In a world that often feels overwhelming and uncertain, how do we rise to the occasion? In an ailing society, how do we stay healthy? As universities and job prospects continue pushing us towards business as usual how can we find guidance and meaning?
This is a week-long gathering for 18-35 year olds who, like us, are grappling with these questions and long for a space to explore them with depth, honesty, and connection. I’ll be the lead facilitator, working with The Raft.
Over the course of a week, we will gather in nature to:
Share – stories, silence, song, and sacredness.
Embrace mystery – How do we stay whole in a time of unraveling? How do we navigate both beauty and illness in this world? How to live meaningfully in a rapidly changing world?
Face the mess we're in – Honouring our feelings about the world in times of crisis and possibility.
Reconnect – With land, lineage, and the wisdom traditions that remind us how to walk with reverence.
Imagine – the wisdom of the past can unlock possibilities ahead: What kind of future do we long for? What can we learn from both ancient traditions and emerging ideas? What pragmatic steps can we take in our lives today?
Join this journey with a young crew of facilitators: Gwyneth Jones from Northern Wales is an accredited work that reconnects facilitator and coach, Jadzia Tedeschi (the Raft co-founder) is the Climate Majority Project coordinator with years spent in community living environments, Liam Bureau grew up in Alaska and is part of the Scientific and Medical Network. All three of us for several years have gone through the highs and lows of engaging with a the terrifying challenges and awesome opportunities of these times.
Through dialogue, storytelling, time in nature, and practices such as movement, meditation and dance, we will create a space of restoration and brave inquiry, all while learning how to live together in community by cooking, cleaning, and living together – including with the Welsh land and its spirit. It is a space to remember what it means to be human together, to consider what that could look like in the world to come, and to start planting the seeds for that future.
No particular background or belief system is required—only a willingness to step together into the unknown.
When? September 11-17
Where? Serenity House, Llangammarch Wells
Facilitators: Gwyneth Jones, Liam Bureau
Crew: Jadzia Tedeschi
Cost: Early bird, £240 (till June 30) | Full price: £270
Booking fee (included in overall cost, made at time of booking): £50
For who: people aged 18-35