Courses & Events at High Heathercombe Centre
2019/2020
Full Permaculture Design Course. 9th - 24th November
With Aranya and Klaudia van Gool
This practical course will bring the possibility of significant and positive life changes. Permaculture offers a perspective on all aspects of building a sustainable future. Permaculture encourages us to use our individual skills, knowledge and interests, whilst drawing on traditional wisdom, science and our innate ability to observe and learn from the world around us.
Course investment: £825 / £595 concessions
See www.learnpermaculture.com for full course details and bookings.
Felt Making. 26th - 28th November
With Mel Lamb
These autumn felt-making days, offer the chance to immerse yourself in colour, expand your creativity and to enjoy making a wide range of decorative 2D and wearable 3D work, including hangings, hats, slippers, cushions and bags.
Residential or non-residential 2 days: £220 res. / £170 non-res. and conc. (Tuition, all materials, accommodation, and catering inclusive.)
Please email high@heathercombe.com for booking forms and more information - Thank you
Grief Tending in Community. 6th - 9th December
With Sophy Banks, Jeremy Thres and team
Grieving is a natural process, allowing feelings such as sadness, loneliness, anger, despair and many more. The more we open ourselves to love others, to celebrate the beauty of our world, to long for peace and justice, the more we open ourselves to the pain of losing what we love, or the destruction and the inequality in the world around us. Over this spacious weekend our intention is to journey together to gently allow our grief to surface, give it expression and come to a place of integration and readiness to return to our lives. This long weekend gathering brings together many strands of grief work with elders including Sobonfu Some, Martin Prechtel and Joanna Macy, and draws on the work of Maeve Gavin and Wisdom Bridge.
Numbers are limited so encourage you to book early.
Workshop Fee: £280 Low Waged - £450 High Waged sliding scale. £25 discount for those returning.
This payment includes the costs of facilitation by a team of six, venue and accommodation, food and catering.
If you can contribute more on this scale then please do so, it will enable us to keep this work accessible.
If you need a bursary place, or to make an arrangement to pay in installments the please contact Jeremy.
It is our intention that money doesn't prevent anyone from attending, so please be in touch if you need to make an arrangement with us.
For more information and bookings please contact Jeremy 01647 432638, landtime1@gmail.com. or Sophy 01803 840877, sophyb@btinternet.com
Big Clean and Paint Volunteer Week. 20th - 24th January 2020
With the HH Team
Come and join us for a fun winter week, making ready for the busy year ahead at High Heathercombe. An opportunity to live in community and support the Centre with a focus on spring cleaning, decorating, and some light gardening. There will be an on-going creative project.
Please email high@heathercombe.com for booking and more information - Thank you for your support.
Tending our Grief for the World. 24th - 26th January
With Sophy Banks, Jeremy Thres and Mel Lamb
We live in times of continuing and escalating crises - in social justice and tolerance; in mental health; in environmental degradation and climate emergency; in democracy and accountability. For many in the world these crises have been a lived reality for a long time; for some they are coming closer than ever before. As we are repeatedly impacted by painful information, coming together to express our responses and feelings can be a much needed and transformative practice.
Honouring and making space to hear our suffering is already a radical act in a culture which requires denial and the silencing of our outrage, our grief and our legitimate fear. This weekend draws on the work of Joanna Macy whose 'Work That Reconnects' has been supporting healthy responses to large scale crises for decades, as well as the practices of grief tending from other traditions.
Hearing the pain and passion of others, and having our own true expression witnessed and honoured can help us to connect with each other, to free up the energy that is holding our feelings down, and to increase our sense of empowerment and possibility.
Workshop Fee: £180 Low Waged - £310 High Waged sliding scale.
This payment includes the costs of facilitation, venue and accommodation, food and catering. If you can contribute more on this scale then please do so, it will enable us to keep this work accessible.
If you need a bursary place, or to make an arrangement to pay in installments the please contact Sophy.
