A taste of what’s coming up
Fall Back 2025: Inside/Outside Retreat
A creative and contemplative guided small group Autumn retreat marking the end of ‘British Summer Time’.
Turning towards the darker times.
A time for rest, reflection and rejuvenation.
23rd – 26th October 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK
With Artists/Guides Fern Smith & Philip Ralph
Shake It Off ‘TRE’ Retreat: Learn TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises)
Small Group Retreat to learn and practise TRE in a nourishing, creative and enjoyable way.
Reconnect to health and potency, alleviate stress and support the nervous system.
Autumn Retreat: 13th – 16th November 2025
Dyfi Valley, Mid Wales, UK
With Certified TRE Provider & Craniosacral Therapist Fern Smith
Programmes & Retreats 2026
Dates announced soon!
Emergence Nature Quest and short retreats.
Contact us for Details
info@emergence-uk.org
The Barn
The Emergence Centre for Residencies, Retreats & Workshops
Self-catering accommodation with studio/working space, ideal for writer’s retreats, solo and small group residencies, dance and performance research and development, or simply for time and space out for creative dreaming.
Emergence is an art, facilitation and ritual practice led by Fern Smith and Philip Ralph
We consciously seek to embody the values we treasure in the hope that a more creative, caring and compassionate planet might be our next r/evolution.
Emergence has nurtured and created spaces for dialogue, inspiration and change since 2010.
Emergence creates transformative spaces for individuals and groups. We make artworks, offer rites of passage initiatory ceremonies, lead creative workshops, offer individual coaching and mentoring, facilitate group processes and manage a retreat space in mid Wales for ‘artists in residence’ and small groups.
Rites of Passage Experiences
Meaningful initiatory processes to mark key life transitions, support healing and personal transformation with culturally appropriate and self-generated ceremony.
Residential Workshops & Retreats
Range of courses to develop and learn new skills in creative and nature-based practise, the embodied imagination, and trauma informed bodywork.
Coaching & Mentoring
One-to-one sessions providing a supportive, emergent online or in-person space for enquiry, reflection or change engaging with specific life/art/work issues.
Facilitation & Project Design
Creative design and bespoke facilitation to support learning, community-building, culture shift and change for creative, academic and not-for-profit projects and organisations
Artists Residencies & Hires
Space for solo and small group residencies, writer’s retreats, creative research and development, or simply for the artist-in-you to take time and space for dreaming and deep rest.
Artwork & Events
Practising the ‘Art of Living’ with pop-up, creative participatory projects with the guiding principle that ‘everyone is an artist’.
The world is changing.
How can we change with it?
Our vision for Emergence is to support the transformation we need to make in order to meet the challenges ahead of us.