Training in Stroud
I offer a range of group training courses in Stroud: the Natural Power Course, Conscious Connections with Nature and an Apprenticeship. I co-devised and teach on the Priestess training programme at Stroud Goddess Temple and I have a special interest in Cuda and the Cuculatti. 07866642549
Shaman Dreamer Witch
A four-session course for anyone interested in becoming more rooted in the ancient ways of land and water
Take a dive into the Wyrd Dreamtime of our ancestors...ritual, drumming, sharing and presence
You are invited to dream yourself into being as we spiral into winter together. We will be drawing upon the ancient ways of land and water and dropping into the Wyrdways of our ancestors.
Back in June a group of us met at Red Hearth and dreamed ourselves awake together and some profound insights bubbled up from each person as we journeyed with the drum.
I am really delighted that we will be in the Roundhouse at Sladebank Woods in Stroud again to come together to explore our indigeneity, our sense of belonging, wherever we were born. We will journey with the drum, with plant and animal allies, and - through the lense of our Anglo-Saxon forebears - find a line through from mesolithic to present day natural spirituality giving us the ground of our dreaming and the springboard for our enquiry into what is needed as we approach the shortest day and longest night.
When and Where
This will be a series of 4 gatherings: 3 in the Roundhouse, Sladebank Woods, Stroud
Find Sladebank Woods (scroll down)
20th October, 17th November, 15th December 2.30 – 5pm
plus 1 session out on the land on 1st December
All welcome. (You do not need to have done the session in June at Red Hearth.)
And there is an opportunity for course participants to join a private river blessing at a wonderful location near Stonehenge on November 2nd for Samhain – more info when we start the course.
£90 for the 4 sessions in which you’re invited to drop into authentic connection with self, with each other, with earth, with ancestors.
To book please contact me.
“I needed to join a circle to explore my spirit and connection to Nature more deeply and with more structure, learning new ways to ground myself, practice gratitude and ways to interact with the spirits and energies of Nature. This course exceeded my hopes” from a participant on the Autumn 2023 Natural Power Course
“Kate has an incredible level of knowledge, understanding and lived experience in supporting herself and others with balancing energies, connecting with nature beings, getting grounded and developing our personal power. I recommend both her 1-1 and group sessions. They are a form of rite of passage. They have enabled me to get very clear about my next steps, supported me in removing resistance and given me strength to take action in the face of challenge” from a participant on the Autumn 2023 Natural Power Course
“Kate is a wonderful guide and teacher. She holds space brilliantly and inclusively. Her course has helped me ground and focus and energies. I learned so many great practices which I am incorporating slowly into my everyday life and ways of connecting with Nature” from a participant on the Autumn 2023 Natural Power Course
Each session will be 2.5 hours. Course of 6
£195/£170/£150
CPD certificates upon completion.
Within the structure of the group will be initiatory experiences which could be a grounding for deeper ‘shamanic’/’pagan’/’seer’ training which you may or may not choose to take up at a later date. Whether or not you have an interest in studying shamanic practices further, this series will help you on your journey in your personal and professional life.
Next dates: Thursdays 6.30 - 9pm April 11th, 18th, 25th, May 2nd, 23rd, June 6th
More about the Natural Power Course
With ritual, journeying, drumming, gratitude offerings, shadow exercises, opportunities to deepen connection with earth and nature…and anything else which arises as appropriate to the group as we grow together. We will be looking at how to step into personal power, release ancestral and cultural conditioning, understand more of our biography, receive healing, deepen our connection to earth and nature.
A series of gatherings which will build from week to week, deepening connection to self, to others, to natural spirituality. We will build a strong container to help us to connect to our deepest truths, move through blocks, deepen perception and understand shadow projection.
Incorporating embodiment, ritual, sharing, circling, earth-based spirituality, mutual support on life’s journey.
Grow your power in alignment with natural spirituality. On offer: Ritual, journey, embodiment, exercises, earth connection, nature initiation, spiral of life, deep sharing of all of who you are, circling, ceremony, fire and much more. Nourishing home practice. This will build from one session to the next.
This is for you if you are looking for a group which is strongly held with capacity for growth and healing. And if you want a container where you can explore your authenticity without judgement and deepen your sense of belonging here on earth, where you can be held in courageous love. If you want to meet some shadow pieces along the way and integrate them, If you feel ready to deepen your soul’s journey with commitment.
