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Stepping into Freedom: A Special Evening with “The Way Out Is In”

Join us on April 5th at Conway Hall, London, for a special live recording of the Plum Village podcast “The Way Out Is In.” Experience a mindful journey into freedom with Zen monk Brother Phap Huu and leadership coach Jo Confino. The evening will feature an interactive Q&A session, deepening our collective understanding of mindfulness and inner peace.

For tickets and more information, please visit: https://wakeuplondon.org/thewayoutisin/

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Day of Mindfulness

Recognising the value of a strong community, the monastics are offering a day specifically for our sanghas (meditation groups) in London and beyond. We will meet in a beautiful church in Farringdon.

The event will include a cosy musical evening to relax, chat and hear performances by friends in our sangha.

For more information and to buy tickets, click: https://wakeuplondon.org/dom2024/

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Day for Changemakers

Amidst the challenges of our times, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and discouraged in the work we do. This day is specifically for people working on social, environmental and political causes, and anyone in pursuit of a better world.

We will hear from the Plum Village monastics and leading changemakers about how mindfulness and meditation can increase our energy and effectiveness for social transformation.

For more information and to buy tickets, click: https://wakeuplondon.org/changemakers/

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End of Year Be-In🎄

We would like to warmly invite you all to our end-of-year Be-In next Saturday, the 17th of December. The Be-In will begin at 6pm and will be held after our usual Wake up session. We will start with a mindful dinner (bring a small vegan dish to share). If you have a song, poem, reading or anything you’d like to share with the community this will be an opportunity for us to be together and enjoy the creativity that is present in our Sangha.

We welcome all London Sanghas to join us for this celebration! Our facilitators will take names at the start of our session for those who would like to share. We will try to give everyone an opportunity, but we would like to ask for your understanding that we may only have time for a limited amount of sharings/performances when we are with many.

We hope to see you all next weekend!

Date: Saturday, December 17th | 6PM – 9PM
Location: Meeting Room, The Quaker House

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Wake Up’s 12th Anniversary

Dear friends,

We are very happy to share with you that Wake Up London has turned 12 last month! To celebrate the beautiful community we have created, we will host a Be-In after our Saturday session on the 29th of October. We will come together with the Sangha and share a mindful dinner. If you would like you can share a song, poem or story with the group.

Please bring your favourite vegan dish to share! If you cannot make something you can bring something from the nearby shops. We hope to see you then!


Date: Saturday, September 29th | 6PM – 9PM
Location: Meeting Room, The Quaker House

A picture of our Wake Up pioneers over 10 years ago.

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Podcast Episode #7 – Beginnings

Welcome to Episode 7, Beginnings. This episode celebrates 12 years of Wake Up London; looking at the early days.

We have a long conversation with founder members Elina and Nick and short sharing with Katrina, Lucy, Ethan and Doran about their experiences of 12 years ago and seeing the community grow since then.

We have a community announcement about celebrating with us on Saturday night (29th October)

We also have a sharing from Kareem about spiritual friendship, monastics and Thich Nhat Hanh’s legacy and a reading from Lucy from one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books about Community

Music this episode comes from Little Earth (aka Elina Pen) and Joe Reilly.

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Podcast Episode #6 – Colours of Compassion

This new episode from the Wake Up London Podcast takes a journey with some voices from the BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Colour) Community in the UK Plum Village Sangha.

We have a long conversation with artist Melissa James talking about her life as a singer/songwriter and a singing facilitator with a passion for racial awareness and justice. We have a 3-way sharing between Anh, Renuka and Kareem about their experience of Colours of Compassion and also one from Rehena who also talks about founding Buddhist inter-traditional BIPOC centred space, Buddhists Across Traditions.

Music this episode comes from Melissa James and Ha Down who also brings us our reading this time on Thich Nhat’s Hanh’s mantras on love.

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