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

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4th in WCCM's 2026 series of 10
The Future of Religion: 
Encountering Nothing In Everything That Is
16th May, 6-8.30pm, UK time, 
with Elliot Wolfson, scholar of Jewish mysticism
By emptying oneself of the self, one attains the ground of being that is without ground, the pure nothingness that is pure being. This lecture will explore the encounter with nothingness that may be elicited from the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, but I will also draw comparatively from Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist sources.
Cost: £20 one off, £150 all 10
Evening session: 5th of 12 
Night School: Making Friends with the Dark: Shadow Work and Internal Family Systems
Saturday 6th June, 5-6.30pm UK time: can book just this session
Night School s not a series about solving suffering. It is a gathering place for people who recognize a threshold when they see one–and are open to following its invitation into the underworld. There we learn that darkness does not signal abandonment, but intimacy. That breaking open is also a becoming. And ultimately, that longing stretches our hearts open for the only thing that will satisfy: union.
​Cost: $37USD for one session, $27USD monthly
1½ hr mini-retreat
The Still Point of the Turning World: Training the Heart to Embrace Paradox
with Thomas McConkie, from Closer Than Breath
Saturday 13th Jun, 3-4:30pm, UK time
Human life pulses between opposing poles: relationship and solitude, control and surrender, joy and sorrow. Most of us navigate these tensions by choosing sides—defaulting to one pole while resisting the other. But the contemplative traditions point to something more: a still point at the centre of all opposite. In this workshop, we'll explore how to find that still point as an embodied reality.
Cost: from $15 USD c.£11
Online study evening (also in person)
Spiritual Teachers: Martin Buber
with Josie von Zitzewitz
Wed 15th July, 6:30-9pm, Meditatio Centre, London EC1R 1XX
Martin Buber was a prolific Jewish thinker, best known for his treatise “I and Thou” (1923). His teaching is highly relevant to meditators today, cautioning us against reflecting our spiritual experience exclusively in psychological terms as to do so risks losing sight of the Other we can never know fully. Explore how Buber can help us rediscover our awe before God and, by extension, before every person we encounter. 
Cost: £20 conc.£10
Three-day conference, accessible online
30th Annual Festival of Faiths:
Sacred Courage
11th-13th November, 2026
Join with others online and in Louisville, Kentucky - the city of Thomas Merton's awakening to Love on the corner of 14th and Walnut - to celebrate Sacred Courage  and explore the many ways we can lead with radical love, stand for justice and embody bravery rooted in purpose. Through dialogue, workshops, art and music, the festival will foster a courageous compassion that honors our interdependence, calls us toward the common good and emboldens us to act.
Info to follow later in year

Virtual events on multi-dates

A 12 week, weekly practice community
Contemplative Practices & the Enneagram
with Evolving Enneagram
Weekly, from 20th April to 6th July. Choose from 4 days & 5 times 
 Facilitated practice groups for those with a basic understanding of the Enneagram and want to explore it more deeply through contemplative practice and 3-centered awareness. You do not need to have your Enneagram type figured out, nor be experienced in contemplative practice. In this compassionate community Enneagram is explored not just intellectually, but through contemplative presence, shared reflection, and lived experience.
Cost: pay-as-you-can donations
Five week guided learning cohort
Gurdjieff for Christians
Every other Wednesday from 29th April. Four different time options.
Who is G.I. Gurdjieff and what does he have to do with Christianity? For four decades Cynthia Bourgeault has sought to create a bridge between Wisdom Christianity and the 'singular genius' of  Gurdjieff’s esoteric lineage. Why? Because she truly believes that working with Gurdjieff’s themes and practices can make us better Christians. A guided learning opportunity to move through Cynthia’s best-selling course 'Gurdjieff for Christians', which provides an introduction to Gurdjieff’s key topics woven into 'dialogue with Jesus’ vision in extraordinarily powerful ways.
Cost: $95 USD cohort plus $75 course materials
12 monthly streamed & videoed workshops
Night School: 
​Because All Growth Starts in the Dark
from Spiritual Wanderlust, 7th Feb 2026-9th Jan 2027
Jim Finley, Barbara Brown Taylor, Christine Valters Paintner & more
Night School is a twelve-month journey through the Dark, offering the rituals, practices, and companionship humans have long relied on in times of deep transformation—whether the descent was chosen or unchosen. This is a gathering place for people to learn that darkness does not signal abandonment, but intimacy; that breaking open is also a becoming; and ultimately, that longing stretches our hearts open for the only thing that will satisfy: union.
Cost: from $27USD, c.£20. Other options available
WCCM's 2026 series of 10 online sessions
The Future of Religion: How can Spirituality evolve to meet today's challenges?
10th February-15th December, 6-8.30pm, UK time
with Laurence Freeman, Ilia Delio, Rowan Williams & more
This year’s WCCM theme offers opportunities for creative dialogue across faiths and cultures as well as a deeper ecumenism. Speakers throughout the year offers a unique fusion of original and deeply grounded thinkers concerning something on which humanity’s future depends.
Cost: £150 all 10, £20 each
Three, 90 min sessions on Saturdays
Held in Love: A Contemplative Journey into Consent, Belonging, and Communion
2nd Saturdays of March, April & May, from Closer Than Breath
An invitation to practitioners to rest more completely in the Love that already holds us. Rooted in Centering Prayer and the wisdom of Christian contemplative and interspiritual traditions, these three workshops gently trace a path from welcoming what is, to remembering our belonging, via awakening communion with God and all of life, to reclaiming the wisdom of the Divine Feminine as our 'superpower' for prophetic action.
Cost: from $45 USD c. £34
Four session intro to WCCM meditation 
WCCM's Meditatio Centre, London EC1R 1XX, with Peter Jaeger
Wednesdays 8th-29th April, 6:30-7:30pm,UK time
Like everything worthwhile, meditating takes time, but once you start you’ll probably wonder ‘why didn’t I do this before and how did I think ‘it’s not for me?’ Each week there will be a short input and we will meditate. We will look together at the challenges of learning a contemplative practice in our kind of world; the fruits; how self-knowledge opens us to new understanding of all our relationships; and to the knowledge of God.
Cost: donations
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
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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