It is our intention that money doesn't prevent anyone from attending, so please be in touch if you need to make an arrangement with us. For more information and bookings please contact Sophy on 01803 840877, sophyb@btinternet.com
Apprenticing to Grief Tending. 7th - 12th February
With Sophy Banks and Jeremy Thres
A residential workshop for those wanting to develop their ability to hold spaces for tending grief. We invite you to join us in deepening into the mystery of grief tending – honouring grief as a teacher, a power for growth and evolution, and a source of healing and restoration for what feels broken in us and in our world.
This workshop is offered by facilitators based in Devon who have been running Grief Tending in Community workshops for over 5 years.
Over five days we will work with practices and understandings from different traditions of grief work. We will explore how to open pathways into the landscape of grief, hold space there, and guide the journey back, integrating our experience so we can go forward in our lives in a good way.
We welcome those already facilitating groups, and those wanting to step forward more – whether to hold space specifically for grief, or to build confidence to support grief to flow in different contexts.
Fees to be confirmed.
For more information please contact Jeremy on 01647 432638, landtime1@gmail.com or Sophy on 01803 840877, sophyb@btinternet.com
Volunteer Week. 24th -28th February
With the HH team
An opportunity to spend a week in supporting the Centre, working and playing high in the Dartmoor National Park. In return for your efforts we offer accommodation, scrumptious organic vegetarian/vegan food, good company and a gentle community experience in beautiful surroundings. Contact Mel by email for details and booking.
Jenaguru ~ Ceremonial Dance Retreat. 5th - 8th March
with Denise Rowe & Kennedy Chinyere
In the wilds of Dartmoor, in the quiet of winter, enter the magic of sacred mbira music, connecting us to the spirits of our ancestors. This retreat will centre around a full ceremonial mbira night with traditional Zimbabwean food, community prayers, and music, song and dance for the spirits into the night. We will explore traditional dances, music, songs and rhythms of the mbira, and open our embodied breathing beings to connect with the land, our ancestors and our heart prayers as a community. The mbira opens a sacred liminal space, a bridge drawing the seen and unseen worlds together in a way that has been happening in rural Zimbabwe for thousands of generations. This is real community dance, this is dance that matters to us, the dance of our lives.
Denise Rowe, is an internationally recognised dance & movement artist and mbira player with over fifteen years experience in facilitating safe spaces for powerful transformation.
Kennedy Chinyere, recently arrived in the UK from Zimbabwe, and has been playing mbira for over twenty years.
Please contact us for more information or to book a place-
07723329414 helloearthdances@gmail.com
Spring Permaculture Design Course. 14th - 29th March
With Aranya and Caroline Aitken
This practical residential course will bring the possibility of significant and positive life changes. Permaculture offers a perspective on all aspects of building a sustainable future. Permaculture encourages us to use our individual skills, knowledge and interests, whilst drawing on traditional wisdom, science and our innate ability to observe and learn from the world around us.
£895 / £650 Concs.
For more Information please see http://learnpermaculture.com/courses/courses/heathercombe-pdc-spring
Powerful Practices for Transforming Times. 31st March - 5th April
A Rich Weaving of Deep Adaptation, Trauma Healing, Grief Tending and Permaculture Design.
More details to follow.
with Jayaraja
This retreat is an opportunity to come together as a temporary community to explore what it means to live from the heart. Being in touch with our hearts helps us to feel more alive to ourselves and sensitive to others, helping us to see what truly matters and to live authentically. Jayaraja will beautifully interweave led meditation, simple ritual, communication teaching and community, whilst also allowing space for silence, long walks, reflection and fun.
Fees £295 full waged, £195 low waged, £100 unwaged
Booking deposit : £80
Please email high@heathercombe.com for booking forms and more information - Thank you
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There are concessionary places available on most courses and events
For more information please call Mel Lamb on 07791 601737
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