Living Presence 2026 — Embodied Relational Presence Residentials Focusing and NVC

Nonviolent Communication, Focusing and Presence 

Residentials 2026 at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire

In 2026, you are warmly invited to a series of three residential gatherings at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, offering deep immersion in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Focusing, and Embodied Relational Presence. 

Set within a beautiful, nature-held environment, these retreats provide space to slow down, reconnect with yourself and others, and cultivate the Embodied Presence - at the root of NVC and Focusing -  for personal and collective challenge especially in this volatile and challenging world. Meet your needs for resilience, creativity and sustainable growth whatever your inner challenges.

Across the year, each residential stands alone while also forming part of a coherent journey:

LAST MINUTE SPECIAL OFFER ON THIS RESIDENTIAL 

Embodied Empathic Presence: Vulnerability and Personal Agency — Residential Gathering-Training 1 (Embodied NVC)

April 23–26, 2026 (Long Weekend)

Cultivate inner safety through gentle grounding and body-based practices

Develop compassionate self-connection using NVC self-empathy and felt-sense awareness

Transform stuck patterns with somatic tools (movement, gesture, Embodied Relational Presence)

Invite personal agency through exquisite inner relationship

Find nourishment in caring community and nature

See more in the link for the special offer:

Bookings: Embodied Empathic Presence: Vulnerability and Personal Agency

Living Truth Authentically Where Angels Fear to Tread  

Residential Gathering-Training 2 (Embodied and Expressive NVC)

September 24–27, 2026 (Long Weekend)

Build resilience for staying present amid identity triggers and ideological conflict

Practice empathy across difference with authenticity, humour, and humility

Develop whole-body listening and settling practices for real contact

Explore unshakeable presence as core identity

Rebuild connection through truthful contact, not forced harmony

Bookings: Living Truth Authentically Where Angels Fear to Tread

A Focusing-Based CPD Residential: Deepening Therapeutic Presence for Therapists, Coaches & Somatic Practitioners

Residential Training 4 (Focusing)

Nov 26 - 29 2026 (Long Weekend) 

Deepen embodied therapeutic presence and nervous-system steadiness

Refine Focusing skills for professional context

Work with complexity, activation and blocks with confidence

Facilitate relational presence in sessions

Receive CPD certificate (18-20 hours)

Bookings: A Focusing-Based CPD Residential

A pioneering approach

Rooted in Simon McKibbin’s pioneering approach to Embodied Relational Presence, these residentials weave together the embodied felt-sense wisdom of Focusing, the connecting compassion and clarity of NVC, and Embodied Relational Presence.

Whether you attend one or all three, each retreat offers a safely held, nourishing space for embodiment, honesty, community, and renewed inner freedom and enhanced skills.

          See the beauty of Braziers Park, here what some participants make of it.... 

          a Focusing Residential, similar to  an NVC experience

Hello from Simon McKibbin; Companion, Coach and Trainer

Pioneer of Embodied Relational Presence

I've spent 34+ years supporting people into greater personal empowerment and authentic community through Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and Focusing and other Somatic-Presence related approaches.

I am a CNVC Certified NVC Trainer, BFA Focusing Teacher, Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher, and former Associate Mindfulness Teacher at Cambridge University, and current guest lecturer and mindfulness teacher there.

My passion lies in integrating inner transformation with outer activism—helping create the regenerative, collaborative,  nonviolent world we need through grassroots community building and personal healing work, to make a difference we might yearn for.

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