Tyndale Community School Leaders’ Dinner

I look forward to speaking on the power of schools to make a tangible difference to their communities through intentional friendship formation in students, staff, board and parents at Tyndale Community School's Staff and Supporters' Dinner.

Stewardship Mental Health Drinks Reception

Held in the beautiful CCLA building with stunning views of London, this event will bring Friendship Lab, Sanctuary Mental Health and Renew Wellbeing together to discuss Christian responses to the mental health crisis. Tickets are FREE but seats are limited so get in quick. (It's already three-quarters full.)

CS Lewis Summer Institute

I am thrilled to be speaking at the prestigious CS Lewis Summer Institute in 2025, held in Belfast, Ireland. The theme will be Returning Home: C.S. Lewis, Roots, & Transformation. I'll give a keynote on Your Life as a Messy, Meaningful, Perilous Pilgrimage, and lead three intensive seminar sessions on friendship.

New Wine Festival

Phil Knox and I  bring our Power of Friendship seminar to New Wine 2025!

Awaken Conference

Lincolnshire Showground Till Bridge Lane,, Lincoln,, United Kingdom

Gathering thousands of people together from the Ground Level network of churches, I'm looking forward to presenting two in-depth 90-minute sessions on the power of friendship to transform our social, emotional and spiritual lives.

Make Your Friendships Flourish Retreat at Lee Abbey

Lee Abbey Devon Lynton, North Devon, United Kingdom

A fun, practical retreat on forming and deepening adult friendship The research is startling: having close friends reduces anxiety and depression, increases our health and happiness, and even extends our lifespans. And yet the number of people saying they have no close friends increases by the year. Overlooked in popular culture, pushed aside by work […]

TEDx St Albans

The Alban Arena Civic Centre, St Albans, United Kingdom

We need an urgent conversation on the 'friendship recession' and on 15 October 2025, I get to step on to the red dot to start one! The theme of the event is continuity and change, and I'll have just 12 minutes to unpack the reason for the crisis, the myths we believe that keep us […]