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A Space to Be course · ten people maximum

Beyond Belief.

Thirty-five days of sitting, six Tuesday meetings, and a group of other people doing it with you. No experience needed, and nothing you have to believe.

The art of trusting yourself15 September – 20 October 2026 · online

Commitment35 days

We gatherSix Tuesdays

Time6:30pm UK

PlacesTen max

ExchangeFreely offered

What it is for

Make friends with experience.

Trusting yourself is not confidence that things will always go perfectly, and it is not certainty about who you are. It is closer to a friendship, with yourself and life.

Meditation, or sitting, is a way of turning towards our experience and befriending it. Over time, a sitting practice can shift the atmosphere of experience towards the qualities of friendship: gentleness, precision and humour.

Beyond Belief is a guided exploration into befriending your direct experience. You are invited to come along and see what you discover.

Why this long

Enough time for it to become yours.

Over thirty-five days there is time to grow in confidence with sitting and find your own ways of making the practice yours.

Ten people maximum. Small enough to go deep and get into what meditation really is.

Five lab partners. Someone new to meditate with and discuss the practice with each week.

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The shape of it

Five ways of approaching, in an order that matters.

These are not five topics. They are how a friendship gets built: one quality at a time, each week making the next one possible.

Curiosity

15 Sep

Opening toward what is actually here, and discovering it.

Care

22 Sep

Gentleness and warmth, turned toward yourself first, then outwards.

Responsibility

29 Sep

The ability to respond to what arises and meet need.

Play

6 Oct

Giving yourself the generosity of “no wrong way to do it”.

Rest

13 Oct

Pausing every striving, and recognising space uncontrived and open.

The closing

20 Oct

We look back over the thirty-five days together, and close.

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Yours from the first day

Four things to support your practice.

A written companion

A map for practice. Yours from day one.

The Practice Log

A simple record of showing up, shared with other people practising.

A different lab partner each week

Someone new to meet, practise with, and discuss your findings with each week.

A private line to John

Available through voice notes and text for the whole thirty-five days, for questions, doubts and guidance.

In their words

What it is like to learn with John.

“John has this rare capacity to make you feel at ease, accepted, and guided.”

Laura F · Writer and teacher

“John's words are clear, lucid, and deeply supportive.”

Manansh S · Founder

“John's spiritual friendship changed how I experience life itself.”

Sean P · Founder

Thirty-five days. One practice.

Hosted by John. Freely offered, online, from 15 September to 20 October. Write a note and begin with a conversation to see whether it feels right.

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