two rivers summer school
What might emerge if we come together to tend the soul of the individual, collective, ancestors and land?
Two Rivers summer school brings together two rivers of wisdom: ancestral constellations and the four shields of knowing.
You will be supported in how these practices and their principles guide our listening to the more-than-human world, each other and the collective soul. Threaded throughout the week are perspectives by artists and facilitators working with plant allies, dreams and land justice.
There will be space for personal enquiry, as well as the chance to listen collectively through specific questions we ask the land and systemic field on behalf of future generations and current conditions.
Two Rivers Summer school is an iteration of a longer term dream, which you can read about here ! Come and be a part of its first iteration!
Where is it?
The Quadrangle, Kent, is a nature-led retreat space for individuals and organisations who need room to reflect and reconnect: https://thequadrangle.co/
We will be based in the meadow field, with access to shepherd's hut, airstream (cosy reading space), bell tent, outdoor kitchen, two compost loos and beautiful chalk river!
Accommodation consists of camping (bring your own tent) or staying in one of the shelters listed above.
What's included?
Five days of gathering with schedule of rich offerings, food, and camping/glamping.
Cooking will be shared throughout the week, so expect to contribute in a small team to cooking at least one meal during the time.
What does it cost?
To participate for five days, we ask for a sliding scale donation, starting at £180 and going up to £650.
This is an unfunded gathering, so costs are required to enable the renting of the space to be together, and food to eat together.
If you are able to donate more, this enables those facing systemic barriers to attend and the costs to still be covered (e.g. global majority, trans folk, those dealing with disabilities, solo parents needing childcare, working class artists); at best it would allow for facilitators to be paid (the low scale doesn’t cover a facilitator fee).
If you'd like to stay in one of the glamping options, a higher tier price is recommended; please enquire about that to make sure we have space available.
What's the flow of the week?
At the core of our time together is a container called The Way of Council, a simple but direct way of coming together in dialogue to hear a multiplicity of perspectives and truths. The days will consist of morning dreamwork (for the individual and collective); solo walks out on the land with specific enquiries + returning to share experiences and receive mirroring; constellations work and its principles for self/community/organisations; emergent systemic rituals; river swimming and movement, somatic practice, rest, poetry (!) cooking and eating and campfires together!
We will be based in the meadow field, with access to shepherd's hut, airstream, bell tent, outdoor kitchen and beautiful chalk river.
Accommodation consists of camping (bring your own tent) or staying in one of the shelters listed above.
Is it for me?
This is a gathering of those yearning for, working in, or living into stewardship, community, ecological tending, social justice, creative practice.
It is for anyone looking for connected ways of being for their life, work or community. It is for anyone eager to feed the flame of an emergent pedagogy together and learn more about the potentials of the systemic field to support community and connection to the wider web of life.
Personal enquiry and collective listening to the field will be woven together through the week to inspire and resource us with new or deepened practices in times of unravelling.
Apply to register:
There are limited spaces for this gathering as we’d like to keep the learning field relatively intimate.
To register your interest, please write a short email telling us who you are (in whatever way you feel!), why this work speaks to you/why you’d like to come, and how it might feed you/your work.
laura-burns@live.co.uk
We’ll get back to everyone latest by mid-end July. Many thanks.