Deepen your access to inner resources — ground, strength, resilience, sensitivity — over 5 days in nature

West Dartmoor – Camping

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If Level 1 was about learning how to navigate your Inner Village and becoming familiar with the tools of this work, Level 2 opens into a deeper exploration of the resources that live within you.

This retreat focuses on developing ground, resilience, strength, sensitivity, and inner support;  not as ideas, but as embodied presences that can become available in your daily life.

Within each person lives a wide range of inner resources. Many of these remain only partially lived, waiting for the conditions that allow them to be felt, embodied, and expressed.

Ground, strength, sensitivity, precision, softness, wildness, clarity, steadiness…
Each of these can become an entry point.

When followed with embodied attention and careful facilitation, they open into living inner presences — into parts and sometimes into archetypal forces — each with its own texture, vitality, and intelligence.

What will change after this retreat

Over these five days, something wil begin to reorganise in how you inhabit yourself.

You might notice:
– more inner ground when facing intensity or uncertainty
– access to strength and resilience in moments where you would usually feel overwhelmed
– greater sensitivity without losing stability
– a clearer sense of boundary and choice
– more of your system available in how you respond to life

Fear, anxiety, and challenge can be met with more support from within, rather than navigating them alone.

The process

Over five days, you will have the opportunity to meet these resources directly, to strengthen your relationship with them, and to anchor their qualities in the body so they can move more freely through your life.

We move between:
– extended Fool Expression processes
– embodied explorations
– relational exercises
– witnessing spaces
– integration and rest

Fool Expression remains the ground practice throughout. It provides a structured yet alive form through which strength, vulnerability, precision, and wildness can circulate.

Depth and play inform each other continuously.

The relational field

The group functions as a living ecosystem in which players reflect and amplify what may be dormant or under-expressed in each other.

Resources are experienced in connection and gradually embodied as one’s own.

There is something about being seen, witnessed, and mirrored that allows these qualities to come alive more fully.

Nervous system awareness

Nervous system awareness is woven throughout the retreat.

Activation, settling, contraction, and openness are approached as meaningful signals that support discernment and depth.

Alongside Christie, Beth brings over a decade of experience in group facilitation and her work as a Core Process Psychotherapist, offering grounded nervous system attunement and relational precision.

What participants will develop

– Greater fluency in recognising and following the trails that lead to inner resources
– Embodied access to qualities such as ground, strength, sensitivity, resilience, and clarity
– The ability to anchor these qualities so they can participate in daily life
– Increased awareness of nervous system cues and how to move with them
– A wider emotional and energetic range
– Expanded relational awareness through witnessing and being mirrored

– an ability to enter new layers of their Inner Villages

Assisted by Beth

Beth has over a decade of experience facilitating groups in diverse settings, alongside her work as a Core Process Psychotherapist based in Devon and online.

Rooted in meditation, embodiment, and trauma-informed practice, she brings clarity, steadiness, and relational precision to the space.

Her presence supports a “safe enough” container in which meaningful depth can emerge.

Testimonial

“My time at the Fool camp was life changing. Over six days, fourteen adventurous souls transformed from strangers into a loving, open-hearted family.

The transformation was extraordinary, gentle and safe.

I was able to tackle weighty personal issues in a supportive environment and understand what it feels like to belong to a community where I had a role that supported the whole.”

— John S., IT Architect

 Practical details

– Dates: 30 June, 10am — 5 July, 5pm
– Location: Ridiculous House, Tavistock — West Dartmoor
– Accommodation: Camping on site
– Facilities: Geodome, outdoor kitchen, woodland, campfire, sauna

– Food: Each participant brings ingredients for one shared meal (details provided after booking)

– Group size: Limited to maintain depth of work

Chooose your tier and reserve your place below

Tear 3: £350

* In response to the financial situation that is strongly affecting some of us, the fees of the workshop are now organised between 3 Tiers, depending on your financial situation. This is a system that works towards more equality, mutual trust and abundance. Do read carefully the details of the 3 Tiers at the bottom of the page, and thank you for choosing the Tier that applies to you with integrity.  Don’t hesitate getting in touch with me if you have any questions.

Once you have booked yourself, you will receive a payment confirmation and closer to the event you will receive some more practical information about the camp.

* the remaining of the payment needs to be paid by the 30th of May 26.

Terms & Conditions:  Deposit and full payment are non-refundable.  If you cancel over three weeks before the start of the camp the amount over and above the deposit is transferable to another workshop within the next 5 months.