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Reconnect to Source: A Day of Emergence

Spend a day in the valley in contemplation and open awareness, exploring and sensing into the surrounding land and opening to your ‘inner world.’

Supporting changemakers making change in service of life on earth

26th January, 9th February & 23rd February 2025
Come to just one, two or all three days

Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artist/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Shake It Off ‘TRE’ Retreat: Learn TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises)

Small Group Retreat to learn and practise TRE in a nourishing, creative and enjoyable way.

Reconnect to health and potency, alleviate stress and support the nervous system.

Spring Retreat: 6th – 9th March 2025

Spring Retreat is now Full. Please contact me for extra forthcoming Spring Retreat dates awaiting confirmation.

Autumn Retreat: 13th – 16th November 2025


Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Certified TRE Provider & Craniosacral Therapist Fern Smith

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Spring Forward 2025: Inside/Outside Retreat

Small group guided Spring retreat marking the start of ‘British Summer Time,’ and the turning from winter and the darkness towards the light.

The clocks are going forward.

How about you?

27th – 30th March 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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From Pitch To Pilot: Retreats for Mid-career Screenwriters

An immersive week-long retreat living and working together with four other experienced screenwriters

Spring Retreat: 5th – 12th April 2025

Autumn Retreat: 4th – 11th October 2025


Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Screenwriter/Facilitator Philip Ralph

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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!

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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.’

21st – 28th September 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artist/Guide Fern Smith

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Fall Back 2025: Inside/Outside Retreat

A creative and contemplative guided small group Autumn retreat marking the end of ‘British Summer Time’.

Turning towards the darker times.

A time for rest, reflection and rejuvenation.

23rd – 26th October 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Shake It Off ‘TRE’ Retreat: Learn TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises)

Small Group Retreat to learn and practise TRE in a nourishing, creative and enjoyable way.

Reconnect to health and potency, alleviate stress and support the nervous system.

14th – 17th November 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Certified TRE Provider & Craniosacral Therapist Fern Smith

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The Changing Room: Monthly Meet-up

Small group online check-in to support ourselves as we navigate change in a changing world so we can keep showing up to do the work which is ours to do.

See you in the Emergence Zoom Room.

3rd Sunday of the Month 2024

6pm-8pm GMT
Online

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Spring Forward 2024: Inside/Outside Retreat

Small group guided Spring retreat marking the start of ‘British Summer Time,’ the symbology of Easter and the turning away from the darkness towards the light.

The clocks are going forward.

How about you?

28th – 31st March 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Reconnecting to Source: Incorporating your Rite of Passage

A re-immersion into the practice of Emergence for those who have already undergone Vision Fast, Space for Change or a shorter rite of passage with us.

Deepen your practice of rites of passage and nature, body and spirit connection.

25th – 28th April 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artist/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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A Space for Change 2024: Retreat & Rite of Passage

A creative and contemplative guided small group retreat.

A week of deep rest, reflection and inquiry.

13th – 20th July 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Guided Group Retreats Rites of Passage in Nature

Nantstock 2024: 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.

7th – 14th August 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Host Facilitators Fern Smith & Philip Ralph and the Emergence Community!

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Guided Group Retreats Research & Practice

From Pitch To Pilot: Retreats for Mid-career Screenwriters

An immersive week-long retreat living and working together with four other experienced screenwriters

2nd – 9th November 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Screenwriter/Facilitator Philip Ralph

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Art Happenings Artworks Guided Group Retreats

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.’

21st – 28th September 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artist/Guide Fern Smith

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Fall Back 2024: Inside/Outside Retreat

A creative and contemplative guided small group Autumn retreat marking the end of ‘British Summer Time’.

Turning towards the darker times.

A time for rest, reflection and rejuvenation.

24th – 27th October 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Nature in Mind 2024: Deep Nature Immersion

An Emergence/Nature in Mind Collaboration

Exploring gateways to the sacred imaginal in nature.

2nd – 5th August 2024

Ruskin Mill College & Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England.

With Guides Fern Smith & Roger Duncan

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Shake It Off ‘TRE’ Retreat: Learn TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises)

Small Group Retreat to learn and practise TRE in a nourishing, creative and enjoyable way.

Reconnect to health and potency, alleviate stress and support the nervous system.

9th – 12th May 2024
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Certified TRE Provider & Craniosacral Therapist Fern Smith

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Bardsey Time 2022: Ynys Enlli Equinox Retreat

A guided group retreat consciously marking the Equinox.

Come, join us to consciously and creatively mark the 2022 Autumn Equinox, on Bardsey Island, Ynys Enlli in Welsh, located two miles off the coast of the Llyn Peninsular, North Wales.

17th – 24th September 2022
Bardsey Island, North Wales, UK

With Fern Smith & Judith Mills

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Spring Forward 2022: An Inside/Outside Retreat

A creative and contemplative guided small group retreat.

The clocks are going forward. How about you?

A small group, deep retreat, marking the moment at The Barn in the Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales.

24th – 27th March 2022
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Bardsey Time 2021: The Enlli Equinox Retreat

A creative and contemplative guided group retreat.

Come, join us to consciously and creatively mark the 2021 Autumn Equinox, on Bardsey Island, Ynys Enlli in Welsh, located two miles off the coast of the Llyn Peninsular, North Wales.

18th – 25th September 2021
Bardsey Island, North Wales, UK

With Fern Smith & Judith Mills

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Fall Back 2023: An Inside/Outside Retreat

A creative and contemplative guided small group retreat.

Turning towards the darker times

A time for rest, reflection and rejuvenation.

A small group, deep retreat at The Barn in the Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales.

2nd – 5th November 2023
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK

With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph

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Space for Change (2019)

Retreat. Rest. Reflect. Rejuvenate. Restore. Return.

Nant-y-Gwenill, Aberhosan, nr Machynlleth, mid Wales

We warmly invite you to join us for a unique retreat at our home in the beautiful, peaceful surroundings of the mid-Wales hills. A Space for Change is a pilot project by Emergence directors Fern Smith and Philip Ralph with eight affordable places to be part of a week of deep rest, reflection and inquiry.

As the world’s systems of balance, governance and climate spin ever more out of control, many of us are reflecting on where we are in our own lives and how we might change to meet and serve the demands of life on earth in the 21 st century. We want to offer a space to you if: you are at a point of change in your life; you are asking yourself deep questions about your role in this time of collapse; if you want to kickstart a period of transition; if you are blocked or stymied in your work/life/creativity.

We moved to this part of Wales from Swansea after a lifetime of work in the creative industries of theatre, film and television. We have both undergone deep processes of change and rejuvenation through immersing ourselves in diverse and myriad practices of ritual, rites of passage, spiritual inquiry, coaching, meditation, and facilitation. Now, we want to offer our home and ourselves as a resource and a haven, sharing our learnings in a co-created retreat space that will enable you to dig deep into your own personal inquiries around change, collapse, renewal and rebirth.

A Space for Change is a unique form of retreat. We will join together in the beautiful, peaceful environs of our home, Nant-y-Gwenill, an eco-converted farmhouse in the hills above Machynlleth in mid-Wales. We will live in community, cooking, eating, walking, reading and dreaming together. We will guide you through meditations, rituals, medicine walks and time alone in nature, all to enable you to deeply inquire into your own personal intentions towards your life and future. It is our hope that each
participant will leave us and return to the world re-invigorated with a fresh sense of purpose.

There are eight places available for this retreat, all of them at affordable rates. As experienced event organisers, we know that work of this kind is often priced too highly for the majority of people to take part. In this pilot project, we will share food and accommodation costs, and we will keep our teaching fees at a low level, in order to make it affordable to as broad a range of people as possible.

We are sending you this invitation as we know that you are deeply engaged in your own life process around questions of change, sustainability, and transformation. We hope that you will consider joining us for what promises to be a truly special week’s retreat.

To discuss further and to secure your place, please contact us – We look forward to welcoming you.