It’s going to be an interesting rest of the week.

I’m going to Nympsfield early in the morning to take part in leading some of the retreat for our senior directors and local staff. Nympsfield is a great place and the nuns are great at looking after us. If you are ever looking for a good quiet contemplative and catholic retreat centre then the Marist Nuns at Nympsfield come recommended.

We will be encouraging our workers to slow down and take a more contemplative and quiet approach to rediscover God in places. It’s going to be an interesting time and I’m particularly looking forward to facilitating a discussion around what we do when things go wrong. This will be interesting as its an area which few tend to want to talk about. I’ve also put together a prayer walk with stations, a kind of linear ‘walk out and back’ labyrinth for one afternoon and am interested to see how that will work.

I return on Friday but will immediately leave again after changing bags and join with SEITE colleagues at Aylesford which is run by Carmelite Friars. This is our sex and sexuality weekend – so again an interesting topic!

There will, as a result, be an enforced fast of blogging from now on!