​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
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)

7th in WCCM's series, The Future of Religion
From Ideology to Practice:
Religious Integrity as 'Doing the Truth'
Now rescheduled from 1st to 8th September, 6-8.30pm, UK time, 
with Rowan Williams and Laurence Freeman
We'll think about the difference between religion as primarily theory and description of the world, and religious or spiritual practice as the finding of a place within the world by work on oneself and one’s relation with what lies beyond the ego, the liberation of awareness of self and environment. 
Cost: £20 one off, £150 all 10
Online mini-retreat from Closer Than Breath
The You Beneath Your Strategy: Honoring the Self We Built, Remembering Who We Are
Saturday 8th September, 3-4:30pm, UK time
with Keith Kristich and Logan Jones
Drawing from Thomas Keating’s teaching on the true self & false self, this mini-retreat will explore the relationship between ego & essence through contemplative practice and the Enneagram’s three centers of intelligence: mind, heart & body. Together, we'll explore how the ego can become a trusted servant on the spiritual journey rather than its master.​
Cost: from $15 c.£12
​ Online access: John Main Seminar 
Healing the Breach: Finding Faith, Meaning and Dignity in a Season of Contempt
Thurs 17th - Sat 20th Sept, 2026
Tim Shriver, Bishop Mariann Budde, Lawrence Freeman
In this centenary of John Main’s birth, we would do well to read his letter written fifty years ago from Thomas Merton’s hermitage at the time of an American Presidential election, appealing for a new language of politics in tune with authentic moral values secured by the awakening of the contemplative dimension of religion. At this year’s John Main Seminar, Tim Shriver asks how a personal practice like meditation directly affects others and helps build a secular society aligned with the peace and justice of the reign of God.
​Cost: $100 USD c.£75
Two-day,Contemplative Enneagram summit
Crossing the Threshold into Presence
Sat 26th & Sun 27th September
with Ross Hudson, Nhien Vuong, Keith Kristich, Logan Jones & more
This summit is for those who want to understand themselves and others more honestly & compassionately, who sense the Enneagram is more than a personality typology, who are seeking a spirituality that honours your uniqueness, and shared belonging with others, and contemplative insights that helps move your growing awareness to embodied action. 
​Cost: from $99 c.£73
Weekly podcast from CAC
Turning to the Mystics: Emily Dickinson
Begins Monday 28th September
with Jim Finley and Kirsten Oates
A new season of the CAC’s podcast Turning to the Mystics debuts on September 28th. This autumn, James Finley and Kirsten Oates turn to the work of Emily Dickinson for spiritual guidance. Join them every Monday for new episodes to explore Emily Dickinson’s poetic wisdom and find deeper meaning in your own life.
Free
Online evening event
Night School:
Sacred Play & Creativity
from Spiritual Wanderlust, Saturday 3rd October, 2026, 5pm, UK time
Book a one-off session at Night School, or sign up for access to all 12. 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.
Cost: $37 c.£28
Online four-day summit
Contemplative Summit from
Spiritual Wanderlust
Thursday 22nd-Sunday 25th October, 2026
​This event has now been postponed until 2027
40 & under? FREE online day conference
Formed by Silence: Young Leaders Event
Sat 24th October, 2026, 5-10pm, UK time
Rev Dr Therese DesCamp & Nicholas Fournie
A transformative entry into the Christian Wisdom tradition through contemplative stillness. Rooted in the 14th-century mystic text The Cloud of Unknowing, this event guides participants from theological study into direct experience via Centering Prayer and the somatic Welcoming Practice for embodying divine presence in daily life. Two live sessions extended by a private digital cohort with recordings, a 30-Day Practice Guide, and curated resources.
Cost: ​free
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.
Online cost: tbc
Online accessible conference (also in person)
Convergences of Science and Faith:
A Journey into God's Mystical Love
11th-13th December, 2026, from Rome
The Contemplative Network and the Scientific and Medical Network are bringing together 16 distinguished scientists and contemplative clergy of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. The conference embraces those who aren't scientists and those who aren't theologians! Speakers include an array of eminent scientists, Christian mystics and leaders (Jim Finley, Laurence Freeman), Jewish Kabbalists, and Islamic Sufi contemplative prayer leaders. 
Cost: €85 c.£73

Virtual events on multi-dates

A six week online course
Stepping into the Mystery: 
​A Journey with Centering Prayer
from 16th June to 20th July, 4:45-6pm, UK time
with Henry Schoenfield from Wisdom Waypoints
A clear introduction for those new to Centering Prayer and a rich deepening for seasoned practitioners. Rooted firmly in Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s acclaimed modern translation of The Cloud of Unknowing, the course weaves together the timeless wisdom of the original text with the insights of three leading contemporary teachers: Thomas Keating, Cynthia Bourgeault, & David Frenette.
Cost: $147 c.£ 110
​15% early booking discount
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
Six online sessions: Wisdom Waypoints
Ordinary Time Wisdom Practice Circle
2nd Monday of the month, June-November, 6-7.30pm, UK time
with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo
Engaging the liturgical Season of Ordinary Time with all three centres: heart, body and mind. The liturgical seasons are a wonderful imaginal training course. Each takes a different theme and encouraging you to work with it. But that doesn’t mean it stops at Pentecost. The lessons we’ve worked on here can now fold into the lessons that the season of Ordinary Time. 
Cost: $99 USD all 6 (c.£75)
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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