Forest Bathing w/ Tansy Downman
A bespoke class combining Forest bathing, mindful movement and meditation by the trees with some Nature poetry.
Eat Your Weeds: Feeding and Healing with Common Plants w/ Katrina Wilmot
Keep Well Events is a company facilitating workshops focusing on holistic wellbeing and self sufficiency, explaining how the latter influences the overall mental wellbeing and contributes to sustainability. For this GVS workshop the emphasis is on food and its preservation, namely fermentation: the health benefits of this ancient food preservation process, its history, the microbiology…
The Living Heath w/ Mollie Matthews
Ashdown Forest is a mosaic of biodiversity and beauty, but its survival is not entirely an accident of nature — it is the result of a long history of human impact and coexistence. This talk explores the different management used to protect this internationally important landscape, and some of the myths of conservation, showing how…
Guided Walk and Talk w/ Tom Forward
Come take a walk with an expert guide to see and hear some of the wildlife that call Ashdown Forest home. Suitable for all ages, a relaxed walk into some of the nearby woods and meadows looking for butterflies, dragonflies, birds and more.
Imaginal Futures w/ Carla and Simon
At this crucial time in human-ecological history we see around us misuse of the imagination. Films, television, conversation and private rumination; we are surrounded by depictions of terror and apocalypse. And yet we do not have to fall before the facts. There are a number of ways we can meet them. We are not suggesting…
Quantum Psychedelics w/ Mikaela
In this deeply human and thought-provoking session, Michelle Manjarrez explores how connection, embodiment, and expanded awareness can transform the way we relate to ourselves, our teams, and technology. Drawing from psychedelic wisdom, neuroscience, emotional healing, and team coherence practices, she invites us to move beyond mental overload and reconnect with our bodies, emotions, and heart-centered…
Spore Society w/ Andrew Allright
Spore Society brings together mid-career professionals navigating transition: burnout, reinvention, financial shifts, identity questions, technological change. Not to escape your career, not to “fix” yourself, but to regenerate — personally, professionally, and collectively. This is a one-year living arc designed to help you reconnect with yourself, strengthen your life infrastructure, and build aligned next steps…
Big Feelings, Brilliant Kids w/ Nicci Parry
Practical tips to help your neurodivergent child thrive. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to support your neurodivergent child, and the impact it’s having on your whole family, this talk offers a reassuring and practical way forward. Nicci Parry invites you to reframe neurodivergence as neurogifted, a strength often influenced by underlying biological imbalances.…