deepening the senses | ireland 2027
Walking Between Worlds
Deep Time • Landscape • The Inner World
The Burren, Co Clare, Ireland
October 8th-15th, 2027
A seven-night retreat on the western edge of Ireland, where the ancient limestone landscape of the Burren meets the Wild Atlantic.
Here, the light is rarely still. Mist moves in from the ocean. The Atlantic appears and disappears, silver one moment and dark the next. Wind and rain sweep across the limestone beneath an immense and changing sky. ‘Shifting brilliancies’ as the poet Seamus Heaney said, revealing a remarkable landscape that can seem at once stark, beautiful and strangely alive.
Beneath an immense and changing sky, we will slow down and become attentive to landscape, body and inner life - to what emerges from the inner world when we step beyond the familiar and listen at a deeper register, to the inner world.
Walking Between Worlds is an invitation into sustained inner depth work, held in relationship with this extraordinary landscape. Through embodied and imaginal practices, dream-work, myth and creative exploration, we will trace what is coming awake -giving space to what remains unlived, what is seeking expression, and what may be asking to take form in our lives.
Perhaps the deepest journeys are journeys of return. A return to the heart of the self, to what has been forgotten or left unlived, and to the older stories that still echo through us. Walking Between Worlds is an invitation to make that journey—to discover what might be waiting, across generations and within ourselves, to be remembered and brought home.
An Invitation
There are landscapes in which the past feels very close. The Burren is one of them.
Everywhere are traces of those who came before-portal tombs and burial places, standing stones and sacred wells, ruined dwellings, old stone walls and pathways worn through centuries of human passage. For thousands of years, people have lived here, buried their dead, tended animals and land, gathered, prayed, endured loss, told stories and made meaning. Their presence remains—in stone and story, place-name and tradition, memory and myth.
And beneath this human history lies a deeper one. Some 300 million years ago, the limestone beneath our feet was forming in a warm, shallow sea. Water, weather and immense stretches of geological time shaped the landscape upon which we will stand.
Deep time. Ancestral time. Cailleach time.
Walking Between Worlds invites us to enter this landscape slowly—to step outside the urgency of ordinary time and into deeper currents of memory and imagination. through myth and story, dream and embodied attention, we begin to listen with another kind of attention—an inner ear. We become curious about what has been carried and forgotten, what still holds meaning, and what may be beginning to take shape within us. Perhaps this is one possibility of entering an ancient landscape: not to escape our lives, but to encounter them from another orientation. When the senses and imagination are given room to speak, something quieter can enter the conversation.
The landscape becomes more than the setting for our retreat. It becomes part of the work itself - a meeting place between deep time and lived time, ancestral memory and personal experience, what has shaped us and what is still taking shape.
This is the work of Deepening the Senses. This is Walking Between Worlds.
The Gaelic Otherworld
In Irish mythology and folklore, the Otherworld exists alongside the everyday world - a mysterious realm associated with the Aos Sí (the fairies), and the ancient mounds and hills, wells and bodies of water, and places where the boundary between worlds was understood to be especially permeable. The Burren was considered to be such a place.
Rather than a distant supernatural realm, the Otherworld was imagined as intimately entwined with this one - encountered through landscape and story, and in those moments when the familiar gives way to mystery. Time moves differently there, and the old stories tell of people crossing into the Otherworld and returning changed by what they encountered.
In our work, we enter imaginatively into this Otherworld, approaching its stories and imagery not as something we are asked to believe literally, but symbolically and archetypally. The Otherworld becomes a doorway into the inner world - a way of encountering the unconscious, the numinous, and those less familiar dimensions of ourselves that may make themselves known through dream, image, symbol and imagination.
Rooted in Irish Myth & Ancestral Memory
Rooted in Irish Myth and Folklore
Deepening the Senses is rooted in Irish mythology and folklore- not as story alone, but as a living language of the psyche and archetypal inner world.
