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/
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
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
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
Celebrating Times and Seasons As Quakers - Woodbrooke Course
Monday 21 September 2026 - Monday 21 June 2027
19:00-21:00 (UK time) on
Mondays 21 September, 14 December, 15 March 2027 and 21 June 2027
Facilitator: Gill Sewell
An opportunity to explore a variety of seasonal themed practices and to discern what might be useful in our own spiritual journey across the year, whether that’s a refreshed version of our established practice or something new and ‘shiny’. Let’s celebrate together!
For full details on this course, please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab
Resilient Spiritual Practices for a Time of Climate Crisis - Woodbrooke Course
Monday 5 October - Monday 9 November 2026
The live Zoom sessions are at 19:00-21:00 (UK time) every Monday.
Facilitator: Stephen Lingwood
How can you be sustained in a deeper way as you face the state of the world? How can spiritual practice nourish a more rooted approach to justice-making? This course will be a journey exploring resilience, spirituality, and activism.
For full details on this course, please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab