A Journey Home
A unique learning journey with leading hearts and minds of our time. Learn new and adaptive ways of being that allow us to navigate these times of transition with resilience and creativity.

hosted by Eve Annecke
Eve Annecke is a Bertha Fellow exploring an independent inquiry into the art and power of retreat. She is a teacher and writer, with a special focus on retreat-based work, facliitating transgressive and transformative learning. In South Africa she co-founded Lynedoch Development, Lynedoch EcoVillage, Lynedoch Childrenโs House and the Sustainability Institute.
Module 1Relating & Relationships
How we come to relate to ourselves, others and the more-than-human creates the context from where our actions, beliefs and attitudes arise. In the first module, we dive into relating. We explore practices, ways of being and ways of knowing that allow us to come into deeper relationship with Life. With Pat...
Module 2Food & Farming
A holistic approach to personal, social and ecological wellbeing must explore not only the kind of food we eat but, more importantly, the way in which our food is grown and produced. Industrial agriculture is destroying the health of people and the planet. What are the solutions? With Dr Vandana Shiva (ph...
Module 3New Economies
Many of us think about economics as men in suits on Wall Street or Politicians arguing about money, but the economy is inextricable from social and environmental justice and interconnects us all. It is present in almost every element of our lives and dominates global culture and society. In this module, we...
Module 4Depression, Addiction & The Shadow
For many of us, addictive behaviours and depression play a critical role in the way we, or our loved ones, experience life. In Module Four, we will explore the shadow, the trickster, depression and addiction. How can we be gentle with and in touch with the less-comfortable aspects of our being? How can we ...
Module 5Death & Grief
How do we collectively and individually hold death? What effect does the modern day's "War on Death" have on our personal and collective psyche and our ability to feel truly alive? How does this denial affect the way we treat the natural living world? In this module, we explore the place of death and how w...
Module 6Embodiment, Movement & Trauma
Somatics is the study of the soma, a Greek word that means "the living organism in its wholeness". It is a methodology for transformation that helps us understand that change doesn't come simply from thinking differently. The process involves shifting what we understand, what we can feel, and what we pract...
Module 7Consciousness, Spirituality & Meditation
If we haven't cultivated mindfulness in our attention, how do we ever expect to break out of the cycle of crises response? Meditative practices are instrumental to catalysing harmonious change on both a personal and collective level. Through mindfulness and meditation we can deepen our ecological connectio...
Module 8Myth, Story & Imagination
In a world of divisions and polarisation, shared stories allow us to come together, shift narrative, hack culture and truly drive change. In Module Eight, we will be joined by mythologists and storytellers to delve into the mythic imagination. With Sharon Blackie (an award-winning author, psychologist, an...
Module 9Reimagining Activisms
How can we re-imagine "activisms" and transform our methods and attitudes to ensure both inner and outer transformation? How can we expand our understanding of who we are and where we are, whilst building cross-movement solidarity and co-creating transformative societal change? How can we unite, within and...

hosted by Eve Annecke
Eve Annecke is a Bertha Fellow exploring an independent inquiry into the art and power of retreat. She is a teacher and writer, with a special focus on retreat-based work, facliitating transgressive and transformative learning. In South Africa she co-founded Lynedoch Development, Lynedoch EcoVillage, Lynedoch Childrenโs House and the Sustainability Institute.

hosted by Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science.

hosted by Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide.

hosted by Pat McCabe
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Dinรฉ (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker.

hosted by Christabel Reed
Christabel Reed is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist trained in Hatha, Ayurveda and the lineage of Krishnamacharya and Sri Desikachar. At the heart of her practice and teaching is the exploration of how we can come back to our most natural state โ to our wholeness. In 2015 Christabel and her sister Ruby founded Advaya, the London-based system change initiative that organises around the principles of radical regeneration and joyful revolution.

hosted by Ruby Reed
Ruby co-founded Advaya in 2015 and Earthed in 2023. She is a community builder, curator, creator and lover of water fascinated by how we relate to the world around us.

hosted by Vandana Shiva
World renowned intellectual and advocate for the preservation and celebration of biodiversity against genetic engineering and the negative impact of globalisation. She is an important voice in favour of people-centered, participatory processes; support to grassroots networks; women rights and ecology. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an โenvironmental heroโ in 2003, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.

hosted by Brooke Bridges
Brooke Bridges is a mental health advocate and founder of Building Bridges SEL: Storytelling for Social Emotional Learning. Her own journey to mental wellness inspired her wish to help young people become aware of their emotional experiences through storytelling. Before she moved to the Berkshires about three years ago, she was a model and personal chef. In the Berkshires, sheโs made and sold bagels at farmers markets and has been working administratively (and doing some planting) at Soul Fire Farm. In the past year, Bridges introduced more than 6,000 kids to open conversations on mental health. She has also returned to school for a degree in developmental psychology and neurobiology.

