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Holland House is a well established Christian retreat house open to people of all faiths and none.
Set on the banks of the river Avon in the pretty village of Cropthorne, Holland House is a 17th Century black and white timbered building with a partly thatched roof and four acres of gardens.
Home-cooked food from the best of Worcestershire produce, local beers, fruit juices and honey from our own bee hives make Holland House an ideal venue to meet and be creative.
Anniversary Appeal
If you would like to support our Anniversary Appeal you can make a donation via our website or send a cheque payable to ‘Holland House’ to Holland House, Main Street, Cropthorne, Pershore WR10 3NB Enneagram Retreat with Simon Parke
Arrivals from 4pm on Monday 18th March, concluding after breakfast on Friday 22nd March
No matter where you are on the Enneagram journey, whether a beginner or some way down the path, here is safe, insightful space for exploration of this deep, disturbing and liberating teaching.
In a contemplative spirit, including both community and si- lence, we will sit with the truths that arise for us along the way and see where they lead; you need bring only an open spirit.
There will also be the chance to meet with Si- mon one-to-one if you wish.
Limited spaces are available on this retreat, so you are advised to book early if you can.
£390 per person Inclusive of all meals and accomodation
Friendly Lunches Arrive from 12noon to enjoy a drink from the bar, a 2 course set lunch will be served at 1pm followed by the talk
History of Bellringing talk by Tim Keyes in association with Evesham Festival of Words £16 Friday 18th January 2019
Francis Brett Young – Worcestershire Poet and Novelist talk by Michael Hall in association with Evesham Festival of Words £16 Friday 15th March 2019
Booking essential on-line via our website
Quiet Garden Days Run by the Friends of Holland House
Thursday 18th April Friday 24th May Wednesday 19th June Thursday 11th July Thursday 15th August Thursday 12th September
£12 per person for the day, 10am—4pm Additional £12 for two course lunch, booked on-line in advance Bishop Robert Paterson , Chair of the Friends of Holland House in conversation with ……….
Join us for a hot supper at 6.30pm which will be followed by a conversation with general insight into the faith, life and ministry of the visiting Bishop.
Wednesday 6th February with Graham Usher, Bishop of Dudley
Monday 11th March with Richard Frith, Bishop of Hereford
Monday 1st April with Alistair Magowan, Bishop of Ludlow
Monday 29th May with John Inge, Bishop of Worcester
Thursday 13th June with Robert Springett, Bishop of Tewkesbury
Monday 9th September with John Stroyan, Bishop of Warwick
Monday 21st October with David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham
Monday 25th November with Archbishop Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
£25 per person Book in advance on line
4pm Monday 18th until 2pm 22nd February Poetry with Romola Parish & Clive Harper £395 per person
12 noon Monday 15th until 2pmThursday 18th April Painting with Acrylics and Oils with Liz Millward & Roger Clifton £325 per person
Friday 12th July, 10am—4pm Colours of God with Christine Dodd £35 per person
4pm Monday 2nd until 2pm Friday 6th September Calligraphy with Sunita Auger & Judy Dinnen £395 per person
All include meals, refreshments and accommodation where appropriate
Yoga for Christians in Lent
Tuesday 12th March, 10am until Wednesday 13th March 4pm
Whether you're a Christian who already goes to a yoga class, have an interest in how yoga can support your faith, or would simply like to experience yoga within a Christian framework, this short Lent retreat is for you. Revd Ian Spencer will introduce Yoga as a practice Christians can use to deeply connect with faith, working with body practice, breath, and meditation to explore the Lenten season. Biblical scripture, chanting and times of silence and stillness are combined to create two days of a very special Lenten practice.
Cost £165 includes accommodation and meals Yoga for Christians
10am—4pm
Thursday 31st January Thursday May 23rd Thursday 25th July Thursday 24th September Thursday 19th November
Led by Revd Ian Spencer, Ian is an Anglican Priest and member of Christians Practicing Yoga. He received his Yoga training through the Sadhana Mala Teacher Training School, affiliated to the Association for Yoga Studies (AYS).
