what’s on
Live appearances & teaching programs
Below, you’ll find information on current live events, as well as online lectures & teaching programs.
Please visit the self-study page for on-demand courses and workshop recordings.
NOSTOS – a spiritual homecoming
A new online network & in-person events
The Nostos Institute was founded to raise awareness of the oldest spiritual traditions of the West – beautiful ideas and practices steeped in philosophy, myth, creativity and the embodied imagination – which have been a defining thread in the complex weave of our Western lineage for more than two and a half millennia. We’re lifting these traditions out of the academic and theoretical spheres in which they’ve largely been confined, and combining them with cutting-edge ideas and practices from contemporary (primarily Jungian and post-Jungian) depth psychology and related mythopoetic disciplines. Our aim is twofold: first, to offer a groundbreaking curriculum for cultivating the mythic imagination; and second, to trace a living, spiritual desire path that responds to the challenges and opportunities of today’s world: an exploratory path that passes through and beyond personal transformation, opening into a dancing, animate cosmos saturated in the divine.
We’re gathering a community of the curious: learners and seekers who would like to explore these ideas with us – and who’d like to help us develop them. At a time when many feel spiritually unanchored, the Nostos Institute provides something rare: a rooted, intellectually rigorous and deeply imaginative path to personal and collective re-enchantment.
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Wisdom comes from curiosity, from embracing creativity, from an understanding of myth, dreams and the rich symbolic languages that saturate our surroundings and reveal the world of meaning that always seems to lie just out of reach. It also arises from a perception of the world as alive and just as full of soul as we are. Wisdom centres the imagination, above all. And so our unique curriculum offers up a practical wisdom to live by: a mythopoetic, contemplative, mystical wisdom, rooted in nature and the wild beauty of the sacred cosmos.
THE NOSTOS RETREAT
15 – 20 November, 2026
Our first annual Nostos retreat will take place at Broughton Sanctuary in North Yorkshire from November 15 – 20 2026. I’ll be joined by Mark Vernon, Tom Bree and Vanessa Chamberlin for five transformative days in which we’ll gather together a community of the curious: learners and seekers who’d like to integrate ancient Western philosophical and wisdom traditions with insights, tools and practices from contemporary depth psychology. It’s an adventure in the mythic imagination, as we dream into being a living tradition that responds to the challenges and opportunities of today’s world, moving through and beyond personal transformation to centre us in a dancing, animate cosmos saturated in the divine.
Forthcoming appearances & lectures
April 27, 5pm UK time, online via Zoom. Author spotlight, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales Now. Register for free here.
May 12, 7pm. An Evening of Fairy Tales and Folklore with Dr Sharon Blackie. Seed Talk, Cecil Sharp House, London. Tickets here.
May 19, 6.30pm. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Topping, Bath. Tickets here.
May 21, 1–4pm. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Event via Alternatives at Glastonbury Town Hall. Tickets here.
May 22, 6.30pm. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Ashburton Arts Centre, via Craftmongers. Tickets here.
June 13 – 14, 11.30am. Keynote at the Spiritual Ecology Festival 2026, St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London.
Information and tickets here.
June 25 – 28. Talk at The Realisation Festival, St Giles House, Dorset. Information and bookings here.
September 28, 7pm. Topping & Co, Edinburgh – details coming soon.
September 29, Topping & Co, St Andrews – details coming soon.
October 10, 1.15pm. Ilkley Book Festival. Details coming soon.
November 15 – 20. ‘Nostos’ retreat at Broughton Sanctuary, North Yorkshire. Information and bookings here.
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