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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 · course fees from £150

Commitment35 days

We gatherSix Tuesdays

Time6:30pm UK

PlacesTen max

Course fee£150–£600

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 brings a friendly, quiet confidence. I feel like I'm learning that just by spending time with him and will carry it forward with me.”

JT · Product designer

“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

Course fee

One course. Four ways to pay.

Everyone receives the same course. Choose the price that best reflects your circumstances.

Reduced

£150

If paying the standard price would create financial strain or insecurity in your life, you are welcome to choose the reduced price.

Standard

£250

This is the price of the course. If the other options do not apply, this is the one for you.

Supporter

£350

If you have financial security and would like to pay it forward for someone who needs the reduced price, you are welcome to choose this option.

Benefactor

£600

If you have financial abundance and would like to support my work, you can do that here. I would be extremely grateful.

Begin with a £60 deposit. It reserves your place and is credited in full towards whichever price you choose.

Beyond Belief will go ahead once six of the ten places have been reserved by 12 September. Once confirmed, deposits are non-refundable and the remaining balance is due before the course begins. If the course does not go ahead, deposits will be refunded in full.

Thirty-five days. One practice.

Reserve one of ten places with a £60 deposit. The deposit is credited towards your course fee, and you choose the amount before the course begins.

Reserve your place · £60