Welcome Video We are living in a chaotic time. The Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue (ICCD) understands this chaos within an evolutionary context. Change has brought us to where we are and a new consciousness must move us forward.
ICCD’s vision Clickbelieves in the transformative power of contemplative prayer and engaging this historical moment through communal contemplation and dialogue.
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Enter the Chaos: Engage the Differences to Make a Differences
In-Person Program at Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center Thursday, September 21, 2023 – Sunday, September 24, 2023
Transformative Power of Contemplation Seeing in a New Way Contemplation moves us to “see” in new ways. It is coming home to one’s self and experiencing our oneness with all of creation.
Impasse-Chaos The Challenge of Engaging Impasse The experience of impasse is like entering the dark night of the soul. Hidden in the darkness of broken dreams, relationship betrayals, powerlessness, and futility is an invitation to transformation.
Dialogue – Encountering – Differences The Quest for a Common Meaning Choosing to dialogue is to give our comfortable ways of knowing. It is to give up the need to be right and to prove oneself.
Desire, Darkness, and Hope: Theology in a Time of Impasse: Engaging the Thought of Constance FitzGerald, OCD Book Review by Nancy Sylvester, IHM
Edited by Laurie Cassidy and M. Shawn Copeland
480 pages; Liturgical Press $44.95
“What if, by chance, our time in evolution is a dark-night time — a time of crisis and transition that must be understood if it is to be part of learning a new vision and harmony for the human species and the planet?… For a new consciousness and harmony?”
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