Here, in the landscape from which these traditions emerged, we encounter the Cailleach, the Otherworld, the Aos Sí, and those who cross between worlds—not simply to interpret their stories, but to notice what they awaken in us. What draws us closer? What unsettles us? What feels strangely familiar?
Through myth, imagination and embodied experience, we become curious about the deeper stories we ourselves may be living—and what has been carried through family, culture and ancestral memory.
In Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld, myth, language and folklore become doorways into the numinous and the symbolic life.
Your Host — Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin
I grew up in a rural Gaeilge-speaking region of Connemara, where Irish was my first language and landscape, folklore, myth and the older Gaelic world—and Otherworld—were part of everyday life. This childhood landscape deeply shaped how I experience and engage with the world.
For more than twenty years, my professional work has centred on the inner life. I worked in adult mental health services as a clinical social worker and as a psychotherapist in private practice in Ireland, and now work internationally. My professional training and experience have taught me how to facilitate deep, experiential work with careful attention to psychological process - to what is unfolding within the individual, within the group, and within the experience we are creating together.
My passion and calling is to bring the ancient Irish world and psychotherapy into comhrá -conversation: Jungian depth psychology, Irish mythology and folklore, language, symbol, landscape and embodied experience. Walking Between Worlds has grown from this meeting place.
More than a decade ago, I began my Deepening the Senses residential retreats in the Burren, exploring the relationship between psyche and landscape, myth and embodiment, the senses and the inner world. I later brought this work to the landscape around the Hill of Tara in Co. Meath. Returning now to the Burren - a place I deeply love - feels like a homecoming and a continuation of the journey begun all those years ago.
At the heart of this retreat is an inner journey: creating space for your own images, stories and imagination to emerge in relationship with this ancient landscape - and supporting you to carry what emerges back into your life, holding that process with the depth, care and spaciousness it requires.
We will walk among ancient stones, feel the Atlantic weather on our faces, and give ourselves the rare gift of time - to listen, wonder and follow what stirs within. There is something about this landscape that invites another way of being.
It took me time to find a place that could hold the soul of this work. I have found it here. I look forward to sharing it with you, and to discovering what may emerge.
May our soul images find us here.
Beidh fáilte romhat.
You will be very welcome.
Grá mór,
Eileen
BSocSc · MA Social Work · MA Psychotherapy · MA Irish Mythology and Folklore · Dip. Supervision · Dip. Jungian Psychology · Certified Coach (WCI), USA
Our home in the Burren
For seven nights, we will make our home at the Cliffs of Moher Retreat Centre, on Ireland’s wild Atlantic coast - surrounded by open countryside, country lanes, within walking distance of the Cliffs of Moher, and on the edge of the ancient limestone landscape of the Burren.
Choosing the right place, and finding a home for this work was central to developing the retreat. I wanted somewhere that would be more than simply a place to stay - it was essential that the place would become part of the experience itself. The Cliffs of Moher Retreat Centre offers a beautiful and intimate setting in which to gather, eat well, rest deeply, and allow the pace of ordinary life to soften. The place itself is just, beautiful.
Our days will move between journeys out into the Burren, the rain showers and changing light of the Wild Atlantic, and the warmth of returning home again - to tea by the fire, nourishing food, conversation, solitude and rest. There will be time to wander, read, write in your journal, soak in the outdoor hot tub, warm yourself in the sauna, in and out of the rain and wind and wild early Samhain weather, or simply retreat to your room and listen to the weather moving in from the Atlantic.
The rhythm of the retreat is one of venturing out and returning home - of wildness and shelter, landscape and inner landscape, movement and stillness.
A Glimpse of our Home for the Week
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Gathered Around the Table
Fresh Atlantic air has a way of making us hungry.
After mornings together and time spent out in the Burren landscape, we will return to generous, nourishing vegetarian meals in the evening prepared for us by the retreat centre’s chefs, with ingredients drawn from their organic gardens.
Meals will be part of the rhythm and pleasure of our days - leisurely brunches, evening dinners, good food, conversation and laughter around the table.
And between meals, there will always be tea and coffee ready to hand, snacks and baked goods in the afternoons, something to keep us going after a walk in the atlantic air.
There is something deeply restorative about being well fed, with nourishing food, in good company, with with nowhere else that you need to be.
“Every day was still shaped by weather,
but every night their mouths filled with
Atlantic storms and clouded-over stars..”
Eavan Boland - “The Singers”
File | Poet
The Shape of our days
Walking Between Worlds will unfold at an unhurried pace, moving between facilitated time together, encounters with the Burren landscape, story and imagination, and generous periods of rest.
Some days will take us out into ancient places; others will invite us to stay close to home. There will be structure, but also room for the weather, the landscape, to just be-ing - and tending to our own personal experience-to shape the rhythm of our days. The arc of this work, at its center, will be held in ritual. Most mornings will begin with facilitated time together - a space for reflection and meditation, embodied awareness and authentic movement, creative work with clay and art materials, and exploration through movement, meditation, story, myth, and dream-work.
Our work will be experiential drawn from my clinical and facilitation experience, honed over 20 years. This work is about inviting us to gently listen inwardly and notice what is stirring, what inner images are taking form, and what begins to reveal itself through body, dream, archetypal image, symbol and story. There will be time to reflect and write, and at times to share within the group. You will always be invited to participate in a way that respects your own pace and experience.
Entering the Burren Landscape
The Burren will be more than the setting for our retreat. We will journey out into the landscape itself, and on our excursion day we will be accompanied by a local guide as we explore ancient sites and places shaped by thousands of years of human presence, mythology and folklore.
Our journeys will take us among ancient stones, holy wells and places associated with the Aos Sí and the Gaelic Otherworld. We will make a pilgrimage to St Brigid’s Well, a sacred place our ancestors have journeyed to for centuries. There, as so many have done before us, we will have the opportunity to pause with intention: to remember those we love, to seek healing and blessing, and to leave small offerings to Brigid in devotion and gratitude.
These will not simply be sightseeing visits. The day has been intentionally shaped as an extension of the inner work of the retreat, with each place and experience chosen to invite us more deeply into that work. We will slow down and spend time in these places—listening to their stories, attending to our sensory experience of landscape and place, and noticing what is stirred in our own imagination and inner world.
Here, deep time is not simply something we learn about. It is something we are invited to experience.
Time To Just Be
Not every moment of Walking Between Worlds will be filled. Spaciousness is an essential part of our time together.
There will be afternoons to rest, dream, read or write; to wander the grounds or the country lanes, alone watch the Atlantic weather roll in, or simply curl up with a cup of tea by the fire with a good book. The retreat centre’s wellness suite - with its cedar sauna, herbal steam room, outdoor hot tub and cold plunge pools - will be available for you to enjoy during your free time. A time to gaze out at the Atlantic and to rest.
And there will be opportunities simply to enjoy being in the west of Ireland - to walk to the nearby village, find a corner in a local pub, with a book or, if you wish, a pint of Guinness, or both, and perhaps with a bit of luck, to hear some traditional Irish music, and share conversation and experience something of the everyday life and hospitality of County Clare. Nothing needs to be filled.
Rest, pleasure, dreaming and simply being here are part of the journey too.
Storytelling by the Fire
As evening draws in, there will be time to gather around the fire and enter the world of story. During our week, we will be joined by a seanchaí -an Irish traditional storyteller who will bring to life stories rooted in the landscape, folklore and oral traditions of Ireland.
We will hear tales of the Aos Sí, the Otherworld, and the strange and mysterious encounters that have long inhabited the Irish imagination, alongside stories belonging to the landscape of Co. Clare itself. In this way, you will come to meet the landscape through story at the hearth, and then encounter those stories alive in the land around you.
There is something different about hearing a story spoken aloud, especially in the hands of a seanchaí. We listen not only for meaning, but for the images it awakens within us—for what captures the imagination, what unsettles us, what feels strangely familiar, and what continues to linger long after the story has ended.
