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Events & Gatherings

These events are inspired by decades of study with indigenous teachers & respected elders. Relationship with land & ancestors underpins much offered here, together with a recognition that communally we can go to places we cannot alone.

We arrange events throught out the year across the UK. Please check back again if there is nothing appealing today. Better still, join our email list to be kept upto date with events and occasional news & blogs.

Fathers & Sons weekends

At Wild Sussex, nr. Forest Row

6-8th June.

Eventbrite here for tickets

For Fathers with Sons aged 13 to 15.

A chance to bring the best out of our boys, to shift or deepen father - son connections & dads to share fears & dreams for their sons.

Limited availability gathering. Book early to avoid disappointment.

We believe, with the Centre for Social Justice: “Boys and young men have enormous potential. They always have, and they always will. We must stop seeing masculinity as a problem to be solved and start seeing it as a strength to be nurtured.” (Report. March. 2025. Lost Boys)

Built upon practices developed over 25 years ago with men's work leaders Robert Bly and Michael Meade, and informed by decades of study with Martin Prechtel, this weekend offers a chance to explore and prepare for young male adult life.

Our world holds little for fathers by way of support or models, to grow and express the innate love and fathering skills they carry. This is why we are holding this weekend.

For more information see Eventbrite

Grief Rituals

Next Grief Ritual 5th July
Venue to be confirmed

Also 13th September nr, Rugby. Details soon

Grieving. You’ve got to do it. We all do. And it’s not easy!We all need to grieve. To shed sorrow and recover our sense of being alive, even joy.

‘People need to grieve but have no culture in which to really do it’ (Martin Prechtel)

We wrangle big griefs, everyday griefs, climate griefs, ancestral/generational griefs and sometimes-life-is-just-hard grief. Grief can sit on top of everything, often squashing our feelings or making us numb, even angry. We’re not great at expressing grief in the UK. And it seems especially hard for blokes.

We offer a day of intense healing for broken hearts and bruised spirits. A day spent in the company of others, where you can grieve as part of a community, committing to support one another. Here we build an understanding of the nature of grief and enable the sharing of experiences, before creating a physical space for grief to flow.

‘Communal grieving offers something we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves.

Through validation, acknowledgement, and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing. (Dagara teacher, Sobonfu Somé)

This is a place for everybody, through song and dance, tears and each personal expression, to offer up whatever is weighing them down. This activity can take some time, but it has a natural flow. Almost despite ourselves, we find our body knows how to grieve. And done communally it's also not so overwhelming.

Grief is a natural response to loss. The more we love someone or something, the deeper we feel the loss. But don’t weep alone. Be supported in ritual.

‘Grief takes us to the top of the hill and then lets us walk back down slowly, peacefully. It helps relieve the person who is in sorrow and leads them towards acceptance of the phenomenon of death, separation and love.’ (Malidoma Somé, Dagara Elder).