| Date: |
June 26 – July 2, 2012 – Holy Isle Retreat Centre |
| Location: |
Holy Isle Retreat Centre |
| Price: | £700 singles £620 twins each £565 dorms. (includes full board and lodging, facilitation, group outdoor equipment and professional indemnity insurance). |
| Facilitators: |
Margaret Kerr & David Key. |
Click here to book… (a deposit of £150.00 is required to confirm your booking).
Through mindfulness practice and other contemplative work outdoors on Holy Isle, this course offers a chance to attend to our deep interconnectedness with our wider ecology. With this skilful attention comes a renewed sense of self, and the potential to return home to ourselves as part of nature.
Importantly, by means of shared reflection, we will also explore how these wild meditation experiences might inform our personal response to our current ecological crises.
The course will be conducted in a retreat style, with accommodation in the Holy Island centre. As much time as possible, depending on the weather and environmental conditions, will be spent outdoors. Participants will need to be comfortable walking for several hours carrying a day-pack containing spare clothes and food, etc. However, the course is not a test of endurance! The group will move gently and attentively through the island with regular and sometimes prolonged stops.
Final content depends on environmental and weather conditions and the aspirations of the group.
Course Leaders
Margaret Kerr
MBChB, PhD, BA (Hons) Psychology, MSc Psychological Research Methods, PgDip Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness
UKCP, BACP, BABCP & EUROTAS accredited psychotherapist
Margaret is a psychotherapist, practicing in Scotland. She is accredited in Humanistic, Cognitive Behavioural and Transpersonal approaches, and combines these in her work. She trained in Mindfulness-Based Approaches at the Centre for Mindfulness in Bangor, and has had a Vajrayana Buddhist practice for the past 13 years. With David Key, she co-facilitates experiential workshops in Ecopsychology, in particular WWF’s Natural Change Project, which explores outdoor experience as a catalyst for leadership in sustainability.
David Key
BA (Hons), CAT (NZ), MSc. (Dist.), FCHE.
David has a background in outdoor education and is an internationally qualified and experienced outdoor leader. He taught the post-graduate course in Ecopsychology at the Centre for Human Ecology / University of Strathclyde for seven years, and teaches Ecopsychology at Schumacher College in Devon. David co-facilitates the WWF Natural Change Project with Margaret Kerr and has spent over 15 years working with the transformative power of wild places. He is currently training as a psychotherapist with The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Cornwall.
Personal Fitness
This course is not a test of endurance! It is a chance to slow down and become mindful to ourselves as part of the Earth.
All outdoor elements will be led by an experienced leader with international National Governing Body qualifications in outdoor leadership. We will always move at the speed of the slowest person, with the focus firmly on enjoying and connecting with the land and sea, and with each other.
As a guideline – you will need to be able to carry a day pack containing your personal equipment (waterproofs, spare jacket/jumper, lunch, flask, etc) for periods of up to four hours in a coastal environment, without paths.
If you have any doubts about your ability to take part, you should contact us to talk things through before booking.
Location & Travel
The course will be based at the Holy Isle retreat centre on Scotland’s wild west coast.
Find out more about Holy Isle here.
For directions click here.
Personal Equipment
A list of personal equipment (like boots, waterproofs and clothes) will be sent once your booking has been processed.
Insurance
David Key holds Adventure Activity Liability Insurance for working professionally outdoors.
It is strongly recommended that clients take out appropriate personal insurance.
If you have any questions or would like to talk things through, email Jemma Roberts.
Click here to book… (a deposit of £150.00 is required to confirm your booking).
