex has been a volunteer amongst the refugee community in Calais, northern France, since 2016. In this conversation, Alex explains his involvement with the refugees and what drove him to get involved in Calais. One of the questions posed […]
Contemplation and/in Cyberspace
An interview with Glenn Welby and Sarah Bachelard Almost without our knowing it and without having left home, human beings have come to dwell in a new land – cyberspace. Particularly in this time of global crisis, we are spending more and more time using digital platforms to work and connect. The benefits of this […]
There’s More Than Enough Happiness To Go Around
In this Contemplative Path talk, Julia Kim, Programme Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan, describes her personal journey and the discovery of her true calling and spirit of service. After experiencing the dangers of burnout from over-activism she realised the unavoidable need for integration and balance: Understanding the difference between happiness seen […]
The Healing Response: A Conversation with Tim Kelly
Tim is an oblate of the WCCM and works with a US federal agency which provides care for refugees and survivors of torture. In this talk he describes how meditation helps him – and those he trains to work with those who have suffered a trauma – to maintain the optimum level of compassion while […]