This is a long weekend retreat for anyone struggling with grief. It is designed to offer you support and creative ways to help you with your loss. Tools and techniques to help during those difficult times and a safe space to explore your thoughts and feelings will be provided. Grief is such an individual experience and can have such a profound effect on every aspect of your life. This retreat will assist you to understand your own personal grieving journey.

This retreat is for you if you have:

Have experienced a bereavement recently
Experienced a loss which was a few or several years ago.
If you have lost a family member, friend, work colleague, pet or any form of bereavement

What is included in this retreat:

3 nights accommodation at a beautiful location
Breakfast, lunch and dinner for 2 days
Plenty of nature to immerse yourself in
A weekend in a safe, supportive and relaxed environment with a wide variety of activities including: Meditations, gentle exercise, exploration with colour and writing, various tools and techniques to help with those times of emotionally or physically pain and space and exercises designed to help you make sense of your experience.

Benefits of attending the retreat:

Support through this difficult time
Tools and techniques you will be able to use after the retreat is over A space for you to explore your own feelings and thoughts Meeting others who are going through similar experiences Practical ways to move through your grieving experience

The retreat location and costs:

Llethrau forest & nature retreat. Felindre, Knighton, Powys LD7 1YT

Regarding payment a deposit of £195 is required on booking to confirm your place. please see below for accommodation

Prices starting at £525

Cottage 1 – 2 double rooms 1 king size room with ensuite inc. bath – £795 1 double room with en suite – £725

Cottage 2 – Forest View – 1 room (own building) – En suite (potential extra 2 sofa bed) King size room with en suite – £795 (shared kitchen) Sofa bed in shared space – £525 Sofa bed in shared space – £525

Shepherds Huts Shepherds hut 1 – £725 Shepherds hut 2 – £725 Shepherds Hut 3 – £725

Yurts Yurt 1 – double bed – £670 Yurt 2 – Shared price / own price – £670

£195 deposit Remaining to be paid by 19th May

If book before end of Feb – deposit and 3 instalments (march, april, may)

If book before end of March – deposit and 2 instalments (april, may)

If book before end of April – deposit and 1 instalment (May)

If book in May – all upfront £195 Deposit now to book – Rest payable by mid of May / Instalment arrangements available on request

Your Hosts:

Catherine Banks

I started my own holistic therapy business following the long term illness and death of my mum in my early 20’s. Prior to this time I had been training as a solicitor, however following the difficulties I faced through my own grieving journey, I decided I wanted to help others find help in the same way that I had done, through meditation and other alternative therapies. Since this time I have worked with a number of different charities and organisations including different hospices’, teaching meditation as a self help tool. I also now run the North West and West Midlands school for the British School of Meditation, training others to become meditation teachers. I am

trained in trauma sensitive mindfulness and also mental health first aid.

In addition to meditation I am also an EFT practitioner and Reiki Master Teacher. I incorporate all of these modalities in my work with clients, particularly within my specialism of grief. I have recently gained an MSc in Psychology, with a specialist focus on grief, conducting my own research into grief support in the UK and how our

unwillingness to talk about death in modern society can lead to a lack of support following bereavement.

Janice Thompson

Having gained two masters degrees, one in Exercise Physiology and one in Research Psychology, I spent a few years lecturing before running a successful business as a personal trainer for 20 years. After the sudden death of my husband in 2002 my life took a new path of healing and self- discovery and subsequently I have developed a new career from that experience.

Since 2006 I have worked with hundreds of individual clients specialising in working with all forms of loss. I regularly run training courses in all the energy therapies I use. Along with specialised grief training courses for practitioners. I am an EFT Master Trainer, Matrix Reimprinting practitioner and trainer, META-Health coach and trainer, crystal therapist and meditation teacher. With my own personal experiences of loss, extensive research and having worked with hundreds of bereaved clients have all contributed to running grief retreats. I am writing a book to help those grieving. I also, speak regularly on the physical, psychological, emotional and social aspects of loss.