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Holland House is a well established Christian Retreat House open to people of all faiths

and none.

Set on the banks of the river Avon in the pretty village of Cropthorne, Holland House is a 17th Century black and white timbered building with a partly thatched roof and four acres of gardens.

Home-cooked food from the best of Worcestershire produce, local beers, fruit juices and honey from our own bee hives make Holland House an ideal venue to meet and be creative.

Anniversary Appeal

If you would like to support our Anniversary Appeal you can make

a donation via our website or send a cheque payable to ‘Holland

House’ to Holland House, Main Street,

Cropthorne, Pershore WR10 3NB

Festive Afternoon Tea

Monday 2nd, 9th & 16th December

Tea will be served between

12 noon and 4pm

£14 per person Pre-booking essential

Advent Quiet Day

With Bishop Michael Hooper

Thursday 12th December

10am—4pm £30 per person to include lunch and refreshments

Friendly Lunch

Booking essential on-line via our website or by telephone,

full payment required at the time of booking Arrive from 12.30pm, lunch will be served at 1pm

Christmas lunch with Carols—£20

Wednesday 11th December Tuesday 17th December

In connection with Evesham Festival of Words

Monday 13th January 2020—£18 The Chaplains and the Birmingham Civic Gospel

with Andrew Reekes

Monday 2nd March 2020—£18 Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells and Will Harvey: poets and

musicians, and how the Gloucestershire landscape and World War One, influenced their lives and creativity

With Tony Conder

Bishop Robert Paterson Chair of the Friends of Holland House

in conversation with ……….

Join us for a hot supper at 6.30pm which will be followed by a

conversation with general insight into the faith, life and ministry of the visiting Bishop.

Monday 21st October with David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham

Monday 25th November with Archbishop Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

£25 per person Book in advance on line

In Conversations with ….. will be returning in 2020 Dates to be announced soon

Yoga for Christians

10am—4pm

Tuesday 19th November Tuesday 21st January Thursday 19th March

Tuesday 7th May Tuesday 20th August

Thursday 17th September Thursday 19th November

Led by Revd Ian Spencer, Ian is an Anglican Priest and member of Christians Practicing Yoga. He received his Yoga training through the Sadhana Mala Teacher Training School, affiliated to the Association for Yoga Studies (AYS). The day includes asana (postures), some theory & discussion, chanting and a contemplative Holy Communion service to which all are welcome. Refreshments and vegetarian lunch also included. Postures are suitable for beginners.

£40 per session includes refreshments and vegetarian lunch

Please book on-line in advance

Quiet Garden Days Run by the Friends of Holland House

Dates for 2020

Thursday 16th April Thursday 21st May

Thursday 18th June Thursday 16th July

Thursday 20th August Thursday 17th September

Join us for Afternoon Tea

£14 per person

Including homemade plain and fruit scones served with Holland House raspberry preserve and

clotted cream, cakes of the day, selection of finger sandwiches and a pot of tea or coffee

Pre-booking is essential

We are able to cater for gluten free and vegan

diets with sufficient notice

Look out for the offer on the Worcestershire Foodie Card

Pop-up Days

We are introducing pop-up events, including personal

quiet days, yoga & mindfulness and afternoon teas.

These will be advertised on our

website and social media and will be at a reduced rate.

Pop-up’s can only be booked on-line

via our website www.hollandhouse.org/shop

www.facebook.com/hollandhousecropthorne

www.instagram.com/hollandhousecropthorne www.twitter.com/hollandHretreat

Yoga for Christians in Lent

Wednesday 26th February, midday until

Friday 28th February after lunch

Whether you're a Christian who already goes to a yoga class, have an

interest in how yoga can support your faith, or would simply like to

experience yoga within a Christian framework, this short Lent retreat

is for you. Revd Ian Spencer will introduce Yoga as a practice

Christians can use to deeply connect with faith, working with body

practice, breath, and meditation to explore the Lenten season. Biblical

scripture, chanting and times of silence and stillness are combined to

create two days of a very special Lenten practice.

