Dreamers of the Wild Beyond is an umbrella term for a series of gatherings, artistic containers and guided soul-craft processes that I’ve been exploring and offering over the last year. It is informing the ever-emerging dream of Two Rivers Land School, a future vision of weaving ancestral constellations with earth-emergent transformative justice, practices of belonging, land stewardship and crafting artistic containers for ushering in the movements of soul.
This immersive iteration of Dreamers of the Wild Beyond is a container for unbecoming, a way of living the question collectively: how do we compost modernity, how do we live an ensouled life - a life drenched in soul in spite of if not because of – it collapsing around us.
Do you feel as though the old ways of living life, the roles or jobs you’ve constructed simply no longer hold meaning in this age of unravelling?
Do you yearn to have an inkling as to your place of belonging to a wider and wilder story of initiation, of a mytho-poesis that will carry you through the changes needed to meet these times? Do you wish to find a deeper role for your artistic practice in this – one infused with mythos, ceremony, intention and collective alchemy?
We will weave ancestral constellations, soul-craft practices of meeting land and inner and outer psyche, dreamwork, council and medicine walks, to listen to the deeper layer of soul movements wanting to ignite our aliveness.
We will explore collective practices including working with natural dye, foraged clay, outdoor movement, and self-designed ceremony/ritual/performance for the wild others and each other, to hone the artistic containers to house these movements of soul.
What’s included:
Four days, five evenings guided in a container for creative, artistic, soul-based enquiry, family constellations and community council.
One simple, hearty cooked meal a day, snacks and tea/coffee.
Art materials.
Not included:
Accommodation – there are many local options, including local camp sites and BnBs.
Cost:
Bursary: £290
Supported: £350
Stable: £450
Abundant: £520
There are a few bursary places available. Please contact me if interested or if money is a barrier.
Otherwise, please use discernment to pay the tier that you feel applies to you. Imagining that Bursary and Supported places are prioritised for those facing systemic barriers for example BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled folks, working class creatives, single household parents; Stable are those able to pay rent and buy good food, take a holiday, work part time or full time by choice; Abundant are those owning their own property, able to take courses for creative/personal development when they choose to, are in a financially comfortable situation. Paying a stable or abundant rate helps others to join and enables me to pay myself for this work. There is no judgement on which tier you choose! Thank you x
Who am I?
I’m an artist and facilitator, working across movement, performance, visual art and sound work. I am a trained family constellations therapist and rites of passage guide, focussing specifically on the journey of soul and its descent as a methodology. I’m a river tender and bridge builder, a queer being and singer of threshold songs. I hold a PhD in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, which tracked an ongoing methodology of listening to land and ancestors, and suturing the spiritual and political from an earth-emergent ethics. This course arises from queer lived experience and sees queer and trans beings as vision holders for an unimagined future, actively welcoming these bodies and voices. It is my passion to share 20 years of soul-based practices and enquiry and weave together the trainings I’ve received over the years.
Accessibility:
We will visit different sites including coastline and woodland, and some of these will require up to a 45 minute walk and some mixed terrain. We will also take daily wanders, although a wander can also look like resting in an outdoor setting. Please reach out with any accessibility questions.
Where?
We will situate our enquiry amongst the chalk cliffs, clay and hag-stone beaches, woodlands and gorse-fields of Folkestone and its surrounds, in Kent. An area charged with ancient human pilgrimage routes, tidal waters with all the mutabilities of erosion, and of course touching distance of “the channel” which might both be a channel/oracle, as well as an activated “border” site, with tensions and polarities emanating from it. This will provide a potent melting pot and mirror for working with our inner wild psyches and their reflections in the wild world.
Getting there:
We will work from different sites, and car pool if we are working site-specifically one day. Please let me know if you’re thinking of coming in a vehicle. The main hub we will meet at is on the Canterbury Rd out of Folkestone - accessible by a 5 min bus ride from town, or by car / taxi / 40 min walk on foot.
When?
Arriving evening of 1st July, by 6pm
Leaving mid afternoon 5th July, c. 4pm