Realisation 2025

This year's Realisation Festival takes place at St Giles House, Dorset, from 26th-29th June 2025. Please visit our website realisationfestival.com for the latest information about tickets and speakers, or to get in touch with any questions.

Just back from @Realisation2024 which went particularly well this year. We even managed to sneak in a little chess on the side. The rooms and places all have names, and what was previously just an unassuming corner is now “The chess terrace.”

An Omniscient God Cannot Laugh. An article about the practice of #improvisation, and a chance to buy one of the last few tickets for @Realisation2024 later this month. Cc: @IAmPippaEvans @platospodcasts @ESOldfield @JAinscough85 @TheShowstoppers open.substack.com/pub/jonathanro…

Jonathan @JAinscough85 is joining us at the Realisation Festival in Dorset at the end of June. The other Realisation Players are @ChrisComposes @SueHarrison123 @IAmPippaEvans .

We're so looking forward to seeing @IAmPippaEvans at the Realisation Festival at the end of June.

On 27th June we are gathering at St Giles @stgileshouse in Dorset for the Realisation Festival. We can't wait to welcome our incredible speakers & musicians including Ayisha Siddiqa @Ayishas12, Rowan Williams @RowanWInfo & Bettany Hughes @bettanyhughes. realisationfestival.com/speakers/

Congratulations to @ESOldfield, her fantastic book Fully Alive is published today. We can't wait to welcome Elizabeth to the Realisation Festival again this year 27th-30th June @stgileshouse in Dorset. Only a few tickets remain, find out more: ealisationfestival.com

The Realisation Festival is 'God optional' and everyone is welcome, whatever your relationship is with that complex and (for some) loaded word.Find out more from programme coordinator Mark Vernon @platospodcasts: youtube.com/watch?v=D5_NRZ… Photo (c) Sophie Lindsay / Realisation

It's not too late to apply for a bursary to Realisation 2024 at St Giles House in Dorset (27th-30th June) @stgileshouse, thanks to the generosity of @Perspecteeva and our sponsors. We particularly welcome applications from people under 30. Find out more: realisationfestival.com/qas/

'What is different for you now?' Reflections in words, images, and sound, from some of the people at last year's Realisation Festival: perspecteeva.substack.com/p/what-is-diff… By @Perspecteeva and @bloomco_ Photo: Leigh Biddlecome, Realisation Festival 2022

We are delighted to welcome as keynote speakers: Ayisha Siddiqa @Ayishas12, human rights defender serving as Youth Climate Advisor to the UN Secretary General, and Rowan Williams @RowanWInfo, writer, poet and former Archbishop of Canterbury. See: realisationfestival.com/programme-2024/

Visit the Realisation Festival website realisationfestival.com/speakers/ to find out more about this year's inspirational line-up of speakers and musicians. A few tickets remain but every year we sell out so don't be disappointed!

The Realisation Festival takes place at St Giles House in Dorset from 27th-30th June. Find out more from the Realisation team @Jonathan_Rowson @IAmPippaEvans @platospodcasts @EdHaddon in this introduction 'What is the Realisation Festival?' realisationfestival.com/about/

We are delighted to announce that Ayisha Siddiqa @Ayishas12, Environmental & Human Rights Defender, Climate Advisor to the UN Secretary-General, is joining us at Realisation this year. 27th-30th June at St Giles House in Dorset. Find out more: realisationfestival.com

Fantastic to see our Programme Coordinator and Festival speaker Mark Vernon @platospodcasts on Sunday Morning Live today @bbcsml talking about anger & emotional intelligence. More on the programme he has curated for the Realisation Festival 2024 here: realisationfestival.com

Turn on BBC One now and you'll see our very own Mark Vernon @platospodcasts talking about anger and emotional intelligence.

My highlight of @Realisation2023 was interviewing @RoryStewartUK We talked about many things, including his discomfort in the ease of rhetorical performance and his love of silent retreats. Features 3 clips @RestIsPolitics including @KateRaworth c32:40 youtu.be/Zz1Ad2JO1Ns

"The most fundamental task is to help each other to reorient our life and work through a sensibility that is prefigurative of the better aspects of our emerging future." Some reflections on @Realisation2023 jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/a-festival-f…

Friday workshops are with Susan Harrison @SueHarrison123, @ESOldfield live recording @sacred_podcast, Ivo Mensch of @Perspecteeva, Richard Dunne @RichardDunneTHP, Mark Vernon @platospodcasts then, after tea, a deep dive with Iain McGilchrist @dr_mcgilchrist. We can't wait!

The Realisation Festival starts tomorrow and we are so looking forward to welcoming everyone to St Giles @stgileshouse in Dorset. On Friday morning Satish Kumar of @Resurgence_mag, Linda Woodhead @LindaWoodhead and Indra Adnan @indraadnan open up the discussion.