A retreat is your chance to step aside from life for a while, to rest and just 'be' in a welcoming, peaceful place.
St Bede's Pastoral Centre
21 Blossom St, York YO24 1AQ, UK
Retreat Centre Description
A non-residential Pastoral Centre in York next door to the Bar Convent.
St Bede's is a charitable work of the Congregation of Jesus and offers a wide range of events, courses and retreats both in centre and online.
Honouring the uniqueness of each person and rooted in the Christian Wisdom and Ignatian traditions, we seek to meet all those we welcome wherever they are on their spiritual journey and to accompany and nuture them into greater wholeness and fulness of life.
The main Ignatian courses offered are a 2 year Personal and Spiritual Development Course, a 1 year Training in Spiritual Conversation Skills Course and a 2 year Training in Ignatian Spiritual Accompaniment Course.
We offer a varied programme of quiet days and workshops in centre and online. This year we focus on some contemporary wisdom figures.
CAPACITAR wellness training is also based here with a new course beginning in January 2025.
Room Hire
Please note that we also offer a variety of different sized rooms for hire with a discount available for small charities.
Contact
Full details of our Programme which runs from September to July can be found on our website www.stbedes.org.uk
For more information or to book please contact Fiona Hill, Centre Manager on 01904 464900 or email fiona@stbedes.org.uk
Accommodation on Offer
Non-residential Pastoral Centre
Chapel
Lending Library
Conference Room and Annexe (combined capacity 45)
Creative, Art & Wellbeing Space (Meeting Room capacity 25)
Counselling Rooms
2 other Meeting Rooms (capacities 10 and 20 people)
Annexe (informal Meeting Room capacity 7)
Coffee Lounge
Small Courtyard Garden
Retreat Centre Facilities
Please see website for retreat centre facilities
Types of Retreat Offered
Please see website for retreats offered
2024 Events
Personal and Spiritual Development Course (In Centre)
09/2023—07/2025 Ten Tues am & one Sat (10am-3.30pm) a term
10.00-12.15 £495 (£165 per term)
Training in Spiritual Conversation Skills (Online)
9 Tuesdays (03/10, 07/11, 05/12, 16/01, 06/02, 05/03, 16/04, 07/05, 04/06,); one Saturday (30/09) 19.00-21.15 & 10.00-13.00 (Sat) £270 (£90 per term)
Universal Christ (Online)
13/10, 10/11, 08/12, 12/01, 09/02, 08/03, 12/04, 10/05, 14/06
10.00-12.00 £120 or £40 per term
Retreats in Daily Life (Online or In Centre)
Once a week for 7 weeks Agree dates and times with accompanier
£95 total
Silent Individually Guided Retreats (Online)
4/6/8 days Any dates we can accommodate Agree dates adn times with accompanier £25 per day
Prayer Through Poetry Drop In (In Centre)
05/09, 03/10, 07/11, 05/12, 09/01, 06/02,05/03, 09/04, 07/05, 04/06, 02/07 10.00-12.00 £3 per session
Drop-in Taizé Prayer (In Centre)
13/09, 11/10, 08/11, 13/12, 10/01, 14/02, 13/03, 10/04, 08/05, 12/06, 10/07 12.00-13.00 Donation
Julian Mornings (In Centre)
27/09, 24/01, 15/05 10.00-12.00 Donation
Delight in All Creation (In Centre)
06/09 new date 01/11 10.00-15.30 £25
Guided Prayer (Online)
Autumn
25/09, 02/10, 09/10, 16/10, 23/10, half term, 06/11, 13/11, 20/11, 27/11, 04/12
Spring
08/01, 15/01, 22/01, 29/01, 05/02, 19/02, 26/02, 04/03, 11/03, 18/03
Summer
15/04, 22/04, 29/04, 13/05, 20/05. 03/06, 10/06, 17/06, 24/06, 01/07
17.00-17.30 £30 a term for all 10 sessions or £3 each
Guided Reflection Mornings (In Centre)
25/10, 07/02, 19/06
10.00-12.30 £10 each day
Two day Enneagram Workshop (In Centre)
15/11, 22/11
10.00-15.00 £50 for the two days
Ignatian Wisdom - Called into Freedom (In Centre)
18/11
10.00-15.00 £20
Living Word Advent - Samuel I and II (In Centre)
20/11, 27/11, 04/12, 11/12, 18/12
10.00-12.00 £20
Advent Workshop - A Way of Seeing (Online)
09/12
10.00-13.00 £15
Gate of the Year (Online)
13/01
10.00-15.30 £20
Living Word Lent - Deuteronomy (In Centre)
19/02, 26/02, 04/03, 11/03
10.00-12.00 £20 series
Lent Talks (Online)
20/02, 27/02, 12/03, 19/03
19.00-20.00 £5 each
Transformational Lent Workshop (In Centre)
21/02, 28/02, 06/03, 13/03, 20/03
10.00-12.00 £75 for series
Pentecost Reflection Morning (Online)
18/05
10.00-13.00 £15
Reflective Day—This Movie Changed Me (In Centre)
01/06
10.00-15.30
£20
Summer School (In Centre)
An Introduction to painting icons
17/07, 18/07, 19/07
10.00-16.30 £90 plus £25 for materials)
In Centre
Shared lunch (13.00-14.00) Community CInema (14.00-16.30)
13/09, 11/10, 08/11, 13/12, 10/01, 14/02, 13/03, 10/04, 08/05, 12/06, 10/07
Donations for cinema refreshments
Coffee Mornings and Strawberry Tea
13/12 (with Christmas Labyrinth) 10.00-12.00
22/05 (Feast of St Bede) 10.00-12.00
14/07 (Strawberry Tea) 14.00-16.00
No charge
FInding Life in An Era of Change (wellbeing)
15/09, 13/10, 03/11, 08/12, 01/12, 12/01, 09/02, 08/03,03/05, 07/06
10.00-12.00 £135 for series £45 term
This Movie Changed Me
19/09, 17/10, 14/11, 12/12, 23/01, 13/02, 23/04, 28/05, 25/06
19.00-21.20 Donations welcomed for refreshments
2025 Events
Online
All Year
Silent Individually Guided Retreats
January weekly
Guided Prayer
March
13, 20, 27, Lent Talks
April
03 Lent Talk
In Centre
All Year
Retreats in daily life
Praying through poetry
Together in meditation
Taizé prayer
Wellbeing sessions
Creative space
January
13 To bless the space between us
22 Etty, a very modern mystic
February
01 Tai Chi and meditation day
15 Belonging, remembering ourselves home
26 Lent workshop series
March
05, 12, 26, Lent workshop series
April
02 Lent workshop series
08 Spiritual audit for Lent
10, 17, 24, 31 Living Word: Lent
May
04 Tai Chi and meditation day
07 Mary Oliver
09-11 Whitby retreat - In harmony with creation
17 Return from exile
June
27-29 Whitby retreat - Rewilding the heart
July
Summer School Icon painting - dates to be confirmed
Retreat Centre Location
21 Blossom St, York YO24 1AQ, UK