Peace Be With You
'Seek peace and pursue it' – Psalm 34:14
Join us for a weekend on the Welsh coast to deepen our capacity to be peacemakers, together.
3rd–5th July 2026
Y Doc, Llanelli, South Wales
The Invitation
After his resurrection, Jesus walked right into the room where his fearful disciples hid behind locked doors. His first words were: ‘Peace be with you’.
This peace Christ offered his disciples – and still offers us today – is not simply the absence of violence. In Scripture, it is expressed as shalom: wholeness, right relationship, mutual flourishing.
“Our world is not short of conflict, but it is desperately short of people who know how to respond well to this conflict, with honesty and with courage.”
Our world needs reconcilers, peacemakers, people who understand and embody the shalom Jesus offers. This Retreat calls us to imagine what could change if we took seriously our collective Christian vocation as peacemakers in a world that seems to be splintering at the seams.
Over the weekend we'll explore what peacemaking looks like, for ourselves personally, in our relationships, and in how we engage the wider world. We'll examine our instinct to oversimplify, to take sides, to settle for a cessation of conflict rather than a rebuilding of relationship. We'll build a moral imagination capable of holding complexity, and we'll ground it in Scripture and in community. Framing our learning and reflection around the work of John Paul Lederach, we will each end the weekend with an individual ‘Peace Plan’, a practical set of next steps in our pursuit of peace and our practice of reconciliation.
If you find yourself exhausted by the state of the world, uncertain how to act, and wondering what peace can mean in these times — this Retreat is for you.
Come with your questions, your weariness, and your hope. There is space here for all of it.
Practical Info
When & where
Dates
Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th July 2026
Arrival
Friday from 5pm
Departure
Sunday from 1:30pm
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Getting there
🚗 If you are driving, the venue is easily navigable using the full address: Y Doc, North Dock, Llanelli, SA15 2LF
🚂 If you are coming by train, the closest station is Llanelli. The venue is a 17 min walk or a 4 min drive from the station. There will be lifts arranged to & from the station for attendees arriving between 17:00 and 18:00 on the Friday, and departing between 13:00 and 14:00 on the Sunday.
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Venue
Y Doc, South Wales
Our Wales venue is a 5 minute walk from the gorgeous South Wales Coastal path and the beach. Simple but comfortable, and steeped in a history of prayer, it’s an ideal place to retreat from everyday life.
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Accommodation
All accommodation is on-site at the venue and rooms are dormitories with bunk beds. You will be sharing your room with other attendees, allocated on the basis of biological sex. If you have concerns or requests regarding accommodation please contact our team by emailing network@justloveuk.com.
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Accessibility
We regret that the venue is only partially wheelchair accessible. There is step-free accommodation on site, and all communal spaces are step-free. However, the bathroom facilities are unfortunately not wheelchair-friendly. If you have any other accessibility requirements please get in touch with the team to discuss your requirements.
You will have had the opportunity to express any accessibility or dietary requirements on your ticket form. However if you have forgotten something or a new requirement has arisen, please do contact our team. We’d love to do our best to support you.
Tickets
We offer a three-tier pricing structure so you can give what reflects your means. All tickets include accommodation, all meals and the full programme.
If cost remains a barrier, please get in touch - we want this retreat to be as accessible as possible.
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£55
Discount
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£75
Standard
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£100
Generosity
The shape of the weekend
Programme
We will have an introductory and concluding session all together as a group. All other sessions are offered in parallel breakout slots, so you are free to choose what to attend and design your own programme. Alongside the programme there is ample opportunity for beach time, dock swimming, chill time, evening worship and plenty of organised fun!
This programme is in process and subject to change. Some sessions and speakers are still being confirmed. We will share a full updated programme with attendees via Swapcard in the weeks running up to the Retreat.
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Time
From 5:00pm - Arrivals
6:30pm -Dinner
7:30pm Session 1 — Framing our Pursuit of Peace with the Just Love Network Team
9:00pm
Optional extended worship
Hot choc & chill, beach walk or games
10:00pm - Taize with Lakshmi Piette
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7:30am - Optional morning run/ walk on the beach
8:30am - Breakfast
9:30–10:30am - Session 2 — The Theological Roots of Violence & Conflict with Clark Buys
10:30am - Coffee break
11:00am–12:30pm - Session 3 — A Biblical Vision of Peace with Clark Buys
12:30pm - Lunch
2:00–3:30pm - multiple options
Session 4 — 12 Habits of a Reconciler with Lakshmi Piette-Walker
Breakout TBC with Jacqui Cho
Optional beach walk/ sea swim/ free time/ games
3:30pm - Coffee break
4:00–5:30pm - multiple options
Session 5 — Creative Consultation: What does peace mean to you? with Rhosanna Rigden
Christian Biblical Reasoning: Exploring Peace Through Scripture with Lakshmi Piette-Walker
Optional beach walk/ sea swim/ free time/ games
7:00pm -Dinner
8:00pm -Worship & Prayer for the World or optional beach walk/ free time/ games
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7:30am - Optional morning run/ walk
8:30am -Breakfast
9:30–10:30am -Session 6 — Dwelling Places: An Introduction to Intentional Christian Communities with Lakshmi Piette-Walker
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Pursuing a Career in Peace & Reconciliation with Jacqui Cho
11:00am–12:00pm - Final Session — Your Peace Plan with the Just Love Network Team
12:00pm - Lunch, then departures
Sessions
You'll be able to choose between parallel workshop sessions throughout the weekend. Here are those confirmed so far.
