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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.
For creative people who just want to create, 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.
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.
This week is now also open for 3 night stays. Do you need to sharpen your vision of a world transformed? Are you longing to connect with others who care for Creation? Discover how you can act more justly for people and planet.
Join Kathy Galloway and the Camas team to explore what it means to ‘Come Back to Our Senses’ in relationship with our environment and our approach to the climate crisis.
Join us for a week of embodiment, creativity, nature connection and reflection. This week is dedicated to remembering the body as sacred, through relationship with the earth. Led by Camas Coordinator and Dance/Movement Therapist, Fiona McFarlane.
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.
Experience the magic of Camas through a week of quiet reflection and nature connection. Led by Iona Community leader Ruth Harvey and outdoor instructor, Nick Austin.
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.
Reinvigorate your creative practice through a mix of guided workshops and free solo creative time in the beautiful nature surrounding of the Camas bay.
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.
Join us at Camas for a week of nurturing our land, whilst nurturing yourself, with a week of simple community living and sharing common tasks together in our abundant organic garden and woodland. This week is available at a discounted rate.
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.
Come and help us restore Iona Abbey Centre at the end of the busy 2024 season. This week is offered at a discounted rate.
Join Quaker, and Iona Community Leader Ruth Harvey, for some days of gentle, stilling contemplative practices in the beauty of an Iona winter.
Join Quaker, and Iona Community Leader Ruth Harvey, for some days of gentle, stilling contemplative practices in the beauty of an Iona winter.
As Advent begins, join the Wild Goose Resource Group for an online session with Pádraig Ó Tuama where we will be looking at poems that function as prayers.
We explore the sacred art of waiting in community during Advent on Iona. Facilitated by the Iona Abbey Programme Team.
Forget the festive frenzy! Join Jo, Jane and Iain on a wild goose chase of alternative takes on Advent and Christmas.
Four sessions from Wednesdays, November 27, December 4th, 11th and 18th. Join us this Advent season to discover body-based practices that foster resilience and presence. Open to all bodies and minds. On Zoom and Youtube, with Sharon Edwards and Pauline Steenbergen.
Join Wild Goose Publications for a special Advent gathering as we celebrate the season of hope and anticipation. This festive evening will bring together beloved Wild Goose authors for a time of Advent reading.
Brian McLaren, author of Life Beyond Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart, joins Ruth Harvey, Leader of the Iona Community, in a conversation exploring the depth of wisdom, courage, and hope during Advent.
A gathering of comfort and solidarity from Iona Abbey. This gathering offers a space to acknowledge the grief that often accompanies us during this season.
Join us online for our Christmas watchnight service, led by staff from Iona Abbey and Ruth Harvey, leader of the Community.
Come and help us get Iona Abbey Centre ready for the 2025 season. This week is for energetic people who don’t mind getting their hands dirty. This week is available at a discounted rate.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona. Arrive on Saturday or Tuesday of this week for a 6 or 3 night stay. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
How do creative mindfulness activities help us to see the world differently? Iona artist, Mhairi Killin, and island mindfulness teacher, Kerstin Felleiter, will help us explore a Gaelic way of seeing and being in the world through the rich visual history of Iona, from the Book of Kells to the present day. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
Are you curious about how yoga intersects with Christian spirituality? Join Pauline Steenbergen, Steve Carter and Una Bentley, at the beginning of Lent, to explore the spiritual benefits of practicing yoga. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
An invitation to adults and children to experience 3 days without media, and to reap the benefits of shared pleasure in the moment and deep relaxation. Single room occupancy available at no extra cost from 15th March - 15th April 2025.
This Holy Week and Easter journey will use guided conversations and creative arts to explore new perspectives on Jesus' death and resurrection. Children and young people are very welcome and will be offered their own programme sessions. Led by Alison Adam, Lesley Orr and Cara Riley.
Explore the intimate relationship between the body and the brain. Learn why body-based spiritual practices work. Explore how different styles of meditation impact our well-being. Honour and care for our whole selves. Led by seasoned practitioners and instructors Rev. Christopher Rowe and Rev. Keller Hawkins.
How can we think positively about the future when so much news and conjecture is bleak? We will be considering whether a faith which should essentially be liberating can offer positive pathways to the future. Led by John Bell.
A week for gentle exploration, reflection, and inspiration about what it means to belong to a vibrant, global, hopeful community today. This week for Associate Members will be co-led by Ruth Harvey, Iona Community Leader, and Caitlin Wakefield, Membership Manager.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
Explore how singing together shapes faith, heals brokenness, transforms lives, and renews peace. For beginner and intermediate hymn/songwriters, singers, and enthusiasts. Led by The Hymn Society in the US and Canada.
Join us as we celebrate St Columba. We’ll follow in his footsteps on Iona, discovering how his remarkable story resonates within us. Led by Simon de Voil.
On Friday 13 June, Iona Community Regional Coordinators and Family Group Conveners meet to review our working practices.
The 2025 Iona Community Lecture will be given by theGKexperience. a youth work charity in Glasgow and the wider area. In this lecture, GK leaders and young people will delve into and share their long-term relational youth work approach.
The AGM, including feedback from the Governance and Leadership Review and other business, will be held on Saturday 14 June.
On Saturday 14 June at 4pm, we will gather to hallow new Members in a Hallowing Service.
Do you need some time and space in your life? Come to Iona Abbey. Share in life at the Abbey and enjoy the beauty of the Isle of Iona.
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