​Below are residential retreats with significant time in silence or which relate to developing this spiritual practice.

At the top of the page is information about retreats with a specific theme.

​Lower down are details of retreat centres that offer frequent silence-based retreats and Ignation Guided Retreats (IGRs), from weekends to 30 days.

Retreats with a specific theme

Midweek, Individually Guided Silent Retreat: 
 Growth in Prayer 
Mon 30th May-Wed 1st June, House of Prayer, East Molesy
A silent individually guided retreat for busy people, those who have not made a retreat before, or anyone who needs time away to stop, breathe, and pray. A retreat guide will be available for daily individual accompaniment. Above all, this retreat is a time of listening to God who is present in the experiences of prayer and daily living.
​Cost: £180
Long weekend Retreat: 
 Evolving from Becoming to Unfolding
16th-19th June, Bonnevaux, France,
with Br. Martin Shantivarnam, in English & French
We can live life from our emptiness, and from our fullness. Living from our emptiness is the life of ego, of becoming: like a pond that has no source inside and fills itself from the water from outside. Living from our fullness is like a pond that has a source within and overflows from its fullness. This is the life of God, the life of unfolding. The retreat explores evolving from the life of becoming to that of fullness, from the life of ego to that of God. 
Cost: €360 euros
WCCM Retreat: 
 The Joy of Encounter:
Meditation in the Margins 
Tuesday 21st-Wednesday 22nd June, Ampleforth Abbey, near York
Along with some of the most marginalised adults from Teesside including  Saltburn Recovery group and Streetwise singers, we'll gather to learn from and listen to each other; sharing stories, meditating and eating together. There will be singing workshops, Tai Chi sessions, Capacitar training and guided walks in the grounds. We'll be exploring what it means to become marginalised and how meditation supports us to find our common humanity.  
Cost: £100-£140
Contemplative Fire Annual Retreat: 
 Rewilding the Heart
Fri 24th-Wed 29th June, Foxhill Retreat House, Chester WA6 6XB
with Tess Ward
All contemplative traditions invite us to be with the heart as it is, through practice. In this retreat, we will open our hearts to the Divine heartbeat and that of the world, in nature at Midsummer, and with movement, silence, poetry, music, ritual and shared chapel time.
Cost: £375
WCCM's Annual International Retreat: 
 Dwell In My Love
25th June-2nd July, Abbazai di Monte Oliveto, Maggiore, Italy
with Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni
​This retreat offers an opportunity to refresh and renew ourselves, with friends who are also intrigued to know what dwelling in the love of the Trinity may mean. The silence and beauty of this place of contemplation; good simple food; yoga; teaching; and closeness to the monks of Monte Oliveto offer a wonderful combination to reset and revive our love of life’s wonder.
Cost: €950 euros 
Silent, 8 day IGR Retreat: 
 Deepening in Prayer
Fri  8th-Fri 15th July, led by the House of Prayer team, East Molesy
A silent individually guided retreat is an opportunity to step aside from your daily life and routine and enter a time of silence, stillness, and prayerful reflection. A retreat guide will be available for daily individual meetings to accompany you through the retreat. Above all, this retreat is a time of listening to God who is present in the experiences of prayer and daily living.
​Cost: £575
Sunday-Friday Centering Prayer Retreat: 
 Embodying Centering Prayer
with Jill Benet
Sunday 24th-Friday 29th July, House of Prayer, Easy Molesey KT8 0PB
Suitable for those familiar with CP. The Christian experience of awakening to unitive consciousness is a Oneness that involves the full participation of our humanity, body, soul, and spirit. Explore how when CP is practised alongside Lectio Divina and the inner process of acceptance, it brings us fully into contact with ourselves, the world around us and the divine source that unites all.
Cost: £450
Family and dog friendy, mid-week Retreat: 
 For people of all ages!
Monday 25th-Friday 29th July,
​Shallowford House, Stone, Staffordshire ST15 0NZ
  The retreat is open to all ages, single people and families, to live together in community with silent prayer at its centre.  It will offer beginners an introduction to the Christian meditation as taught by John Main, with opportunities for well-practiced meditators to learn from each other. A supporting programme offers workshops, games and activities as well as plenty of opportunity to relax, reflect and enjoy the lovely surroundings.
For more information email Jon Kille using the button.
Costs: £300 adults sharing, 
£350 single adults,
​subsidies for children
Young Adult's WCCM Retreat, in France: 
 One in Mind, One in Heart
27th July-3rd August, Bonnevaux Retreat Centre, France
​with Fr Laurence Freeman & Giovani Felicioni
Bringing younger people together from around the world to reflect on the meaning of the oneness for themselves and for the planet. It will help us to emerge from the isolation and fear of Covid into a new engagement with reality and potential. With yoga, bodywork, help with posture and getting your hands dirty in the garden, the retreat will show how to balance the physical with the spiritual and the intellectual and emotional aspects of experience.
Cost: €700 (euros) 
8 day Retreat: 
Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat
Sat 30th Oct-Sun 6th Nov, House of Prayer, East Molesey, KT8 0PB
led by Jill Benet
Suitable for those who have established/are establishing a practice of Centering Prayer & have attended an Introductory Workshop. Intensive Retreats are an opportunity to immerse fully in Centering Prayer, as taught by Contemplative Outreach. Up to three hours of CP each day. Time outside gatherings is in silence, with space for personal reflection, contemplative liturgy and Lectio Divina. We will draw on material from Thomas Keating’s extensive body of work.
Cost: £630
Weekend Centering Prayer Retreat: 
Silence is God's First Language
Fri 18th-Sun 20th Nov, House of Prayer, East Molesey, KT8 0PB
led by Jill Benet
This retreat is suitable for those experienced in Centering Prayer as well as those establishing their practice. An opportunity to form and participate in a small contemplative community for a weekend of silence to deepen the experience of Centering Prayer. There will be some short sessions of input and the invitation for one-to one-meetings.
Cost: £180

Centres for regular silence-based retreats & IGRs

Ignatian Guided Retreats (IGRs), Centering Prayer and more!
The House of Prayer, East Molesey, KT8 0PB
This well-loved retreat centre already has a variety of residential retreats planned throughout 2021, from mid week or weekend IGR's to 5 or 8 day more intensive silent retreats. Retreats will have socially distanced procedures in place. As few places are booking yet demand is likely to be high, so book early!
Some retreats are listed below. Click the button for their full 2021 programme. 
Cost: £180-£630
Self-guided and IGR Retreats, from a weekend to 30 day
Llanerchwen Retreats, Brecon, Wales
Llanerchwen is known as a special place by all who go there, often over many years. It is almost unique in the UK, offering individual hermitage spaces, some in wooden cabins and others in small buildings. All are set in beautiful surroundings and in a very quiet location in the hills above Brecon. Each hermitage has its own self-catering facilities. There is a newly built art cabin and a chapel. Spiritual accompaniment is available where requested.
Cost: £45 a night
Weekend, 4 6, 8 and 30 day retreats
St Bueno's, Flintshire, Wales
Availability from early October. New dates being added.
St Bueno's have resumed residential Retreats. Some will be fully guided Ignatian Guided Retreats (IGRs), from weekend retreats to the full 30 days Ignatian Exercises. Other different retreats, from walking to art, are also planned. Early booking is advised. Their programme listings also include ON LINE retreats.
Cost: from £130 but
​bursaries are available