The Heart of Us: Tending To Love & Loss for Couples/Pairs

Finding Deep Connection Through Relational Life Practices & Grief Tending 

This retreat brings together Relational Life Therapy (RLT) and Grief Tending to help couples reconnect, heal, and strengthen their bond.

We warmly invite you to a special weekend  residential retreat designed for couples or pairs in relationship who long for more ease, connection, and authenticity in their relationships. Together, we will move towards more intimacy, ease, and genuine connection, through grief work  combined with RLT practices. This is open to non-romantic pairings and non monogamous relating. 

Relationships are a place where we find deep love and joy - but they are also where we experience tension, misunderstanding, and unspoken grief. Over the course of the weekend, we will create a supportive space where you and your partner can explore patterns that keep you stuck, learn how to communicate with clarity and compassion, and tend to the grief that may be silently shaping your relationship. 

How RLT and Grief Tending Work Together

RLT helps couples recognise and shift dysfunctional patterns, develop deeper emotional honesty, and create healthier ways of relating. However, many relational difficulties are deeply tied to unresolved grief - losses, disappointments, and emotional wounds that linger beneath the surface, shaping our interactions and responses. Grief Tending provides a structured way to process these emotions, creating space for healing and renewal.

By integrating these two modalities, this retreat offers a unique approach to relationship healing  and flourishing. Through guided RLT exercises, you and your partner will identify limiting patterns and learn new ways to communicate with clarity and compassion. Alongside this, Grief Tending practices such as partner and communal witnessing, and reflective exercises will allow you to acknowledge and express grief that may be blocking deeper connection.

This combination ensures that relational work is not just about improving communication but also about releasing emotional burdens that may be silently shaping your dynamic. By tending to grief together, couples and pairs can build greater emotional resilience, increase their capacity for intimacy, and create a relationship that feels more alive, present, and fulfilling.

Relationship Challenges You Might Experience:

• Feeling stuck in repetitive patterns with no resolution
• Emotional disconnection or lack of intimacy
• Struggles with communication and feeling unheard
• Unresolved grief - whether personal, collective, or relational - that impacts the relationship
• Holding unspoken resentment, fear, or sadness
• Difficulty balancing independence with togetherness
• A desire for deeper connection but uncertainty on how to get there

This Retreat is for You If…

• You want more ease and flow in your relationship.
• You seek deeper emotional intimacy and connection.
• You desire more open, honest, and compassionate communication.
• You are ready to create space for grief, love, and renewal.
• You long for a relationship that feels alive, present, and fulfilling.
• You are open to self-reflection and meaningful shared experiences.
• You want the take-home tools to open and process emotional truth within your relationship

Everything we offer is invitational - there is no pressure to share more than feels right for you. This is a space of gentleness, honesty, and respect for your unique journey as a couple.

Some practicals:

• Location:
  • The Heart of Us residential weekend will take place at the beautiful Lark:Space, owned and lived in by Roisin & Bilal
  • The location is in Totnes, with the exact address provided upon registration
• Accommodation: 
  • Each couple will have a spacious room with king bed
• Food:
  • Breakfast and dinner will be provided (including dinner on Friday night)
  • You are asked to bring your own lunch for Saturday and Sunday
  • The invitation is to eat communally during lunch on Saturday and Sunday and dinner on Friday and Saturday
• Things to bring:
  • Comfortable clothes
  • Notepad and pen
  • Lunch for Saturday and Sunday
  • A specific object/image that represents support for you
  • A specific object/image that connects you to your grief

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS

Roisin Green (https://www.roisingreen.com/) is a psychosexual  and relational life (RLT) therapist, and has led a life bordering on obsession with the emotional truth of each moment. Roisin’s journey has led her through work as a clown, dance, sub-dom, and across somatic practice of many kinds. Also to times of dedicated meditation practice and neurobiology as it relates to trauma. The Heart of Us offering concentrates many, if not all of her cultivated and instinctual faculties to provide deep play and unearthing. 

Bilal Nasim (https://www.griefsupport.org.uk/ ) is a facilitator, trainer and artist exploring what it means to be alive and our relationship with death. Bilal is an experienced grief tender and has been holding grief spaces since 2018. He is the founder of Embracing Grief - along with Sarah and Tony Pletts, offering grief support circles, workshops and rituals - online and in-person in London and Devon, UK, and Germany, including workshops aimed specifically for POC and those identifying as men. Bilal is a senior leader at Myelium, delivering award winning programmes on personal resilience, inclusive leadership and workplace culture.

EVENT DETAILS
 
Exact address will be included in your confirmation email.  

TICKET PRICES (Per Person): 
£220 Low Income (limited spaces available)
£260 Standard
£290 Higher Income
£320 Supporter

There will be a maximum of 10 available places (5 couples) excluding the team.

Once you have purchased a ticket, you will receive an Advance Information Form which we require to be completed before the workshop - This is both to help you to prepare for the session and for us to be able to support your needs. 

NOTE: We only send the exact address upon receiving a completed Advance Information Form. 

Please note: We require a minimum number of attendees for events to go ahead. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

ENQUIRIES: Bilal: bilal.nasim@myceliumgroup.co or Roisin: info@roisingreen.com 

If you have any access requirements please get in touch and note that the venue has steps/stairs. It is also a home, which allows us to use the space flexibly, and offer the work at a more accessible price. This workshop is inclusive to everyone regardless of age (18+), ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and otherwise.

Some of the proceeds of this event will go to WAYout Arts Worldwide.

REFUNDS POLICY: Please note, we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. When possible we encourage reselling on Ticketswap.