Laconneau is a path of European Gnostic Spirituality originating in Occitania, the Languedoc region of Southern France. It is a largely oral tradition historically passed down among women. The Tradition stresses inner growth and development, positive ethics, and devotion to the Divine Feminine in accordance with Gnostic beliefs. Although primarily found in France, traces of similar traditions can be found in other areas throughout Southern Europe.

It was in Occitania (then Roman Gaul) during the first century CE that the Tradition encountered and embraced the teachings of the early Gnostic church. Adopting much of the belief system of the early Gnostics, with the little known Gospel of the Beloved Companion at its heart, the Tradition survived and adapted to the western spread of Christianity, while still maintaining spiritual focus upon the Divine Feminine. As with the Gnostic Church itself, however, the advent of the militant Roman Church spelled the end of the Tradition as an open practice. Driven underground in the 13th and 14th centuries by the persecution of the Albigensian crusade and the subsequent Inquisition, Laconneau survived and flourished in spite of intense and often deadly attempts to eliminate it. Carried to northeastern France by refugees from the Inquisition, the Tradition in time found new homes where it survived to continue its work. It still survives today.