Note: Further sessions and speakers to be confirmed.
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12 Habits of a Reconciler
Based on decades of experience observing reconciling leadership in situations of conflict, the Rose Castle Foundation’s 12 Habits of a Reconciler allow you to examine and strengthen your heart for reconciliation, and build resilience as a leader in the midst of change, chaos and conflict. This session will introduce the 12 Habits and facilitate an interactive group reflection on our individual gifts and growing edges as peacemakers.
Speaker: Lakshmi Piette Walker
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Christian Biblical Reasoning: Exploring Peace Through Scripture
Christian Biblical Reasoning is an ecumenical approach to scripture that honours both personal engagement and the diversity of perspectives in the room. Together we will explore a psalm, an Old Testament and a New Testament passage, all centered around the theme of peace.
Speaker: Lakshmi Piette Walker
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Dwelling Places: An Introduction to Intentional Christian Communities
This session will introduce us to what it means to live in Intentional Christian Community, and to explore the diversity of intentional Christian communities in the UK. This will be an interactive space to explore what might draw us to this way of life, drawing on Lakshmi’s book Dwelling Places:
Speaker: Lakshmi Piette Walker
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Naming the roots of conflict and violence
This session will help us pause and look beneath the surface of conflict, injustice and violence. Drawing on Tearfund's theological framework of broken relationships and broken systems, we will reflect prayerfully on the places of pain we carry, and begin to name what healing might require.
Speaker/slot: Clark Buys · Saturday morning
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Abundant Life and the journey of Healing Justice
This session will explore Abundant Life as a Christian vision of peace: wholeness, justice and flourishing for people, communities and creation. From there, we will consider pathways of transformation, including how power, privilege and social location shape our participation in God’s reconciling work. The session will then introduce healing justice as the heart of this journey, with five practical principles for pursuing reconciliation in ways that are truthful, careful and transformative.
Speaker/slot: Clark Buys · Saturday morning
Speakers
Who you'll hear from
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Lakshmi Piette Walker
Lakshmi is passionate about intentional Christian community and the ways shared life bears witness to the presence of the living God. She is host of the Dwelling Place podcast and blog and author of Dwelling Places: The Practice and Witness of Intentional Christian Communities. She lives in rural Cumbria, where she is part of the emerging Rose Community, and can daily be found gallivanting through fields and woodland, relishing the groundedness of natural being and the dances of the wind as manifestations of God’s embrace.
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Clark Buys
Clark Buys is a Theology Development Manager at Tearfund as well as being a Spiritual Formation Director at his local church, St Matthias Church Brighton. Clark leads Tearfund's global Young Theologian program and has focused theological reflections on poverty, peace and reconciliation, economic and environmental sustainability, prosperity gospel theology, justice, and integral mission. Clark has previously served as a church pastor/elder for several years, holds a MA in Theology, and is a trained Spiritual Director. Born and bred in South Africa, Clark now lives on the south coast of England with his wife and young children. Clark also writes theological reflections on his personal Substack blog, Pilgrim People.
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Jacqui Cho
Jacqui Cho, PhD, is an Associated Researcher with swisspeace and an independent consultant specializing in peace processes, trajectories of armed groups, and African politics. She has previously worked with the swisspeace Mediation Program, the United Nations, and NGOs involved in refugee relief and empowerment work in Greece and Lebanon. During her time at Cambridge, she was involved in Just Love Cambridge, which led her to co-found and lead the Cambridge Refugee Scholarship Campaign.
She is drawn to questions of (in)justice and identity, which translate in different ways across her professional and personal life, including her academic research on peacemaking, coordinating a book club on faith and justice, and living in intentional community.
Questions / Contact
Get in touch with any questions about the programme, accessibility, travel or anything else.
Contact email - network@justloveuk.com
Need to know more?
About the Just Love Network
Just Love is a lifelong space of support and action in the work of social justice, gathering around six Justice Practices. We run a mixture of events, communities and action projects across the UK and online. Let's pursue justice in the way of Jesus, together.