Morning Breakout Sessions

Room 2: 
  • Tracey Price - An ethics approach to Christian spiritual work
  • Benedict Shoup - The Gospel of Darkness? John of the Cross’s Contemplative Account of the Dark Night and the Contemporary Search for Justice and Transcendence
  • Robyn Wrigley-Carr - Courageous embodiment: Evelyn Underhill’s ‘Spiritual Ecumenism’


Room 4:
  • Ruth Fowler - Recovering the Charism of Spiritual Authority and Contemplation as Courageous Embodiment
  • Christopher Knauf - Meister Eckhart on the world-shaping power of an equal mind

  • Iain Radvan - Christ in creation: guiding people of all faiths and none into the experience of mystery, wonder and peace



Room 5: 
  • Sally Jones - Contemplative Listening and Silence: In Conversation
  • George Marchinowski - Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation

  • Cullan Joyce - How does Contemplative Research Affect a Christian Contemplative Practice? Interpreting Centering Prayer via the Psychological Sciences



Room 6:

  • Kirsten Macaitis - Research workshop: “Can I run something by you?” Kickstarting your research idea



Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Room 1: 
  • Claire Forbes - Contemplative Conversations in the Classroom


Room 2: 
  • Rachael Litchfield - Restorative Reciprocity: Contemplative Conversation in Nature
  • Sally Shaw - A creative pedagogy to encourage embodied creation care action
  • John Bethell - Kanyini, spiritual wellbeing, and the Christian spiritual tradition


Room 5: 
  • Mary Kantor - An alternative espoused love
  • Michael Bartholomaeus - Is Netflix a Lordless Power? Television and the Spiritual Life
  • Kevin Goodrich, O.P.A - Cultivating the Altar of the Heart: Contemplative Conversations with the English Mystics