Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/09/2025
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Join us September 12 in London at a live show for the acclaimed podcast series The Way Out Is In.
Zen monk Brother Phap Huu, leadership coach Jo Confino and author Ocean Vuong will take us on a mindful journey into how to cultivate joy and togetherness in the midst of hardship.
The Way Out Is In podcast series was created to make the teachings and practices of world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh applicable to our everyday lives in order to help us transform our suffering and find greater stability and peace.
It has now had nearly 4 million downloads, sits at number two in the Buddhism section of Apple podcasts, and has a five star rating from the 2.5k reviews on Spotify.
Tickets are available here.
About the Speakers:
Brother Pháp Hữu is a senior Teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s international community and the Abbot of the monks’ community in Plum Village, the practice center founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in southwest France. Born in Vietnam, he emigrated to Canada as a child. He began training with Thich Nhat Hanh at the age of thirteen when he first entered the monastery to become a monk.
He accompanied Thich Nhat Hanh on his international teaching tours and was his attendant for more than fifteen years.
Today, Brother Phap Huu is deeply committed to building community and continuing Thich Nhat Hanh’s legacy. His youthful energy and fresh approach make the teachings of mindfulness and meditation more accessible to people from all walks of life, including those in leadership, families, and young adults.
Brother Phap Huu’s ability to connect with diverse audiences continues to helpe spread the Plum Village tradition to a broader global community, and is a beloved co-host of the Plum Village podcast, The Way Out is In.
Jo Confino is an executive coach, spiritual mentor, journalist and sustainability expert.
He works at the intersection of personal transformation and systems evolution; working with several organizations including Leaders’ Quest and Global Optimism.
Besides his coaching practice, which focuses on leaders in the fields of climate and sustainability, Jo chairs and facilitates events and conferences and runs smaller retreats and workshops.
Jo, who lives a few minutes walk from Plum Village and is a member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, was an executive editor at the Guardian for 23 years and executive editor, Impact & Innovation, at the HuffPost in New York.
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize. His debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019.
Ocean says, “Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much.”
He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. His new book, titled The Emperor of Gladness, has just been released.
100% of all profit from the event will go to the Plum Village Construction fund.