Resourced from Within

A Weekend Educational Retreat for Frontline, Leadership and Wellbeing Professionals

Reconnect with the clarity, resilience, and wisdom that sustains you from the inside-out.

What This Retreat Is About

At the heart of this retreat is an exploration of the inside-out nature of life and learning from the 3 Principles at the source of our experience.

Rather than learning strategies to cope or techniques to manage stress, this retreat explores an understanding that:

  • Frees up energy that has been tied up in overthinking, self-management or emotional labour

  • Deepens resilience without hardening or detaching

  • Allows you to work alongside suffering, complexity and challenge without it eroding your own wellbeing

  • Supports a way of being with others that is compassionate, clear and sustainable, without self-sacrifice.

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Practalities and cost

“This understanding is something which will stick with me for life and actually grows more’

— Tom

Who is this retreat for?

This retreat is designed for:

  • Frontline professionals working in health, education, social care or community roles

  • Leaders carrying responsibility for people, teams or systems

  • Coaches, therapists and wellbeing practitioners

  • Anyone who supports others through challenge and wants to do so without burnout

You do not need prior experience with this understanding. Curiosity, openness and a willingness to slow down are enough.

How will this retreat support you?

A Space to Rest, Revitalise, and Renew

Alongside the educational aspect, this retreat is intentionally designed to offer rest and renewal.

This is not time away to fix yourself. It is time to remember what is already intact beneath the noise and demands of daily life.

There will be a gentle rhythm of teaching, dialogue, reflection, breathwork, music and quiet time, allowing learning to settle and nourish rather than overwhelm.

Previous participants have described leaving with:

  • A quieter mind and increased sense of vitality.

  • Greater ease with both personal and professional relationships.

  • A renewed confidence in their ability to lead and care for others without it depleting them.

  • Awareness of how to be deeply present with others’ suffering without absorbing it

  • Connection with their own innate capacity for insight, healing and wisdom.

  • Being part of a community for ongoing support

Compassionate coaching

Why I’m offering this …

Supporting professionals to sustain offering quality compassionate care to those in need has been at the heart of my work since 1998.

I spent the first 10 years of my career working internationally in emergency response before I burnt out and realised that intellectually knowing (and training others in) what to do to be resilient and well, did not mean I acted on it.

My doctorate in organisational and social psychology examined what motivate health and social care professionals and enables them to sustain offering compassionate care.

I believe the quality of compassion and care we can sustainably offer others is entirely linked to the quality of love and understanding we offer ourselves.

Understanding how we humans experience life from the inside-out and are designed to recover, adapt and thrive has profoundly changed the quality of peoples’ lives, and the quality of support they offer others. I want everyone to be aware of it for themselves.

Practicalities

Setting

The retreat takes place in a peaceful rural venue that supports both learning and deep rest.

The natural environment supports the nervous system to settle, allowing insight to surface more easily and learning to land more deeply.

You’ll have access to:

  • A wildlife swim pond for cold water immersion

  • A sauna

  • Open field space for reflection, walking and quiet conversation

  • Sheltered space to sit around a fire

Cost - £295

Accommodation

The retreat price is inclusive of camping, with space to pitch your own tent and full access to all facilities.

For those who prefer indoor accommodation, there are a few options on site for an extra cost, including shared room, individual rooms and a shepherds hut.

Details and prices for each option will be provided upon booking.

All participants, regardless of accommodation choice, are part of the full retreat experience.

Food

Food and drink is included. Meals are vegetarian and nourishing. Dietary requirements catered for where possible

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Endorsements

  • This is something which will stick with me for life and actually grows more.

    I found the learning on the course to be enlightening and it is something that always feels like it’s there, unlike other training or courses, the content of which fades quite quickly. This is something that will stick with me for life and actually grows more”.

    Tom Toogood, Technical Advisor, Environment Agency. (1 year on from undertaking Resilience Program)

  • The big difference with this course is its permanency

    The big difference with this course compared to other mental health/wellbeing interventions is it’s permanency.

