A taste of what’s coming up
Emergence Nature Quest 2025
A Life Affirming Rite of Passage in Nature which includes a full four day & night solo.
Are you facing a turning point in your life? Wanting to mark a beginning, ending or transition?
17th – 26th July 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK
With Fern Smith and Philip Ralph, Artists & Wilderness Guides
Nantstock 2025: A Tiny Festival of Emergence
Festival of Emergence open to all on the mailing list including Artists in Residence at The Barn and those who have collaborated or undertaken a rite of passage with us.
An inspiring and spacious retreat/micro-festival; A week of connection, creativity and community.
9th – 15th August 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK
With Host Facilitators Fern Smith & Philip Ralph and the Emergence Community!
Living the Magical Life: RitualArtworKshop
7 day workshop exploring sacred ritual art practice, inspired by and in dialogue with Suzi Gablik and her book, ‘Living the Magical Life.’
An oracular adventure.
21st – 28th September 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK
With Artist/Guide Fern Smith
The Barn
The Emergence Centre for Residencies, Retreats & Workshops
Self-catering accommodation with studio/working space, ideal for writer’s retreats, solo and small group residencies, dance and performance research and development, or simply for time and space out for creative dreaming.
Emergence is an art, facilitation and ritual practice led by Fern Smith and Philip Ralph
We consciously seek to embody the values we treasure in the hope that a more creative, caring and compassionate planet might be our next r/evolution.
Emergence has nurtured and created spaces for dialogue, inspiration and change since 2010.
Emergence creates transformative spaces for individuals and groups. We make artworks, offer rites of passage initiatory ceremonies, lead creative workshops, offer individual coaching and mentoring, facilitate group processes and manage a retreat space in mid Wales for ‘artists in residence’ and small groups.
Rites of Passage Experiences
Meaningful initiatory processes to mark key life transitions, support healing and personal transformation with culturally appropriate and self-generated ceremony.
Residential Workshops & Retreats
Range of courses to develop and learn new skills in creative and nature-based practise, the embodied imagination, and trauma informed bodywork.
Coaching & Mentoring
One-to-one sessions providing a supportive, emergent online or in-person space for enquiry, reflection or change engaging with specific life/art/work issues.
Facilitation & Project Design
Creative design and bespoke facilitation to support learning, community-building, culture shift and change for creative, academic and not-for-profit projects and organisations
Artists Residencies & Hires
Space for solo and small group residencies, writer’s retreats, creative research and development, or simply for the artist-in-you to take time and space for dreaming and deep rest.
Artwork & Events
Practising the ‘Art of Living’ with pop-up, creative participatory projects with the guiding principle that ‘everyone is an artist’.
The world is changing.
How can we change with it?
Our vision for Emergence is to support the transformation we need to make in order to meet the challenges ahead of us.