Workshops 2007

All profits from workshops, courses and events go towards the Woodspirit Sacred Land Fund!

VENUE/TIMES: Trosley Country Park, Vigo Kent just off the A227 between Wrotham and Gravesend. 10am

DETAILS: With the festive season over, us wild sensitive souls can feel like we need to brake free, feel the land beneath us, the chill winter air upon our skin and the wind whistling through the bare armed trees. This walk is about helping us to find our wild soul expression once more; with journeying, ritual, drumming and feasting round a fire at the end.

19th May 2007, 18th - 19th August 2007 (Sweatlodge), 24th November 2007, 23rd February 2008

DETAILS: The aim of this course is to provide you with a sacred space to assist your journey to finding a depth of awareness and vision to express your own vision of Druidry. Exploring and deepening our connection to, and understanding of Ancestors, Deity, Spirits of place, the seasonal cycle, energy and spirit. We will work with scared space, ritual, questing for inspiration to be creatively expressed - true Awen. There will also be a Sweatlodge and a visit to a Neolithic Long Barrow. All the teaching is done outdoors in a Yew Tree Grove on the North Downs of North-West Kent.

COST: £175 Limited to a maximum of 15 people. Non-residential (details of recommended local campsite or B&B avaible)

DETAILS: This is the first workshop of a series of four workshops that aims to show a way of working with the spirit essence of Trees with some plants, and herbs along the way. We can reach out to a tree and deeply connect, allowing its spirit essence to touch us, and we intuitively know what it can offer us and indeed what we can offer it. Each one of us can make our own relationship with a tree - there are no absolutes here, just a deeply held trust between tree and person. Spending the whole day in the woods, we will use ritual, journeying and creativity to build our relationship with the trees of this land.

Meet at 10am in the Car Park. If following sings to Oldbury Hill, do not follow signs to Oldbury Village. Please bring a packed lunch and suitable clothes and footwear.

From A2/A258 Duke of York roundabout, take A258 towards town centre and follow signs. From A20 straight ahead at first 4 roundabouts and left at second set of lights. Turn right at next lights. After ½ml turn right into Upper Road and follow signs

DETAILS: Meet outside the Visitor Centre at 12 noon. There is 15 minute walk to the ritual site. The paths can be slippery and muddy if wet. There is a Cafe and toilets at the Visitor centre. £2.50 parking fee, free to National Trust Members.

VENUE/TIMES: Trosley Country Park, Vigo, Kent. 10am - 5pm £1 Car Parking Fee, Meet outside Visitor Centre.

DETAILS: This is the second workshop, of a series of four workshops that aims to show a way of working with the spirit essence of Trees with some plants, and herbs along the way. We can reach out to a tree and deeply connect, allowing its spirit essence to touch us, and we intuitively know what it can offer us and indeed what we can offer it. Each one of us can make our own relationship with a tree - there are no absolutes here, just a deeply held trust between tree and person. Spending the whole day in the woods, we will use ritual, journeying and creativity to build our relationship with the trees of this land.

DETAILS: Over these four days, set in the beautiful moorland of Dartmoor, you will explore the roll of Dream-Weaver and Seer. The Incubation of Dreams, or vision quest, it about reaching out and surrendering to nature for inspiration. Whether it be to deepen your connection to nature, the wild or to seek some understanding, clarity or inspiration, this is a great opportunity to push your boundaries and explore the wildness of your soul’s intention. You will create a natural divination set and take part in a vision quest, the incubation of dreams. This workshop is jointly facilitated by Rob Wilson and Simon Miles.

From the M2 take the A251 towards Ashford. From the M20 take the A28 towards Canterbury and the A251 towards Faversham. The car park and entrance to King's Wood is situated off the A251 1km along the road to Wye.

DETAILS: Meet in the Car Park at 2pm. There are no facilities at the site. We gather as we reach midsummer's day to celebrate under the heat of the midday sun, the madness of illusion, each honouring their own creativity, as we come together in dance, drums, voices, and noise, to honour our land and our tribe.

