Between 25-27 November, the Council of the Alliance Inter-Monastères met at Poblet, a Cistercian Abbey in Catalonia, Spain. The incoming new president, Abbot Bernard Lorent of Maredsous Abbey, chaired a meeting for which some 27 participants from the Benedictines, Cistercians and Trappists had gathered. During a creative meeting, the council collected ideas and proposals that will help us to develop the AIM as a hub for communion and cooperation among Benedictine men and women, Cistercians and Trappists.