Cost 195 includes accommodation, meals and refreshements

The 2019 Richard Rohr Retreat ‘The Universal Christ’

Beginning on Friday December 6th at 12 noon and ending with lunch on Monday December 9th

It’s with great excitement that Holland House brings you this very special retreat based on Richard Rohr’s most recent work – “The Universal Christ”.

Excitement because this retreat is being run in collaboration with Rohr’s Retreat Centre – The Centre for Action and Contem-plation in the U.S.A. Holland House has been offered some ex-clusive video and other resource by the CAC to help make this retreat a fabulous experience, and they’re aware and supportive of this particular event – the only one of its kind in the UK this year.

The retreat will focus on Fr Richards latest (and some say great-est) of his works, which looks deeply into what we mean and understand by the “Christ” .

“The union of matter and spirit, of human and divine, is re-vealed in the cosmos as Christ and in human history as Jesus. Richard Rohr’s long-awaited book paints a portrait of God’s infi-nite love, offering a healing vision of wholeness at the heart of

the universe” – which is what we’ll be exploring together.

The retreat will be run by Revd Ian Spencer – Warden of Holland House, Mr Urs Mattmann, and Mrs Dorothy Littlewood (Alumni of the CAC Living School).

Price £295 fully inclusive of all meals and accommodation

Bede Griffiths Retreat Friday 30th October until

Sunday 1st November 2020

Contemplating Holy Week Palm Sunday until Maundy

Thursday 2020

Richard Rohr Retreat Friday 27th until Monday 30th

November 2020

Contemplating Christmas 2020 Friday 18th until Sunday 20th

December

Praying Differently

Prayer is at the heart of all spiritual journeying, yet for many of us it seems difficult and unsatisfying. Often this is because we've never progressed our prayer-practice, that is, we've never learned about the very many other ways we might pray. The Christian tradition has a very rich heritage of prayer practice, and these one-day retreats are designed to introduce prayer practices that connect directly with body/heart/mind - a trans-formative experience.

Places are limited to four people to enable

one-to-one discussion / teaching. Prayer practices include; Prayer rope, rosary, icons, lectio divina, meditation, breath work, Centring Prayer, Christian mantra, devotional. During the morning the participant will have time to find a practice that feels in harmony with them, and in the afternoon Revd Ian Spencer will be available to talk on a one-to-one basis to help establish the new practice with each person.

Tuesday October 22nd Wednesday 29th January

Tuesday 10th March Tuesday 21st May

Thursday 13th August Wednesday 21st October Thursday 10th December

£40 includes lunch, refreshments

and prayer resource pack

Neil Douglas-Klotz

Treasures of the Hidden Gospel

From 5pm Friday1st until 2pm Sunday 3rd November Following on from the hugely successful retreat in September 2018, Holland House has been able to secure Neil Douglas-Klotz for another very special weekend. In Neil’s words the weekend involves “Heartsong, Silence and Movement, with the Aramaic words of Jesus”. Neil continues — “The Aramaic words of Jesus provide a direct pathway to his experience of contemplative prayer, healing and the sacred. During this workshop we will learn and chant together selected short phrases from his Prayer, the Beatitudes, and other sayings in the Gospels. We will then use them in contemplative prayer and silence as well as experience simple body prayers in the form of Dances of Universal Peace, linked to his Middle Eastern way of experiencing Alaha — Sacred Unity — as a force that moves through every aspect of our everyday lives”.

Early booking recommended

Cost: £265 per person

includes all meals and

accommodation

Richard Rohr Meditations: One Day

Retreat’s A series of day retreat's are on offer throughout 2019, working with the teachings of Fr Richard Rohr, Franciscan Friar, author and leader of the Centre for Action and Contemplation. Taken from "A Spring Within Us" Med-itations by Richard Rohr the themes will be:

Thursday 7th November—’Image of God—let God be who God is’

2020 Dates:

Thursday 20th February Thursday 5th March Thursday 16th April

Wednesday 10th June Thursday 6th August

Thursday 15th October Each day will be led by Revd Ian Spencer and will include teach-ing, discussion, quiet time for personal reflection and finishing with a Contemplative Communion service to which all are invited. Starting with morning coffee at 09.30am the day will conclude at 4.00pm with afternoon tea.

