Speaker: Sarah Bachelard, Leader of Benedictus Contemplative Church, Canberra
Sarah Bachelard: Hello. My name is Sarah Bachelard and I'm coming to you from Canberra in Australia at the beginning of our summer. I am the leader of Benedictus Contemplative Church here in Canberra and a longtime member of the World Community for Christian Meditation. And I'm very much looking forward to being part of the 2025 Academy intake. The new cohort will be beginning in March 2025 and I'll be teaching from October on the theme of 'contemplative Christianity' and by that notion of 'contemplative Christianity', I'm interested for us to explore what difference it makes to our understanding of the Christian tradition to take a contemplative approach. And I'm also interested in exploring some connections with indigenous spirituality and particularly in the Australian context, First Nations spirituality. I had the privilege of being part of the pilot for the Academy a couple of years ago. It's always an incredibly rich conversation because of the range and the depth of the people who come, and it will be a pleasure and a joy to be part of it again this coming year,
