Forthcoming events at Whirlow Spirituality Centre
This event is now fully booked - please email events@whirlowspiritualitycentre.org to be added to a waiting list.
Contemplative prayer requires a letting go of ‘knowing’ and of certainty. This book group will explore the well-loved and profound medieaval text, The Cloud of Unknowing, as a way into a deeper understanding of such prayer.
The Desert Day is a time set apart to meditate on the Word, rest and let go in silence. It is suited to those who enjoy any form of silent prayer or wish to gently explore it.
Drawing on the practices of the desert Fathers and Mothers,…
Days of Retreat are specifically designed and facilitated to offer maximum quiet and solitude in the special setting of Whirlow Spirituality Centre.
They are facilitated by a recognised spiritual accompanier and restricted to 10 participants.
The Becoming Whole series offers space for reflective, mindful exploration of our different selves and our journey towards wholeness.
Participants will work with peer partners using life coaching questions, metaphor, mindfulness, movement, words and colour to create a place of safety. From there, they can explore…
Space to be before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources.
This event is now fully booked. Please mail events@whirlowspiritualitycentre.org to be added to a waiting list.
An exhibition of paintings about creation and loss by local painter and printmaker Sarah Sharpe, inspired by Mary’s call to wait; give birth; and let go.
In place throughout Advent…
An opportunity to watch and wait for the coming Christ, with Whirlow Spirituality Centre chaplain Joy Adams.
An opportunity to watch and wait for the coming Christ, with Whirlow Spirituality Centre chaplain Joy Adams.
Space to be before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources.
Contemplative Dialogue is designed to facilitate a non-threatening, ‘safe place’ for open sharing and discussion. The focus is on listening to ourselves and others, rather than formulating a response to what is being said.
This event is now fully booked. Please mail events@whirlowspiritualitycentre.org to be added to a waiting list.
Space to be before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources.
A special autumn evening with the Guild of Strings and guest Caroline Hallam, this concert centres on the fabulous string sextet from Strauss’s opera Capriccio.
The programme will also feature Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar, as well as songs, stories and poetry from the world of stage and screen.
Deep Talk is an invitation to a communal conversation about and engagement with our life journey.
Founding stories from scriptures and other sources are brought to life and then retold from different vantage points. It can give courage and freedom to participants, who re-imagine their own story in a safe group context.
Whirlow will host 3 Deep Talk events this year.
The second of two events in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit created for all recognised Spiritual Accompaniers.
Contemplative Dialogue is designed to facilitate a non-threatening, ‘safe place’ for open sharing and discussion. The focus is on listening to ourselves and others, rather than formulating a response to what is being said.
Space to be before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources.
An opportunity to share your story with others who have been bruised, perplexed or discouraged by their experience of the discernment process for ordination.
Heritage Open Days are an opportunity for friends both new and long-standing to (re)discover Whirlow Spirituality Centre.
In line with this year’s Heritage Open Days theme, People Power, we invite you to visit and discover with us quiet, hidden ways of changing the world.
Contemplative Dialogue is designed to facilitate a non-threatening, ‘safe place’ for open sharing and discussion. The focus is on listening to ourselves and others, rather than formulating a response to what is being said.
Space to be before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources.
Days of Retreat are specifically designed and facilitated to offer maximum quiet and solitude in the special setting of Whirlow Spirituality Centre.
They are facilitated by a recognised spiritual accompanier and restricted to 10 participants.
The first of two events in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit created for all recognised Spiritual Accompaniers.
Contemplative Dialogue is designed to facilitate a non-threatening, ‘safe place’ for open sharing and discussion. The focus is on listening to ourselves and others, rather than formulating a response to what is being said.
Praying with Icons: An Introductory Workshop.
You may be drawn to - or turned off by! - the idea of using icons in prayer. This introductory day, led by Rev Dr Chris Ellis, will begin to open up a little of the history of Christian iconography and reflect on some theological aspects of these devotional images.
The Retreat Association icon, inspired by the story of the Woman at the Well in John’s gospel, is at Whirlow from July 17th to August 4th.
Deep Talk is an invitation to a communal conversation about and engagement with our life journey.
Founding stories from scriptures and other sources are brought to life and then retold from different vantage points. It can give courage and freedom to participants, who re-imagine their own story in a safe group context.
Whirlow will host 3 Deep Talk events this year.
What - or who? - is God? An angry moral scorekeeper? A supernatural Santa for those who do what’s right? A fiction? An irrelevance?
Explore this and other fundamental questions at Whirlow Spirituality Centre’s summer book group, reading The Divine Dance,by Richard Rohr (with Mike Morrell).
The writers think about God in a different way that can cut through conflicting perspectives. They speak of the Divine as a community; as a dance.
Space to be before God; to relax, reflect and pray and so to renew your spiritual resources.
Discover the Myers Briggs Type Indicator on this introductory workshop led by trained practitioners Jacky Stride and Lynne Quinney.
Participants are invited to notice and explore their own natural way of ‘being’ in the world and consider how that might differ from - or be similar to - others’.
At these popular evenings, simple, sacred rounds and chants in four-part harmony are learned and sung.
This might be music that is joyful, glad, sad or peaceful, from a variety of sources.
Days of Retreat are specifically designed and facilitated to offer maximum quiet and solitude in the special setting of Whirlow Spirituality Centre.
They are facilitated by a recognised spiritual accompanier and restricted to 10 participants.
An opportunity for anyone to practise, share and explore silent prayer with this monthly group
Have you noticed that it can be easier to love our ‘neighbours’ than to love ourselves?
This mid-day workshop will focus on the importance of Self-Care for those of us involved in caring for and supporting others. Among other things, attendees will have chance to try some simple ‘body-mindfulness’ practices…
Hildegard: Nine Centuries a Prophetess
Hildegard of Bingen was a woman ahead of her time in countless ways and she continues to speak challenging truths into a 21st century context. She was one of four Extraordinary Women that featured in Whirlow’s Heritage Open Days programme in 2018 and will be the focus of this Quiet Day.
Esther’s story in the Old Testament is known for making no mention of God.
There’s a lot more to it than that! This evening event will explore this unusual, dramatic and engaging tale, which is granted little time by the lectionary.
A sunrise celebration for Easter, followed by breakfast.
Visit our arresting Lent exhibition - Temenos - between 11.30am and 1.30pm. Our third Holy Week Reflection will be at 7pm.
Visit the last day of our arresting Lent exhibition - Temenos. The fourth and final Holy Week Reflection will be at 7pm.
