Nature Connection Retreat

An exceptional 5-day retreat with 6 exceptional facilitators, designed for wellbeing professionals to facilitate Adult and Elder transitions, using traditional knowledge and wisdom to enable deep connection for participants, providing an increased ability to take this wisdom back to your communities and continue the work. 

An Elder-level understanding of the essential role of nature, community, people and meaning in the ecology of the planet. This will be the only occasion that this group of wisdom keepers will be teaching together this year. Includes “A Storytelling Pilgrimage to Dinas Emrys through Mythic Snowdonia.’

The Facilitators:

Philip Carr-Gomm
Psychologist and former head of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.
“How Druid ideas and practices can foster mental health and nature connection”

Dr Rosalind Watts
Clinical psychologist, former Clinical Lead for Imperial College London’s psilocybin trial, Founder of the ACER online peer support community.
“The nature codes & Tree Journeys – What trees can teach us aligning ourselves with the rhythms and patterns of nature, for increased wellbeing”

Professor David Peters
Pioneer in the field of integrated healthcare within NHS and private practice, founding faculty of the University of Westminster School of Integrated Health, editor of the BHMA Journal.
“Evolution, emotions and a meaning & purpose informed approach to heart-brain connection”

Stefan Chmelik
Co-founder of New Medicine Group, now dedicated to global mental health impact through sound technology company Sensate.
“The use of sound to access body sensation"

Eric Maddern
‘The Wild Man of Cae Mabon’, mythic storyteller, Honorary Bard of OBOD and visionary eco-builder.
“A Storytelling Pilgrimage to Dinas Emrys through Mythic Snowdonia. Journey along the Math-Mabon-Merlin Songline to the Fort of Fiery Higher Powers.‘

Lawrence Joye
Cae Mabon Resident, an initiate of the ManKind Project, co-host of the Menspedition Retreats, Facilitator of the Work That Reconnects and founding member of YES&: Conscious Living. He will be guiding and supporting the group throughout the event.

The Location:
Cae Mabon Eco-Retreat Centre, Snowdonia, in one of the most emotive and deeply rooted locations on the planet. Cae Mabon, called the ‘Welsh Shangri-La’, sits within an ancient valley, beside a river that courses down from hilltop waterfalls to form a llyn (lake) in the foothills of Eryri (Snowdonia). The 800 acres around Cae Mabon is profoundly rich in myth and legend and forms the ‘songline’ of the Math-Mabon part of the Mabinogion, part of ‘the most mythically rich twenty miles in Britain’ as Cae Mabon founder Eric Maddern calls it. Professor Tom Woolley declared Cae Mabon the ‘number one natural building project in the UK’.

Application:
The number of places is strictly limited, reserve your spot now.
You will be sent bank transfer details.
Deposit £95 to secure your place, then £495 one month before the event.
Your place, all meals, shared accommodation, events are included.

Nearest station is Bangor (Gwynedd)