DETAILS: As you journey through the land, we trace our footsteps as a soul journey. We find the Bird shrines of Crow, Kestrel, Buzzard and Magpie. Here, in honour and respect we reach out to the wisdom and inspiration of their unique spirit flight; carrying us on darkened wings of freedom to the ancestors, to healing, to wisdom and to prophecy. This is an intensive workshop that runs from Midnight to Sunset. We make both a physical and spiritual journey through the land, stopping at the bird shrines to understand further and more fully our soul connections that inspire us, hold us, bind us. Using shamanic journeying, meditation, ritual, creativity and profound silence, this soul journey helps us find a deeper or renewed clarity of our soul presence and story upon our land; Carried on the wings of the Clan of Birds. You will create a small Red Deer Skin Drum, Clay Bowl, Oracle pouch and Plant Spirit Incense.

The Druid Camp is the biggest annual gathering of the Druid community in Britain.

Running over four days every July, the Camp was first held in the summer of 2000. Organized by Emma Restall Orr of The Druid Network and Mark Graham of The Charnwood Grove, the aim of The Druid Camp is to celebrate and develop the community of modern Druidry.

Everyone is welcome! There are Druids and those studying the tradition through many different Orders, teachers and strands of Druidry. There are people who follow other nature-based spiritualities and philosophies. There are those simply interested or curious who are seeking a community or gathering of like-minded souls.

The camp is held in beautiful surroundings in the Forest of Dean, on the south Welsh border. In a stretch of meadows, edged by streams, woodland and fields, its tranquility seeps through every moment of the Camp.

Rob will be offering The Druid of the Greenwood Workshop and Celtic Tree Oracle Readings and Tree Spirit Medicine Sessions throughout the camp. There will also be a Woodspirit stall.

DETAILS: The Druid Network's annual fund raising extravaganza. This year’s charities are:

Fun games, Druid Lammas Celebration, Stav demonstration, Ferret Racing, Craft & Book Stalls. Tarot Readers & entertainers throughout the day including great music from Driftwood and Mythagic the Harper/storyteller Gary Brientholt and the superbly wonderful Celtic/Space Rock/World music Festival Band

With a Real Ale Bar, Organic Cafe, the Lammas Games is a Family day of Fun. Camping also available, with a late night campfire for sharing acoustic music and storytelling. Check the website for up-to-date information and performers booked!

DETAILS: This is the third workshop, of a series of four workshops, that aims to show a way of working with the spirit essence of Trees with some plants, and herbs along the way. We can reach out to a tree and deeply connect, allowing its spirit essence to touch us, and we intuitively know what it can offer us and indeed what we can offer it. Each one of us can make our own relationship with a tree - there are no absolutes here, just a deeply held trust between tree and person. Spending the whole day in the woods, we will use ritual, journeying and creativity to build our relationship with the trees of this land.

DETAILS: Open to all who wish to join us to mark the changing seasons, festivals and the spirit of the wild land. Bring a drum and/or rattle and join us with Ancient Songs and Modern Rhythms.

DETAILS: This is the fourth workshop of a series of four workshops, that aims to show a way of working with the spirit essence of Trees with some plants, and herbs along the way. We can reach out to a tree and deeply connect, allowing its spirit essence to touch us, and we intuitively know what it can offer us and indeed what we can offer it. Each one of us can make our own relationship with a tree - there are no absolutes here, just a deeply held trust between tree and person. Spending the whole day in the woods, we will use ritual, journeying and creativity to build our relationship with the trees of this land.

DETAILS: Open to all who wish to join us to mark the changing seasons, festivals and the spirit of the wild land. Bring a drum and/or rattle and join us with Ancient Songs and Modern Rhythms.

The Kent Gorsedd is currently in Hibernation and will return in the Spring, renewed, strengthen and inspired.

DETAILS: Open to all who wish to join us to mark the changing seasons, festivals and the spirit of the wild land. Bring a drum and/or rattle and join us with Ancient Songs and Modern Rhythms.