SOLO OR SMALL GROUP
RETREATS AT GORSE HILL
Joan offers Solo or Small Group Retreats. These combine a distillation of a lifetime of research and reflection on Healing. Some practices that may be used are moving from our original nature, object relations and working in and with nature.
On these intimate days at Gorse Hill there will be space to move, to speak, to make art, to be outdoors, to rest. Time to be silent or to sing. The shape of these days may be self-directed or guided, in a deep listening to the needs of the client. But always a place to be seen, to be met, to be curious and to be nourished, in an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance. Sometimes, unprescribed, allowing for grace and magic to align. A practice in presence for the client, noticing what emerges moment by moment. And how this noticing supports deeper understanding of our patterns and conditioning. Joan will be alongside you in this exploration.
Stepping into the Gardens at Gorse Hill in this conscious way is really stepping into Sacred Space. Breathing more deeply, bodies remembering a simpler more easeful state. Earth and Body time is slower time. The peace of nature together with a non-judgemental listener creating a spaciousness for greater compassion to arise.
WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM A SOLO OR SMALL GROUP RETREAT?
Anyone who would like to spend the day in beautiful gardens overlooking the Irish sea. Anyone who would like to listen deeply to themselves, in a quiet, meditative space. Anyone who likes to move indoors and/or outdoors. Anyone who feels they would benefit from therapeutic support in being with what might arise from meeting their history and conditioning. Artists working in any discipline where this dedicated time and meditative space can deepen the creative process.
As very early material can be evoked in this work, it is highly recommended that you are in personal therapy so that you have somewhere to bring unresolved material. Not everything that arises can get processed during the retreat. If you have not worked with Joan before or in the previous five years, then it will be necessary to have an online meeting prior to enrolling in a retreat.
The Solo or Small Group Retreats (up to six people maximum in the group, and sharing a bedroom, two per room) may be for one day, three and a half days or five days. They are all residential with a very simple but nourishing diet.
All retreats take place between the months of March and November.
DAY SCHEDULE: 10am to 4.30pm.
Solo Cost: 350 euros per person per day. 750 euros for three days and 1000 euros for 5 days.
Small Groups: 250 per person per day for groups of no less than four.
Please bring clothes suitable for many weathers; rain gear, shoes with a good grip as the gardens can be slippery when wet. A notebook plus your preferred doodling pencils. Tea and coffee is available as well as art materials and blankets.