Harnhill Centre Programme

The Harnhill Centre offers retreats for those seeking personal time and space, healing, personal prayer ministry, practical teaching or simply rest and refreshment.

We offer a range of residential retreats depending upon your spiritual needs, availability, and budget.  These include healing retreats – “Journeying into Wholeness” and Seeking Healing weekends, as well as Personal Retreats, Rest and Refreshment and Themed Retreats.  Set out below are brief details about the different kinds of retreat to help you make a decision about coming.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Journeying into Wholeness Healing Retreat £410

3 nights: Tuesday 4pm to Friday 2pm
Our Journeying into Wholeness retreat is aimed at those working through deeper issues, such as childhood trauma, emotional wounds, grief and loss.  Led by our ministry team, this retreat will provide you with a structured programme of teaching, individual prayer ministry, worship, and also time and space for reflection. The retreat has been prayerfully developed in order that we may support you as you seek the Lord for healing and restoration.

Each guest will have two prayer ministry appointments with two members of our prayer ministry team, offering you a confidential space to share, pray and discern together how God wants to minister to you. Please note, we are unable to offer spiritual accompaniment during this retreat.

Click the “Book Residential Retreat” button to begin your application to join us.

Seeking Healing Weekends £270

2 nights: Friday 10.30am – Sunday 2pm
This weekend retreat is aimed at those who are seeking healing and begins on a Friday morning with the Healing Service and finishes after lunch on Sunday.

We ask guests to arrive at 10.30am in time for refreshments before the service, which starts at 11am. There is an opportunity to receive prayer at the end of the service and guests will also receive one 90-minute prayer appointment during their stay. The weekend is shaped to enable guests to seek the Lord for their own particular healing needs and to receive support, prayer and encouragement.

Leaders’ Retreats £410

3 nights: Tuesday 4pm to Friday 2pm
Are you a leader of a ministry or church who gives out day by day, supporting, pastoring, praying with and teaching others?  We are delighted to be able to offer this retreat specifically for those currently in full-time Christian ministry as an opportunity to rest, connect with others and also receive God’s healing.

You will have an opportunity to receive two prayer ministry or two spiritual accompaniment appointments (please indicate preference at time of booking) during your stay as well as times of worship and reflection.

Bereavement Retreat £495

4 nights: Tuesday 3pm to Saturday 2pm
The Bereavement Journey’ course as a residential retreat, following The Bereavement Journey model  for those who have been bereaved and feel they may not have come to terms with their loss.  If you are interested in attending, please contact the Bookings Office to discuss the format of the course, your situation and need.  Further information about the course can be found at www.thebereavementjourney.org

Retiring Well Retreat

3 nights £410, 2 nights £295

The Retreat will begin with lunch in the Henly Room at 1pm.  *Guests are welcome to come to the Healing Service which starts at 11am.

Have you retired in the last year or are planning to do so in the next couple of years? Are you hoping for a fruitful, enjoyable and fulfilling retirement?  Retirement is a time of significant change with many issues to think though.

Topics will include exploring your calling in retirement, leaving work well, taking a gap, identity, supporting others & yourself, pacing life, more time at home for singles &  marrieds, moving home, developing your devotional life.  The retreat will include a mix of presentation, interactive exercises and opportunity for time alone to think, plan and pray.

Led Healing Retreat

We are delighted to offer this retreat, as part of Harnhill’s healing retreat programme.  Led by Reverend Kate Picot and Alison Goddard

‘Discovering my Identity as a Child of God’  £410

This retreat is offered with a combination of teaching sessions, space to reflect and short times of prayer ministry (there will not be individual prayer ministry appointments). The teaching will cover how we are made in the image of God and the areas of life (both past and present) that may detract from this. How we receive healing and freedom as we move
closer into God’s presence.

Personal Retreats £120 per night

This is a flexible self-led retreat: minimum stay of 2 nights with a possibility of staying 5 nights when available, from Tuesday to Sunday. Arrival after 4pm, finishing at 2pm on the day of your departure.

These retreats are aimed at those whose desire is to find sanctuary away from everyday life and would appreciate time and space in the presence of God, to be renewed and restored. Personal retreats offer flexibility depending on your needs, time and budget. They are suitable for those who wish to ‘do their own thing’, or for those who would like to receive healing prayer or spiritual accompaniment.
We are pleased to offer one prayer ministry appointment or one spiritual accompaniment appointment during your stay.

Please note these appointments are only available on Wednesdays and Thursdays. We are unable to offer appointments on any other days or during weekend retreats. Appointments need to be requested at time of booking.

Led Weekend Retreats

During these weekends there will be led reflections and opportunities for creativity, times of quiet and space – depending on the type of retreat. You are welcome to join us  residentially and we are also able to offer some limited spaces non-residentially (includes all meals except breakfast).

‘The Waiting Room’  – Led by Reverend Kate Picot: 

2 nights residential £295, non-residential £175 Friday to Sunday.

Times of waiting for something to happen in life can be deeply challenging, whether the season is a few weeks, months or maybe even years.  In our busy world, can ‘waiting’ ever be fruitful? During this led retreat, Reverend Kate Picot, will reflect on how waiting on God and waiting with God is fundamental to our spiritual life and growth.

‘Silent Retreat’

2 nights residential £295

A silent retreat allows time and space for personal reflection. This weekend is ideal for those who are familiar with silence and for those who would like to discover more. This silent retreat weekend will include the Summer Quiet Day, ‘Do you Love Me?’ Guests will move into silence after supper on Friday until Sunday lunch.

‘Using our Voices in Worship’ – a singing and music workshop

2 nights residential £345, non-residential £200 Friday to Sunday.

A time of refreshing and worship focusing on using our voices led by Fiona Taylor. The sessions will offer a variety of singing together to build confidence and community, as well as opportunities to go deeper into exploring personal creativity and expressions of worship through singing. We will explore some of the ways Christians have worshipped in the past, using the Psalms for co-creating our own worship songs. If you play a classical instrument (or used to!), feel free to bring it along as one session will explore ways for those instruments to support and enrich vocal worship.

This weekend is open to all, whether you sing in a choir or in the shower!

Creative Weekends

‘Be Still & Know: Encountering the Creator through Creative Expression Psalm 46:10

2 nights residential £295, non-residential £175

Come and join us for our Healing Service and lunch at the beginning of the weekend Led by Rebecca Davidson-Steel and Jenny Fry

Step away from the busyness of life and join us for a peaceful and inspiring Creative Weekend—an opportunity to pause, create, and reconnect with God through stillness and artistic expression.  Rooted in the invitation from Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God”, this weekend offers a gentle space to still your spirit, find rest in God’s presence, and explore creativity as a form of worship and reflection.

What to Expect:
• Time for personal and shared creative projects
• Guided reflections and scripture meditations
• A peaceful environment to experience God’s presence
• Encouragement, community, and spiritual refreshment

This weekend is for anyone longing to create from a place of stillness, to listen deeply, and to be renewed—spiritually and creatively. Come with an open heart, and leave refreshed, inspired, and reconnected.  Guests are encouraged to bring their own art materials or creative projects to work on throughout the weekend. However, a selection of art supplies will also be available for you to use if needed.

What is Prayer Ministry?

Prayer ministry is an opportunity to meet with two of our team to share the deeper issues of life, whether in the past or the present, which may be causing difficult emotions or ongoing challenges for you. Depending on the type of retreat you choose, you will be offered one or two appointments of up to 90 minutes in length.

The team’s role during this time is to listen to you and God and together discern how to pray into your situation. Our team are not there to advise or offer solutions but to be with you in the presence of God and allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you.

What is Spiritual Accompaniment?

Spiritual accompaniment is the opportunity to meet with one of the team for a 45 minute appointment. The focus of this time is to reflect on how God is at work in your life and to help you listen to the Lord during your stay at the Centre.

It is a time of sharing and reflecting and although may finish with a closing prayer, is not prayer ministry. If you are facing a challenging life issue or experiencing difficult emotions, we would encourage you to book a prayer ministry appointment.

More Questions?

If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to call 01285 850283