Writing Retreat For Celebrants
27th to 29th September 2024
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Beautiful Bereavement Ceremonies
Springtime 2025
Springtime, 2025
Dates to be confirmed
Eden Valley, Cumbria
If you wish to apply for this limited-space retreat,
do get in touch to register your interest.
Join us for a joyful, creative, inspiring and fully immersive weekend of experiential learning.
Be confident in creating beautiful bereavement ceremonies whether in a short-slot crematorium, council-run cemetery or natural burial ground.
Funerals | Memorials | Living Funerals | Scattering and Interment of Ashes.
Each workshop will leave you enriched and empowered in your celebrant work and in your dialogue with bereaved families.
From baby bereavements to interment of ashes, humorous ceremonies to tragic goodbyes, this retreat will honour the vicarious trauma celebrants face, and provide a safe place to explore meaningful ways to serve without suffering. Whether you wish to improve your listening skills, vocal quality, create meaningful rituals or write compelling narrative, this retreat will offer a chance to refresh and renew while integrating beneficial CPD.
Our Venue:
Held at Glassonby Old Hall, Eden Valley in Cumbria,
This lavishly restored 15th Century Cumbrian Longhouse offers a peaceful retreat overlooking rolling Cumbrian fells and farmland.
Jump in the hot tub and relax. It’s a retreat, after all.
Investment TBC
Includes all workshops, materials, food and drinks for duration of weekend retreat.
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th September 2024
A powerful and inspirational retreat in the heart of the beautiful Cumbrian countryside
INVESTMENT: £450
(includes three nights double bedroom onsite in 5* venue, all workshops, training materials, meals and refreshments, 24/7 use of hot tub). Check in 4pm Friday 27th and stay onsite till 10am Monday 30th.
Celebrants, step away from the busyness of your lives and consciously learn new writing skills to hone your craft.
During this retreat, you’ll be inspired, productive, creative and engage in superflow writing workshops.
Immersive and structured writing sessions are cushioned by relaxation and connection, delicious foods, hot tub, walks in nature or reading by the woodstove.
Facilitated by veteran celebrant, celebrant trainer and author Veronika Robinson.
Veronika has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing, is the author of over thirty books, including several for celebrants.
With a successful celebrant career spanning almost three decades, Veronika is enthusiastic about helping celebrants find their unique writing voice.
She mentors celebrants on their creative journey writing love stories, life stories, ritual and ceremony narrative.
If you wish to book for this limited-space retreat, do get in touch for a booking form.