Kinship Workshop: NATURE & THE DREAM

This one day workshop asks how connection to nature and dream work can support each other – exploring the mystery and gifts of both worlds…
About this Event

Overview:

In the welcoming and holding capacity of Epping Forest, amongst the ancient beech woodland, we will spend the day in connection and reverence to the surrounding landscape. We will explore the telling and revisiting of a self-selected dream, before asking the forest for support and guidance in finding deeper meaning within the images, sensations and experiences from our dream we have each selected.

What is Dream Work & Nature Connection?

Dream work is approached from a Jungian orientation. The “dreammaker” nightly gifts us imagery and insight into the contents of our deepest psyche; our role is to pay attention to this material, bringing the unconscious into consciousness. No matter the content, dreams are our inner guide and always mean us well.
Nature connection is the practice of remembering and returning to our intrinsic relationship to the living world around us through somatic, bodily, social, sense-based and cultural activities and experiences.

Highlights:

• Spending time amongst the ancient beech woodland of Epping Forest with simple grounding and connecting activities.
• Collective re-telling of each participants’ individual selected dream, supported by the listening of the group.
• Exploring dialogue with and between the landscape and the individual to explore how nature connection can ground a deeper meaning of the dream in waking life.

You will need:

• See the What to Bring section for a basic overview of what to bring. This is important so that you have everything you need to feel comfortable and prepared for a day in the forest (the workshop will go ahead, whatever the weather)
• A DREAM: Please bring a dream of your choosing to work with, either from memory or written down. Note that you will be retelling this dream in the company of others, so ensure you are comfortable sharing the content. Each participant will have a maximum of 3 minutes to share their dream (this may mean you choose a shorter dream or a section of a longer dream).

Location, Schedule & Travel:

Workshop hours: Sunday 13th September 2026, 10am-5pm
We’ll meet at Loughton Station at 09:50am for a 10:00am departure into the forest.

Public transport:
London Underground Central Line
Local Buses: 167, W14, 20, 397, 677

PLEASE CAREFULLY CONSIDER HOW YOU TRAVEL TO THE WORKSHOP. Travelling by land or sea has the least environmental impact. Please avoid air travel. If this means that the cost becomes prohibitively expensive, please let us know so we can do our best to offer future workshops closer to your location, or we can recommend other practitioners and workshop facilitators closer to you.

Travel websites:
Travel For London (TfL)
National Rail

Food/ water:

Please bring a packed lunch and enough water for the day.

Access:

We’ll meet at Loughton station (on the Central Line of the London Underground). There are toilets at the Sainsbury’s supermarket just opposite the station we can use before heading into the forest. In the forest there are no further facilities.
The forest is roughly a gentle 20 minute walk from the station. Once inside the forest, we’ll be using gravel and earth tracks as well as going off track completely. We will hike between sites walking up to about 45minutes at a time. The forest has many small hills and valleys.
Please CONTACT Tom with any questions or concerns regarding access needs.

Pricing & booking:

We use a tiered pricing structure to enable those with a range of circumstances to access this work. Please consider which tier is most appropriate for your income. We trust that you will read the tier descriptions below to ensure you pay a fair price for your circumstances.

If you would like to come to both this workshop and the Saturday workshop Arriving In Body, Arriving in Landscape, please see the combined prices below.

Tier 1 – Please choose this tier if you frequently worry about money, are coping with debt, and struggle to pay monthly essential bills.
~ £60 (£105 combined Saturday & Sunday workshops)

Tier 2 – Please choose this tier if you have a fairly stable income, you need to take care with your spending, but can sometimes plan ahead or save for new purchases, holidays etc.
~ £80 (£145 combined Saturday & Sunday workshops)

Tier 3 – Please choose this tier if you are financially comfortable, can afford to save or invest money regularly, can afford new purchases, holidays etc.
~ £100 (£180 combined Saturday & Sunday workshops)

EARLY BIRD 10% discount HERE available until 24th July 2026
If you would like to pay in instalments and/or by bank transfer, please email [email protected]

LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE. Please note, the minimum sign up for this workshop to run is 5 people.
ALL PARTICIPANTS will be asked to complete an Access Form and Responsibility Agreement before the workshop begins.