Around the fire, story becomes something shared and alive—a meeting place between an ancient oral tradition, the ancestors, the living landscape, and our own deeper symbolic lives.
Opening the Inner Path
Here, we make space to listen at this deeper register: slowing down, turning our attention inward, and noticing what may be stirring beneath the surface.
Drawing on inner depth work, authentic movement, art and clay-work, embodied mindfulness meditation, mythology, dream-work and archetypal imagery, we will explore different pathways into this inner terrain. Something may make itself known through the body, arise in a dream, take form through our hands, or appear as an image or symbol that asks for our attention.
Rather than reaching too quickly for interpretation, we practise staying close to what arises. We give it time and form. We move with it, make with it, listen to it, and become curious about what it may be asking of us. As your facilitator, I will be attending to this unfolding process with you - helping us notice connections, patterns and images as they emerge, without rushing to explain or resolve them.
Across the week, these different strands of movement, dream, making, myth and place will be intentionally held and woven together as we trace what is coming awake - following what carries life and energy, and allowing what is emerging within us to become more visible, more embodied and more deeply lived.
“A Journey into the wideness...a Journey where each point of arrival - whether in one’s poetry, or one’s life - turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination.”
Is Walking Between Worlds calling to you?
Walking Between Worlds may be for you if you feel drawn to step away from ordinary life for a while - to slow down, deepen your relationship with yourself, and explore what becomes possible when there is time for landscape, imagination, rest and the inner world.
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You find yourself at a threshold - a time of transition, questioning or change, or simply sense that something new is beginning to stir.
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You are curious about the deeper patterns and stories that have shaped your life, and the inner myth you may be living.
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You want to reconnect with ways of knowing that are easily lost in a busy life - through the body, senses, intuition, dream and imagination.
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You feel drawn to Ireland - its ancient landscape, mythology and folklore - and to encountering these not simply as history or story, but as something that might speak to your inner life.
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You are curious about ancestry, belonging and what may have been carried thorugh family, culture and story.
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You long for a week with room to breathe- for meaningful inner work alongside walking in stunning landscape, conversation, nourishing food, fireside warmth and deep rest.
You do not need to arrive with answers. The invitation is to come with curiosity and a willingness to listen - to turn to the land, to deep time, to the stories, to the ancestors, and to the deeper heart of yourself.
Begin the Journey
If you feel the pull of Walking Between Worlds, I invite you to join me in the Burren.
What is included?
Seven nights’ accommodation at the Cliffs of Moher Retreat Centre on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic coast
All professionally facilitated Jungian Depth Work / Psychotherapy group facilitations with Eileen throughout the week
Pre-retreat reflections and invitations to support you into the experience in the months leading up to our time in Ireland
Daily brunch and dinner, freshly prepared by the retreat centre’s chefs, alongside Tea, coffee, snacks and baked goods available in the afternoons
Full use of the wellness suite - cedar sauna, herbal steam room, outdoor hot tub and cold plunge
A facilitated Day Excursion into the Burren, with private transportation and local guide, visiting ancient and storied place - including St Brigid’s Well
An evening by the fire with a traditional Irish Seanchaí, sharing stories from Ireland’s oral and folkloric tradition
Time to experience the Cliffs of Moher at your own pace, within walking distance of our retreat home
An midweek evening together in a County Clare pub.
Private group transfer between Dublin Airport and the retreat centre at designated arrival and departure times
Bespoke Walking Between Worlds welcome gifts, thoughtfully chosen and awaiting your arrival.
Generous unscheduled time for rest, walking, reflection, wellness, reading, dreaming - or simply enjoying being in Ireland
A 2.5 hour Online Group Gathering after the retreat offering space to reconnecct, reflect and support the integration of the work into everyday life.
The Arc of the Journey
Our time together will begin long before we gather in the Burren, and the arc of the journey will continue after we return home.
In the months leading up to the retreat, you will receive gentle invitations from me by email - questions, stories and images to sit with, allowing the themes of Walking Between Worlds to begin quietly unfolding before we meet.
