​Below are face-to-face events like conferences, talks, and workshops relating to silence and contemplative living.

At the top of the page are events on one date, for a few hours or all day.

Lower down are conferences or events happening over more than one date.

In person events on one date


Apologies that this page is so bare. It will fill with events again once organisations release their programmes for 2025.
Northern Quiet Day
The Interior Journey: Heart and Soul
with Bob Morley and Christian Mediation Cumbria
Thurs 20th March, 10am-3pm, Rydal Hall, Ambleside LA22 9LX
The day will include meditation, and poems from the contemplative journey in life, together with Maranatha Yoga and time to chat. This event is held in conjunction with Rydal Hall and includes a soup and sandwich lunch. Bob has been meditating regularly since 1988. He has followed the works of well-known mystics from many religious traditions.
Cost: £10, incl lunch
Saturday event
The Flame of Love: Rumi's Love Poetry
with Lennie Charles
5th April, 4.30-6pm, Meditatio Centre, London EC1R 1XX
One of the great treasures of Persian literature is the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic Maulana Jallaludin Rumi. Rumi’s poems express the central idea of Sufism that the human soul is in exile from its maker and longing to return. His wisdoms are universal, across time, place and cultures, Rumi’s poems articulate what it feels like to be alive they help us understand our own search for love and the ecstatic in the coil of daily life.
Cost: £25 (conc.£15)
All day event    On Spiritual Friendships:
​Anam Cara, Thomas Merton, and Pursuing Relationships that Enlighten Our Lives 
with Sophonia Scott
17th May, 10:30am-4pm, Meditatio Centre, London EC1R 1XX
Although Merton craved solitude and the silence in which “God shines there and is immediately found,” his mysticism & writing life were deeply fed & influenced by friendships in person and through prolific correspondence that connected him to writers and spiritual thinkers all over the world. We will discuss how we can find and nurture similar bonds to benefit our life & work.
Cost: £40 (conc.£20)
All day event
Chant: Breath, Holy Spirit, and Sound
with Anna and Leah Stuttard
Sat 12th July, 10:30-4pm, Meditatio Centre, london EC1R 1XX
A day exploring ancient & modern chant. First, medieval chant, focusing on how the experience of breathing relates to meditational practices of monasteries where men and women sang the full book of psalms each week in a long mantra. Then, Taizé chant, singing easily learnable & repetitive songs, allowing a different mantra-like meditative state of flow in music.
Cost: £40 (conc.£20)
All day event
Between Mystical Thinking and Practical Experience: How Poetry Unlocks the Door
with Hilary Davies
Sat 11th October, 10:30-4pm, Meditatio Centre, london EC1R 1XX
During this day we will be looking at how a variety of poets have approached mystical experience, and how they try to convey what is ineffable in poetic language. This will hopefully help us to think about how mystical thinking irradiates our everyday lives and experiences. Please join us for a wonderful day of input, discussion, reading of poetry, meditation with tea and cake!
Cost: £40 (conc.£20)

Face-to-face events on more than one day

Four monthly come-as-you-can retreat days
Silent Saturdays
Saturdays: Every Saturday
11am-3pm, Meditatio Centre, Myddleton Square, London EC1R 1XX
A series supporting your meditation practice and to offer a time of community and friendship. During these sessions we will meditate 3 times and, in between, we will reflect with one another about our experience and learn a bit more about meditation both practically and spiritually. ​
Cost: ​free
Evening, in person meditation teaching
An Introduction to Meditation
in the Christian Tradition
First Thursday of month, 6-7pm, Meditatio Centre, London EC1R
On the first Thursday of each month an introductory evening will be held for those new to meditation. The evenings will be led by members of WCCM. 
Cost: ​free
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