The Catalyst 2025

Are you aged 18–25? Do you want to develop and grow? To carve your own path? To connect with others who want to make positive change? If so, The Catalyst is for you. This is a 6-day residential programme for 18–25 year-olds. A creative and transformational rite of passage for young adults at a transitional stage in life.

In a time of unprecedented challenge and opportunity, how do we hold on to a sense of who we are and how we contribute meaningfully to our community?

The Catalyst invites you to learn to discover who you are, who you are becoming, who you want to be and to find your edge. You will be encouraged and challenged in mind, body, and heart within a supportive community of peers and skilled mentors. We will give you tools to develop and strengthen your existing skills to step fully and powerfully into your life. 

Set in our beautiful 50-acre valley in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor, The Catalyst is a rich weave of creative collaboration, individual and group challenges, one-to-one mentoring, personal reflection, embodiment, connecting with the land and celebration. The natural world offers us a powerful mirror of who we are and what we can offer the world. Through sharing our experiences in the safety of the group and held by your facilitators, you will develop a deeper understanding of yourself and your place in this rapidly changing world.

With Israh Goodall, Tony Cealy, Xanthe Green and Tugba Kirhan

What you will gain from attending:

• A clearer understanding of yourself, your gifts and your direction and purpose in life
• Learn how to embody your ‘centred self’ and the relationship between rhythm and being
• Become alive to your creativity
• Deepen your relationship with our land and develop new friendships, to create a tribe
• Explore the fundamental issues we face, individually and collectively, to imagine positive futures
• Explore ways of navigating uncertainty and the uncomfortable with courage and an inner confidence
• Develop authentic leadership and change-making skills
• Be heard, learn to powerfully voice yourself and speak out about things you care about
• Step into self-authority, claiming your power in these changing times
• Uncover the path to bring your brightest passions and delights to fruition
• Practice skills in personal and collective resilience and wellbeing
• The Catalyst offers space and culture to explore what it means to dive more deeply into your life, with opportunities to mark what no longer serves you, as you step more fully into the life you choose to lead.
• This programme has been co-created by a diverse group of facilitators, intending to support and encourage inclusivity and an open and compassionate expression of our differences.

Watch the free introductory webinar with the lead facilitators on this programme, Israh Goodall, Tony Cealy, Xanthe Green and Tugba Kirhan at 7pm on 3rd April 2024

ACCOMMODATION: Shared accommodation is at Embercombe in one of our two yurt villages. Each yurt is furnished with comfortable beds and wood fired stove. Both yurt villages have a compost toilets and running water. Full bathroom facilities with hot showers are available in the main building.

FOOD: All your meals are included. Organic, vegetarian food is lovingly prepared on site using produce from the Embercombe garden wherever possible. Special diets are adeptly catered for. Please indicate if you require this on your booking form.

PRICING: 
£750 Subsidised Ticket
£900 Regular Ticket
£1,050 Supporter Ticket

Please consider purchasing a Supporter Ticket if your finances allow it, to subsidise participants who can’t afford the full price.

Limited bursary places are available for £600 on application here.

BOOKING: To book and pay for your place, please select the tickets on this Booking  Form. 

BALANCE PAYMENTS:  If you first purchase a Deposit Ticket and are looking to pay the balance of your ticket in full, please follow this link. If you would like to split your balance payment into monthly instalments, then please register for this here.

ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation as standard is in shared yurts. If you would like to book a single occupancy yurt, follow this link to pay the surcharge.

SLIDING SCALE: We ask that you read about our ticket pricing model here and reflect on your financial situation before choosing which ticket to purchase.

Read our Booking Terms & Conditions here.