Snowdonia
North Wales
Meeting the Wild
A leaving-home rite of passage
at Cae Mabon, North Wales
for all ages
What was your experience of leaving home for the first time? Have you now as an adult found your true place in society? Or do you perhaps feel lost, cast adrift in your own life, confused and disorientated?
A pervasive sense of fear, doubt and confusion about who you are and where you are going can be a sign that you have missed out on one or more important rites of passage in your life. In traditional societies, significant transitions, such as leaving home, marrying and giving birth, are marked with rituals or ‘rites’ that support people to let go of their old identity and embrace the new. In modern secular society, however, many of us miss out on such rites. Without them we can end up stranded in a form of psychological no-man’s land, unable to fully release the old self and fearful and unprepared for what lies ahead. Our transition into mature adulthood therefore remains incomplete.
Meeting the Wild addresses the lack of rites in our culture by providing a powerful opportunity to revisit the important transitions in your life – in particular, your ‘leaving home story’. In the stunningly beautiful landscape of Cae Mabon in Wales, Caroline & Ben will share a powerful journey of self-discovery, an adventure into the mystery, to reclaim and integrate the parts of yourself that have been lost along the way. On this potent journey into the unknown, wild nature will be your guide, the drum beat will be your calling, and the spirit world will send its allies to your side. The tools will include dance, meditations, shamanic journeys, time in nature as vision-quest, ritual and ceremony, writing and creativity. We cannot know quite what form the journey will take. Only you can decide as you meet the dancer within you, choose to take each step, learn to trust in yourself and the support that lies all around in both the seen and unseen worlds.
Having completed your rite and assumed your new identity, you will be ready at last to re-enter society, with your heart opened, a renewed sense of connection and responsibility to all of life, and security in the knowledge of who you are and your true place in the world.
During the workshop, we will move through the following steps to explore our leaving-home story:
- Creation & Curiosity – Fascination as sacred medicine
- Rebel or Artist – Creating the map, where am I going?
- Lifting the veils of illusion - Where am I now?
- Return to Essence - Who am I?
- Unfolding the Mystery
Prerequisites: To attend this course, it is helpful if you have taken part in at least one Middle Earth Medicine weekend workshop, shamanic journey work or similar.
This Rite of Passage is designed to be inspiring, informative, fun and insightful.
Practical information:
Venue: Cae Mabon, Snowdonia Wales (http://www.caemabon.co.uk/)
Date: 8-12th August 2018 (Arrive from 2pm for 5 pm start on 7th, end 3pm on 12th)
Investment: Includes full board healthy locally sourced vegan/vegetarian food, accommodation (3-5 people per dwelling), all tuition and use of wood fired hot-tub
Early bird until 12th June 2018: £445
Regular price: £495
Due to retreat capacity places are limited so early booking is advised
Prerequisites: It is helpful if you have taken part in at least one weekend workshop with Caroline and Middle Earth Gatherings, Movement Medicine workshops or other movement related practice e.g. 5Rhythms, Open Floor, Soul Motion, shamanic journey work or similar. Do contact us to discuss if you need more information. Please also ensure that you have inner and outer resources and support that mean you can engage with this workshop in a responsible way.
Assisting roles available for those who have taken part in the Hollow Bone course.
For application form click here, Application form MTW 2018
For any other information contact moc.liamgnull@noskcajgytsrik
For the Middle Earth syllabus: http://
Middle Earth Training program http://
Come and remember, come and share offer to the play of life
the rite of passage you forgot to do
because no one told you
you could or it was necessary.
Tell yourself it did not matter?
Deny yourself with shame,
hide yourself and tell yourself it simply is a game.
Afraid to show to others self-indulgent did they say?
What do we choose from our hearts to remember of that day?
Come remember yourself ,
the journey that’s not forgotten let it all become its dance,
be seen and celebrated
your life it is a ritual a re-membering, a tale to be told,
a forgotten being
a story of the heroine
or of a wounded soul
They always have their place, a story to unfold
the lives that they have touched that will never grow too old
An empowering rite of passage that can no longer be denied,
you know in your heart it matters
and your life can be your pride!
