"Jonathan Steele is engaging, charismatic, brilliantly creative, and wondrously present.  As one of my senior Wisdom students, he shares my own commitment to combining classic Christian contemplative teaching with contemporary reference points in mindfulness, attention, and embodied awareness. You are in for a treat!" - Cynthia Bourgeault

Our Fall Conference is a hybrid presentation conducted both in person at The Center for Contemplative Living in Denver, CO and Online via Zoom.  Breakfast snacks and a light lunch will be provided for in-person participants.  The conference is a community fund-raising event for The Center and helps fund program development, provide scholarships, fuel community outreach, and maintain our spiritual home.  We hope you can join us. 

 

Description of Talk: 

These times call for a need to unify the seeds of contemplative practice–to return to our fundamental essence and realize our shared human purpose as conscious transmitters of faith, hope and love. In the words of Bede Griffiths, we can learn to “join the growing Christ.”

 

Jonathan’s presentation style includes teaching, practice and unifying the power of gathered intention. His themes focus on the importance of surrender, community, service, silence and the practice of learning to directly sense the inner body, or inner-man as St. Paul refers to it. Learning to sense the inner body gives us a physiological rootedness where we can stand in a strong, compassionate witnessing presence amid polarization.


Together we will engage prayer exercises that imprint both Jesus’ recollected presence and self-emptying nature more deeply into our being. Most spiritual traditions have tended to emphasize one or the other: enstatic practices (service through conscious presence) or ecstatic practices (service as self-giving) but not both. The integration of the two supports our collective awakening in becoming people who can change the events of our world from the inside-out without our attention getting hi-jacked by manufactured desire.

  
We offer this day of experiential integration and hope-filled practice on behalf of all beings throughout creation and to bring spiritual healing to our lives and, by God’s grace, to this precious planet.

Watch a brief video where Jonathan Steele provides a description of his presentation. 

The Spiritual Journey Continues...

"What is exciting about Jonathan's talk is that it is an extension of Fr. Thomas' teaching. In the Spiritual Journey series, Fr. Thomas gave us a basic framework for understanding the human condition and the practice of Centering Prayer, which is the most important tool for opening to the transformation of our human condition. What Jonathan will be presenting is a way of deepening the process of transformation, not only for our personal benefit, but for the benefit of the whole, the cosmos, the Body of Christ." - JoAnn Rivera, Center for Contemplative Living, Circle of Service.  

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