Holding and Opening: mapping inside and outside

Summer Workshops at The Green Barn by Debs Stott

Workshop 5: Holding and Opening: mapping inside and outside

Explore how different environments shape how you feel, think and respond by working across the threshold of inside and outside space. You’ll map the relationship between yourself and your surroundings, discovering how deeply you’re influenced by where you are.

Focus: I can see how I relate to space

Core

• Inner ↔ outer relationship
• Threshold awareness
• Live relational mapping

Key Elements

• Inside vs outside exploration
• Thematic lenses (light, texture, space etc.)
• Paired noticing
• Mapping across the threshold

You’ll spend time in and around The Glasshouse and The Pod.

Workshops are calm, experiential and non-instructional, allowing participants to form their own connections and discoveries.

Practical Details

• Duration: 2 hours
• All materials provided
• Includes hot refreshments and freshly baked scones

Repeat Workshops:
Book one workshop. If you want to come to multiple workshops, let me know and I'll send you a discount code. 

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Who is this for?

This is for you if you’ve been feeling a little disconnected - from yourself, your creativity and you’re not entirely sure how to find your way back to yourself.

You might feel full of ideas, thoughts or experiences, but unable to see how they fit together. Or you may simply be fed up with trying to think your way through things and are looking for something more experiential and grounded.

This is not about being “creative” in a particular way. It’s for anyone curious about paying attention differently, and discovering what becomes possible when you begin to trust what you notice.

Do I need to prepare anything?

No preparation is needed. Just bring a notebook, a pen, and a willingness to slow down and pay attention.

What can I expect?

• A gently guided session lasting around 2 hours
• A calm, welcoming space where you can slow down and focus your attention
• Simple practices that help you notice what draws you and stay with it
• Time to explore your responses through words, marks or images
• A small group setting with space for reflection, without pressure to share

What will I leave with?

You may leave with something subtle but significant.

• A sense that your attention is not random, and that what draws you has value.
• A feeling of relief as the need to figure things out begins to soften.
• A growing trust in your own responses, and a quieter way of finding direction by listening to what is already there.
• Many people leave with the feeling that something has shifted and a desire to return to this way of seeing in their everyday life.