What's On

March - What's On

Earthcare and Climate Justice Special Interest Meetings
in the lead up to Yearly Meeting 2026


Saturday 21 March at 7.30 pm - Earthcare Spirituality (QCCIR)

Tuesday 24 March at 4 pm - Love on a Burning Planet : Doing Climate Justice Together

Wednesday 25 March at 4 pm - Protecting and Reclaiming our Right to Protest

Thursday, 26 March at 7.30 pm - Future Directions in Quaker Earthcare (Living Witness)

Sign up at Quakers in Britain - Yearly Meeting 2026 webpage

April - What's On

Monday 13 April : 7-8.30 pm (UK time)

Intersectional : Learning from the Quaker Earthcare Gathering

Tutors: Ailish Carroll-Brentnall and Sarah Shaw

The session will focus on the question: What practical steps make attending residential events possible for Friends who are short on time, money and emotional or physical energy?

For full details https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/learning-from-the-quaker-earthcare-gathering-intersectional/

 

May - What's On

 

People Need People: Radical Communing - Woodbrooke Course
Monday 11 May - Monday 15 June 2026

The live Zoom sessions are at 18:00-20:00 (UK time) every Monday apart from 25 May.

Facilitators: Shweta Sanjeev, Lottie Child, Lisa Sattell, Emily Stewart

In a world that appears increasingly fragmented, how can we meet each other in our wholeness, listening beyond judgements? What does it mean to commune in these changing times? Drawing on Nora Bateson’s practice of Warm Data, we will explore these and other questions together through a series of curious and open conversations.

The Poetry of Eden - Woodbrooke Course
Monday 18 May 2026
19:00-21:00 (UK time}
Facilitator: James Priestman 

This session explores the diverse ways the Garden of Eden has been imagined, narrated and celebrated across Jewish and Christian traditions. Friends will be invited to consider some striking poetic images as a means of deepening their appreciation of Eden’s decidedly ecological message.

For full details on these courses please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab

 

June/July - What's On

Jewish Earth Wisdom - Woodbrooke Course
Monday 1 June - Monday 6 July 2026

The live Zoom sessions are at 19:00-20:30 (UK time) every Monday.

Facilitator: Yael Roberts

In an age of climate crisis, how can Jewish stories of water, plants, fire, earth and animals draw us into more respectful relationships with the more-than human world? Drawing on the Torah, Talmud, and traditions of devotional storytelling, this course introduces Friends to the ecological dimensions of Jewish life.

 

Rewilding Quakerism, Rewilding Ourselves - Woodbrooke Course
Tuesday 9 June - Tuesday 14 July 2026

The live Zoom sessions are at 19:00-21:00 (UK time) every Tuesday apart from 7 July.

Facilitators: Max Hope, Ella Asheri 

Quakerism began with divine inspiration, through a vision that came to George Fox as he walked up Pendle Hill in Lancashire in 1652. Why do so many visions or other moments of inspiration seem to occur in wild places? What can we learn, if we are able to tune in, from the natural world?

 

For full details on these courses please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab

August/September - What's On

What does the Earth want? 

Charney Manor Friday 14th August-Sunday 16th August

Led by Paul Hodgkin, and Alex Wildwood

What does it mean to move from answering that of god in every one, to answering that of god in every thing? We will explore how we might be led to live in these times of incipient collapse, how our Quakerism may be changing, and what a spirituality that is fully embodied in the Earth might look like in both witness and worship.

This course is based on  some of the issues discussed at the Quaker Earthcare Gathering in October 2025 but is open to everyone regardless of whether they attended the Gathering.   

Further information available on the website Charney Manor Events Programme 2026

Book using the Charney Manor Booking Form 

 

Hope as a Practice - Woodbrooke Course
Tuesday 1 September - Tuesday 22 September 2026

The live Zoom sessions are at 18:30-20:30 (UK time) every Tuesday with a follow up session on Tuesday 24 November.

Facilitators: Ella Asheri, Simonne Wood

Do you feel despair or numbness at the state of the world? Join us to develop a deliberate practice of ‘active hope’, that helps overcome feelings of helplessness in these turbulent times.

For full details on this course, please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab