Spiritual Renewal Retreat

The psychologist Carl Jung argued that our overly rational, survival-oriented culture and one that is devoid of mythic imagination, takes a heavy toll on our psychic health:

“In order to sustain his creed, contemporary man pays the price in a remarkable lack of introspection. He is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by ‘powers’ that are beyond his control. His Gods and Demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, and an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food – and above all, a large array of neuroses.”

It needn’t be this way.

The benefit of getting older is that we are gifted with greater opportunity for perspective.

Introspection can allow us to look back on our year and find more of the connecting threads that reveal our life’s narrative.

It also allows us to recognise any unhealthy patterns in order to unknot them and live a more flourishing life.

We can also self-reflect to gain greater clarity into the future we wish to design.

To harness this potential, however, involves more than a simple incantation of adding an extra candle to our birthday cake. We must actively participate in our individuation. For while youth affords optimism it typically lacks wisdom. Conversely, entropy is the ever-present danger that accompanies maturity.

An End of Year Exploration involves a guided writing program designed to tease out the big themes currently at play in your life, cultivate gratitude and provide planning for the year to come.

There is something rewarding about reflecting on the major achievements and big projects that you’ve seen through over the year. In what ways did you show up this year? Demonstrate courage? Fall short but dust yourself off to try again?

It’s equally insightful to sit with the difficult lessons, disappointments and loss of loved ones or various connections in your life. Ever wonder which direction these peaks and valleys are pointing you towards?

Together we will discuss what has emerged in these areas and talk about whether there is a story you could write to capture a major development in your life’s journey from the year.

Should you be open to esoteric ideas we will investigate what your astrology and numerology blueprints have to say about the year that was and the year to come.