This Earthworks Circle falls at the Autumn Equinox
Please email hello@stephaniegooding.co.uk to book:
- Earthworks outdoor day, ‘Coming Home’, 10am-4:30pm, with Stephanie & Gail,
- Autumn Equinox evening celebration, 6pm - 9pm, Rachel Cheer, Hope Ceremonies
- both.
We will be based in a woodland environment for this outdoor day, where we will make camp for the day. Our practical focus will be on the interconnected and reciprocal relations in a woodland, looking at the funghi networks and the ecological web. Our psychological theme will be looking at balance and reciprocation, reflecting on give and take with people in our lives and with nature that sustains our lives. The archetype we are looking at is that of the Healer - exploring our own mysterious intuitive sense and body wisdom and how it is always oriented towards equilibrium. We will also learn about the positive psychology technique of cultivating a mind of gratitude.
Tiered pricing for the Earthworks outdoor day: £40/60/80 (trust basis).
Facilitators:
Stephanie Gooding, Chartered Counselling Psychologist, HCPC Registered.
Gail Turner, is a qualified and experienced counsellor, her recent M.Sc. Counselling focused on working outdoors. She is currently working as a counsellor while undertaking M.Sc. Mindfulness, following a background in the study and practice of Buddhism and Mindfulness.
Evening Celebration with Rachel Cheer- Hope Ceremonies from 6pm to 9pm. £10.
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More about the Earthworks Circle
The Earthworks circle is an opportunity to come together to deepen our connection with nature and build the foundations of psychological strength and resilience.
This course consists of 8 outdoor days, each drawing inspiration from the season to reflect aspects of the human lifespan and development. Each outdoor day is a change to be part of a small group (max. 8) exploring a themed aspect of the local environment and reflecting on an archetypal aspect of the psyche.
The outdoor days will involve bushcraft skills such as shelter building, firelighting and foraging; a light touch education on an aspect of the living natural environment, such as botanical surveys, rock, identification, birdsong, tree identification. There will be some psychoeducation and group and paired self-reflection and discussion and some group exercises to explore questions and try out skills.
Each day explores an archetype, an icon in the collective unconscious (warrior, healer, child etc.), that facilitates certain capacities and qualities that can become part of our internal resources. These archetypal themes are framed within the Celtic wheel of the year, our indigenous representation of the archetype of the mandala or the medicine wheel that contains all things in dynamic equilibrium.