The Iona Community warmly invites you to stay in Iona Abbey as our guest. Join us – for a short break or a week-long programme – in community life and in the work and worship that frames our day .
In our programmes, guests engage in conversation and action focused on justice and peace, embedded in the concerns of the Iona Community. We explore faith, take part in creative activities, and discover community over meals.
True to its beginnings and the rebuilding of life in community, time staying at Iona Abbey includes time spent sharing in the practical tasks of communal living, including helping with cooking, cleaning and hosting. There is time and space to relax outdoors, explore the beautiful island with its white sandy beaches and inspiring wildlife, or simply to be quiet in the peace of the church.
Have a look through our Programme below. Click on each of the headings or images to read more about each week, and read through our essential booking information before making a booking.
Come for some Time and Space to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay.
Led by Iocal artist, Mhairi Killin, this week will include illustrated talks, mindful observation, conversation time to create. All are welcome, regardless of artistic skill experience, just bring an active imagination.
A gathering to deepen faith, encourage action in love & solidarity with Creation, face truth, and build spiritual resilience. Facilitated by Rev. David Coleman, Chaplain of Eco-Congregation Scotland, and others.
Has science or cynicism put an end to thinking about miracles of which the gospels record thirty one? Come and unbox the miracles with John Bell at Iona Abbey in 2024. Note this week is also running from 21st - 27th September.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
Bones & Groans: exploring worship beyond words and into the imagination, through body, sound and visual artistry.
Led by Jo Love of the Wild Goose Resource Group, with Carol Marples (Soul Marks Trust) and Jane Bentley (ArtBeatMusic).
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
The call to live into the 'hereness'. Join us to explore how we might become more faithful stewards of and with our lives in response to the ecological crisis. Facilitated by Dr. Mark S. Burrows & Rev. Ute Molitor.
Join us as we celebrate Saint Columba and delve deeper into how his remarkable story resonates in 2024. A week of expansive discussion, creative writing, poetry and music.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
The Gaelic concept of dùthchas entails an understanding of land, community, culture, belonging to place, and land-based learning. Together we will consider the spiritual foundations for such understanding, and how this may shape our everyday practice. Dùthchas programme facilitators: Profs Mairéad Nic Craith and Ullrich (Ulli) Kockel.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
A week for creative people and people who just want to create to live in community, develop skills and forge new connections. Bring your inspiration, your dreams, ideas, work in progress, or just a willingness to collaborate, experiment and learn through play.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
Come for some Time and Space to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay.
Explore congregational songs from around the world, including how they can enrich our worship and help us meaningfully connect with God, each other, and the world around us.
YouthFest is a great space to form friendships with young people from across the world on this stunning, rugged island with its breath-taking scenery. Bring your youth group!
Open to all, a week to investigate a different perspective on women’s spirituality, finding inspiration from some of the women in the Bible, and how their stories speak to us today. Facilitated by Evie Nieboer from the Iona Community's Young Adults’ Group.
Do you need recharged in your climate action? This will be an inspirational week, facilitated by Melanie Nazareth and Val King. Come and be re-energised!
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
A week of creative activities, peaceful spaces and workshop/sharing times to enable LGBTQ+ people and those in sympathy to find space for both rest and resistance in a time of change and division. Facilitated by Alex and Jo Clare-Young.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
A week to celebrate co-operation and deepen friendship and understanding between faiths with a focus on caring for and listening to creation. Facilitated by Interfaith Scotland and a climate activist, in partnership with the Iona Community.
Has science or cynicism put an end to thinking about miracles of which the gospels record thirty one? Come and unbox the miracles with John Bell at Iona Abbey in 2024.
Creative writing and art workshops, storytelling, breadmaking, a ceilidh – and more. A week to celebrate creativity and spiritual enquiry. Readings by Wild Goose authors and space to write and share your own poems and prayers.
Exploring our lives as pilgrimage, deepening our resources to face climate change with Alastair McIntosh, author of Parables of Northern Seed, Soil and Soul, Hell and High Water, Poacher’s Pilgrimage and more.
This week will allow you to experience life in community at Iona Abbey. This includes participating in regular worship, sharing in meals and joining in community tasks that contribute to our shared life.
A time for Associate Members to gather on the land and in the space that has inspired a movement that offers belonging and challenges us to align God's longing for a world of justice and peace.
Curious about contemplation? Experienced in the practice? We invite you to join us for this special week of contemplation in community with experienced facilitator, Stephen Wright.
Come and help us restore Iona Abbey Centre at the end of the busy 2024 season. This week is offered at a discounted rate.
No programme sessions, but sharing community meals, work, and worship. Not a completely silent week, but a time for stillness and reflection.
No programme sessions, but sharing community meals, work, and worship. Not a completely silent week, but a time for stillness and reflection.
No programme sessions, but sharing community meals, work, and worship. Not a completely silent week, but a time for stillness and reflection.
We explore the sacred art of waiting in community during Advent on Iona. Facilitated by the Iona Abbey Programme Team.
