Rites of Passage Summer School 2017

led by GILLY ADAMS and SUE GILL

LATE DEAL 20% off our LAST FEW PLACES

Wondering how you might create unique ceremony? Do you have qualities of tact, patience, understanding and listening? Then this 4 day Summer School might be for you. An opportunity to examine the Hows and Whys of ceremony and celebration in practical and experiential ways. Investigate how both positive and negative life events can be distilled into myth and poetry, and create meaningful rituals to contain them. Journey, with all its associated imagery, is a significant metaphor in the work. Opportunities to learn and practise many aspects of the craft of creating ceremony – both public and private - in a safe environment.

Many of us experience ritual and ceremony in our lives in an inarticulate way, plagued by anxiety and embarrassment. Yet, we may also experience the absence of ritual at key moments of change or loss when we long to find a vehicle to express our emotions. Examining how ceremony and celebration feature in our own lives, allows us to clarify how we can be bolder in honouring significant beginnings and endings and imaginatively facilitate that process for others.

Gilly Adams and Sue Gill bring their own particular brand of humour and insight to the task of sharing their broad experience, offering theory, information, and – they hope – inspiration. Feasting, an important element in ceremony and celebration, will be a special theme. We will be eating midday and evening meals together, cooked specially for us. The working day will be 10am to 9pm except on the last day when we finish at 2pm.

Original fee £450 - LATE DEAL now £360 for our last few places - includes tuition, materials and meals.
Payment in instalments can be arranged.
Non refundable deposit of £50 secures your place.
Cheque payable to SUE GILL, to: The Beach House, Swinestead Lane, Baycliff,
Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 9RY (or request details for bank transfer).

East Woodlands Village Hall is on the edge of the Longleat Estate. Nearest mainline train station is Westbury, 2hrs from London / SW line.