Connection & Nature Experience Awakening
For mental wellbeing professionals working with people and communities, esp those wishing to deepen their understanding of the role of Eldership in this time of climate emergency.
Monday 9th to Friday 13th October
Cae Mabon Eco Retreat Centre, Snowdonia, Wales UK
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 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
With 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.‘
and Lawrence Toye
Lawrence works with Menspedition, YES& and has been engaged in “The Work that Reconnects” and other Deep Ecology movements. 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.
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To apply, email with Connection & Nature Experience Awakening as the title and include your name, contact number and a one sentence description of your background and the people your work is directed towards.
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You will then be sent bank transfer details.
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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.
Situated within 800 acres of countryside
Cae Mabon: ‘The number one natural building project in the UK’
Located in Snowdonia National Park, on the banks of Lake Padarn
Pilgrimage to Dinas Emrys, legendary site of the story of Taliesin (Merlin) and the two dragons
