Correspondence Courses

A 6 month course looking at the contemplative & mystic tradition within the Christian faith.

£150*
save £30 per person if you sign up as a group!**

Learn more from and about the Christian Contemplative and Mystic tradition with this 6 month correspondence course.  Each month you will receive some teaching via email about the Christian Contemplative and Mystic tradition and prominent figures from within it.  It will guide you to study and read more on the month's subject and people, then each month you are required to write a short (between 500 – 1,000 words) response to the subject based on your reading and study, send it to your tutor and they will comment on it. Your response should be based upon what you think of the teaching, what further reading you have done, and how the subject can be made relevant to your life and spiritual walk today.
 
The course has two start dates, January and July and the subjects are as follows:

1. Befriending Silence – Introducing the contemplative tradition – Evelyn Underhill; Olivier Clement; Martin Laird

2. The Inner Journey – the transformational journey of your inner self through contemplation - Teresa of Avila; Mother Julian of Norwich; Thomas Merton

3. Visions and Verse – the creative expressions of the contemplative tradition – Hildegard of Bingen; John of the Cross; Thomas Treherne

4. Unknowing – apophatic theology and the via negativa –Dionysius; John Scotus Eriugena; Meister Eckhart

5. Mindful Awareness – the practice of the presence of God in everyday life – Brother Lawrence; Anthony DeMello; Thomas Keating

6. Modern Mystics – those teaching this tradition today – Carl McColman; Richard Rohr; Cynthia Bourgeault

 
Participants will receive an email during the first week of each month from January to June or July to December. There will be some teaching about the subject and some suggested reading to further your study with a short response required from the student. 

The course is written and run by David Cassian Cole. David Cassian has studied, taught, practiced, and written books on the Christian Contemplative and Mystic tradition for over 2 decades and has been a speaker at places such as Spring Harvest, the Bible Society's International Christian Resource Exhibition (CRE), and BRF’s national day of prayer on the subject, as well as at UK and International conferences. He is also an award winning author with a number of books published on Celtic Christianity. He studied a Masters' degree in 'Christian Spirituality' writing a number of essays on this topic; he was Deputy Guardian for The Community of Aidan & Hilda, a globally dispersed Celtic Christian New Monastic community, of which he was also been a member for 20 years. He is also an award winning author on the subject of Christian meditation.
We hope you get a lot out of this course, and that it helps you walk in a deeper way with God, and connect more deeply with other people.

This course is not accredited with any college or university, and you will not gain any qualification from it, it is simply a study course for the love of learning.

*Course costs £150. Fees are paid either as £25 per month for the 6 months, or as one block of £150 at the start of the course for the whole course. If you are paying monthly, payments will be due by the last day of the previous month (starting with December 31st or June 30th). Payments can be made via paypal. 

**If you sign up as a group of 10 or more then the course cost reduces to £120 per person instead of £150. Email us for more details.