Join me for a gathering in the beautiful Goddess Hall in Glastonbury to explore what it means to stay rooted in your wellness, living a soulful life supported through ritual, ceremony and the therapeutic arts.
We will be creating a community of belonging, practising joy, beauty, affection and remembering who we are with environmental arts therapy including dance, story and song. We will be working both indoors and outdoors in the Goddess Hall and gardens utilising Environmental Arts Therapy practices, also known as EAT.
Environmental Arts Therapy is a practical eco psychology that uses the locations, themes, cycles and materials of nature as it's therapeutic media.
“Practical, poetic, innovative and magical, it invites us to make environmental art and ritual a vital and healing part of our lives once again and teaches us how to take the personal issues that bind and oppress us out into nature where they can be met, confronted and transformed.” ~ from Environmental Arts Therapy and The Tree of Life by Ian Siddons Heginworth, author and lead EAT pioneer.
Whilst this day is a stand alone training it is also a valuable taster day for those interested in the year long EAT course 'Stirring the Great Longing' beginning in February 2026 at St Leonard's Village Hall, Butleigh, Glastonbury. The Stirring The Great Longing course is an opportunity for those wishing to be supported monthly in a creative and therapeutic context with an experienced and expert art therapist.
* A light lunch of soup and refreshments will be provided *
CPD certificates will be available for professionals.
Michelle Edinburgh Art Therapist and Environmental Arts Therapy Practitioner is a professional Art Therapist who has many decades experience in both public and private settings. She has facilitated a great many workshops and groups and most recently the Women's Eco Art Therapy Group in Dartmoor, Devon and a partially funded by Plymouth City Council EAT group at Poole Farm, Plymouth.
Michelle has a case study of her innovative NHS programme called ‘Bringing The Outside In’ published in Environmental Arts Therapy, The Wild Frontiers of the Heart, Edited by Ian Siddons Heginworth & Gary Nash. In 2020 she took part in Plymouth City Council and JustGiving's Global Climate Challenge and began fund raising for a piece of therapeutic woodland. In 2022 she found a suitable woodland and sold her home to fund the project.
These days she can be found on a derelict patch of ancient woodland coppice on the Mendip Hills which she bought in 2023 and is now lovingly restoring. It is a rare and special place where she will soon be offering occasional specialist EAT and conservation workshops, groups and retreats.
Contact Michelle Edinburgh for further information
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