Bad Girl Bootcamp

If you're craving an edgy and exciting space where you can explore taboo topics and unpack your shadow material, with love, mischief and celebration at the core, this is for you. 

We are creating a container safe enough for real daring, where you can be tender, vulnerable, open-hearted, wild and an unapologetic badass bitch all at once. 

Together we'll shift how you relate to desire, boundaries and power, helping you get more clarity on what you really want, and practice standing up for yourself with confidence, kindness and skill.

Check out our taster event on the 30th September

Why Badgirl Bootcamp?

As women we've been societally conditioned to be the peace-makers, the people pleasers, the 'good girls'.

Even those of us who are years into ‘the work’, still find ourselves bending our boundaries to accommodate others, holding back from asking for what we really want, and shying away from wielding the power that’s available to us.

Bad Girl Bootcamp is a closed group for women on the journey of personal development, who are ready to explore and transform their relationship to desires, boundaries and power.

Through this work, we become women who:

• Speak truth to power and challenge systems of oppression
• Claim our right to rest, pleasure, and play
• Ask for what we're worth - in money, time, and recognition
• Redirect energy spent on invisible labour towards things we care about
• Stop trying to do everything ourselves and start asking for the support we need
• Celebrate our own victories and revel in the success of others

What Happens in Bad Girl Bootcamp?

This work is about what happens to us in relationship - the way we bend, crumble or shrink around others - so the sessions centre on partner and group exercises designed to get to the root of our 'good girl' conditioning, and to practice, with real humans, standing up for ourselves with power and love.

Drawing on over a decade of group facilitation experience, we hold this as an emergent space, responding to the themes arising in the group rather than making our way through a fixed curriculum.

The group is heavily inspired by the work of Kasia Urbaniak, Taoist nun, world-class dominatrix, teacher and author, whose potent and playful teachings have been influential in our own empowerment journeys. Using some of Kasia's frameworks, we'll explore desire, boundaries and power in an embodied way, bringing the teachings to life through movement and voice-work.

Some things we will include:

• Partner and group inquiry - to unearth the root causes of our relationship patterns
• Movement and dance - to regulate and energise our bodies, making us more available for the work
• Embodied games - to playfully explore and rewire our relationship to desire and power
• Voice work, song, and sounding ritual - to release emotion and support us to unlock our voices.
• Role play - to practice asking for what we want or giving challenging feedback
• Small group sharing circles - to process what’s arising in session, witnessing and celebrating each other

The Commitment

This is a closed container, which means we’ll be journeying with the same group of women for 5 sessions over 3 months.

To preserve the integrity of the space, we request attendance at all sessions and prompt time keeping. This helps us to create a tight container, showing respect for each other’s time, and builds trust and depth week on week.

We’ll of course be flexible in the case of sickness or emergency, but if your life is already crammed, or you know there’s more than one date you can’t do, we request that you wait until next time we run this group, as lateness and dropping in and out become disruptive to the group process.

Dates and Times

Sessions are held every other Wednesday from 7-9:30pm

1. 14th Oct
2. 28th Oct
3. 11th Nov
4. 25th Nov
5. 9th Dec

Please arrive 10-15 minutes before 7pm so we can get settled and ready to begin at 7.

About your Facilitators

Gaia Harvey Jackson

Gaia is a group work facilitator specialising in women's empowerment, relationship coaching, and conscious dance. 

She has been holding playful and deep spaces for transformation since 2016 including women’s circles, dance events, courses, retreats and her flagship 9 month facilitator training programme; EMPOWER.

Gaia’s work centres around the messiness of the human experience and our universal desire for peace, freedom, love and connection.

She weaves together inquiry, embodiment, relational life therapy (RLT), ritual and mindfulness into an integrated approach that works across the psychological, spiritual, emotional and somatic levels of being, to bring greater awareness to our shadow patterns, and practices to find greater levels of freedom and aliveness.

Gaia co-founded True Nature - a platform for feminine empowerment - in 2023 and worked as a core member of The Psychedelic Society from 2016 - 2024.

Other organisations she has worked with include Medicine Festival, Morning Gloryville, Togetherness, Alter Ego Network, Ecstatic Dance UK, Noisily, and Ecosystem Restoration Camps.

Training and Experience

• Certified Relational Life Therapy Coach
• Trauma informed practitioner
• In relational therapy for 6 years
• Certified coach with the MOE Foundation
• Regular supervision to support practice
• Graduate of Yoga of Sound and Chocolate and Midwifing the Veils
• Worked with thousands of people over 10 years delivering group work

Find out about all Gaia's offerings here:  www.gaiaharveyjackson.com

“Gaia always holds a safe and loving space to explore the depths of our souls. It's one of the only places I have in my life to truly be myself - no expectations, limitations or judgement."

photo credit: Simba Dara 

Anna Ling

Anna is a singer, a choir leader  and a yoga teacher. 

She runs two thriving local choirs, Dartsong Chorus and JamJar Choir, and has been creating and leading singing spaces for nearly 20 years. Previous to moving to Devon, she founded and run choirs in London and Portugal, and has led singing at many festivals and events including Shambala, WOMAD, Fire in the Mountain, Voice Camp and Buddhafields. She also runs singing retreats with FutureCraft and Chorus Songwriting.

Her recent album was acclaimed by the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show and Radio 3 Night Tracks, and was praised in Songlines, as well as being Fatea's Album of the Month. She has sold out her last 3 shows at the Barrel House and is has performed all over the UK.

She has been cultivating a dedicated daily yoga practise since her late teens and has trained with Anna Forrest among others (amounting 500hours certified YTT). 

She uses voice and movement to process the richness (and challenge) of life, and trusts the tools of embodied movement and voice as a direct line to empowerment. 

About the Space

We're particularly excited to have found a home that feels so fitting for what we're about.

The Tribe is a beautiful community-driven coworking space, 5 minutes from Totnes, that caters to creative, growth-oriented female entrepreneurs. 

We'll be gathering in their upstairs studio space that is light, well insulated/ ventilated, and private - so we can relax and drop deep into our work. 

There is a small kitchenette in the room and tea will be provided. 

ABOUT TRUE NATURE: A platform for feminine and ecological empowerment, True Nature guides women to rediscover their wild authenticity and deepen their connection with the Earth. Through transformative retreats, events, trainings and membership, they blend soulful ritual, embodiment practices, authentic relating and nature immersion to inspire growth, healing, and community. Rooted in a vision of co-creating cultures of wholeness, one women at a time, True Nature nurtures a movement of women embracing their power and living in relationship with the more-than-human world. Learn more by visiting our website and by following us on Instagram

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