Heart of the Matter: Resourcing yourself to manage complexity
A Workshop for Wild-Hearted Changemakers
Are you an educator, activist, therapist, leader, care or support practitioner feeling the weight of complexity — or the ripples of burnout?
This is a nature-based resourcing workshop giving those in caring and support professions the chance to reflect and recharge.
How do we stay rooted in purpose when the world feels overwhelming?
In times of deep complexity—climate emergency, social injustice, systemic burnout—many of us carry a quiet ache beneath the surface. We care deeply. We serve tirelessly. But we forget to tend the very flame that keeps us going.
The Heart of the Matter is a reflective, nature-connected workshop that invites you to pause, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and restore your sense of belonging—to yourself, to others, and to the living world.
’I felt really refreshed spiritually and mentally . It helped me to focus on my work much better when I went back to work’ (April 2025 participant)
Complete this short registration form and we will send you an invoice for payment.
Run by Dr Rachel Brown and Ellen Grieves
This Workshop Offers You:
Tools to tend your “inner fire”—your care, creativity, and purpose—without burning out
A compassionate space to reflect on the parts of yourself that have been silenced in order to keep going
Gentle reconnection with your wild, wholehearted self through nature and embodied practice
An invitation to imagine a way of working and living that honours complexity without hardening against it
Who It's For
Educators • Health & Social Care Practitioners • Therapists • Leaders • Activists • Community Builders • Support Workers
And ANYONE navigating the tensions of living and working in systems not designed for wholeness.
You may feel:
Passionate about change, but weary of carrying it all
Longing to reconnect with nature or a part of yourself that’s gone quiet
Ready for a slower, deeper kind of resourcing that aligns with your values
‘I felt grounded in myself and held by nature. I felt like I left with more connection to myself’ (April 2025 Participant)
Upcoming Dates
Monday 11th August 2025
Roundhouse Springfields Allotment, Bristol. BS4 1AL
09.30 AM – 4:30 PM
A Note on Format
This workshop includes:
Grounding and welcome circle
Reflective journaling
Embodied practices to access internal resources
Time in and with nature
Group dialogue and space for creative visioning
It will be held with warmth, safety, and a steady sense of community. No prior experience required—just a curious and open heart.
Bespoke Offerings for Teams & Organisations
We also offer tailored versions of The Heart of the Matter for community groups, educators, health practitioners, charities, and purpose-led organisations. If you're interested in hosting a session for your team, we’d love to connect and co-create something meaningful.
How do I sign up?
Complete this short registration form and we will send you an invoice for payment.
The standard cost is £120. Other options are also available including 20% off for group bookings.
About the Facilitators
Dr Rachel Brown is a psychologist with over 15 years’ experience in systems change, trauma-informed practice, and community development. With a root training in Clinical Psychology, she also weaves in Eco and Community Psychology to support whole-system transformation.
Rachel has worked across the NHS and third sector in leadership, consultancy and supervision roles spanning health, education, housing, and the environment. She brings expertise in delivering trauma-informed strategies and is a skilled facilitator, trainer and supervisor.
With additional training in Eco Psychology, Permaculture, Internal Family Systems and Nature-Based Facilitation, Rachel bridges ecology and psychology—supporting people to reconnect with values, purpose and belonging.
Ellen Grieves is committed to being present and responsive to what’s needed for us to find our way through these times, together. She is a playful, curious, heart-centred practitioner who is listening deeply to the wild and rekindling relationship here. As a Senior Psychological, Adversity and Trauma-Informed practitioner and Nature and Health Facilitator she holds space for emergent group process, discovery and remembering in a collaborative and welcoming way. Acknowledging the fullness of our being and relational world, whilst holding the complexity of our history with care. Ellen works in a holistic and embodied way, drawing on her experience of sharing Yoga in the community and her many years of personal practice and exploration.
