Space For Change
Transformational Retreats
Understanding what’s happening is often the beginning of changing what happens next.
Our Transformational Retreats are designed for the times when something has begun to take up too much space in your life — anxiety, overwhelm, long-term health problems, people-pleasing, a period of change, or the feeling that the way you are currently living simply isn’t working anymore.
These aren't therapy sessions, and they aren't traditional wellbeing retreats where the focus is simply on taking a day away. They sit somewhere in between.
Each retreat brings together evidence-informed psychology and health education, practical exercises and strategies, guided reflection and restorative practices to help you understand what may be happening, recognise the patterns that can keep it going, and begin exploring what you can realistically do differently.
There is still plenty of space to pause, eat good food, step outside, talk, think and rest. We believe people learn and reflect better when they aren't being rushed from one thing to the next.
You won't leave with a promise that everything will suddenly be fixed.
You will leave with a better understanding of where you are, practical tools you can begin using straight away, and a clearer idea of what your next steps might look like.
Our Approach
Different problems need different conversations.
Rather than trying to create one retreat that covers everything, each of our Transformational Retreats focuses on a particular challenge or stage of life.
The subject changes, but our approach remains the same: understand first, then begin to change.
Anxiety & Overthinking • Overwhelm & Overload • Living With Pain, Fatigue & Persistent Symptoms • Self-Worth, Boundaries & People-Pleasing • More Than Menopause • Sustainable Health Change
Calming The Mind
Anxiety & Overthinking
When your mind won't switch off.
Anxiety is part of the system designed to anticipate problems, recognise threats and keep us safe. But sometimes that system becomes a little too good at its job.
You might find yourself constantly thinking ahead, replaying conversations, imagining everything that could go wrong or trying to prepare for every possible outcome. Perhaps you avoid things that make you anxious, look for reassurance that everything will be okay, or find that as soon as one worry disappears, another takes its place.
This retreat explores what is actually happening when we experience anxiety and why some of the things we instinctively do to feel safer can unintentionally keep the cycle going.
We'll explore worry and overthinking, catastrophic thinking, avoidance and reassurance seeking, the relationship between thoughts, physical sensations and behaviour, and practical ways to respond differently.
Alongside the learning, there will be guided exercises, restorative practices, good food, breaks and plenty of space to absorb what you're discovering.
The aim isn't to eliminate anxiety from your life. It's to understand it better, feel less frightened by what your mind and body are doing, and leave with practical strategies for responding when anxiety shows up.
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UPCOMING DATES, PRICING & BOOKING
Saturday 17th October 2026
11am - 3pm
£45.00
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Saturday 5th December 2026
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£45.00
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Saturday 23rd January 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55
Reducing The Load
Overwhelm & Overload
Sometimes there isn't one enormous problem, there are twenty smaller ones.
Work. Family. Messages. Decisions. Responsibilities. Other people's needs. The things you haven't finished. The things you've forgotten. The things you're already worrying you'll forget.
Eventually, even something relatively small can feel like one demand too many.
This retreat explores what happens when the demands being placed upon us repeatedly exceed the physical, emotional and mental resources we have available to meet them.
We'll look at chronic stress, overload and burnout; why overwhelmed brains struggle with seemingly simple tasks; the cycles that can keep us pushing long after our capacity has been exceeded; and the role identity can play when we've become "the capable one", "the fixer", "the doer" or the person everybody relies upon.
We'll explore how to recognise your own patterns, understand the relationship between pressure and capacity, reduce unnecessary load and make realistic changes before reaching the point where your body or brain forces you to stop.
This isn't about reorganising your to-do list so you can squeeze even more in.
It's about understanding what's taking so much out of you — and finding the places where change is actually possible.
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UPCOMING DATES, PRICING & BOOKING
Saturday 13th February
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Saturday 22nd May 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Learning To Live
Living With Pain, Fatigue and Persistent Symptoms
When pain and fatigue change the shape of everyday life, living with persistent or fluctuating symptoms can affect almost every part of life.
Pain, fatigue, brain fog and limited or unpredictable energy can change how you work, socialise, exercise, make plans and spend your time. Even ordinary decisions can become calculations: How much energy do I have? What will this cost me? If I do this today, how will I feel tomorrow?
