Personal Residential Retreat including time with a Spiritual Director

The Royal Foundation is offering an opportunity to come for a personal one-night residential retreat with an opportunity to meet 1:1 with a listener.

Come and stay with us so as to enjoy the chance to step aside and spend some time pausing, reflecting, seeking and praying.

We are delighted to confirm our listener for this retreat will be Mary Monfries who is an experienced Spiritual Director and experienced retreat guide.

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

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.

“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.

“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.

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.