We will gather in October 2027 as the year turns towards Samhain and the dark half of the year - the time of the Cailleach. It is a fitting threshold for our own journey inward: a time of descent, remembrance and turning towards what lies beneath the surface. What emerges during our days together may not reveal its meaning immediately. Some things need the darkness -time to settle, gestate and take root.
Through the winter months, we allow the experience to continue its quiet work.
Then, at Brigid’s time of Imbolg, in February 2028, as the first stirrings of spring begin to return, we will gather again for an intimate, participants-only 2.5-hour online Integration Gathering. Together, we will reconnect with what began in the Burren, notice what has continued to unfold through the winter, and listen for what may now be ready to emerge.
In this way, the retreat is held within a larger seasonal arc: from the Cailleach’s time into winter’s darkness, and towards Brigid and the returning light - giving the work time not only to be experienced, but to deepen, take root and begin to find expression in the life we return to.
Accommodation and Investment
Your retreat investment includes seven nights’ accommodation at the Cliffs of Moher Retreat Centre, the full Walking Between Worlds retreat programme and experiences, daily brunch and dinner, and all other inclusions outlined above. *Flights are not included.
The bedrooms are warm, comfortable and thoughtfully appointed, with high-quality linens and space to settle in for the week. Shared and private accommodation options are available, with private rooms limited.
Walking Between Worlds is intentionally limited in numbers, allowing for an intimate group experience and the depth of facilitated work that is central to our time together.
All prices below are per person for the full seven-night retreat experience. Private rooms are particularly limited and will be allocated in order of enrolment.
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Shared Ensuite
Twin ensuite room shared with one other participant
$5,750 per person -
Private Room · Shared Bathroom
Private bedroom with bathroom shared between two rooms
$6,450 per person -
Private Ensuite
Private bedroom with private bathroom
$7,050 per person
Extended payment plans are available should you prefer to spread your investment over the months leading up to the Retreat.
Next Steps…
My Invitation to You
Walking Between Worlds is an intimate, professionally facilitated retreat, and the experience we create together matters deeply to me. Because we will be engaging in meaningful inner depth work within a group setting, I want there to be an opportunity for us to meet before you decide to join.
If you feel drawn to spending these seven nights with me in the Burren, I invite you to reach out.
Before we meet, I will send you the exclusive retreat brochure, with further details about the experience, accommodation, travel and enrollment, so that you have time to read, reflect and consider whether Walking Between Worlds feels right for you. I will then invite you to schedule a complimentary 20-minute Exploratory Conversation with me.
This is an opportunity for us to meet, for you to ask any questions you may have, and for us to explore together whether Walking Between Worlds feels like the right retreat for you.
Following our conversation, if we both feel it is a good fit, I will personally invite you to secure your place.
I am excited and I look forward to exploring this experience further with you.
What Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld Participants have said...
FAQ
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Walking Between Worlds is an intimate, reflective and experiential retreat for women, limited in the number of participants. It is for those who feel curious about exploring their inner lives through body, image, dream, creativity, story and relationship with place.
You do not need to have Irish ancestry to join me, though for some women, a connection to Ireland through family or ancestry may be part of what draws them to this journey. Others may simply feel a pull towards Ireland—its landscape, mythology, stories and traditions.
Some familiarity with inner work can be helpful, but it is not essential. You do not need previous experience of Jungian psychology, Authentic Movement, dream-work, meditation or creative practice. What matters most is a willingness to turn towards your own experience with curiosity and openness, and to approach both your own process and that of the group with care and respect.
Before joining the retreat, you will have an opportunity to meet with Eileen to explore together whether Walking Between Worlds feels like the right experience for you at this time.
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The retreat is informed by Jungian depth psychology, my professional experience as a psychotherapist, and more than 20 years of facilitating groups. Our work together will invite meaningful psychological exploration and engagement with the inner world.
However, Walking Between Worlds is a retreat experience and is not a substitute for individual psychotherapy, psychiatric care or other mental-health treatment.
