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Live appearances & teaching programs
Below, you’ll find information on current live events, as well as online lectures & teaching programs.
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NOSTOS – a spiritual homecoming
A new online network & in-person events
Nostos is an old Greek word which indicates a homecoming – usually after a long journey. At the Nostos Institute, we wanderers are retracing our own steps, coming home to a beautiful old spiritual tradition steeped in myth, creativity and the imagination – and which has been a defining thread in the complex weave of our Western philosophical and religious lineage for more than two and a half millennia.
We’re gathering a community of the curious: learners and seekers who would like to integrate ancient Western wisdom traditions with tools and practices from contemporary depth psychology and related disciplines. Our aim is to trace a living, spiritual desire path that is rooted in both imaginal and embodied practice. It’s a path that responds to the challenges and opportunities of today’s world: a non-dogmatic, exploratory path that passes through and beyond personal transformation, opening into a dancing, animate cosmos saturated in the divine.
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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.
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
February 11 – September 9, 2026
A PSYCHE THE SIZE OF EARTH
23 – 28 February, 2026
During this residential retreat at Broughton Sanctuary in North Yorkshire, we’ll learn how to fully participate in what psychologist James Hillman called ‘a psyche the size of Earth’. We’ll listen to the land’s dreaming, and in the process, we’ll find ourselves getting dreamt. Through story, journeying, writing, map-making and land-based practices, we’ll explore the imaginal in the land, questing for the richly mythic and archetypal Otherworld our native traditions. The work we’ll do is rooted in mythology and archetypal psychology – but above all, it’s rooted in a deeply grounded participation in the land where our feet are planted. We’ll learn to re-enchant ourselves, to restore the more-than-human element in our sense of self, and to weave ourselves more deeply into the living stories of our places.
Forthcoming appearances & lectures
February 23 – 28. ‘A Psyche the Size of Earth’ women’s retreat at Broughton Sanctuary, North Yorkshire. Information and bookings here. SOLD OUT
May 12, evening. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Seed Talk, Cecil Sharp House, London. Details coming soon.
May 19, evening. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Topping, Bath. Details coming soon.
May 21, 2pm. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Event via Alternatives at Glastonbury Town Hall. Details coming soon.
May 22, evening. Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales now. Craftmongers, Ashburton. Details coming soon.
June 13 – 14. 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.
November 15 – 20. ‘Nostos’ retreat at Broughton Sanctuary, North Yorkshire. Details coming soon.
MORE 2026 DATES COMING SOON
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