Events
stay up to date with our upcoming events!
Wednesday 30 April
Free! Online Course Taster Sessions
An opportunity to see what our courses are all about, hear students and tutors speak, and ask questions!
Saturday 29 March 2025
Annual Economics Lecture 2025
Many things that get broken can be repaired. What glue do we need to repair broken trust, broken homes and communities, broken relationships between nations, a broken relationship with nature?
Richard Glover will deliver the 2025 Annual Economics Lecture, Making Good, which draws on examples to illustrate moral and practical economic relationships that provide such a glue.
Wed 15 Jan, 26 Feb, 02 April
Wisdom Works: 3 free presentations on Stoic Mindfulness
A free series describing simple principles and practices to meet the demands of modern life. Conducted by William Wray, founder of Wisdom Works and Stoic Philosophy as a Way of Life, with the aid of those who have applied these principles in their own lives.
Waterperry, 02-04 May 2025
Enjoying Wisdom in Practice Retreat
The theme of the weekend is the practise of quietening the mind to consciously enjoy life more fully.
Open to all students, from those studying Philosophy 1 onwards!
Nanpantan Hall, 06-10 Sept 2025
Aspects of Light open retreat
All are welcome to enjoy this retreat, in which we will practice living together reducing the concerns and demands of the egoic self, by being fully present, and using mindfulness practices.
There will be music, yoga, creative activities, meditation, and plenty of time and space just to be still and relish this most glorious of natural environments.
2024/25
Waterperry Retreat Programme
This programme is designed for those who are attending a retreat with the School for the first time, as well as those who have enjoyed these events before. A packed programme of subjects, running from October 2024 to June 2025.
This Sacred Land
This Sacred Land is an imaginative, multiyear initiative by the School of Philosophy and Economic Science and its branches across Great Britain.
Free sessions
Philosophy Café
Every Friday during term-time. Register to take part.