Conference Schedule

Friday, Oct. 27

1:30 p.m.
Registration Opens

2-3 p.m.
Free Time: Book table, Snacks

2:15-3 p.m.
Workshop for First-Time Attendees

3:30-4 p.m.
Welcome/Introductions

4-5 p.m.
Address I: Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School
"A whole made of shivering fragments': Contemplation, Creativity and Education"

5:15-6 p.m.
Vespers Service

6-8 p.m.
Reception, Dinner, and Award Presentations

Saturday, Oct. 28

8:30-9 a.m.
Travel from Hotel

9-10:15 a.m.
Small Group Discussion of Address I

10:15-10:30 a.m.
Break

10:30-11:30 a.m.
Address II: Rubén Martínez and Douglas Christie, Loyola Marymount University
"Mystics, Migrants: Desert Practices in an Age of Exile"

11:45-1 p.m.
Luncheon and Announcements

1:15-2:15 p.m.
Address III: Stephanie Paulsell, Rubén Martínez, and Douglas Christie
Explorations and Implications – A Roundtable Discussion

2:15-2:30 p.m.
Break

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Small Group Discussion of Address II and III

3:30-6:30 p.m.
Afternoon Activities
Contemplative Frames: Herbert Medina "A Contemplative Walk"
Paul Humphreys "Sounds Become Us — Contemplative Exercises for Embodied Listening"

5-6 p.m.
Mass (optional)

6:30 p.m.
Dinner

Sunday, Oct. 29

8:30-10 a.m.
Closing Plenary: "Discernment, Education, Reflection: An Exchange"
Douglas Christie, Rubén Martínez, Stephanie Paulsell