Why a residency?

We are offering the ‘residency’ in very much the same way as an artist residency.

Providing a unique and focussed ‘time and space’ to remove ourselves from our usual environments and ways of working. To prepare the 'soil' for a deeper exploration and reflection through the specific questions or inquiries within your work. 

In order for us to make the radical shifts required toward regenerative futures - we need to rehearse new innovative learning practices which allow us to practise, pre-figure and embody evolutionary ways of ‘knowing’ and collaborating. To avoid falling into the industrial models of individual, linear commoditised knowledge.

This residency is therefore not a transfer of information and content. We are creating the conditions for a mutual emergent ‘learning ground’ to be co-designed and prototyped by all of us.

We value unlearning as much as learning, recognising the complex challenges we face don’t have pre-defined solutions or meanings.  We remind ourselves to stay open to the often challenging lessons of working at our learning edges.

Our invitation

As professional coaches and facilitators, who met through the Climate Coaching Alliance - we came together around the opportunity to steward 17 acres of land in Somerset, near Bristol and Bath, as a place to ‘ground’ our work, and explore how the land could inform our professional and personal practices.  

The residency is being designed as an extension of our own experience as stewards of the land and how this has had a profound effect on our professional practices. We have shared some of our experiences . 

As a result of the impact it has had on us and our work, we are now opening up opportunities to create a diverse community of practice and we are inviting applications for practitioners to join us.

We are opening a space - a ‘Learning Ground’ - to nurture an emerging community of nature inspired practitioners. Growing from a collective desire to slow down, work with depth, intentionality informed by Nature’s rhythms and cycles. 

A place to grow together - to deepen your practice and connect with others.

Timescale

x1 day on-site every week / Farm Fridays (optional)

Community day with nourishing lunch and changing seasonal activities.

x6 Monthly In Person Peer Learning Circles:

• 23 June [Summer Solstice]

• 21 July

• 1 September

• 27 October

• 24 November

• 22 December [Winter Solstice]

Online access to community channel & knowledge sharing

Investment

The Earthed Residency - a 6 month ‘Learning Ground’ running from June - December 2023.

£690 per person

Only 8 places available. All places are offered via application and prices quoted inc. VAT 

Pay it forward

10% of all residency revenue goes to fund places for those who would like to participate but do not have the financial means.

What's included:

• Monthly in-person peer learning circle 

• Online knowledge base and community resources of practices and learning inspiration

• Community of practice

• Access to 17 acres of private land on Farm Friday’s

• Facilities and spaces to work; yurt, barn, bus, glade, woods

• Monthly ‘SOUP’ community events

Additional resources by arrangement:

• Access coaching sessions at reduced rates

• Discounted rental of barn, yurt & outdoor spaces for client days, retreats and events

• The opportunity to ‘host’ workshops to practise and receive feedback from the community

• Work with your clients on the land

How do I apply?

If this invitation has sparked some interest, please submit your application below. Or if this has prompted more questions or leaving you interested to know more - please do get in touch with us.