An autumn afternoon of noticing, receiving & giving back

As autumn moves through the landscape in colour and change, we gather for a longer, more spacious exploration of gratitude.

This four-hour Seasonal Immersion invites us beyond simply naming what we are grateful for and into the felt experience of appreciation—slowing down enough to notice what is here, allowing ourselves to be touched by it, and becoming curious about what naturally arises in response.

There is good reason to practise this turning. Research on gratitude has linked it with greater emotional well-being, more positive emotion and life satisfaction, and reductions in stress and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Gratitude doesn’t ask us to deny what is difficult; it can help us widen our attention so that difficulty is not the only thing we are holding. Over time, it can become an anchor—a way of remembering that even in challenging times, there may still be something here offering support, connection, beauty, or care.

Through meditation, caring awareness and nervous system practices, slow wandering, silence, reflection, gentle movement, and time in relationship with the living world, we explore the reciprocal nature of gratitude: noticing what we receive, sensing how it touches us, and listening for how gratitude might move through us and back into the world.

Together, we’ll create a gratitude Earth altar, a simple offering shaped from what the land freely offers—a way of giving form to our appreciation and participating in the reciprocal dance of receiving and giving back.

There will be spacious time for solo hammock rest beneath the autumn canopy—a chance to be held between the trees, to listen, receive, and simply be with whatever the living world is offering.

Together in the forest, we’ll blend a warming spiced elixir—a sensory autumn ritual of choosing and combining spices, noticing their colours, aromas, and warmth, before settling in together to savour what we’ve created alongside a nourishing treat.

An afternoon to experience gratitude not simply as something we practise, but as a relationship we participate in.

I look forward to anchoring to thankfulness with you.