“I started Kate's course feeling very low in energy and disconnected. Within a few weeks I feel very different. Kate's style is very gentle and permissive. I can definitely recommend this course.”
“I have benefited hugely from this wonderful course. Kate creates a nurturing safe space, and generously shares her profound knowledge, experience and wisdom whilst enabling us to truly expand into the connections with nature and spirit as individuals.
"The work is both gentle and powerful, as well as deeply healing and nourishing. Reciprocal honouring and respect for all, sprinkled with Joy!”
Conscious Connections with Nature
Eco-spirituality: weaving your energetic relationship with the primary forces of nature: Water, Earth, Sun, Wind Moon Stars, Cosmos. The series ends with an energetic transmission to connect you to these nature beings.
Exercises, transmission and meditations which help us to reconnect with nature and experience a different perceptual field. Solo time in nature. Sharing time. Shadow work. Tools for self-healing, cleansing and empowerment.
Tried and tested techniques help make deeper connections with the primary forces of nature - Water, Earth, Sun, Wind Moon Stars, Cosmos. Practical, simple and profound tools which are life-changing. Weekly contact with teaching and many tools to practise on your own in NATURE with a platform for sharing in between sessions. Learn how to make prayerful offerings and deepen your relationship with your environment. This is deep ecology.
"Conscious Connection with Nature...a wonderful time to focus and really connect with The Great Spirit through meditation and experiential exercises. Kate leads in a respectful, deeply committed way with her teachings, leading us into deep healing spaces even on the lockdown zoom!” JC
“I have so appreciated being on Kate’s Conscious Connections with Nature course. I have loved learning a new practise grounded in nature and at the same time spiralling out into the cosmos. Our time online has not only been an exploration into new ideas but also a prayerful meditation on the elements...
...I’ve enjoyed meeting new people, and the invitations to create nature mandalas which we then share with the group in the time between our zoom calls, building our connection to all that is around us but to each other too. Thank you Kate, I hope you offer more magical courses like this in the future!” Jaine Rose.
Apprenticeship: Medicine Spiral
The medicine spiral incorporates exercises to help us to shed skins and all that disconnects us from our mother earth, from our destinies. The cauldron helps us to reconnect heart to heart with our indigenous brothers and sisters around the world. You will also learn how to grow your own medicine bundle and connect with your local nature spirits.
With an open heart and deep gratitude to mother earth, father sky and all that is I offer this work in good faith and take full responsibility for it. This is my synthesis of wisdom teachings and initiations (passed on with the blessings of those who gave them to me) and combined with my own research here in this land.
If you decide to dive deeply into this training you will also learn tried and tested tools for Energy Medicine (Shamanic Healing) to add to your tool kit or to launch you onto your journey as a healer. This training is suitable for practitioners who wish to: deepen their experience of the animating force which runs through all life; to exchange energies with the nature beings; who are curious about shifting their perceptions in relation to nature; and who wish to add many new tools to complement their existing practise. It is also suitable for people who want to develop as Energy Medicine practitioners and who are open to meeting their shadow pieces and shedding skins to become the hollow bone in service to others and all that is.
This work is a synthesis of spiritual practices designed to dismantle all that disconnects us from nature, to dismember ourselves and be born anew in relation to earth and sky. The techniques, insights and experiences are underpinned by a deeply held connection to and boundless gratitude to the people of Q'eros who so generously teach us the way of harmony and love. It is a synthesis intended to bring participants into alignment with the energies of nature close to your own doorstep and it is inspired by the wisdom teachings of indigenous peoples around the world, especially the Q'ero whose blessing I have to share their wisdom teachings.
No longer do you have to burn up fossil fuels travelling to distant lands, it is now possible to become an Earth keeper, perhaps become an Energy Weaver or Shamanic practitioner, perhaps deepen your experience of activism, or simply come home to yourself and heal old wounds right here in this land.
Initiations & Transmissions: Hatun Karpi; Munay Ki; Paqo Initiations from Q'eros: I offer these as a part of a Shamanic Training as well as stand-alone transmissions
"The work has nourished every part of me. It has opened up doors and given me a solid platform to work with. I have been provided with the tools to delve deeper and to continue making the necessary internal and external changes in my life. It is a deeply healing and transformative medicine and it is a great opportunity to honour and have these old teachings passed down and shared." A.F.
