✨ Please note: Retreats are offered at a significantly reduced rate to make them as accessible as possible for anyone who would benefit from attending.
Places are limited, so early booking is recommended. ✨

Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt, cope, and recover from stress, adversity, and challenging life events. It allows us to navigate difficulties without becoming overwhelmed and to return to a stable, grounded emotional state.

Strong emotional resilience supports us in a wide range of situations, from navigating and letting go of everyday slights, handling confrontation and criticism, to setting boundaries, being assertive, and working through major life events.

Our Emotional Resilience Retreat offers a calm, supportive space to understand how you respond under pressure and how to stay connected to yourself when your resilience is tested.

Grounded in psychology and nervous-system science, this half-day retreat explores why overwhelm, irritability, or emotional shutdown can show up in everyday situations and how resilience is built through regulation, clarity, and boundaries rather than “pushing through”.

Blending practical frameworks with gentle reflective and body-based practices, the retreat focuses on managing emotional and mental load in real life — at home, at work, and in relationships — so you can respond more clearly and confidently in the moment.

This retreat blends education, science, practice, and reflection to help you build insight and confidence.

What's included:

🌿 Understanding emotional resilience through a nervous-system lens.

🌿 How stress and overload affect emotional responses.

🌿 Recognising early signs of overwhelm and emotional reactivity.

🌿 Understanding boundaries and how to protect them.

🌿 Assertive communication without guilt or confrontation - learning to say no.

🌿 Managing emotional and mental load in everyday life.

🌿 Capacity-based decision making and prioritising what truly matters.

🌿 Practical tools for responding rather than reacting.

🌿 Gentle breath and body-based regulation practices.

🌿 Time for reflection, discussion, and integration.

Our approach combines current research from neuroscience, psychology, and holistic health to offer an integrated understanding of emotional resilience and how it is shaped by stress, load, and nervous-system capacity.

We draw from cognitive and behavioural psychology, somatic awareness, and nervous-system regulation, alongside reflective and grounding practices, to explore how people respond in real-life situations and how those responses can be supported and strengthened.

You won’t find quick fixes or rigid rules here. Instead, this retreat offers thoughtful, practical guidance that bridges science and compassion — helping you develop clarity, confidence, and usable tools for handling everyday challenges with greater steadiness and self-trust.

Retreats held at The Barn Wellbeing Centre in Brailes. Our retreats are hosted by Kate Robbins, Lead Remedial Therapist at The Barn. Scroll down to find out more about Kate.

The Barn Wellbeing Centre, Brailes, OX15 5JH 

11am - 3pm

£45 Inc refreshments

Book Now:  https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/9235/events/8350365

 Your retreat will be led by Kate Robbins, Integrated Health & Wellbeing Lead at The Barn.

Kate brings over a decade of experience supporting people with anxiety, chronic pain, and fatigue-related conditions. Her approach is warm, direct, and grounded in both clinical knowledge and real-world understanding.

Trained in mindfulness, breathwork, health coaching, and cognitive behavioural techniques, Kate blends evidence-based methods with practical self-care strategies to help you restore balance and confidence.

Her sessions are relaxed and welcoming — a space where science meets kindness, and where learning feels safe, inclusive, and empowering.