£38 per session includes refreshments and vegetarian lunch
Please book on-line in advance
Join us for Afternoon Tea
£12 per person (£15 per person from May2019)
Including homemade plain and fruit scones served with Holland House raspberry preserve and clotted cream, cakes of the day, selection of finger sandwiches and a pot of tea or coffee
Pre-booking is essential
We are able to cater for gluten free and vegan diets with sufficient notice
JOHN BELL RETREAT
4pm Friday 18th October until 4pm Sunday 20th October 2019
£270 per person includes accommodation and meals A FRIENDS WEEKEND at HOLLAND HOUSE
Beginning at 3.30pm on Friday 3rd May with tea and cake and ending with praise and prayer, followed by coffee and biscuits at 11am on Sunday 5th May
£150 per person for the full residential weekend
£60 per person for day participants on Saturday, to include dinner (9.30am—9pm)
£40 per person for day participants on Saturday (9.30am—5.30pm)
Led by Coventry Cathedral ‘Reconciliation Ministry’
Residential guests are also wel- come to stay for dinner, b&b on Sunday in return for help at the ‘Cropthorne Walkabout’ Praying Differently
Prayer is at the heart of all spiritual journeying, yet for many of us it seems difficult and unsatisfying. Often this is because we've never progressed our prayer-practice, that is, we've never learned about the very many other ways we might pray.
The Christian tradition has a very rich heritage of prayer practice, and these one-day retreats are designed to introduce prayer practices that con- nect directly with body/heart/mind - a transform- ative experience.
Places are limited to four people to enable one-to-one discussion / teaching.
Prayer practices include; Prayer rope, rosary, icons, lectio divina, meditation, breath work, body work, nature, chanting, devotional. During the morning the participant will have time to find a practice that feels in harmony with them, and in the afternoon Revd Ian Spencer will be available to talk on a one-to-one basis to help establish the new practice with each person.
2018 - October 24th, December 4th 2019 - February 20th, April 10th, June 13th, October 22nd
£40 includes lunch, refreshments and prayer resource pack
'Lunch is better when we eat together'
Did you know that we are open for lunch every Sunday?
A two course set lunch is £15 per person, £6 for under 12's
pre-booking essential, please telephone 01386 860330 to check availability.
Richard Rohr Meditations: One Day Retreat’s
A series of day retreat's are on offer throughout 2018, working with the teach- ings of Fr Richard Rohr, Franciscan Friar, au- thor and leader of the Centre for Action and Contemplation.
Taken from "A Spring Within Us" Medita- tions by Richard Rohr the themes will be:
Thursday 24th January—’Yes and ……’
Thursday 6th March—’Dualistic thinking’
Thursday 9th May—’The true self’
Thursday 18th July—’Discharging your loyal soldier’
Wednesday 11th September—’Going down is going up—the path of descent’
Thursday 7th November—’Image of God—let God be who God is’
Each day will be led by Revd Ian Spencer and carry on from the very popular 2017 series of Practice Experience Prayer days (PEP): one day retreats on the history and practice of Christian contemplative prayer.
Each day will include a short act of worship, teaching, discussion and free time to practice/consider what we have learned.
Starting with morning coffee at 10am the day will conclude at 4.00pm with afternoon tea.
£38 to include lunch and refreshments
Quiet Days with Marianne Rankin
Wednesday 27th March What we can learn from Mystical and Near- Death Experiences
Friday 6th September Many Religions or None? The teachings of Bede Griffiths and Jiddu Krishnamurti
£38 to include lunch and refreshments
THE VIEW FROM THE HILL
Need to step back for a while and take a view as to what's happened in your life, your faith, your health or work? If there's one certainty in life, it's that things change - including long-held beliefs, aspirations or desires.
The View from the Hill is for anyone who needs to step back from their life-situation and have some time to take stock and perhaps deepen their experience of the presence of the divine in their life. It's an individually guided retreat (IGR) that lasts for three days during which time we sit together on our (metaphorical) hilltop.
Day one involves asking “why have I come to this place?” and re- membering the journey. Day two is about laying the past and future down, and learning to become very aware of the present moment, and what the im- plications are for our lives when we do that. Day three involves preparing to leave the hill, returning to the life-situation from whence we came, but perhaps better pre- pared for encountering it afresh.