hosted by Jyoti Fernandes
Jyoti is the Chair person and Campaigns Coordinator of Via Campesina and Land Workerโs Alliance. She is currently working on a campaign to influence DEFRA to adopt more policies to promote food sovereignty. She works to represent small-scale producers around Europe in the European and Global agricultural institutions.

hosted by Amber Tamm
Amber Tamm Canty is a young, black, women whoโs life experiences weaves together the interdisciplinary ways of working & healing with earth in full spectrum. The better part of her work experience has been agriculture but in the last 4 years she has come to possess knowledge in cannabis, farm education, permaculture, tropical agriculture, agroforestry, urban farming, floral arrangements and lastly the healing powers of the Earth.

hosted by Ian Solomon-Kawall
Ian Soloman-Kawall aka KMT is a Freedom Teacher Guide who uses art [hip-hop] for social awareness and social cohesion. He is Co-Founder of the May Project Gardens which brings communities together to act collectively.

hosted by Josina Calliste
Josina Calliste is co-founder of Land in Our Names (LION), a Black-led, grassroots collective committed to reparative justice in Britain by securing land for BPOC (Black people and People of Colour) communities.

hosted by Shawn Alimohammadi
Shawn Alimohammadi graduated from the Stellenbosch University Centre for Sustainability Transitions with his Masterโs degree in sustainable development, management and planning.

hosted by Dee Woods
Deidre โDeeโ Woods is an award-winning cook, community food educator, urban agriculturalist, broadcaster, and researcher, with over 25 yearsโ experience of working in diverse communities. In 2016 she was awarded BBC Food and Farming Awards, Cook of the Year.

hosted by Kos Gangsters
Kos Gangsters grow food, share stories, inspire communities and change lives in the process.

hosted by Jason Hickel
Dr. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Virginia, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he convenes the MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics.

hosted by Alnoor Ladha
Alnoor is a co-founder and executive director of The Rules (www.therules.org), founding partner of Purpose (www.purpose.com) and board member of Greenpeace USA (www.greenpeace.org). Alnoorโs work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, storytelling, and technology. As a founding member and the executive director of The Rules, he is part of a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers, and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality and poverty around the world.

hosted by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the local economy movement. Through writing and public lectures, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for four decades.

hosted by Camila Moreno
Camilaโs is a researcher in Rio de Janeiro and her main study subject has been the interfaces between reasoning on climate change and the greening of capitalism. She is a working group member of Political Ecology of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO โ Conselho Latinoamericano de Ciรชncias Sociais) and the International Council of Red for a Latin America Transgenic Free (RALLT).

hosted by Shaun Chamerlin
Since 2005 Shaun has devoted himself full-time to exploring the dominant cultural stories and โmythsโ that chart the course for our society and, in particular, how we might change direction before we end up where we are headed. His efforts have been covered across the UK press, including by the BBC, Guardian, Sunday Times, Independent and Daily Express, as well as internationally by Time magazine, Bloomberg News and the Financial Times.

hosted by Shirley Mambadzo
Sustainable Food Systems: CEO of Eden Greenfields | MPhil: Sustainable Development candidate | Social Entrepreneur

hosted by Jay Griffiths
Jay Griffiths was born in Manchester and studied English Literature at Oxford University. She spent a couple of years living in a shed on the outskirts of Epping Forest but for many years she has been based in Wales.

hosted by Lyla June Johnston
Lyla June is an Indigenous environmental scientist, doctoral student, educator, community organizer and musician of Dinรฉ (Navajo), Tsรฉtsรชhรฉstรขhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, NM.

hosted by Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) is Chief Curator and Executive Director of The Emergence Network.

hosted by Colin Dunsmuir
Colin has been honoured to be an experienced Yoga Teacher Trainer and Yoga Therapy Trainer in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya and his son T.K.V. Desikachar for many years. He is also a British Wheel of Yoga diploma course tutor and continues his studies under the careful guidance of his mentor and teacher Bernard Bouanchaud. He teaches yoga full time in central London, specialising in teaching 1-2-1, yoga therapy and training and evolving yoga teachers.

hosted by Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein is a world-renowned teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilisation, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.

hosted by Stephen Jenkinson
Culture activist, worker, author ~ Stephen teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded the school with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010, convening semi-annually in Deacon, Ontario, and in northern Europe.

hosted by Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and compassion internationally, with a focus on activists, people of colour, artists, educators, families, and youth.