    It is about building resilience now and for the future to sustain mental wellbeing rather than to fix a short term or immediate crisis.”

    Mark Russell, Head of Centre, Environment Agency. (1 year on from attending Resilience Program)

  • The glasses need to be viewed so you can realise your own presence and peace

    It was like being given pair of new glasses to see the world. The glasses might shakeup everything you thought or they might deepen everything you already knew. Whatever they do the glasses need to be viewed so you can realise your own presence and peace.

    Gina Hayes, Yoga Teacher, Director of Yoga Sunshine - small group coaching program

  • I have found myself in a calmer place since doing the RAW training...

    I felt something really shifted in me in a positive way that day. Kirstien was a very skillful facilitator finding the right balance of giving psychological theory for reflection and holding space for people to talk. I felt really heard and validated and it was very team building too. I have found myself in a calmer place since doing the RAW training and much more present. The venue is absolutely beautiful in nature and very peaceful, the perfect environment to have an away day, let go of work and come back to the self and re-set.

    Anna Berkley. Midwife. Attended 1 day RAW training

  • I now have a completely different appreciation for life, people and perspectives.

    “This course is a life-changer and a game-changer. I have a completely different appreciation for life, people and perspectives. I also am stress and anxiety free. I really now also understand how damaging and pointless that anxiety and stress was”.

    Mark Roden - Operations Manager (1 Year on from undertaking Resilience program)

  • It didn't feel like pressure just a gentle teasing in a new direction

    “Everything was encouraged, allowed - there were no rights and wrong with how things landed for us. It didn't feel like pressure just a gentle teasing in a new direction. Loved it!"

    Sophia Chowdry, Film Set Decorator - small group coaching program

  • I have felt myself feel more settled, more accepting of myself and more able to meet the challenges in my life.

    Thank you so much Kirstien and Sarah. This has been a brilliant experience. Week by week I have felt myself feel more settled, more accepting of myself and more able to meet the challenges in my life. From the moment I set foot in the field, you helped me to feel welcome and at ease. I’m so grateful for this opportunity to spend time with such a wise, kind group of people in such a beautiful space.

    Tallulah Street, Yoga Teacher (after 3 month psychological fitness program)

  • I've seen its possible to live without blame and let go of heaviness from the past

    “I’ve touched an incredible deep sense of wellbeing that can’t be taken away, even by illness or death.

    In my moments of insight I have felt light and free, and really really well in a deeply peaceful way. I’ve seen that it’s possible to live without blame and to let go of lots of heaviness from the past I was still carrying”.

    Pip Jones Mindfulness & Breathworks Director of Skylarker, after 6-month small group coaching program

  • I am motivated to take on the world with new ideas and a fresh perspective.

    “Every time I speak to Kirstien I am, myself, motivated to take on the world with new ideas and a fresh perspective, and I am grateful to have got to know her over these last years.”

    Sara Ledger, Research & Development Manager, Babylifeline

  • I find Kirstien's commitment to transforming issues and difficulties refreshing and inspiring

    I have had the pleasure of working with Kirstien for over 5 years. As well as becoming a valued friend my experience is that she brings with her a high level of willingness to create great relationships, great work and has consistently produced great results. I find her commitment to transforming issues and difficulties refreshing and inspiring and I am constantly surprised at her level of ability in perceiving what works. I know that her wealth of personal qualities and background experience will always make a big difference for people.

    Simon Daly, Director InterBe, Transformative Learning & Development

  • Nothing has come as close to being as transformative

    In my 20 years in the workplace I have experienced a lot of training. Nothing has come close to being as transformative as what Kirstien and Claire invited us to experience. If you get the chance, take it in a heartbeat!

    Dr Crystal Moore, Deputy Director Head Flood and Incidence Management, Environment Agency after 1 year Resilience Program