Events

As part of our Power of Friendship festivals tour, Phil Knox and I will be speaking at this large conference in Cornwall.

As part of our Power of Friendship festivals tour, Phil Knox and I will be speaking at this large conference in Northern Ireland that draws several thousand people annually.

I'll be leading this combined retreat for church leaders across Devon at the beautiful Buckfast Abbey. We'll explore the power of friendship for church leaders and their congregations.

After keynoting this important conference for 300-400 educators in 2020, I'm thrilled to be inviting back again for 2024. We'll explore the reason's for society's current 'friendship recession', how great friendships form, and the distinctive power of friendship for educators and their students.

Drawing thousands of attendees in person and online, Spring Harvest is a premier festival for the UK. After our wonderful joint tour last year, Phil Knox and I will be back to speak at the Minehead event on the Power of Friendship. (Seminar time TBC.)

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.

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.)

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.

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

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.

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 […]

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 […]