​Below are on line, streamed events like conferences, talks, and workshops relating to silence and contemplative living.

​Do remember to scroll all the way down the page, otherwise you'll miss some great events happening SOON that take place across more than one day!
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​online events at one point in time
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​events spread across different weeks
For virtual, online courses, see the Resources tab or click the button below.

Virtual events on one date or consecutive days
(scroll past the end of this list for the list of events across multiple dates)

​A new weekly series of this acclaimed podcast
Turning to the Mystics:
Brother Lawrence
with Jim Finley - begins 8th September, then weekly
Series 12 of Turning to the Mystics is here. This season we turn to Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection to offer us spiritual guidance. Each week hear Jim share how Brother Lawrence's wisdom can be integrated into our rhythms of prayer, work and stillness. Grounded in Carmen Acevedo Butcher's translation of Br. Lawrence's book Practicing the Presence.
Cost: free
Online, fifth of six-talk e-course
Women Mystics: Evelyn Underhill
with Jane Williams and Robyn Wrigley-Carr
Thursday 27th November, 7.30-9.45pm, FRENCH time
Evelyn Underhill (1875 –1941) was a poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice. Her best-known work of her 39 books is Mysticism, published in 1911.In this presentation, Robyn will focus on Underhill’s later, more mature writings, particularly her retreat talks.
Cost: £20, or £100 for all
Online evening retreat session
Contemplative Activism in Challenging Times
with Cynthia Bourgeault
Saturday 29th November, 6-8pm, UK time
Contemplatives of all spiritual pathways are invited to join together for this online teaching. Cynthia will draw from spiritual and psychological sources to show us how to strengthen our inner resources and deepen our commitment, revisiting the concept of ‘holy obedience’ found in the teaching of Quaker mystic Thomas Kelly.
​Cost: suggested donation
11th of 12 session, monthly, Feb 2025-Jan 26
Mystics & Prophets of the 20th Century:
Dorothy Sölle: Mystical Feminist
​Sat 6th December, 4pm, UK time
​with Dan Miller and Kelly Deutsch at Spiritual Wanderlust
Explore the intersection of two profound spiritual paths: the contemplative and the prophetic. This month, meet this German theologian and mystic, known for her work on liberation theology & the connection between faith & social justice
Cost: £21 per month
Last  of 12 session, monthly, Feb 2025-Jan 26
Mystics & Prophets of the 20th Century:
Thea Bowman: Black, Catholic Fanciscan
​Sat 10th January, 2026, 4pm, UK time
​with Val Limar Jansen and Kelly Deutsch at Spiritual Wanderlust
Explore the intersection of two profound spiritual paths: the contemplative and the prophetic. This month, meet the Franciscan sister who celebrated her African culture and called out the US Catholic bishops to do the same, urging them to embrace diversity, promote inclusion and advocate for justice.
Cost: £21 per month

Virtual events on multi-dates

5  sessions online teaching 
Introductory Online Wisdom School
with Cynthia Bourgeault
Three time choices, across Wednesdays 15th Oct-3rd December
A newly filmed Introductory Wisdom School. What does it mean to live in Wisdom? What are the components of the tradition? How do I practice in modern life? How can I begin to move in the world from a more awakened place of awareness and presence? We will explore these questions as we “awaken the yearning for a different kind of presence in the world and then develop the skills and the knowledge…to transform.”
Cost: $225 USD (c.£165)
Monthly online meditation & teaching
The Well: Online meditation & teaching on a mystic or a poet each month
with various speakers, 7.:30-8:30pm AEST (10:30-11:30, UK)
 An invitation to drink deeply from the well of living water offered by the Mystics and poets. After a 20 minute meditation hear a monthly online talk in which the speakers reflect on how a mystic or poet has been life giving, a source of living water, in their lives.
Cost: free, donations
12 session, monthly course from Feb 2025
Mystics & Prophets of the 20th Century
Begins Sat 8th Feb 2025, runs to Jan 2026
With Rowan Williams, Kathleen Duffy, John Phillip Newell & more!
Explore the intersection of two profound spiritual paths: the contemplative and the prophetic. You’ll meet mystics and prophets who embodied radical vulnerability, dive into their writings, their struggles, and their spiritual practices. Learn from those who stood at the crossroads of contemplation and action what it means to live with a heart open to the world's joy and pain. 
Cost: £27 a month
A series of day retreats in 2025
Living with the Mystics
with Christian Meditation, Cumbria
Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout 2025, in Ambleside, LA22
Mystics explored in these days include Carl Jung, Meister Eckhart, Goethe, St Ignatius of Loyola and others tbc.
There will  also be a retreat form 14th-16th November at the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning: leader tbc.
Cost: £10 per day
Series of 8 talks from WCCM in 2025
The Risk of Living Together:  New Perspectives to Recover a Humane World
Monthly, 4th February - 11th November 2025
This year's them asks ‘what or who do we need to re-connect with to help us take the risk of living together?’ and introduces us to possible answers. Each session, gifted teachers will look at the problem from different perspectives. Is it contemplative consciousness and wisdom that will open our eyes to what being human really means and so help us to care for ourselves by caring for others?
Cost: £140 all 8
Online course around LGBT issues
No More Special Pleading:  Openness to LGBT people & their issues is basic to Christianity
with James Alison, from Thurs 25th January
Four sessions will look at the themes of his new book, You Can, If You Want To. They'll include finding our way into the heart of basic Christianity through the traditional Christian account of how to learn about reality; the history of how same-sex relations have been treated; the supposedly anti-homosexual “clobber” biblical passages used against LGBT people. A course for any who like their scruples of conscience relieved and their minds challenged.
Cost: £70 all 4 sessions
Online, six-talk e-course
Women Mystics: Guides in the Life of Prayer
with Jane Williams and key scholars, 7.30-9.45pm, FRENCH time
 8th May; 12th June, 3rd July, 18th Sept, 30th Oct, 27th Nov
We will encounter some of the most revolutionary women adventurers in the life of prayer. Each wrote for their own time and to deepen their experience and practice of living with and for God, but their advice and descriptions provide maps to the pathways of the spiritual life for succeeding generations. Each session will be held in the context of a shared meditation.
Cost: £100 for all 6
Five 'watch anytime' lectures 
WCCM's 2022 lecture series:
Unified Consciousness: One Mind, One Heart
Unified Consciousness was the WCCM theme for 2022. The essential reality of the consciousness of mind and heart is a shared insight of all spiritual traditions as well as of the greatest scientists of the modern era. In a series of talks throughout the year, spiritual teachers, social leaders, thinkers and writers with contemplative wisdom explore its meaning for us today.
Cost: free
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