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Opening Minds, Opening Hearts

Opening Minds, Opening Hearts

Contemplative Outreach Limited

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/29d. Total Eps: 31

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Are you seeking to deepen your interior life through the practice of Centering Prayer? Do you have a desire to develop a closer connection to the divine as well as those around you?

Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is a podcast for both the curious meditator and long-time practitioner of Centering Prayer. On each episode, hosts Colleen Thomas and Mark Dannenfelser will reflect on the method of Centering Prayer with some friends of Contemplative Outreach who share their personal experiences of encountering God through the prayer, and through their work in the world. Topics discussed will include New Monasticism, the value of silence, the practice of contemplation and the call to social action.

Through this podcast, we hope to provide new perspectives on the future of this prayer in the rapidly changing spiritual and technological landscape. Centering Prayer is a practice and a gift and we are excited to share this blessing with our listeners.
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S3 EP3: The Infinite Dance of Ultimate Reality with Cynthia Bourgeault

Season 3 · Episode 3

dimanche 15 décembre 2024 • Duration 45:06

We’re thrilled to share this conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault, an Episcopal priest whose insights into spirituality have transformed our understanding of connecting with Ultimate Reality.

Cynthia is a modern-day mystic with a diverse background in contemplative spirituality, theology, and interspiritual dialogue. Known worldwide as a retreat leader and author, she divides her time between her home in Maine and teaching engagements around the globe, where she’s a passionate advocate for reviving Christian contemplative practices. Cynthia’s work builds bridges across spiritual traditions, and her new book, Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic, explores Keating’s life and influence on modern spirituality. Her teaching incorporates her profound respect for Thomas Keating, Teilhard de Chardin, and other visionaries of contemplative theology, offering fresh insights into Christian non-duality and inner transformation.

To connect with Cynthia Bourgeault:
To connect further with us:
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S3 EP2: Laying the Foundation for Interspiritual Dialogue with Netanel Miles-Yépez

Season 3 · Episode 2

dimanche 1 décembre 2024 • Duration 45:22

We are excited to kick off our first guest conversation of the season with Netanel Miles-Yépez. He is an artist, philosopher, religious scholar, and spiritual teacher deeply involved in the interspiritual movement. Netanel is also a co-founder of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism and Interspirituality and has authored several books, including The End of Religion and Other Writings.

As the head of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism and a leading thinker in the interspiritual and new monasticism movements, he provides profound insights into spiritual identity and the blending of religious traditions.

To connect with Netanel Miles-Yépez:
The Keating-Schachter Center for Interspirituality: https://www.naropa.edu/academics/schools-centers/keating-schachter-center-for-interspirituality/

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Gigi Ross: Spiritual Life is All About Relationship

Season 2 · Episode 5

dimanche 29 octobre 2023 • Duration 50:44

On today’s episode, we speak with Gigi Ross, who began practicing Centering Prayer after attending an introductory workshop in 1998. Gigi has been a Spiritual Director since 2000 and worked as an Associate Director at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Foundation. She also served on the leadership team for Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington from 2003 to 2005. She is currently working at the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) as the Living School Student Experience Manager. We are so grateful for our long-standing partnership with CAC and the tremendous work she is doing there.

To connect further with us:
Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts was made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative prayer.

This episode of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is produced by Crys & Tiana LLC www.crysandtiana.com

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Phileena Nikole: Contemplative Tradition and Meditation, A Salve for the Soul

Season 2 · Episode 4

dimanche 22 octobre 2023 • Duration 41:58

On today’s episode, we talk with Phileena Nikole who is well known in contemplative communities and spaces where she works as a Spiritual Director and Centering Prayer Practitioner. Phileena spent her early adult life in social justice work with poor and marginalized communities. This work led her to more than 70 countries where she helped to build community among victims of human trafficking, HIV and AIDS survivors, abandoned children, child soldiers, and war brides. She is passionate about spirituality and making the world a better place. She shares how she came to the practice of Centering Prayer, how it changed her life, and has shaped her work.

To connect further with us:
Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts was made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative prayer.

This episode of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is produced by Crys & Tiana LLC www.crysandtiana.com

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Mary Dwyer: The Transformational Experience of Centering Prayer

Season 2 · Episode 3

dimanche 15 octobre 2023 • Duration 44:10

On this episode, we welcome Mary Dwyer who has been practicing Centering Prayer for over 30 years. In the early 1990’s she lived in Chrysalis House, a contemplative community experiment blessed by Father Thomas, which became an incubator of practice and programs in the early years of growth for Contemplative Outreach and Centering Prayer. She attended Georgetown University and majored in economics, later she went back to school and became a licensed social worker. Mary is currently in private practice as a social worker, while serving Contemplative Outreach as a member of the community, welcoming service team, a chairperson for Contemplative Outreach, and a member of the faculty. Mary has been in complete service to the Contemplative Outreach community. We are so grateful to have her on the show.

