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Family Day of Play & Discovery – Bring your children to The Bield for a day of creativity, nature exploration, and fun in the swimming pool. Designed for families with children aged 5–16, this day offers relaxed, hands-on activities in art, gentle outdoor adventures, and playful swimming. Morning refreshments and lunch are included.

Finding ‘home’ – stories of journeys taken and interrupted. Through the embodied art form of Playback Theatre, we will explore places our life journey has taken us and where we have found ‘home’, perhaps in unlikely places. Opportunity to learn about Playback, helping more voices be heard, and even perform if you wish, and see a performance.

Spend a creative day in remembrance of loved ones who have passed, through exploration of light, colour, and creativity. Using simple materials including inks, acrylics, watercolour, and collage, participants may create small artworks inspired by cherished objects. Gentle reflective exercises, personal creative time, and optional sharing provide a calm, supportive space to celebrate and remember. No previous artistic experience is required.

Spend a creative day in remembrance of loved ones who have passed, through exploration of light, colour, and creativity. Using simple materials including inks, acrylics, watercolour, and collage, participants may create small artworks inspired by cherished objects. Gentle reflective exercises, personal creative time, and optional sharing provide a calm, supportive space to celebrate and remember. No previous artistic experience is required.

Step into a day of gentle reflection, prayer, and connection with God through nature, movement, and creative expression. This retreat at the Bield invites participants to slow down, notice creation, and explore personal renewal through quiet walks, swimming, art, and meditation. Guided by Cate, the day offers flexibility and support, giving space for both communal reflection and private contemplation, leaving participants refreshed, inspired, and grounded in peace.

Stillness and Stitching – A Day of Reflection and Creative Renewal. Step away from the busyness of everyday life and enter a gentle space of calm, creativity, and connection. Through guided meditation, quiet prayer, and mindful stitching, this workshop invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and rediscover balance. By the end of the day, you’ll leave feeling restored and centred carrying home not only a handmade piece, but a renewed sense of peace.

In a busy world, charity and love can be easily missed as we rush through our lives. God

may at times seem distant and far off within the demands of the day. This creative day is

aimed at stilling ourselves, giving %me to allow our being to recognise what is in and

around us.

These practices help transform stress and pain deriving from illness, violence, and the stresses of daily life and open the individual up towards greater wholeness and wellbeing. As individuals get in touch with their own source of healing and wisdom they can help others.

Meditating and Making

The day will begin with a guided meditation using a found vessel as your inspiration for an imaginative narrative and prayerful exploration.

The rest of the day will be spent meditating as you make a cloth vessel using slow hand stitching in response to this initial meditation.

This will be a fun day of doodling, mark making, and imaginative drawing aimed at awakening your sense of the spiritual.

No experience or artistic ability is needed, and all materials will be provided.

Come for as few or as many days as you wish These retreats will introduce ways of stilling yourself and prayer material. There will be the opportunity to meet with a guide each day

“If you stand still for a few minutes in the relentless onward rush of 21st century life you might hear a quiet but insistent undercurrent. It is the cry of our hearts for space and time just to be, to listen to the heartbeat of creation, to let our souls catch up. Quiet gardens offer just such longed-for oases of peace. They open up once more what all our busy-ness has buried – the precious gift of heart-time and soul-space.”

Margaret Silf – patron of The Quiet Garden Movement