Immerse yourself in the Hawkwood experience on one of our residential courses, or simply join us for a day. We have a huge range of creative and inspiring courses: focus on movement and creativity with yoga or an art workshop, get involved with social change, reconnect with nature, or join us for a poetry, storytelling, classical music, woodwork, blacksmithing or embroidery course.
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Play Ethic Creativity Workshop
A Creative Way for Our Time
Facilitator: Helen Tyrell
Do you long to bring more creativity into your life? We are creative beings! The wellspring of creativity which runs in all of us offers innovation, healing, beauty, and pleasure! This creativity workshop puts you in touch with your creative…
The Futures of Agency
An in-depth Futures Literacy Laboratory
Facilitators: Loes Damhof, Alex Lambie & Steve Fuller
Recently named by UNESCO as a critical competency for the 21st Century, Futures Literacy (FL) enables users to make better informed decisions in the present. Our FL laboratories reveal subconscious assumptions that restrict your capacity to imagine; These biases colonise…
Wisdom of Self-Healing Systems: Summer
Summer Season
Facilitator: Katherine Long
Spanning the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, and the Summer and Winter solstices, this quartet of online retreats provides the opportunity to deepen your relationship with Self in a flowing exchange within the wider body of Nature.
Healthy Boundaries Lab
Create intimacy & connection through healthy boundaries
Facilitator: Adam Wilder
Have you ever said no when you wanted to say yes? Do you ever find it hard to say no to your partner, boss, children, family members? Then this is for you. In this introductory lab we will explore the…
Music That Matters with the Mirry Project
Carers: Music That Matters Series
Facilitator: Mirry Project Makers & Matthew Shaw
Tune in for a Music that Matters episode with Simon, Tom, Kirsteen and Rupert who between them put the Mirry project together. “Mirry is one of those rare projects where the story seems so absolutely magical, that it’s almost impossible…
Midsummer Yoga Retreat
Replenish, renew and reflect
Facilitator: Mel Skinner
At this point of midsummer and the longest day, take time for yourself to both nourish and restore your energies. This weekend retreat will offer nature-based meditations, free time to explore and rest, a gentle ‘flow and restore’ yoga practice…
Summer Blacksmithing Workshop
Summer at the Forge - June Workshop
Facilitator: Arian Leljak
During the Summer Blacksmithing Workshop, you will spend the day learning the ancient elements of forge work. Fire use and maintenance, heating the steel to around 1000 C, and hammering it on an anvil to produce graceful and long lasting…
Summer Blacksmithing Workshop
Summer at the Forge - June Workshop
Facilitator: Arian Leljak
During the Summer Blacksmithing Workshop, you will spend the day learning the ancient elements of forge work. Fire use and maintenance, heating the steel to around 1000 C, and hammering it on an anvil to produce graceful and long lasting…
Japanese Embroidery
Exquisite Traditional Art
Facilitator: Jackie Hall
This unique art form originated in Buddhist temples and is used for the elaborate decoration of Kimonos. This rarely taught skill has been based at Hawkwood for over twenty years. Using traditional methods and techniques you will produce truly stunning…
Music That Matters with Alabaster dePlume
Music, caring, mental health: Music That Matters Series
Facilitators: Alabaster dePlume, Alicia Carey & Matthew Shaw
Tune in for a #MusicThatMatters episode with singer, songwriter and saxophonist Alabaster DePlume, well known for bringing theatrical spoken word to music audiences. This episode will explore the topics of music, caring, mental health and how they interweave. Hosting by…
Archetypal Wisdom: Acting in our Desired Futures
Archetypal Wisdom for Transitional Times
Facilitator: Richard Olivier
Archetypal Wisdom Archetypes are underlying patterns in human nature and culture. Every civilisation identifies its own Archetypes and lives with them and by them, until they get staid, stale or unsustainable. Times of great transition call for a change in…
Trestle Theatre Workshop
Exploring Mask & Character Physicality in an Online Space
Facilitator: Trestle Theatre Facilitators
Trestle Theatre Workshop Following several months of online and socially distanced working Trestle Theatre Company will be running a 3 – hour practical session Theatre Workshop online. You’ll explore some of the mask and physical theatre techniques from their practice…
