Encounter Meditation An in-person evening retreat with music, art and silence. An invitation to take an hour out of the busyness of modern life. Facilitated by contemplative practitioners, Mary Flitcroft and Helen Stanton, sessions will start with a piece of live music or artwork followed by a time of reflection,...
Event Type: Day
A weekend led by Yvonne Bell, Mary Flitcroft and Helen Stanton. Arrivals from 4pm on Friday until 2pm on Sunday. Includes all meals, refreshments and accommodation Please note that Holland House does not provide a choice menu at meal times and it is therefore very important that you note any...
Event Type: Residential
Cradley Churchyard in Herefordshire contains a plain and unremarkable grave stone. The story behind it is anything but unremarkable. It is the memorial to a gifted and privileged young man, Henry Clarkson Maclean who lived in Cradley in the early 1890s. During the afternoon of August 6th 1895 Henry Maclean...
Event Type: Day
Jeremy Holmes has previously given talks on John Donne, Lord Byron and Shakespeare's Lost Women. In this talk he tells the tale of Ernest Shackleton. When Ernest Shackleton set off to cross the Antarctic for the first time in 1914 he was already a celebrated explorer, but his ship quickly...
Event Type: Day