This retreat has been created particularly for people living with conditions such as fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and Long Covid, as well as those experiencing similar patterns of persistent pain, fatigue and fluctuating symptoms.
We'll explore the relationship between symptoms, stress and the nervous system; energy and activity patterns; boom-and-bust cycles; rest and recovery; thoughts and emotions; identity and the challenge of adapting to a body that doesn't always behave predictably.
This isn't about telling you that your symptoms are "all in your head", pushing through them or promising a cure.
It's about understanding some of the factors that can influence how we experience and live alongside persistent symptoms, finding practical ways to work with the capacity you have, and exploring how to build a meaningful life without making managing your health another exhausting full-time job.
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UPCOMING DATES, PRICING & BOOKING
Sunday 7th February
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Saturday 8th May 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Find Your Voice
Self-Worth, Boundaries & People Pleasing
People-pleasing isn't simply about being "too nice". Our patterns around approval, responsibility, conflict and boundaries can develop for very understandable reasons — and become so automatic that saying no feels far more uncomfortable than saying yes.
This retreat explores what can happen when our sense of worth becomes tangled up with being useful, agreeable, capable or needed.
We'll look at boundaries, guilt, responsibility and resentment; the difference between disappointing someone and doing something wrong; and the beliefs and identities that can sit underneath people-pleasing.
Through practical exercises, reflection and discussion, you'll begin identifying your own patterns and exploring different ways of responding.
The aim isn't to care less about other people.
It's to discover what caring for them can look like when you are included in the equation too.
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UPCOMING DATES, PRICING & BOOKING
Saturday 6th March
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Saturday 8th June 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Women's Health
More Than Menopause
Perimenopause and menopause can bring very real physical and emotional changes. But they're often happening at the same time as something much bigger.
Children may need us differently. Parents get older. Relationships evolve. Careers shift. Bodies change. Priorities move. Time suddenly feels a little more visible.
And somewhere amongst all of that, you may find yourself wondering who you are now — and what you actually want from the next part of your life.
More Than Menopause explores the wider experience of midlife, including the physical and psychological effects of hormonal change, but also identity, relationships, changing roles, health, confidence, expectations and what happens when the life you've spent years building starts to feel different.
There is no expectation that you arrive desperate to reinvent yourself.
For some women, this stage brings major change. For others, it's a quieter recalibration: recognising that the person you are now may need something different from the person you were ten or twenty years ago.
This retreat gives you something we don't always give ourselves enough of — time and space to consider what comes next.
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UPCOMING DATES, PRICING & BOOKING
Saturday 13th March
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Saturday 12th June 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Sustaining Change
Sustainable Health Change
Most of us already know quite a lot about being healthy.
Move more. Sleep enough. Eat well. Rest. Manage stress. Drink water. Build good habits.
Knowing it and consistently doing it are two very different things.
This retreat explores the psychology of behaviour change and why good intentions so often disappear when they collide with tiredness, stress, busy lives, old habits and the inevitable day when motivation doesn't turn up.
We'll look at how habits form, what influences motivation, why relying on willpower is rarely an effective long-term strategy and how all-or-nothing thinking can turn one difficult day into abandoning something completely.
We'll also explore goals, environment, identity, reward and setbacks, and how to make a desired behaviour easier to begin and easier to repeat.
This isn't a diet, fitness or weight-loss retreat, and nobody will be handing you a list of things you "should" be doing.
Instead, you'll choose the areas of your own health and wellbeing that matter to you and use what we're learning to explore changes that could realistically fit into your life.
Because sustainable change isn't about creating the perfect routine for your best week.
It's about creating something that still has a chance of working during a perfectly ordinary one.
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UPCOMING DATES, PRICING & BOOKING
Saturday 9th January 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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Saturday 12th June 2027
12:30pm - 16:30pm
£55.00
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MENTAL WELLBEING WORKSHOPS
PRACTICAL SUPPORT FOR REAL LIFE
A series of relaxed, standalone workshops exploring the things that can make everyday life feel harder — from setting boundaries and managing overload to catastrophic thinking and coping with change.
Each 90-minute session combines simple psychology, practical strategies and tools you can actually use in everyday life.
£25 PER WORKSHOP · THURSDAY EVENINGS