Healing garden
Quaker Meetings
We will worship together. We sit in silence, finding the Queer Spirit within each of us.
If Spirit moves you to speak, stand and speak to the Meeting.
If you would like to know more please chat to Abigail or Kate.
- Facilitator: Abigail Maxwell
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Cultivating the Inner Landscape
Explore strategies to build self-trust, enhance self-efficacy and self-compassion.
Bridge your past, present, and future selves, gaining insights into your behaviors and strengths, and cultivate your inner garden.
- Facilitator: Azure Peace
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Healing the Queer Wound with Plant Medicine

After healing teenage traumas with Ayahuasca in Brazil, Kai and Kivare trained as facilitators.
They now hold space for queer-only groups, witnessing how She can empower us and heal the wound of feeling unwelcome.
They will share their personal journeys and offer a guided meditation to meet the plant.
- Facilitator: Kai & Kivare
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Heart Circle
Heart Circle.
- Facilitator: TBC
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: 5 pm on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Herbal Medicine for Stress & Anxiety
Learn how to work with herbs at home to calm stress and lower anxiety.
Different herbs act on the nervous system in diverse ways and this workshop will help you explore which herbal allies can ease your specific stress patterns.
Please bring a cup.
- Facilitator: Kerri & Ash
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Inner Sanctuary – cultivating safety in your body
Learn practical tools to nurture yourself and regulate your nervous system, helping you move through difficult situations with more ease. Grounded in Polyvagal Theory, we'll explore how the autonomic nervous system shapes your responses to safety, connection, and stress.
You'll discover how to shift from states of anxiety or shutdown into greater calm and presence using breath, movement, and other grounding, relational practices.
- Facilitator: Laurie King
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Living Within Your Capacity: Queer Life Design & Energy Management

This workshop is for queer, trans, neurodivergent, and chronically ill people who are tired of measuring themselves against impossible standards and want to start designing a life that actually fits their energy, capacity, and nervous system.
We'll explore how energy really works, why burnout and boom-and-bust cycles are so common, and how to move away from "cope harder" towards capacity-led life design. You'll be guided through a gentle reflection on where your energy is currently leaking or being drained, and how to reshape one small part of your life to make it more supportive. This is not about optimisation or productivity. It is about sustainability, self-permission, and building a kinder shape for your life. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of your own limits, and at least one practical, compassionate change you can make.
- Facilitator: Bex Harper
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: Saturday 9:00 am
Morning Meditation (8 am to 9 am)
Morning Meditation (8 am to 9 am)
- Facilitator: TBC
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: TBC
Qi Flow as Medicine
QiGong offers a way of using Energy as a healing force.
Having grown from ancient nature based practices, this is a simply structured approach which uses Elemental relationships, visualisation, breath, sound, colour and Qi emission.
This workshop will both demonstrate and share the experience of Qi as medicine, finding a channel for our natural healing abilities and personal wellness.
- Facilitator: Leopard
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Reclaiming the Body: Boundaries, Consent & Self-Trust for Queer People
Many of us were taught to ignore our bodies in order to survive. To be polite. To be safe. To be acceptable. This is a trauma-aware, fully clothed, no-touch workshop with no pressure to share. You will leave with a clearer sense of your own edge, more self-trust, and practical ways to honour your boundaries in everyday life. Along the way, we'll gently introduce ideas from parts work, relational patterns, and consent culture to help you understand why you might freeze, fawn, over-accommodate, or push people away, and how to return to a place of choice.
This is a trauma-aware, fully clothed, no-touch workshop with no pressure to share. You will leave with a clearer sense of your own edge, more self-trust, and practical ways to honour your boundaries in everyday life. Suitable for queer, trans, neurodivergent and sensitive nervous systems.
- Facilitator: Bex Harper
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Recovery meeting
12 Step Recovery Circle.
- Facilitator: TBC
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: 7 pm on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Shamanic Massage (Indigenous Manteo)

Introduction to traditional Andean Massage or Manteo, practiced by the Kallawaya people.
Pampayruna s grandmother who was an Indigenous midwife, taught him the traditional shamanic massage, also used for pregnant women.
The Manteo massage, used by midwives and some healers helps to restore the harmony of the energies of the body and brings calm to the soul.
- Facilitator: Pampayruna
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: TBC
Sharing Circle for Older Queers
Becoming older as a queer person in a culture that values youth, sexuality and physical beauty can be challenging.
Is our validity as an older queer person in question?
How do we remain confident in our identity as we age-especially in queer spaces? What works for you?
- Facilitator: Lou Hart
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc
Sustain the Flame
For those of us with magical hearts, these are testing, painful times. It’s a joy to access magical experiences, to touch the weird wild web holding all beings. But it’s a very different and demanding thing to stay connected to magic’s flow, to actively work to repair and expand the web because to do this we have to face into a human world increasingly hostile to queer folk, to the living earth, to itself.
Taking inspiration from the Magic Gateway retreats this workshop shares tools and resources to help us stay connected and in communion with magic and magical community. We explore what it means to be in witness, what it takes to cultivate compassion, ways to nourish hope’s flame, to claim the many powers of intentional remembering, and renewing. The workshop culminates in a ritual, re-dedicating ourselves to magic’s service.
- Facilitator: Qweaver
- Location: Healing garden
- Suitability:

- When: tbc

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