Join for a single season or the full cycle. Choose from Winter, Spring, Summer and/or Autumn and step into a creative, ancestral, and embodied journey at your own pace.
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Winter (Jan–Mar): Familial Ancestors. As we immerse ourselves in hibernation, this season invites us to listen inwardly and reconnect with our roots, our personal ancestral lineage, and the stories that shape us. We will be embracing the embedded networks of kinship that run through our DNA, exploring our memories and imaginations, getting to know our underlying narratives.
Theme: Remembering and Reconnecting Focus: Our personal ancestors, learning about presence, setting intention, divining a plan for the year. Spring (Apr–Jun): Tribal/Natural Ancestors. With spring comes renewal. This is the season to turn toward the living world — to attune to the ancestral knowledge carried by land, plants, and other-than-human kin. We’ll explore how we might nurture new life within ourselves, each other and in our relationships with the more-than-human world. Theme: Growth and Reciprocity Focus: Land, ecology, belonging, the wisdom of the natural world, home. Summer (Jul–Sep): The Elemental Ancestors. In the heat of summer, energy rises and transformation calls. This is the time to explore the basic elements of fire, water, air, and earth as ancient teachers and mirrors of our own internal states. Through creative practice we’ll explore how the elements shape us and how they can restore balance and vitality. Theme: Transformation and Integration Focus: The elements as ancestors, alchemical resources, magic solutions. Autumn (Oct–Dec): Our Future Ancestors. As the year turns and we move toward winter again, this season invites reflection, harvesting, and imagining forward. We’ll explore what it means to become a future ancestor — how to write, create, and live without falling into polarisation, and how to weave pathways toward possible futures in presence with clarity, not fearing the darkness, loss or grief of a world in change. Theme: Vision and Continuity Focus: Legacy, futurity, creative and ecological responsibility, embodied hope. |
Extra: In person weekend meetings in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Dates, costs and locations to be confirmed.
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Anna Walker, PhD, is a writer, storyteller, multidisciplinary artist and psychotherapist who explores the traces of trauma on both the body and the earth, investigating spaces of separation and connection across generations. In her practice, she examines how ancestral and intergenerational trauma moves through families and communities, and how we can create pathways for healing and reconnection.
She has published over 30 essays and book chapters, edited over 5 books of artist's essays and research, and self-published many of her own works. Through text, photography, sound, and moving imagery, she examines resilience—how the body responds to overwhelming trauma and stress, and how it reorganises itself to navigate the complexities of such experiences across time and lineage. Anna has an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University (1998), and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC, Cambridge, (2010). Her work as a psychotherapist deepened her interest in the effects of trauma on the body, leading to a PhD in Arts and Media from Plymouth University (2017). Since then, she has been weaving photography, sound, and video with the spoken word, using storytelling and text as both research tool and holding space to examine memory, identity, and the possibility of reimagining our relationship to ancestral patterns. |
She has been running workshops for over 15 years, with the last 5 years focused specifically on ancestral healing work. Her workshops combine somatic awareness, creative expression, and therapeutic inquiry to help participants explore their family histories and create new narratives for future generations. She is currently writing her first novel.
www.anna-walker-research.com |