Held — A Weekend for the Ones Who Hold Everyone Else
A 3-day women-only retreat for carers, therapists, mothers, and anyone who spends their life holding space for others.
25–27 September 2026 · Willowbrook Farm
You give your care away all year — to clients, patients, children, partners, parents, friends. You're the one people call. The one who listens, absorbs, steadies.
This weekend, that flips.
Our Self-Care Bootcamp Retreat this summer sold out, prompted a waiting list, and left women asking when we'd run it again. Rather than wait for next season, we've added one more gathering — Held, a sister retreat built on the same nervous system reset, this time turned specifically toward the women who spend their lives holding everyone else. Fittingly, it lands during Self-Care Awareness Month.
Why this retreat
Self-care is often something we do alone, in the gaps. Held is different — it's care that happens to you, inside a circle of women who understand exactly what it costs to hold others.
Over three days at Willowbrook Farm, you'll be received rather than expected to perform — through the same science-backed nervous system reset that made Self-Care such a resounding success, plus deep rest and the kind of unguarded sharing that only happens among women who all know what it is to carry someone else's pain.
This retreat is especially built with therapists, nurses, teachers, carers, and mothers in mind — the ones who rarely get permission to be tended to themselves.
Your Experience Includes
🪷 Morning Flow Yoga A gentle, grounding practice to soften the body out of "on" mode and into the pace of the farm.
🧘🏼♂️ Evening Guided Meditation A deeply calming guided group experience using visualisation and hypnotherapy to calm the mind and relax the body.
🫁 Breathwork for Compassion Fatigue SOMA breathwork techniques, reframed for the specific exhaustion of absorbing others' pain — restoring oxygen efficiency, nervous system regulation, and a felt sense of your own edges again.
🎶 Ecstatic Dance Forest Bathing Headphones on, into the trees. No performing, no holding anyone up — just your own body, moving.
🫂 The Witnessing Circle — Cacao Ceremony Tara Paonessa (Born Intuitive) leads a heart-led ceremony built around being received: each woman witnessed by the group, not just present for a ritual.
💧 Wild Swimming A natural reset for the nervous system, and a reminder of your own aliveness outside of anyone else's needs.
🐐 Farm Tour & Sustainability Talk A slow, guided wander around Willowbrook Farm — no agenda, no one to look after.
🍃 Nourishment & Nutrition Seasonal, vegetarian, locally sourced meals — this time, made for you, not by you.
🤍 Life & Wellbeing Coaching Evidence-based Psychology and coaching with enriched mindful, body-based holistic practices.
⛺ Eco-Luxury Glamping Under the Stars Beautifully furnished bell tents, real beds — a soft place to land each night.
Optional Extras
Who This Is For
This retreat is for you if you're:
A therapist, nurse, teacher, or carer who spends your working life absorbing others' pain
A mother returning from a summer of holding everyone together
Someone who's forgotten what it feels like to be tended to, rather than tending
Craving a weekend among women who understand exactly what you carry, without having to explain it
Ready to be held — properly, fully — for three days
By popular demand, and timed for Self-Care Awareness Month — one more gathering before the season turns. This one, for the women who've been holding everyone else.
Held — A Weekend for the Ones Who Hold Everyone Else
A 3-day women-only retreat for carers, therapists, mothers, and anyone who spends their life holding space for others.
25–27 September 2026 · Willowbrook Farm
You give your care away all year — to clients, patients, children, partners, parents, friends. You're the one people call. The one who listens, absorbs, steadies.
This weekend, that flips.
Our Self-Care Bootcamp Retreat this summer sold out, prompted a waiting list, and left women asking when we'd run it again. Rather than wait for next season, we've added one more gathering — Held, a sister retreat built on the same nervous system reset, this time turned specifically toward the women who spend their lives holding everyone else. Fittingly, it lands during Self-Care Awareness Month.
Why this retreat
Self-care is often something we do alone, in the gaps. Held is different — it's care that happens to you, inside a circle of women who understand exactly what it costs to hold others.
Over three days at Willowbrook Farm, you'll be received rather than expected to perform — through the same science-backed nervous system reset that made Self-Care such a resounding success, plus deep rest and the kind of unguarded sharing that only happens among women who all know what it is to carry someone else's pain.
This retreat is especially built with therapists, nurses, teachers, carers, and mothers in mind — the ones who rarely get permission to be tended to themselves.
Your Experience Includes
🪷 Morning Flow Yoga A gentle, grounding practice to soften the body out of "on" mode and into the pace of the farm.
🧘🏼♂️ Evening Guided Meditation A deeply calming guided group experience using visualisation and hypnotherapy to calm the mind and relax the body.
🫁 Breathwork for Compassion Fatigue SOMA breathwork techniques, reframed for the specific exhaustion of absorbing others' pain — restoring oxygen efficiency, nervous system regulation, and a felt sense of your own edges again.
🎶 Ecstatic Dance Forest Bathing Headphones on, into the trees. No performing, no holding anyone up — just your own body, moving.
🫂 The Witnessing Circle — Cacao Ceremony Tara Paonessa (Born Intuitive) leads a heart-led ceremony built around being received: each woman witnessed by the group, not just present for a ritual.
💧 Wild Swimming A natural reset for the nervous system, and a reminder of your own aliveness outside of anyone else's needs.
🐐 Farm Tour & Sustainability Talk A slow, guided wander around Willowbrook Farm — no agenda, no one to look after.
🍃 Nourishment & Nutrition Seasonal, vegetarian, locally sourced meals — this time, made for you, not by you.
🤍 Life & Wellbeing Coaching Evidence-based Psychology and coaching with enriched mindful, body-based holistic practices.
⛺ Eco-Luxury Glamping Under the Stars Beautifully furnished bell tents, real beds — a soft place to land each night.
Optional Extras
Who This Is For
This retreat is for you if you're:
A therapist, nurse, teacher, or carer who spends your working life absorbing others' pain
A mother returning from a summer of holding everyone together
Someone who's forgotten what it feels like to be tended to, rather than tending
Craving a weekend among women who understand exactly what you carry, without having to explain it
Ready to be held — properly, fully — for three days
By popular demand, and timed for Self-Care Awareness Month — one more gathering before the season turns. This one, for the women who've been holding everyone else.
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