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Private Stays, Retreats, Study Breaks

in Salisbury’s Cathedral Close

Home Learning Private Stays, Retreats, Study Breaks

Personalised visits

You can visit Sarum for a self directed break, or plan a more structured programme to include retreat, study, spiritual direction, supervision, mentoring, or a combination of elements.

Enjoy use of the library and its reading rooms, an en-suite bedroom and lovely food. You can choose to participate in the community life of a thriving college as much or as little as you wish.

You may wish to include one or more additional elements, depending on the purpose of your visit

One of our team will discuss your visit and help you to include the resources you are looking for. You may be able to plan your visit to include an event already scheduled in our programme.

Sarum College is set in the glorious Salisbury Cathedral Close, just steps away from the medieval cathedral with the tallest spire in England.

Our residential packages include use of the many facilities in our heritage buildings where people have been reflecting and studying theology since the first students arrived in 1861.

 

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What do you need?

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Retreats

You can arrange a private retreat, to include Cathedral services, or prayers at one of the many places of worship in Salisbury. There are many local  walks, and access to the library in College. If you would like spiritual direction or accompaniment, this can be arranged to suit you.

We usually run themed individually guided retreats during advent and in the summer.

View our course calendar to check dates

Find out why Salisbury is called the City in the Countryside

Pastoral supervision

Pastoral supervision is available to support ordained and lay ministers in a wide variety of contexts. Individual or group supervision is available for those engaged in spiritual direction. Supervision is also available for those engaged in pastoral ministries of accompaniment or care.

Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Direction can be booked as part of your stay. This might be one or more conversations depending on the length and focus of your time here.

Mentoring

‘Mentoring is a social relationship one person shares with others so they flourish with well-being and success.’

– Walter Brueggemann

Mentoring is available to support you during times of challenge in your ministry and/or discernment for work role changes.

We offer consultation with an experienced mentor who will help you reflect about your ministry and vocation. The mentor may also suggest readings to help define the structure and purpose of your stay.

Guided study leave and sabbaticals

You may wish to visit Sarum before or during your sabbatical or study leave. We offer mentoring at any stage to support your planning, progress and review.

We can help you develop a focused area of study including tutorials with one of our academic staff who will guide your study and reading.

You can explore whether you want this to lead to credit-rated postgraduate study or to enrolment on one of our master’s degree programmes. Sarum College has experienced tutors in the fields of spiritual direction, spirituality, liturgy, ministry, leadership, doctrine and the Bible.

How to arrange a personalised visit

If you have a particular date in mind, you can check availability online or contact a member of hospitality to enquire. Alternatively, if you are in the early stages of planning, contact us to explore the options for accommodation and accompaniment. View the facilities on our hospitality website

If you would like accompaniment, mention this and your email will be passed to the team. We will then contact you to coordinate your visit and suggest an accompanier. You can then discuss your visit directly and make arrangements for meeting times.

 

Cost

To keep the options as flexible as possible, costs are variable and can always be adjusted to meet your needs.

The basic structure is:

£137 for a 24-hour visit including lunch, supper, bed and breakfast in a single en-suite room with one hour of accompaniment or mentoring;

£147 for a 24 hour visit as above but with an additional lunch;

£215 for a 48-hour visit with two lunches, two suppers, two nights bed and breakfast in a single en-suite room and two one-hour accompaniment or mentoring sessions.

You may wish to additional nights, meals and accompaniment sessions. Spiritual direction, supervision and mentoring conversations at a rate of £60 per hour can be taken in one-hour or 30-minute sessions to suit you.

The Team

We are a diverse community and those able to offer accompaniment include James Woodward, Julia Mourant, Jayme Reaves and Keith Elford.

We are also able to draw on the skills and experience of our wider network of visiting scholars and associate tutors. We will put you in touch with the most appropriate person so that you can discuss your hopes directly.

The Revd Canon Professor James Woodward

Principal, Sarum College

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julia-mourant

The Revd Julia Mourant

Programme Leader for the Sarum Course in Spiritual Direction and Tutor in Spiritual Formation and Biblical Studies

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keith-elford

Keith Elford

Programme Leader for Leadership Learning

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Jayme-Reaves

Dr Jayme Reaves

Director of Academic Development

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Clergy Study Breaks

The opportunity for clergy to get away occasionally from their own context, to have an overnight stay in the beautiful setting of Sarum College and all that the Salisbury Cathedral Close offers is hugely valuable. All the clergy I have suggested who have spent 24hrs at Sarum College have benefit greatly from the experienced mentoring where they can talk, reflect, think, plan and pray.

The support and encouragement they receive is excellent and has a positive on their on going ministry. This is something the Diocese of Rochester encourages and supports financially in preparation for their clergy preparing for Extended Ministerial Development Leave (Sabbatical).

— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

Retreats and Private Stays

When I arrived, exhausted and sensitive, I was grateful not to be asked by Reception were I came from, whether I had had a good journey etc. That was the kind of hospitality I needed: a non-intrusive welcome that was found in ancient cultures and still survives in some societies today, where the host asks questions about a stranger and his journey only when the visitor has rested and been given food and drink.

— guest on a private stay

Biblical Study Breaks

I just found it very refreshing – as a leader of a church I don’t get as many opportunities to step out and do courses (my fault, not the church!) and so I loved it. I think it was run really well online – which is a difficult medium to work with.

Pádraig Ó Tuama (pictured) was outstanding in his balance of getting us to engage and sharing his learning. Also the quick availability of resources provided by Sarum College Librarian Jayne Downey was excellent.

— course participant, Story Theology: Narrative Approaches to Scripture

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