Into the Dark
5-week Deep Winter Community Adventure
Deep Winter adventure
Into the Dark is an invitation to slow down, to pay attention to the roots, to let go of what is no longer useful and to nurture the seeds of intention within you.
What would it be to go consciously into the dark in community?
As we sit in the dark time of the year, how can we use darkness as a container to begin to root our intentions for where we place our energy in 2025 as the light returns and to do so in relation to a larger web of life?
What unexpected gifts await you in the time of breakdown, darkness & decay?
Dates:
23rd Jan. Online 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
30th Jan. Online 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
6th Feb. Online 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
8th/9th Feb. Nature Solo. Self paced where you live.
9th Feb. Online 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
13th Feb. Online 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
Embrace the darkness of the season
Connect to this moment in earth's cycles, learn to winter well & let go of what is in decay and do so in community
Deepen your belonging to Earth
Connect to the living Earth wherever you are, and through creative, embodied practices re-entangle with a wider intelligence of life
Stoke your creativity and wild imagination
Work with myth, story, creative practice & group reflective processes
‘To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark.
Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.’
Wendell Berry
You will receive:
3 x online gatherings to journey into the dark and prepare for a Nature Solo Threshold walk
Introduce practices to support reflection, deep listening & connection during deep winter
Surface and explore the intentions & questions we wish to bring to our Solo time
Learn in community of fellow travellers, in a relational & experiential way
Nature Solo Threshold Walk (locally, where you are)
We work with the age-old idea of taking our questions, ideas and longings out onto the land through a Threshold Walk/Nature Solo experience
Learn how to prepare for Threshold Walk including ceremony making, choosing your spot & safety guidance
2 x online gatherings to return & incorporate
2 x online guided sessions to bring the stories & insights from our Solo walk back to the community & begin the process of incorporating them into our lives.
Recognising the seeds of potential we’re tending and galvanizing ourselves through reflection & intention, for action in service of life on earth.
What is the cost?
Standard rate £199
This represents the cost of running the programme
Inter-generational Supporter rate £249
Paying this price supports us to offer the programme to young people
Youth Supported rate £99
We believe in the need and potential of inter-generational learning spaces and offer a number of spaces to young people aged 18-25 in education and/or part time work
We offer payment plan options. If spreading the cost would allow you to participate, please email hello@becomingcrew.com
Go into the dark with us
Your guides
Dan Burgess
Dan helps people to see the world and their place within it differently - as part of a mysterious entangled web of relational life. A creative catalyst, sacred activist, imagineer, guide, father, committed to ongoing practice of connection to grow courage, community and our unique creative intelligence to serve these uncertain times with curiosity, care and humility.
He’s learned with many wise teachers including Chris Salisbury/Wildwise, Bayo Akomolafe/We Will Dance with Mountains, David Wendl-Berry/Earth Encounters. He is guest faculty Co-Creating the Emerging Future, Schumacher College, practice team at The Bio Leadership Project. Huddlecraft host. Kincentric Leadership Cohort 23/24.Host and creator the Spaceship Earth Podcast.
Mark Sears
Mark weaves together practices and techniques that explore how we might regrow a healthy culture through deep nature connection. He works with myth & oral storytelling, Way of Council and time spent alone in wild places as practices to deepen our connection so we might use our unique gifts in service to all life.
As a guide Mark has apprenticed as a nature based mentor with WildWise/Schumacher College. He has trained in the Way of Council with Pip Bondy of Ancient Healing Ways and apprenticed to myth and story with the West Country School of Myth. He is mentored by Annie Bloom of Buffalo Dreaming Lodge who for many years was lead guide with Animas Valley Institute.
Ally Kingston
Ally holds spaces exploring what the dying and darkening times have to teach us about living more meaningful lives. She has trained as a death doula (Living Well Dying Well), deepening her soulwork with the West Country School of Myth and the Animas Valley Institute.
As a cultural strategist & facilitator with 15 years' creative industries experience, she also supports storytellers to step into & amplify the story of our interconnectedness with the web of all life. She is also an aspiring ceremonialist, rites of passage holder and a mother. She’s mentored by Bell Selkie Lovelock of the Animas Valley Institute.
What others say about the experience
“Through a hole in the world, that led me to places I never visited before and gifted me insights I am still working with. About Words and Worlds and Writing. Wayfinding and Web Weaving. Being a crew member last winter has had a lasting impact on me.”
Don’t miss it.”
Ann Weber Carlsen
“It's the space I've been looking for to feel, reflect, connect and hibernate. This experience, for me, has revealed strength in community, nature, and being. It's amplified my innate craving to become a human being, not a human doing, and has led me to a collective heartbeat.”
Amelia Crew
“Dan, Evva, and Mark very gently guide us down into the soul. Into a place where we can meet each other in authenticity, care, and attention. A much needed, slow space full of magic; a beautiful clearing in the woods.”
David Hoogland
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