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You do not need to be exceptionally fit to participate in Walking Between Worlds, but you should be comfortable spending time outdoors and walking for short periods of time. Our journeys into the Burren will take us across natural terrain, which can be rocky, uneven and affected by the weather. The walking will be gentle and unhurried, without strenuous hikes, significant climbs or extended periods of walking.
There will also be plenty of time for rest throughout the week. If you have mobility, accessibility or health considerations that may affect your participation, you are welcome to discuss these with Eileen during your Exploratory Conversation so that together you can consider whether the retreat is a suitable fit.
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Our days will have a rhythm rather than a rigid schedule. This spaciousness is intentional and is part of the Deepening the Senses experience. Facilitated depth work, Authentic Movement, creative practice, dream and symbolic exploration will sit alongside time in the landscape, shared meals, conversation, rest and solitude.
Some days will take us out into the Burren; others will invite us more deeply inward. Some mornings will begin quietly, allowing us to enter the day slowly and attend to what is stirring within. There will also be generous unscheduled time for walking, reading, reflecting, using the wellness facilities, dreaming - or simply being in Ireland.
The week has been intentionally designed and specially curated so that the facilitated work, our encounters with landscape and story, and the quieter spaces in between become part of one unfolding experience.
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Absolutely! Many women do, and you may arrive without knowing anyone else in the group.
Walking Between Worlds has been intentionally created as an intimate group experience, with opportunities for meaningful connection alongside space for solitude and your own inner process.
Welcoming people is one of my favourite parts of facilitating any retreat. There is something very important to me about that first threshold - the moment you arrive, no doubt, a little tired from travelling, perhaps uncertain about who you will meet or what the week will bring, and discover that a place has already been prepared for you. You are expected. You are welcomed. There are gifts especially chosen awaiting you. The work of creating the group begins there.
And I find myself so excited to create that welcome. I am imagining that moment already. The fires will be lit for you in Co. Clare. We will be gathering as the year turns towards Samhain, arriving into the darkness of an Irish autumn evening. Outside, the sky will be dark and the Atlantic close by; inside, there will be the glow of the fire in the hearth, warmth, and welcome. For me, there is something deeply meaningful about beginning this way - crossing from the journey outside into the warmth within. It is the essence of this work and we will have the whole week and all that we will discover together still ahead of us.
Beidh míle fáilte romhat.
You will be a thousand times welcome.From there, we will gradually come to know one another over the course of the week, with space for you to find your own place and rhythm within the group.
If you choose shared accommodation and are travelling alone, you can be paired with another participant in a twin ensuite room.
I know that arriving alone, sharing a room, or entering a group of people you have never met can bring some natural uncertainty. Part of my work as your facilitator is to attend to these moments with care—helping to create an environment in which you can gradually settle, feel at home and find your own place within the group. I can say, now, that the rooms and the space is beautiful.
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Our journey begins before we gather in the Burren. In the months leading up to the retreat, you will receive occasional, participants-only invitations from me, thoughtfully created to support you as you begin the process of Walking Between Worlds. Through questions, stories, images and reflections to engage with in your own time, you will be gently invited to turn towards the work and allow its themes to begin quietly unfolding before we meet in Ireland.
After returning home, we will allow time for the experience to settle and continue working within us. At Brigid’s time in February 2028, we will gather again for an intimate, participants-only 2.5-hour online Integration Gathering—a dedicated space to reconnect, reflect on what has continued to unfold, and consider how what began in Ireland might now find expression within the rhythms of everyday life.
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My approach to Walking Between Worlds is shaped by two strands of my life that have gradually come together.
Professionally, I am a trained psychotherapist and facilitator of depth-oriented process, with more than twenty years’ experience of working with groups. My training is in facilitating deep, transformative experiences while attending carefully to the psychological process and creating a thoughtfully held environment in which this work can unfold. This means paying attention not only to the work itself, but to what is emerging within each person, within the group, and within the experience we are creating together.
But my relationship with the world at the heart of this retreat began long before my professional training.
I grew up in the South Connemara Gaeltacht, in a world where Irish language, storytelling, folklore, traditional beliefs and the presence of the Otherworld were woven into the fabric of everyday life. I was privileged to grow up among people for whom these were not simply subjects to be studied, but part of a living cultural and imaginative world.
Later, through my professional and academic training in psychotherapy and Jungian depth psychology, and my engagement with mythology, dream, archetype and the unconscious, I encountered another way of understanding and entering some of this same territory.
It is at the meeting place of these two worlds - the professionally held world of psychological depth and the lived, inherited world of Irish language, story, landscape and tradition - that much of my work now lives.
Walking Between Worlds grows from that meeting. It is professionally informed and carefully facilitated, while also deeply rooted in a landscape and cultural world that has shaped me from the beginning.
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Walking Between Worlds is informed by Jungian depth psychology, Eileen’s professional experience as a psychotherapist, and more than 20 years of facilitating groups. The work we undertake together invites meaningful psychological and emotional exploration.
However, Walking Between Worlds is a retreat experience and does not constitute individual psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, medical care or crisis support, nor is it intended as a substitute for these services.
Because depth-oriented and experiential work can sometimes bring emotionally significant material to the surface, participants are asked to consider their own readiness for this kind of experience. The Exploratory Conversation and enrollment process provide an opportunity to discuss any relevant circumstances and to consider together whether the retreat is an appropriate fit at this time.
If you are currently experiencing significant psychological distress, are in crisis, or require a level of mental-health support beyond what can appropriately be provided within a retreat and group setting, Walking Between Worlds may not be suitable for you at this time.
As part of the enrollment process, all participants will be asked to review and sign a participation agreement that clearly outlines the nature and scope of the retreat, participant responsibilities, and the terms of participation.
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Yes. Because Walking Between Worlds is an intimate, experiential retreat involving meaningful depth work, enrollment is a little more personal and considered than simply booking a place online. The process gives you the information and time you need to consider whether the retreat feels right for you, while also allowing me to begin getting to know you and preparing thoughtfully for the group we will create together.
Request the Retreat Brochure
Your first step is to request the retreat brochure where you will find further details about the experience, accommodation, investment, travel arrangements and enrollment.20-minute Exploratory Conversation with Me
In the same request, we will look to find a time that works for us for a complimentary conversation. This is an opportunity for us to get to know one another a little, for you to ask questions and share what is drawing you to the retreat, and for us to explore together whether Walking Between Worlds feels like the right experience for you at this time. We can also discuss extended payment-plan options if you would prefer to spread your investment over the coming months.Participant Information Form
Following your invitation to join, I will ask you to complete a short, confidential participant form. This allows you to share anything relevant to your participation, including accessibility or mobility needs, dietary requirements, relevant health considerations, emergency contact information, and anything else you feel would be helpful for me to know as I prepare to welcome and support the group.Participation Agreement
Before your place is confirmed, you will review and sign a Participation Agreement. This outlines the nature and scope of the retreat, participant responsibilities, group confidentiality, payment and cancellation terms, and other important conditions of participation, so that everything is clear before you make your commitment.Accommodation & Payment
You will select your preferred accommodation, subject to availability, and make the required deposit or first payment to secure your place. If you choose an extended payment plan, your individual payment schedule will also be confirmed at this stage.Travel Insurance
You will be asked to arrange appropriate travel insurance for your journey to Ireland. Further information about this will be provided as part of your retreat information.Preparing for Ireland
As our time together approaches, I will send you everything you need to prepare for the journey, including information about airport transfers, arrival and departure, what to bring, the Irish weather, and other practical details. We will also confirm any final travel information at this stage.From the moment you enroll, you are not simply waiting for October to arrive - the journey has already begun. In the months before we gather in the Burren, you will begin receiving participants-only reflections and invitations from me, creating a thread of connection to the work and to our journey ahead. The space is held across the months before we meet, through our week together in Ireland, and into the integration that follows.