Weekend Workshop: Create your own Oracle Deck

Building confidence through inner exploration, shared creativity and archetypal wisdom.

A creative weekend away designed for people who are ready to take their next steps but feel stuck or held back by lack of confidence, negative thoughts, self sabotage or uncertainty.

A space for exploration, expansion and creativity, inspired by tarot, oracle decks, archetypes and medicine animals, designed to facilitate your unique personal expression.

This workshop takes place on our land in The Brecon Beacons. It will meet you wherever you are; we will guide you through introspective and artistic processes that will leave you with personalised techniques and a handmade oracle deck to support you in your everyday life.

Our workshops have been specifically designed using art as therapy to make practical creative resources to help you take your next steps in life by exploring what may have been holding you back. They are designed with beautiful outcomes in mind, regardless of whether the last time you used a paintbrush was in primary school, or you’re so highly qualified that you find it hard to create freely!

We host no more than 10 people at a time to ensure everyone receives plenty of support and guidance.

​Who is this workshop for?​

Maybe you're:

• Feeling lost, unclear or burnt out
• Craving more self expression
• Wanting to feel more confident
• Feeling like you're never enough
• Needing a digital detox
• Ready for a new way of living
• Feeling like something's wrong but you can't put your finger on it
• Self sabotaging
• Feeling shame without knowing why
• Longing to create but feeling blocked
• Wanting to clarify your next step

No matter what your life currently looks like, whatever your goals or intentions are; from starting a business, finding like minded community, improving your health, or simply getting out of bed in the morning, we want you to walk away from this weekend with tools, techniques and an oracle deck designed to support you on your journey.

Over the last few years we’ve not only used our techniques to support ourselves and our community, but we have met more and more people looking for this kind of support. We've designed our weekend workshops to support with:

• Identifying personal blocks and self judgements
• Gaining clarity on goals and priorities
• Encouraging authentic creative expression
• Exploring ways to live more in line with personal values
• Providing tangible and effective tools to use in every day life
• Building community based on honesty and authenticity

Additional Information

You will arrive at 4pm on Friday afternoon, have a tour of the land and a chance to settle in, followed by some introductions, a group dinner and some conversation and fun around the fire.

Saturday will be a full day of creative, introspective and group exercises, with breaks for tea and lunch throughout. We'll be exploring archetypes and personal characteristics, art practices to facilitate our visions, the limiting beliefs and stories we're currently tell ourselves and creating empowering new stories to help us move forwards with our goals and intentions. We'll be weaving these practices together to create a beautiful, personalised deck that will support you with whatever you need.

On Sunday, we will finish off our creations and wrap up our weekend together with some gentle practices and opportunities for sharing, ending around 3pm.

The weekend will be full of art and creativity, gentleness and replenishment, fun and connection, time in nature, nourishment and inspiration.

No experience is needed, in art or anything else!

(There will be optional sessions available on both Saturday and Sunday mornings for early risers, giving others the opportunity for a lie-in or some solo time.)

Included meals will be dinner on Friday evening, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on Sunday. All meals will be home cooked and vegetarian (with vegan options available), and you'll be able to let us know of any other dietary requirements upon booking.

We have a friendly dog and 2 lovely cats on site, and a river which you're welcome to swim in.

What will you walk away with?

Personalised techniques and a handmade oracle deck to increase your confidence and support you in your everyday life.

Who are we?

Clare & Holly: a pair of artists who have both climbed out of a pit of self-destructive behaviours and thought patterns, and stepped away from traditional roles and societal expectations. We love to sculpt, paint, draw, write, sing, read tarot, dance, sketch, explore, and host workshops to guide others towards their own unique expression.

For the last three years, we've been building community together at The Lavender Project, aiming to live as sustainably as possible and build and maintain healthy, supportive relationships. We’ve been helping people around us to do the same, using our own insights, practices and tried and tested techniques. We’ve been given wonderful feedback on how impactful this work is, so now we've put it all together into a series of workshops.

We're excited to share our resources, strategies and knowledge with a wider community- hopefully including you!

Testimonials

“I had a list as long as my arm of things I needed to achieve, so I was clear with what needed to be done, but at every point I found myself sabotaging and undermining. Hollys’ sessions gave me rock solid techniques and Clare’s produced physical objects to support my process and I’ve used them every day since”

"The Oracle deck workshop was really fun. There was a really good vibe and everyone was happy working on the task, but in their own way. I liked that the instructions on what to do where given in a way that we didn’t feel like we were being told that we had to do anything or that there was any pressure. There was lots of freedom, and we could’ve chosen to do it any way we wanted. There was a big choice of all the different things and materials; all the stuff we could’ve possibly needed or wanted to use, and lots of guidance and help if we weren’t sure about anything. I ended up being very pleased with what I did. I don’t consider myself very good at drawing, or at anything to do with art in any way, but what I ended up with was really good!"

“Working creatively with Clare was always very inspiring. With every project I learned something new whether that be skills, about the materials we were working with or about myself. I always felt very trusted and free with implementing my own ideas while also receiving support whenever needed. I left each time with new motivation to come up with my own projects.”​

Get in touch...

Want to ask some more questions before you book? Send us an email at thelavenderproject2016@gmail.com and we'll be happy to help!