I meet with the participant twice each day, once in the morning, once in the afternoon – to listen and to be a companion “on the hill”. Dates for the retreat by appointment Cost: £270 fully inclusive
Do get in touch if you'd like to find out more, just email me at this ad- dress [email protected]
“For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills” Deuteronomy 8:7 FINDING YOUR GOD is a residential, 2 day retreat offering an opportunity to explore what God, the Divine, the Absolute, means to you. Even people of longstanding faith can feel they’ve never really encountered God, traditional images sometimes being unhelpful. This retreat is for any- one who wants to widen or deepen their explora- tion of the Divine, to move from other peoples ide- as of God, to discovering God for ourselves. These are one-to-one retreats so enquiries are sim- ilar to those from The View From the Hill retreat, i.e. email Revd Ian Spencer [email protected]
Ian will send an overview of the itinerary which in- cludes four sessions of one-to-one time over the two days (at the beginning and end of each day). The price is £165 fully inclusive, dates to be agreed by mutual arrangement but will always be during Tuesday to Friday. Neil Douglas-Klotz
Breathing Life of All: Chant, Movement and Contemplative Prayer with the Aramaic Jesus
From 5pm Friday1st until 2pm Sunday 3rd November
Since the publication of Neil Douglas- Klotz’s Prayers of the Cosmos in 1990, which Dr. Matthew Fox called the “seeds of a revolution,” chanting and meditating with the words of Jesus in his native Aramaic language has become one of the leading methods of next-generation, commu- nity-based ritual. Using Aramaic (either aloud or silently) offers one a direct connection through vibration, sound and breath to the spirituality of person who used the words, as well as to the in- digenous Christianity of the Middle East, which predates the Western creeds and original sin- based theology. In the same way that Eastern mantra can, it bypasses the overly-busy, concep- tual mind and allows one to enter deeply into feeling and body.
Similar to the use of “cantering prayer” and “contemplative prayer,” over the past thirty years ministers, therapists, spiritual directors and lay- people around the world have shared Aramaic body prayer in informal, inter-spiritual gatherings as well as congregations of various denominations. This meditative art combines simple, mantra-like chanting, similar to the songs of the Taize commu- nity, along with contemplative, body-based awareness, either sitting in silence or with gentle circle dance movement. It can also be used as a type of spiritual therapy process, when various sayings are combined in particular ways.
This retreat will offer an experience with its origi- nator, who will also offer suggestions for starting and leading one’s own group.
“Ripe and blessed are those who realize that breath, and its connection to Holy Breath, is all they have. To them belongs the reign of Unity.” – First Beatitude in Matthew, translated from the Aramaic.
Cost: £265 per person includes all meals and accommodation
Diary Dates
2019
January: Friday 18th Friendly Lunch Thursday 24th Richard Rohr Meditation Tuesday 31st Yoga for Christians
February: Wednesday 6th In conversation with …. Monday 18th—22nd CARM: Poetry Wednesday 20th Praying Differently
March: Thursday 6th Richard Rohr Meditation Monday 11th In conversation with …. Tuesday 12th—Wednesday 13th Yoga for Christians in Lent Friday 15th Friendly Lunch Monday 18th-Friday 22nd Enneagram with Simon Parke
April: Monday 1st In conversation with …. Wednesday 10th Praying Differently Monday 15th-Thursday 18th CARM: Painting Thursday 18th Quiet Garden
May: Thursday 9th Richard Rohr Meditation Thursday 23rd Yoga for Christians Thursday 30th Quiet Garden
June: Thursday 13th Praying Differently Thursday 13th In conversation with …. Wednesday 19th Quiet Garden
July: Thursday 4th In conversation with …. Thursday 11th Quiet Garden Friday 12th CARM: Colours of God Thursday 18th Richard Rohr Meditation Thursday 25th Yoga for Christians
August: Thursday 15th Quiet Garden
September: Monday 2nd—Friday 6th CARM: Calligraphy Wednesday 11th Richard Rohr Meditation Thursday 12th Quiet Garden Tuesday 24th Yoga for Christians
October: Friday 18th—Sunday 20th John Bell Monday 21st In conversation with …. Tuesday 22nd Praying Differently
November: Friday 1st—Sunday 3rd Neil Douglas Klotz Thursday 7th Richard Rohr Meditation Tuesday 19th Yoga for Christians Monday 25th In conversation with ….
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27 Bedrooms
19 Singles
7 Twin
1 Twin accessible room
Drawing Room
Library
Conference Room
Chapel
Individual Prayer Room
Study
Holland House in Harmony with Creation
Book on line at www.hollandhouse.org All prices subject to change E&OE Holland House, Main Street, Cropthorne, Pershore WR10 3NB
Telephone 01386 860330 www.hollandhouse.org