To connect further with us:
Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts was made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative prayer.

This episode of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is produced by Crys & Tiana LLC www.crysandtiana.com

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Fr. Justin Lanier: It’s All About What God Has in Mind for You

Season 2 · Episode 2

dimanche 8 octobre 2023 • Duration 01:01:07

In today’s episode, we welcome Father Justin Lanier, a Priest in the Episcopal Church. He was born in Louisiana and grew up in Delaware where he went to Methodist, Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches. Early in his formation, Father Justin entered the St. Benedict’s Trappist monastery community in Snowmass under Abbot Joseph Boyle where Father Thomas Keating was resident. Fr. Justin was under the direction of these two men until their deaths in 2018. Fr. Justin was also sent to train in a Rinzai Zen monastery in Japan as part of his formation. Throughout his formation, he has been in touch with Contemplative Outreach teachers and presenters. In this episode, we will focus on the expanding vision of the community of Contemplative Outreach.

To connect further with us:
Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts was made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative prayer.

This episode of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is produced by Crys & Tiana LLC www.crysandtiana.com

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The Transformative Power of Centering Prayer

Season 2 · Episode 1

dimanche 1 octobre 2023 • Duration 33:30

Welcome back to season two of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts. We are your hosts, Colleen Thomas and Mark Dannenfelser and our hope this season is to open the door for you to explore more deeply this powerful practice of Centering Prayer. Each week we will talk with a guest from the contemplative community and unpack Father Thomas Keating’s principle: “Contemplative Outreach is an evolving community with an expanding vision and deepening practice of Centering Prayer that serves the changing needs of Christian contemplatives.”

To connect further with us:
Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts was made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative prayer.

This episode of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is produced by Crys & Tiana LLC www.crysandtiana.com

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Welcome to Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts

Season 2

dimanche 24 septembre 2023 • Duration 08:47

Welcome back to season two of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts. Co-host Mark Dannenfelser and Colleen Thomas framed their conversation around one of Thomas Keating's guiding principles:

“Contemplative Outreach is an evolving community with an expanding vision and deepening practice of Centering Prayer that serves the changing needs of Christian contemplatives.”

Throughout the season, Mark and Colleen will unpack this principle with guests who are involved in the evolving contemplative community.

To learn more about Father Thomas Keating’s guidelines for service and principles visit www.contemplativeoutreach.org/vision.

To connect further with us:
Season 2 of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts was made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative prayer.

This season of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is produced by Crys & Tiana LLC www.crysandtiana.com

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Embodying Centering Prayer with Mark Kutolowski

Season 1 · Episode 6

dimanche 25 décembre 2022 • Duration 39:49

Today, on this final episode of the first season of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts, our guest is Mark Kutolowski. He is an oblate of Saint Benedict and a Centering Prayer instructor committed to supporting the revitalization of Christian contemplation. Mark and his wife are the co-directors of Metanoia of Vermont, a lay contemplative homestead and ministry that seeks to nurture the way of Christ through work and prayer in relationship with the land. We discuss Mark's personal interactions with Father Thomas, the unity found in Centering Prayer, metanoia or a spiritual conversion that comes with contemplation, how our prayer practice is a bridge to all other areas of life and more.

To connect further with Mark Kutolowski
- Visit his website - Metanoia of Vermont www.metanoiavt.com
- Visit Mark’s Substack https://metanoiavt.substack.com/

To connect further with us:
- Visit our website: www.contemplativeoutreach.org
- Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/contemplativeoutreachltd/
- Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/contemplativeoutreach
- Check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/coutreach

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The Source of Centering Prayer with Carmen Acevedo Butcher

Season 1 · Episode 5

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 • Duration 45:17

On Today’s episode of Opening Minds, Opening Hearts, we welcome internationally acclaimed speaker, author, poet and translator of spiritual texts, Carmen Acevedo Butcher. Today she shares her thoughts on Centering Prayer practice, self-compassion, community with others, and how trauma can be turned into connection through meditation and contemplation.

To connect further with Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Visit her website: https://www.carmenbutcher.com/
Visit her Linktree: https://linktr.ee/carmenacevedobutcher
Check out her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CarmenAcevedoButcherPresence

Carmen’s translations:
Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence (Broadleaf) now available on Audible
The Cloud of Unknowing (Shambhala)

To connect further with us:
Visit our website: www.contemplativeoutreach.org
Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/contemplativeoutreachltd/
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/contemplativeoutreach
Check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/coutreach

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