MON
14
We are delighted to invite you to our Urban Oasis for our Open Reflective Days in 2024. These are our most popular retreats allowing you to have a personal quiet day to reflect and recharge away from the distractions of everyday life.
You may use this day as time to pray, do some life admin or maybe to finish that project you need to focus on. Most people choose to begin their day by joining the welcome meditation.
During the day you are welcome to join our optional services held in our Chapel.
Option to StaySunday
You can stay over on Sunday through to the Open Reflective Day on Monday to enjoy a full 24 hours residential retreat experience.
Kindly note that places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. Click the link below for more info on how to book.
SUN
13
Come and enjoy our StaySunday offer which allows you to experience a full 24 hour residential retreat with our Open Reflective Days.
Stay in one of our lovely new Chapelside en suite single bedrooms B&B.
Kindly note that places are limited so please do book early to avoid disappointment.
THU
17
When God invites us into an unknown place it takes courage to step away from the familiar busyness and demands of every day life. Come and join this residential retreat where we will reflect creatively on four areas of our lives: soul, body, companions, voice. Step into the spaciousness and discover what this divine invitation reveals and yields for you, and us.
Grace Owen is a Spiritual Director, Retreat Facilitator and Life Writer. Grace is a companion to those who desire to mature in their relationship with God and enable the greater flourishing of people and planet through accelerating social justice impact.
Stay in one of our lovely en-suite bedrooms - full board
FRI
18
We are delighted to welcome back Richard as he leads this residential retreat with us.
Richard is Associate Vicar for Mission at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. His ministry includes working closely with those who are homeless, and refugees and pastoral care of the many people who come through the doors of the church on the edge of London's most public square.
Richard Carter is the founder of the Nazareth Community whose members gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation and to learn to live generously. He is the author of The City is My Monastery: A Contemporary Rule of Life and most recently Letters from Nazareth: A Contemplative Journey Home.
Richard leads many retreats and quiet days and is a regular contributor on BBC Radio 4.
THU
24
“Stand at the crossroads and look. Look for the ancient paths. Ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your soul.”
Run over 2 days for small groups of up to 8 people and facilitated by 2 experienced coaches, this retreat provides a unique space for people at a crossroads in life to pause, step back and reflect on where they are, the questions they find themselves in, what they really want and how to take steps forward. The crossroads could be vocational, such as a career change, or relational, such as divorce or separation. It could be a significant interruption in life from a change of circumstances or health, or simply a sense of wanting something different from life.
SUN
3
Come and enjoy our StaySunday offer which allows you to experience a full 24 hour residential retreat with our Open Reflective Days.
Stay in one of our lovely new Chapelside en suite single bedrooms B&B.
Kindly note that places are limited so please do book early to avoid disappointment.
MON
4
We are delighted to invite you to our Urban Oasis for our Open Reflective Days in 2024. These are our most popular retreats allowing you to have a personal quiet day to reflect and recharge away from the distractions of everyday life.
You may use this day as time to pray, do some life admin or maybe to finish that project you need to focus on. Most people choose to begin their day by joining the welcome meditation.
During the day you are welcome to join our optional services held in our Chapel.
Option to StaySunday
You can stay over on Sunday through to the Open Reflective Day on Monday to enjoy a full 24 hours residential retreat experience.
Kindly note that places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. Click the link below for more info on how to book.
THU
21
“Be still and know.”
This retreat is about helping you to more habitually find a place of calm within you that has you able to be less reactive and more aware of your choices in life. Run over 2 days for small groups of up to 8 people and facilitated by 2 experienced coaches, it will give you the opportunity to find real space in your life, to reconnect to what really matters to you and equip you with simple everyday practices that help you strengthen and maintain an inner peace and stillness in the face of whatever life throws at you.
SAT
16
Finding soulfulness in a digital world
The power of technology has revolutionised the way we work and connect with the world.
How do we appreciated all the positive aspects of the digital world, whilst protecting ourselves from what causes harm to our souls? During this day we can disconnect from the virtual world and reconnect with ourselves, to power down and recharge.
Roger Preece is Master of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine and an experienced executive coach. As a former IT Director with a degree in electrical engineering, he is fascinated by all things technical, but has been reflecting for many years on the unintended consequences of the digital revolution to create harm to ourselves and to society.
SAT
30
Unmaking Mary: The myth of divine motherhood
For 2,000 years, the Virgin Mary has been depicted throughout art, literature and culture as symbolising the perfect mother: chaste, beautiful, meek, mild and white. These supposed virtues and symbols have shaped not just Christianity but wider popular culture; and have contributed to harmful views about motherhood and what it is to be a woman. This retreat will offer a time for reflection on the impacts of these tropes on us, and attempt to create a space to exhale; freeing ourselves from the burden of perfection.
Chine is Director of Theos, the religion and society think tank. She was previously Head of Public Engagement at Christian Aid and spent two decades working in journalism, media and communications across faith, media and international development.
FRI
6
The Christian year begins not with the great feasts of Christmas, Easter or Pentecost but with waiting. Advent is in many ways a stark season - a time to be in touch with our deepest desires and needs. It is a season of longing directed towards Christ, revealed as God-with-us, Emmanuel. Advent is a season of waiting, but in hope and in expectation.
Christopher Chapman is an experienced retreat leader and spiritual director. is an experienced retreat leader and spiritual director. He is a guest director at St. Beuno’s Jesuit Retreat Centre and an associate tutor at St. Augustine’s College of Theology. He is the author of Seeing in the Dark, Earthed in God and Send My Roots Rain. Christopher is a guest director at St. Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre and an associate tutor at St. Augustine’s College of Theology.
SUN
8
Come and enjoy our StaySunday offer which allows you to experience a full 24 hour residential retreat with our Open Reflective Days.
Stay in one of our lovely new Chapelside en suite single bedrooms B&B.
Kindly note that places are limited so please do book early to avoid disappointment.
MON
9
We are delighted to invite you to our Urban Oasis for our Open Reflective Days in 2024. These are our most popular retreats allowing you to have a personal quiet day to reflect and recharge away from the distractions of everyday life.
You may use this day as time to pray, do some life admin or maybe to finish that project you need to focus on. Most people choose to begin their day by joining the welcome meditation.
During the day you are welcome to join our optional services held in our Chapel.
Option to StaySunday
You can stay over on Sunday through to the Open Reflective Day on Monday to enjoy a full 24 hours residential retreat experience.
Kindly note that places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. Click the link below for more info on how to book.
SUN
1
Come along to our highly anticipated Christmas Market! In partnership with Urban Makers we'll have a selection of stalls.
We'll also have arts and crafts games for the families, alongside our Christmas tree sale and community carols for all to enjoy!
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