GIM Vadstena 2012

GIM in Sweden:19-23 of September, 2012
SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF GIM
Body - Mind - Soul - Music
10 TH EUROPEAN GIM CONFERENCE
ENGIM Conference in Vadstena
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The theme of the conference is
WELCOME to the 10th
European GIM conference
“Spiritual Dimensions of GIM - Body
hosted by ENGIM and organized - Mind - Soul and Music” and we will
by Expressive Arts!
honour the legacy of Helen Lindquist
Bonny. Vadstena is a most fitting
With its beautiful lakeside setting,
place for this event as Helen´s father
VADSTENA is a charming historical
was born here, and it is an ancient
town, about a three hour commute
site of spiritual practice and still very
from Stockholm. At one time a royal
much alive today. We are delighted
seat and an important monastic
to host this conference at the
centre, the town's main attraction
stunning and historic Kloster Hotel
nowadays is its gorgeous moated
located right on the waterfront.
castle,Vadstena Slott. This castle was
www.klosterhotel.se
built in the sixteenth century by
Gustav Vasa as part of his defensive
The pre-conference ring to protect the Swedish heartland “Music and Consciousness: around Stockholm.Vadstena's
Helen Bonny's Legacy” will take
place in the same setting at the
cobbled, twisting streets, lined with
Vadstena Kloster Hotel between
cottages covered in climbing roses,
17 – 19 th of September.
also hold an impressive abbey, whose Frances Smith Goldberg and
existence is the result of the
Lisa Summer who have actively
passionate work of fourteenthsupported the growth of GIM in
Sweden and across Europe, will
century Saint Birgitta, Sweden's first
co-lead this pre-conference
female saint.
seminar. They both taught
alongside with Helen Bonny for
many years.
Call for papers:
Deadline is February 25, 2012.
Chair of Scientific Committee:
Lars Ole Bonde:
lobo@hum.auu.dk
More information on the
conference with exact costs,
application form, travel
suggestions, and guidelines for
submission of papers and
presentations will be available in
November on the website:
www.expressivearts.se
The costs for accomodation will
be in a similiar price range as in
Spain 2010.
Warm greetings from the conference
committee: Kia Mårtensson Blom,
Gunder Forss, Ingrid Hogan, Gudrun
Hofsten, Gabriella Rudstam, Björn
Wrangsjö, Margareta Wärja (chair).
VADSTENA
WE WILL STAY AND WORK AT THE MAGNIFICIENT KLOSTER HOTEL
CONTENTS
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On the waterfront of lake Vättern