hosted by Beloved Sara Zaltash
Beloved Sara Zaltash is queer British-Iranian astrologer, artist and musician, dedicated to raising the voice of GodS. With roots in sacred climate activism, they apply their skills as a performer, diviner, writer, singer, facilitator, teacher, space-holder, ritualist and community organiser to weave holy healing across all spheres of life.

hosted by Colin Campbell
Colin is currently a practitioner of traditional African medicine, based in Cape Town, South Africa and the U.K. He receives clients from all over the world, and facilitates international group processes relating to natural law, transformation, healing and personal power, sacred sites, and cross-cultural cosmology.

hosted by Selena King
Selena is a facilitator, researcher, and writer, as well as being a Quietude graduate.

hosted by Christine Caldwell
Christine Caldwell, is the founder and professor emeritus of the Somatic Counselling Program at Naropa University, where she taught somatic counseling, clinical neuroscience, research, and diversity issues.

hosted by Sister Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki
Sister Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki is a psychotherapist offering alternative forms of preventative health care and holistic healing to adult and adolescent women and their impoverished communities in northern Brazil.

hosted by Rae Johnson
Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT, BCC is a queer-identified scholar working at the intersection of somatic studies and social justice. Key themes in their work include the embodied experience of oppression, somatic approaches to research, and the poetic body.

hosted by Ra Vuyi Qubeka
Vuyiโs work explores the verity of divine feminine wisdom, while confronting our collective traumas (familial and collective) through art and ceremony.

hosted by Dr Rupert Sheldrake
Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 100 technical papers and twelve books, including Science and Spiritual Practices. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and director of studies in cell biology. From 2005-2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and also of Schumacher College, in Devon

hosted by Satish Kumar
A former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years.

hosted by Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most comprehensive, surely the most challenging religious-spiritual teacher in America.

hosted by Sam Gandy
Sam sits at the cutting edge of psychedelic research, working as Scientific Assistant to the Director of the Beckley Foundation, and as a collaborator with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London.

hosted by Carolyn Hillyer
Carolyn and her partner Nigel are renowned musicians and artists who live and work on a thousand-year old farm in the ancient belly of Dartmoor, a mist-veiled landscape of wild hills, peat bogs and heather moors in the south-west of England. The inspiration for all their work is drawn from the raw beauty, untamed spirit and primordial memory of this ancestral land. Their creative output includes music albums and concerts, books and workshops, paintings and art installations, traditional flute and drum making.

hosted by Andreas Kornevall
Andreas Kornevall is an ecological re-wilder who has planted over 200 woodlands across the UK with his charity the Earth Restoration Service, he also co-founded a voluntary work organisation (WorkingAbroad) that sends out volunteers to work with ecological restoration in the most endangered ecosystems world-wide.

hosted by Alastair McIntosh
Alastair is one of the worldโs leading environmental campaigners, distinguished in his ability to join together the outer and inner life. His book Spiritual Activism explores such paths of reconnection of the inner and outer worlds, which he argues is nothing less than learning how to sustain the flow of life. If we donโt do this, he states, โthen our work will fall on stony ground, weโll burn out or weโll sell out.โ

hosted by Adrian Kawaley Lathan
Adrian Kawaley combines his expertise in peacebuilding, storytelling and communications to transform apathy into action. Adrian combines his expertise in peacebuilding, storytelling and communications to transform apathy into action.

hosted by Brontรซ Velez
Brontรซ is guided by the call that โblack wellness is the antithesis to state violenceโ (Mark Anthony Johnson). As a black-latinx trans-disciplinary artist, designer, trickster, and wake-worker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking and prophetic community traditions, environmental justice, and death doulaship.
About the course
Ultimately, we will be going on a journey of falling deeper in love with our embodied existence and exploring how we support the transition towards a just and regenerative future.
In a world where the old maps just donโt work anymore, we are on the hunt for an adventure in creating new ones. Different coordinates. Recharting our course to find our way home.
Itโs nonlinear. And the questions that intrigue us are: What is home? Who on earth am I? What do I do? Alternative economies, other ways of knowing and being, relating, community, being in our bodies, myths and stories, death, addictions, poetry, prayer and practice.
A different coordinate each month navigated by: an evening gathering with amazing guests; a practical workshop; individual journeying through practice, dreamwork, one-on-one meetings with us.
If youโre the kind of person who is a little on the edge, or already stuck in, who may or may not consider yourself โspiritualโ, and still deeply curious, who yearns to make a difference in the world, and for whom life matters, then come along and join the fray.
A Journey Home: itโs entering new thresholds, finding portals of possibility and creating different stories - dynamic, gritty and cool.