Nature-based Creative Supervision Workshop

These outdoor supervision workshops are for clinical and human relations practitioners, to engage in a reflective and creative group supervision process based within the ecological.

The workshops offer participants the opportunity to gather queries and reflections amongst the natural world, be on-the-move with themes, as well as engage from places of stillness. Working with creative processes, in pairs, small groups and solo, we will bring our experiential learning to each other in the whole group, through fire-side discussion and reflection.

Participants will be invited to bring a supervisory enquiry (or see what surfaces on the day). The workshop will, in part, be directed through focused exercises, as well as offering space for a co-created exploration in response to themes that arise.

2025 dates

10am - 4pm Friday 9th May / Friday 5th September

Held at a natural location near Belper, Derbyshire, UK (Details and directions will be shared upon booking)

To apply, please contact me via email (see below) and we’ll arrange a brief chat on the phone. Following this, I’ll send you a booking forms and further information. Please complete and return along with your fee and this will book your place on the workshop.

Fee: £75 per person payment via BACS (The two workshops are stand alone days and can be booked separately or together)

There will be a maximum of 8 participants in these groups.

A nature practice involves making space in our lives for an intentional and relational engagement with and amongst nature. Supporting the development of an embodied nature-relatedness can be deeply nourishing and can evolve how we feel, inspire our thought process, and cultivate our energetic attachment to the web of life. This is experienced by some as deeply spiritual and soulful encounters.

The bedrock of the nature practice offered here includes working with processes involved within rites of passage, fostering a reciprocal relationship with the living earth, and giving space for our own unique creative voices. Approaches that underpin this work include eco-psychology, eco-philosophy, environmental expressive arts, rites of passage and somatic mindfulness.

Into the Heartwood workshops exist to support those practitioners who include (or want to include) nature into their work, whether outside or indoors. In order to bring a nature-relatedness into our work we need to cultivate our own relationship with nature. This will be individual to us all.

2025 Dates:

10am - 4pm, Friday 7th November 2025

Held at a natural location near Belper, Derbyshire, UK (Full details to follow upon booking)

Fee: £75 per person (The two workshops are stand alone days and can be booked separately or together)

This workshop are for practitioners in the helping professions.

There will be a maximum of 8 participants in these groups.