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.  

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.  

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 Cameron Nieboer from the Iona Community's Young Adults’ Group.

A week to encourage, energise and empower environmental, ecological and climate justice activists.

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.