​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!
At the top of the page: 
​online events at one point in time
Lower down the page: 
​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)

Marking the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si'
Contemplative Vigil
Saturday 25th January, with global organisations
The 10-hour vigil will be held online, enabling people worldwide to participate. Each hour will be guided by a quotation from Laudato Si’ and the wisdom of leading contemplative communities. The event will feature songs, silence, readings, and images to facilitate a profound experience of reflection & communion. More info from WCCM here. Main event link, click button.
Cost: free
On line summit
Centering Prayer Summit, 2025
with Cynthia Bourgeault & Carl McColman, from Closer Than Breath
​Sat 25th & Sun 26th January, 2025
A sacred space to move beyond personal peace to embrace a shared, universal connection with the Divine and all of creation. Guided by renowned contemplative teachers, including keynote speaker Cynthia Bourgeault, we'll explore how contemplative prayer not only deepens our relationship with God but also weaves us closer to one another, illuminating our shared journey.
​Cost: $99 c.£77 until 2nd Jan
First in series of 8 talks from WCCM in 2025
The Risk of Living Together:  Conviviality
with Laurence Freeman
Monthly, 4th February, 7-9.30pm FRENCH time
This year's them asks ‘what or who do we need to re-connect with to help us take the risk of living together?’  Being convivial means friendliness, liveliness, hospitableness which are basic elements of happiness. In this first talk in the series I will recall how important it is to feel we have been met. Then we can authentically meet others. Contemplative prs=actice helps us with this.​
Cost: £20/£140 all 8
Online two-day contemplative event
Black Contemplative Prayer Summit
Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd February, 20025
Hosted by Rev Tia Norman
​In the contemplative community, diversity is essential. This summit addresses a critical question for contemplative communities: 'Where are the facilitators and practitioners of color?' This first of its kind summit will center Black voices offering the wider contemplative community language and tools that may help in our efforts to include, invite and diversify the conversation on spiritual growth, transformation and practice. 
Cost: $99USD (c.£77)
Online, first of six-talk e-course
Women Mystics: Catherine of Sienna
with Jane Williams 
 8th May, 7.30-9.45pm, FRENCH time
Despite her youth and lay status, Catherine of Sienna was hugely influential in her time. The Church was deeply divided, driven by powerful political interests and scandal. Catherine’s spiritual authority was recognised and she was somehow able to continue to love the Church, while seeing its failings. Her fresh and lively writings are beloved of linguists as well as theologians.
Cost: £100 for all 6

Virtual events on multi-dates

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
NEW Turning to the Mystics Podcase: Series 10
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
with Jim Finley and Kirsten Oates
Begins Monday 9th September, listen on demand
In this, the new tenth series of the Turning to the Mystics podcase, Jim Finley turns to T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and how we can work with his poetry to transform our lives. A weekly podcast, with teaching from Jim and a whole session of  Q&A with Kirsten Oates, including listeners' question.
Free
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
​You can search the entire website here.