This on-demand self-paced course is a series of short and simple practices designed to support your everyday wellbeing, manage anxiety and stress and to cultivate easeful joyful living.
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Wellbeing trainings and experiences
Learning is a shared experience
Personal and Professional Development
Elmfield Estate is home to the Elmfield Institute which was founded by Jane Shaw to provide courses, retreat experiences, events, and professional training in holistic wellbeing. All our work is based on the foundational principles of depth psychology, trauma-informed neurobiology and creative practices.
Programmes are delivered online, self-paced on-demand, and in-person at the Elmfield Estate, Gilford, Co. Down N. Ireland. Our facilitators are multi-disciplined experienced educators, researchers and practitioners who have learned from their academic studies but also through conscious self-exploration and lived experience.
As well as the courses listed below, we also offer bespoke wellness programmes that are crafted to your organisation’s specific needs. These training and retreats can be delivered online or at the Elmfield Estate.
Journey Into Stillness: A summer wellness retreat
Elmfield Estate with Jane Shaw
26th July 2024
Enjoy time to reconnect to yourself on this mini journey of self-discovery
Intergenerational patterns of experience in biodynamic craniosacral therapy
Elmfield Estate with Jane Shaw & Grainne Delaney
Starts 19th September 2024
Intergenerational patterns of experience in biodynamic craniosacral therapy
Your Journey is Unique
We each have different life experiences that shape who we are and how we respond to different situations.
Elmfield offers researched courses and training which tend to the well-being of individuals and communities through developing embodied awareness, resilience and adaption, and compassionate relating.
We aim to support your fullest potential.
WAS £47.00 NOW £29
Daily Sips of Wellness
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SIMPLE Listening Online
The Seven Streams of Wellean Wisdom
Listening
Establish a witnessing embodied presence that facilitates active attentiveness towards self and others (human and non-human alike).
Relating
Form reciprocal streams of connection through awareness, compassion, and empathy to engage and tend the field of personal and collective interactions.
Adapting
Foster resilience by strengthening the capacity to consistently differentiate, normalize, and recover from difficult experiences.
Empowering
Equip oneself and others with the aptitude to make choices and realize intentions.
Immersing
Engage deeply with inner and outer resources to dynamically harness creativity and enable new ways of being and expressing; provoke emergence.
Flowing
Align with the movement that comes from accommodating impermanence, change, and transformation.
Tending
Return to Source by consciously nurturing, pooling and embodying the seven Wellean™ streams of wisdom.
Methodology: Wellean Wisdom
Using the symbol of the well, we at The Elmfield Institute, have coined the term Wellean Wisdom to describe an innate wisdom that we all carry and although it may be hidden, we can find our way back to that healing wisdom.
A well is a place where humans interact with a source of water. In ancient Irish tradition wells were sacred, and whether from the stories of Brigit’s holy wells or the Dinsenchas, Irish mythology indicates there is a deeper source of knowledge found in the earth’s water streams. Not limited to Ireland, there are many traditions in which wells and waterways symbolise the purity and source of life.
The archetypal symbol of the well suggests that each of us holds a deep knowing of self and collective healing. Embedded in this wisdom is the idea that there are multiple definitions of and approaches to what it means to be well. Thus, there are many streams or paths to the well, each stream presenting a different choice on a different day.
We have named seven streams flowing to and from the well—listening, relating, adapting, flowing, empowering, immersing and tending. There is a reciprocity at the heart of Wellean Wisdom—a giving and receiving. Wellean Wisdom is an evolving practice based upon qualities from diverse fields including depth psychology, trauma-informed neurobiology, empathetic presence, leadership and creative practices.
This shared knowledge of seven streams of Wellean Wisdom, provides a guidepost for sharing, growing and ultimately, getting closer to the well. Wellbeing. The Source. Whether it is through our approach to wellbeing courses for individuals and businesses, our work in communities, training health care workers, or working closely with those recovering from trauma, we find that fundamentally, bringing awareness to this innate wisdom helps to create a path to wellbeing for all.
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