North Yorkshire: Settle - Creative Writing & Mindfulness Retreat

 “An experience that helps you to open up the possibilities for being creative in your writing using mindfulness.” 

- previous participant

This transformative retreat set amidst the inspiring landscape of the Yorkshire Dales is a deep exploration of your inner landscape as a creative writer. 

Join like-minded people in a supportive and appropriately challenging atmosphere as you discover new mindfulness meditation techniques. These will help you connect with yourself as a key to your creativity and your joy.

Sita Brand & Pete Armstrong have collectively dedicated over 60 years to mindfulness practice. Sita is an experienced storyteller and Pete is a writer and poet. This retreat brings together a life long vocation and honed skill sets to help you discover a new approach that will maximise your creative energy. You will become less frenetic, more focused and learn to transport this energy onto paper. A range of exercises will help you draw inspiration from your own intuition that will help you grow beyond your habit energies.

This retreat uses a person-centred approach and is suitable for writers from all disciplines, from beginners to experienced, published writers.

Retreat activities:

Guided meditation, mindfulness walking, writing exercises, creative instruction and sharing. 

This retreat offers you the chance to: