Community Solo Weekenders
A weekend on the land, in community, including an overnight nature solo experience
“To know yourself, you must first know the Earth”
Greg Cajete
Bring your deepest questions, longings and intentions to the greatest teacher of them all; our Earth.
Join us in community for a weekend of nature connection and exploration including an overnight nature solo; a rite of passage for times of great transformation.
2 nights on-land, followed by an integration session online.
*Next Community Solo weekend*
September 19-21st Autumn Equinox
Ghostwood Down - 27 acres of regenerating downland with ancient trees, hedgerows, streams, springs and wildlife. The land is private access.
Near Bath, UK
experience yourself mirrored by nature.
How does it work?
Fully guided experience, including follow-up integration online and ongoing practice community
Bring your own basic camping kit (full kit list provided)
All meals included (nourishing vegetarian food around the fire)
Max 8 participants
Day 1
Arrive from 3pm
Set up tents at basecamp
Welcome dinner & grounding
Fire circle & connecting as community and deepening into your intentions
Day 2
Connection practices, preparation & resourcing for Nature Solo
Finding your spot on the land
Threshold Ritual: Nature Solo begins
Day 3
Returning to community
Fire circle
Lunch & closing
Finish 2pm
Follow up: Online integration & ongoing support
Following the Nature Solo we host a dedicated integration session online; offering a way to harvest insights & guidance from your time on-land. After that you’ll have access to our ongoing community of practice, including facilitated online sessions organised around the Wheel of the Year.
Why Join
Connect with others to work with the mystery & wider intelligence of life
Deepen your connection and belonging to nature, feel presence & aliveness
Open yourself to receiving insight & guidance on your most alive questions
Experience your inner landscape reflected in the outer landscape
“The land will speak if we slow down enough to listen.”
Betsy Perluss
Your guides
Got questions? Get in touch to chat with one of the guides.
Mark Sears
Mark weaves together practices and techniques that explore how we might regrow a healthy culture through deep nature connection. He works with myth & oral storytelling, Way of Council and time spent alone in wild places as practices to deepen our connection so we might use our unique gifts in service to all life.
As a guide Mark has apprenticed as a nature based mentor with WildWise/Schumacher College. He has trained in the Way of Council with Pip Bondy of Ancient Healing Ways and apprenticed to myth and story with the West Country School of Myth. He is mentored by Annie Bloom who for many years was lead guide with Animas Valley Institute.
Evva Semenowicz
Evva is an experienced facilitator, ritual artist & somatic practitioner dedicated to weaving ourselves back into belonging; with our own bodies, each other and the wider collective of life.
Evva’s are with organisations such as Change in Nature, Open Edge Foundation, Embodiment Institute, & Bristol Yoga Roots Projects. Her teachings also come from walking this path and putting out offerings into the world.
Mark De’Lisser
Mark is a poet, youth mentor, space holder and creative. He has the privilege to work with organisations supporting young people who have experienced significant challenges and giving voice to young people experiencing racism. His work includes play therapy, mentoring, yoga programmes and creative writing workshops to support vulnerable children and young people.
Mark hopes his poetry can inspire stories of change, societally and personally, and that his words can help to nurture the seeds of reverence that are planted in all our hearts.
Dan Burgess
Dan helps people to see and feel the world and their place within it differently - as part of a larger entangled web of intelligent life. A Regenerative catalyst, imagineer and guide, committed to ongoing practice of connection and relationship to cultivate courage and our unique creative intelligence to step into service onboard this living Spaceship Earth.
As a guide training with Chris Salisbury/Wildwise, Betsy Perluss/School of Lost Borders, Bayo Akomolafe/We Will Dance with Mountains. Guest faculty Co-Creating the Emerging Future, Schumacher College,The Bio Leadership Project, Kincentric Leadership Cohort 23/24. Host of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.
Cost
Standard £300
This is the standard rate for the joining this experience, reflecting the cost of running it.
Supporter £500
If you are able to pay this rate it will support scholarship and youth in attending.
Scholarship and Youth £200
Limited number of reduced places if the standard rate prohibits you from joining
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