Exploring Transitions; a nature-inspired, creative workshop

I am an integrative counsellor, Wild Therapist and nature-inspired group facilitator.  I am based in Faversham, Kent.I offer individual therapy for a vast range of issues. I work in a collaborative way, offering creative tools for exploring thoughts and feelings. I work both indoors and outdoors, including walking therapy.Not everyone wants or can access individual counselling, so I develop and deliver workshops that offer the opportunity for self reflection. These workshops are not counselling or therapy, but may provide tools for greater self awareness which could have a therapeutic benefit.

Louise Allen

Transitioning into the new year, we will take inspiration from nature to creatively explore what you're bringing forward and leaving behind

langdon: a garden for people and planet

<h2>Thinking about resolutions or intentions for the coming year? Reflecting on the year that has passed?</h2><h3>If you enjoy being in/with nature, finding new perspectives or exploring creative ways to connect your inner and outer world, then this might be a workshop for you.</h3><p></p><h3>ABOUT THE WORKSHOP - transitions </h3><p>This coming January, I invite you to join me for a creative, nature-inspired workshop to explore what transitioning into the new calendar year means for you.</p><p>Transition definition : - the process or period of changing from one state or condition to another.</p><p>Transitions are constantly happening within us, around us and we are continually part of wider transitions.  These might be environmental (seasons changing, moving house, climate change), social (the end or start of a relationship, children moving out, changes in policy and cultural attitudes, the death of someone we love), personal to us (a tooth falling out, menstruation, an accident or physical condition that alters our life, psychological change such as developing new beliefs about ourselves or letting go of old habits).</p><p>Existentially speaking, we are meaning-making beings; the ways in which we find purpose drive us forward.   This workshop asks - what happens when we intentionally rest in our transitional journey through life; what have we left behind and what are we carrying forward?</p>

<h3>NATURE-INSPIRED - cycles and growth processes</h3><p>For the past few years, I have intentionally been paying more attention to the cycles and transitions of nature, both within and around me. In early January, we have just passed the shortest day of Winter Solstice (21st December 2023) and are in the darkness and environmental rest of winter.  Socially, many people take the opportunity to set resolutions or intentions for the coming year, looking ahead to what is to come and reflecting back on the year gone.</p><p>So, as we move from 2022 into 2023, I offer this workshop as an opportunity to take inspiration from nature and rest with what it is to be where you are right now; and to reflect on what you are leaving behind and bringing forward. </p><p></p><h3>WHAT TO EXPECT - reflection and creativity</h3><p>Based at Langdon Garden, we will be both outdoors in and around the garden,  and inside the  beautiful Granary space.</p><p>We will spend time being still and resting - using nature-based mindfulness techniques to tune into where we are at in life right now.  </p><p>We will gently move around the garden at your own pace and observe the natural world around us, taking inspiration from what we see. Using natural materials from the garden, we will create temporary artwork to explore the transitional themes of letting go, leaving behind and carrying forward.  </p><p>I am a qualified therapeutic counsellor with a particular interest in outdoor therapy and our experience of being alive.  (Find out more about me here - www.ferncounselling.space).   I will bring self-reflective facilitation to the workshop to enable you to explore meaning in what you and others create.  I aim to create a gentle, respectful atmosphere and hope to provoke thought and a fruitful space for you to gain a new or deeper understanding of your inner world. The workshop will not be group therapy. You may, however, find it therapeutic.</p><p>You may share as much or as little as you like and there will be plenty of opportunity for individual reflection and journalling throughout the process.</p>

<h3>WHAT TO BRING</h3><p><strong>For the workshop</strong></p><p>Materials will be provided for the workshop and sourced within the garden, but you are very welcome to bring your favourite art materials, sketchbook and journal.</p><p>Water, hot drinks and cake will also be provided for workshop participants. (Please let me know when you book if you have any allergies or dietary preferences and I will be happy to accommodate).</p><p>As we will be based outdoors for at least some of the session, please wear clothes and shoes appropriate for the weather.</p><p></p><h3>TIMINGS - </h3><p>Sunday 8th January</p><p>1.45pm-2pm - Arrival and settling in for workshop participants</p><p>2pm - Workshop starts</p><p>5pm - Workshop ends</p><h3></h3><h3>TICKET OPTIONS - </h3><p><strong>Workshop </strong>- £40 </p><p>If you are currently experiencing financial abundance and would like to support subsidising places on this and future workshops, you might want to add a donation to The Wild Space Kent when you check out.</p><p>L﻿angdon Gardens Gift Vouchers are valid for this workshop - please enter the code at checkout.</p><p><em>See "Accessibility" below for additional pricing options.</em></p><p></p><h3>ACCESSIBILITY</h3><p><strong>Transport -</strong> We encourage people to minimise car use wherever possible, but for those travelling by car, onsite parking is available at Langdon Garden.</p><p>For travel directions including public transport, walking, cycling and driving to Langdon Garden please visit - https://www.langdongarden.com/contact-visit</p><p><strong>Physical access </strong>- At present, there are areas of Langdon Garden which are accessible by wheelchair or mobility scooter, and areas which are not.  The Granary is up 5 steps. The toilet is indoors on the ground floor and up a small step into the house.</p><p>If you would like to discuss your individual needs for accessing the workshop, please contact me before booking.</p><p><strong>Affordability </strong>- I am offering a couple of "pay what you can" spaces on the workshop for those currently unable to pay the full price. Please contact me if you would like to take up one of these spaces.  </p>

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