The Power of Connection with Jon Cree and Madelanne Rust-D’Eye (OCT, EAST SUSSEX)
From Anxiety to Regulation Through Story and Somatic Practice. A two-day course exploring how nature, storytelling, and somatic practices can help reduce stress and anxiety. Led by Jon Cree and Madelanne Rust-D’Eye, it offers practical tools to support emotional regulation, resilience, and compassionate connection with others and the natural world.
Event Details
- Event Date 03.10.26
- Age Ranges Adult
- Cost £260 - £280
- Category Courses, Training and Workshops
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- Phone 01273 814226
- Organiser Circle of Life Rediscovery
This new two-day course will explore ways to address stress and anxiety through personal stories and nervous system attunement with one another and the natural community. We will dive into:
- How nature-based and body-informed somatic practices can support self-regulation and unwind anxiety;
- How metaphor and storytelling can be vessels to contain and share life experience;
- How relational attunement helps to re-focus attention and re-discover delight in the energy of life;
- How experiencing the ‘Self’ in its interconnectedness with the natural world and with others inherently counteracts anxiety.
What you’ll take away from this two-day workshop:
This course will help educators support their own regulation and that of their learners through;
- Somatic Practices in and with the human and more than human world
- Languaging the inner and outer worlds of emotions through nature-based storymaking and telling – including approaching sometimes deeply stressful emotional memories through gentle, slow narrative
- Helping ‘reframe’ situations and behaviours through the knowledge of mind-body relationships (neurobiology)
- Working with the multi-sensory world of nature
- Accompaniment – how we walk alongside each other and the more-than-human. What are the qualities of compassion and how, in a society that values power over, do we foster connection with all the members of a learning community? Working with our own warmth and acceptance of self, which will support educators working with others through painful times.
Dates: Saturday October 3rd and Sunday 4th October 2026
Time: 9.30am to 5pm daily, arrive at 9.15am to start on time
Location: Our woodland site, off Park Lane, near Laughton, East Sussex, BN8 6BP
Cost: £280, Early bird price until 3rd August 2026 £260