The Realisation Festival
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The Realisation Festival is a gathering for the soul. It takes place in the stunning surroundings of St Giles House in Dorset.
The weekend is an opportunity to reckon with our times, as well as unlearn assumptions and reimagine responses.
The gathering uniquely brings together talks and workshops, music and other imaginative activities to broaden and explore the analysis and ideas. It is led by remarkable artists and improvisers, as well as world class speakers.
Individually and through engaging with others, realisation is fostered in three senses. How to get more real about the world in which we live? How to become more real in ourselves in our response to that world? How to make the insights and ideas that arise from the weekend real?
Alongside group conversations and small groups, the programme offers time to be enriched by workshops and other activities, as well as the parkland around St Giles House. The aim is to have space to confront difficulties and possibilities at the level of mind, body and spirit.
Talks and walks, music and food, contemplation and imagination come together to create room for intellectual, physical and spiritual nourishment, to support personal and social change, and nurture expansive understanding.
The festival is an annual event. Previous speakers have included Iain McGilchrist and Madeleine Bunting, Minna Salami and Rory Stewart. Please look here to browse the contributions from previous years.