Retreats

Allow God's gift of creativity and play to bring you closer to Him.

A silent retreat offering one to one support from an experienced guide.

Enjoy a week working in Launde Abbey's spectacular gardens and experience our hospitality and dining.

Contemplate the world through God's lens, combining contemplative photography with Ignatian spiritual practices to find new ways to see the world around us.

This creative journaling retreat is for beginners as well as those with some experience. The emphasis will be on allowing the power of God’s gift of creativity and play to draw us closer to Himself, rather than on a polished end product, although that may well happen in the course of the retreat too!

This semi-silent retreat is for those who have never been on retreat before, or certainly not on a silent retreat. There will be guidance on how to use the time; periods on your own and with the other retreatants and the opportunity to share your experience with others if you wish to do so.

Enjoy a week working in Launde Abbey's spectacular gardens and experience our hospitality and dining.

In this retreat, we explore how embracing dying within our living, we can experience more greatly joy and salvation now

Discover what the anonymous medieval author of The Cloud of Unknowing can teach us about our own contemplative practices

Please note this retreat is now fully booked. Advent, the gift of renewal, gives us chance to cry out to God: "Here I am. is it you, my Lord?" In […]

Ian Adams will open up ways to prepare ourselves for the possibilities of the Advent season, looking for the light within ourselves, in the world around us, and in the coming of the Christ-child.

A chance to stop for a couple of days before the rush, and be sharpened by the stillness and the scriptures and experience again the wonder of the truth they contain – God is with us - giving time to notice.

A two day course equipping participants with the tools and strategies to learn and grow through conflict.

Join us on this online retreat with Launde's Deputy Warden, Chris Webb, as we spend time with some of history's great artists and their works, reflecting with them on the story of Jesus and its impact on our world and our lives.

This retreat offers a time to ponder God’s love for us and for others and how we respond to that love. As we do this, there will be an opportunity to create a piece of sewing/patchwork/embroidery which reflects this.