Courses at Chisholme

Chisholme is here to help you explore your questions about life, about meaning and existence.

All the courses are dedicated to exploring the essential unity of all existence, the true nature of the self, and how our understanding of this informs how we are in the world. The Chisholme estate offers a beautiful backdrop and context for this kind of enquiry.

Discovering Unity Weekends

Reconnect and realign: enquire into what unity means from and for your own self. These weekends offer study, group conversation, meditation and mindful work. Most months:

• May 19–21st
• June 30–July 2nd
• August 11–13th

Week-long courses

Ibn ‘Arabi Study Retreats
Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of world spirituality. His teachings are based on a harmonious vision of the unity of existence, in which all apparent differences are integrated without destroying their truths. His teachings are still relevant to people of every race and creed and are of great value in the world today.
In the spirit of active and intentional retreat, these study weeks aim to open a space for real knowledge to emerge through focused study, spiritual practice, meditation, work and private contemplation.

• July 8 – 15: Secrets of Voyaging with Michael Cohen and Janet Bowers
• August 5 – 12: Prostration and Praise: Servanthood as the ultimate affirmation of the Unity Being: a week’s course led by Avi Abadi
• August 26 – September 2: The 29 Pages and the chapter on Luqman from Ibn ‘Arabi’s Fusus al Hikam with Peter Coates
• September 4 – 10: Abraham and Isaac, chapters from a new translation of the Fusus, led by Jane Clark

Woodland Retreats: Foundations of Natural Intelligence
Seven days of self-discovery through guided retreat, living close to nature and free from phones, internet and electricity.

• August 12 – 19th
• August 19 – 26th

Volunteer Weeks
Experience the joy of living and working in a place dedicated to supporting your discovery of your own potential.
Most months – see Calendar for dates

Longer courses

Discovering Unity: 40 Day Intensive Retreat
Who are you really? How can you really know what it means to be human? This fully immersive forty-day retreat allows you the chance to uncover answers to the universal questions that existence poses. It will be an exploration of your self, of your very being, and of the nature of your relationships with others and the world.
Each day includes time for study, work, meditation and devotional practice.

Discovering Unity in Awareness: Homestudy course, with online support
Home-based learning over one year, including two residential retreats and on-line support, tutorials, one to one Skype interviews and much more...

Workshops in 2017

Greenwood chair making
Work with your hands and discover for yourself the joy of making something useful and beautiful.
May 1–5

Building Peace – how can we be useful?
Workshop with Scilla Elworthy
May 27–29

Intuitive Drawing
An invitation to draw from the heart, and an opportunity to learn to see and understand through images rather than through words.
July 1–8

Seminars

Poetics of Science
Through Itself; June 23–25

Poetics of Science
Global Human; September 15–17

The Future of Food and Farming - theory and practice
A one week intensive course with Colin Tudge, exploring Enlightened Agriculture and how it could help solve the problems we face in sustaining our planet and its population.
September 20–24