5-day residential workshop in Orval (southern Belgium)
This is an annual Gathering and Retreat. Each year new people come and each year people come back. We discover and rediscover skills and connections and heart dances and our sense of play and our tenderness and our wildness. Each year is fresh and new - and yet each year we build on the trust and confidence in our absolute alrightness from the years before. This isn’t a gathering that has popped up out of nowhere. We gather and remember who we are, and every year can be richer because of the thousands of dances, laughter and tears of the years before.The welcome to newcomers is strong and true.The welcome back we give each other is also deep and simple.
Connected to ourselves and each other, we can find ourselves much less interested in thinking there is perhaps something wrong with us. We change channels from our habitual thinking to a more spacious exciting state of curiosity. We can stop fighting the underlying fear that we are not truly ok and therefore relax and become available for a freedom and freshness that can come through us, sometimes when we least expect it.
Each year we build confidence in what's ready to emerge. We’re not looking to heal or change anything, although healing and change happens. Fresh each year, and as a result of all our years of dancing together, this Annual Retreat and Gathering helps us to keep remembering the value of our unique contributions, our innate curiosity and our deep and simple Alrightness.
We usually meet in the morning sessions and most afternoons and evenings, depending on what we as a group need as we go along. There is usually but not always one longer lunch/relax/explore break. We dance, and we rest, too.
Everyone welcome!
Newcomers very very welcome, and Oldtimers as welcome as ever.
Assistance: Frie Lavelli & Kath Jones
Check out this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHnIJeE3LAI
Workshop venue: la ferme du Bois-le-Comte
La ferme du Bois-le-Comte is an eco-friendly venue for groups in the South of Belgium (close to the French border and at a 20-minute walk from the famous abbey of Orval). Superb position in the midst of nature. All meals are plant-based.
Questions?
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"The theme: feeling what's really there instead of making the others, yourself and/or the situation wrong really is something I took home and which I exercise regularly. Really really a very helpful tool for me. " (PW)
"... to say how grateful I am for having had the opportunity to follow your group at Bois-le-Comte at a unique place which is only one hour from my home without me knowing it before. The course, the place, the surroundings and last but not least the kitchen and its staff were all one allowing me to be one with the amazing group. I remember well Sue's explanation on the leaves you open one by one and you never know where you go and what comes next, joy anger, sadness, disappointment, hope, inner feelings changing from one to the other - and much more which is not yet discovered … tremendously exciting and exhausting work. Back to my day to day my stay in the ferme is still omni present and I enjoy that. We will definitively meet again." - Pierre from Luxembourg
"Amazing this year how there was much creativity and very little drama in my experience. The 'Already Alright' theme was mainly the reason I think. This theme is inspiring me to leave the past as much as possible and be more open for the actual moment, enjoying and/ or processing what's right here and right now! It was easier this week and much more fun and creative!
Each time again I feel supported by you, accepted as I am and encouraged to go in myself where I never went before because I was too afraid to go there or didn't even know these places existed in myself. That's what I love so much when you teach and/ or follow the group energy." - Philippe D."I would like to share my immense gratitude for the "Already Alright" course! Marvellous is too small a word to put it. It was incredible, humongous in its consequences, heavenly, and so very deep!"
" At several times while I was on the floor, I was grateful both to the 'wild' group for expressing the rawness, the joy, the excitement; and to the 'quiet' group for conveying the feeling of caring, of love, and of endurance."
"I could sense the depth within the simplicity. Your messages "Here I am", "You are already alright", "What's it like?", "Move and include" were humongous in their implications. I can imagine that a "lifetime's work" is in them... I am humbled by it all."
"What made it so strong was the fact that it felt like a "sesshin" (bouddhist retreat). Sesshin is best translated as "being, becoming intimate to yourself" and this in every possible way (thoughts, emotions, perceptions, memories......) and without judgement. You turn inside without loosing contact with everyone, everything outside. A teacher makes possible this kind of awareness."
"She senses what is going on in a group, what a group needs or is ready for at that particular moment....and works with it.... She can let exist moments of silence, of not knowing, of confusion, awkward moments....and she still holds the space."
"Sue started to contaminate us with this "Already Alright" virus wich is so healing for everyone. Let us all continue to spread it with love!" (HT)
Subscription information
Cost includes full-board accommodation (100% organic & vegetarian) in 4-bedded room. If you want to sleep alone, you can bring a tent (same price) or book a single, double or twin room: + 170 EUR.Planned sessions (6)
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Session 1: Sunday 28 July 2024 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 2: Monday 29 July 2024 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 3: Tuesday 30 July 2024 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 4: Wednesday 31 July 2024 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 5: Thursday 1 August 2024 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 6: Friday 2 August 2024 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