£40 to include lunch and refreshments

'Lunch is better when we eat

together'

Did you know that we are open for lunch every Sunday, subject to availability?

A two course set lunch is £15 per person, £6 for under 12's

pre-booking essential, please telephone 01386 860330

to book.

FINDING YOUR GOD is a one-to-one residential, 2 day retreat offering an opportunity to explore what God, the Divine, the Absolute, means to you.

Even people of longstanding faith can feel they’ve never really encountered God, traditional images sometimes being unhelpful. This retreat is for any-one who wants to widen or deepen their explora-tion of the Divine, moving from other peoples ideas of God, to discovering God deeply for ourselves.

These are one-to-one retreats so enquiries are sim-ilar to those from The View From the Hill retreat, i.e. email Revd Ian Spencer ian.spencer@hollandhouse.org

Ian will send an overview of the itinerary which in-cludes four sessions of one-to-one time during the two days.

The price is £170 fully inclusive, dates to be agreed by mutual arrangement but will always be during Tuesday to Friday.

THE VIEW FROM THE HILL

Need to step back for a while and take a view as to what's happened in your life, your faith, your health or work? If there's one certainty in life, it's that things change - including long-held beliefs, aspirations or desires.

The View from the Hill is for anyone who needs to step back from their life-situation and have some time to take stock and perhaps deepen their experience of the presence of the divine in their life. It's an individually guided retreat (IGR) that lasts for three days during which time we sit together on our (metaphorical) hilltop.

Day one involves asking “why have I come to this place?” and re-membering the journey.

Day two is about laying the past and future down, and learning to become very aware of the present moment, and what the im-

plications are for our lives when we do that. Day three involves preparing to leave the hill, returning to the life-situation from whence we came, but perhaps better pre-pared for encountering it afresh. I meet with the participant twice each day, once in the morning, once in the afternoon – to listen and to be a companion “on the hill”.

Dates for the retreat by appointment Cost: £285 fully inclusive

Do get in touch if you'd like to find out more, just email me at this ad-dress ian.spencer@hollandhouse.org

“For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs

gushing out into the valleys and hills” Deuteronomy 8:7

Contemplating Holy Week

Beginning at 4pm on Palm Sunday, 5th April, and concluding with lunch on Maundy

Thursday, 9th April.

The retreat will be led by Bishop Michael Hooper and Revd Ian Spencer, Warden

£360 per person

Inclusive of all meals and accommodation

Lent Quiet Day With Bishop Michael Hooper

Monday 24th February £30 per person

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All quiet days and retreats are available to book on-line

Diary Dates 2019

October: Friday 18th—Sunday 20th John Bell Monday 21st In conversation with …. Tuesday 22nd Praying Differently November: Friday 1st—Sunday 3rd Neil Douglas Klotz Thursday 7th Richard Rohr Meditation Tuesday 19th Yoga for Christians Monday 25th In conversation with …. December: Friday 6th—Monday 9th Richard Rohr Retreat Wednesday 11th Friendly lunch Thursday 12th Quiet Day Tuesday 17th Friends lunch

2020 January: Monday 13th Friendly Lunch Tuesday 21st Yoga for Christians Wednesday 29th Praying Differently February: Thursday 20th Richard Rohr Meditation Monday 24th Quiet Day Wednesday 26th-Friday 28th Yoga in Lent March: Monday 2nd Friendly Lunch March 5th Richard Rohr Meditation Tuesday 10th Praying Differently Thursday 19th Yoga for Christians

27 Bedrooms

19 Singles

7 Twin

1 Twin accessible room

Drawing Room

Library

Conference Room

Chapel

Individual Prayer Room

Study

Holland House

in Harmony with

Creation

Book on line at www.hollandhouse.org

All prices subject to change E&OE

Holland House, Main Street, Cropthorne, Pershore WR10 3NB

Telephone 01386 860330 www.hollandhouse.org

Holland House CIO Registered Charity 1179244