13 November 2025
What's On at St Bede's
2025 to 2026 Programme
We offer a wide range of courses and retreats – available in centre at St Bede’s or online – designed to support greater wholeness and fullness of life.
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Themed Talks, Workshops & Reflection Days
- A Hidden Wholeness: Thomas Merton & the Discovery of the True Self (In Centre)
- Art of Spiritual Writing (In Centre)
- Becoming (In Centre)
- Come Forth: The Raising of Lazarus and its Meaning Today (In Centre)
- Gate of the Year (Online)
- Learning from Our Foremothers: A Spotlight on Bible Women (In Centre)
- Lent Talks (Online)
- Out of the Box (In Centre)
- Mary Ward: A Woman of Hope (In Centre)
- Sand Play and Prayer (In Centre)
- She Who Is (In Centre)
- St Francis & St Clare: Their Importance for Today (In Centre)
- The Magi in Art and Legend (In Centre)
- To Bless the Space Between Us: On John O'Donohue (In Centre)
- Unpacking the Lord's Prayer (In Centre)
- Wondering Our Way into the Future (In Centre)
- Unfolding Scripture (In Centre)
Short Courses & Series
- Christian Classics (In Centre)
- Creative Workshops (In Centre)
- Enneagram (In Centre)
- Living Word Autumn Series Advent 2025: A Look at the Wisdom Books (In Centre)
- Living Word Spring Series Lent 2026: After the Exile (In Centre)
- The Great Search - John Philip Newell (Online)
- The Wisdom Years Summer School with Margaret Silf (In Centre)
Guided Retreat Space
- One-to-One Spiritual Accompaniment (In Person & Online)
- Retreats in Daily Life (In Centre & Online)
- Silent Individually Guided Retreats (Online)
- June 2026 Whitby Residential Retreat on the theme of Sea, Creation, Ecology & Prayer
- July 2026 Whitby Residential Retreat on the theme of Rewilding the Heart
About our events
Our online workshops, series, courses and retreats will be delivered using Zoom. We are happy to offer some help and guidance to anyone interested in signing up for our online content – so don’t be put off! We suggest an offering for each event, course and retreat but do not wish anyone to feel excluded because of cost – please do enquire and we will seek to offer some support.
Most of our events can be booked online. Use the links below to view details and book each event. Our calendar lists all forthcoming events. Please also review our Refund Policy.
If you have mobility issues and are booking an event which will take place in-centre at St Bede’s please ring 01904 464900 and talk to a member of staff before booking. We have an accessible access route into the building and our kitchen, coffee lounge, chapel and toilets (including an accessible toilet) are on the ground floor but our basement and second floors are not accessible and although we have a chairlift to the first floor the lift is in two sections and some mobility is required. We also restrict the number of people with mobility issues using the first floor at any one time as we need to be sure that we can evacuate the building promptly if the fire alarm sounds.
International attendees
For those wishing to join our online courses and days from countries other than the UK – all times given are UK times and the UK operates either on Greenwich Meantime (GMT) or British Summer Time (BST). Please note that when BST starts at 01:00 GMT clocks go forward one hour and when BST ends clocks go back one hour to GMT.
- In 2025 British Summer Time begins on Sunday 30 March and ends on Sunday 26 October
- In 2026 British Summer Time begins on Sunday 29 March and ends on Sunday 25 October