Intentions - a creatively playful and meaningful approach to the coming year

3 evenings on Wednesdays 22nd and 29th January and 5th February 
Online 6 - 8pm £75

Join this online group for a poetic and soulful approach to the coming year inspired by nature and our inner knowings....something in us loves to respond to symbols and image making ​

Learning to listen to what speaks to you - whether animal, plant, bird, insect, mountain, river, or any other part of the family of things 


Discover how through simple image making we can express something of the essence of our inner promptings  and create powerful symbols of our transformations to come. Inspired by the natural world, poetry and our natural ability to find metaphors.  We will explore meaning-making through exercises that encourage playfulness, imagination and confidence in simple mark-making

Join this small online group for a poetic and soulful approach 2025

​I use visual language to explore whats important to me, and to tend to inner promptings. Like the year I decided that for my new years resolution i would bring the intention of embracing Stoat qualities - something about the tenacity of stoats was my inspiration. Rather than the usual mental list of things to do or not to do that i never got very far with, i was inspired to take a more poetic approach to embodying changes. I knew my body would listen to visual prompts more easily, and something in me really resonated with the chance to embrace a sense of wildness helping me grow.

For the next year i went for the Crow and explored the theme in more depth - and also shaped my practice into the following workshop

"The spirit of the depths is an ancient part of you. The part that responds to the invisible world. The part that makes no sense and speaks in heavy symbols. Your madness, your dreams, your visions. The spirit of the depths speaks in archetypes, masks, animal shapes. It is drawn to nature and wilderness.....We have been running after all things, we have been seizing hold of them, but we have not found our soul, since we would find it only in ourselves" Kae Tempest, On connection  



 The Family of Things - email me to book your place [email protected] 

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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver