Tristan and Isolde: Held by story

Tristan and Isolde: Held by story (and becoming story carriers)
Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th September 2026

We’re going to be held by a story. Our challenges, our fears, desires, joys. We’ll get into it, learn it, work with it, laugh and cry with it. In the end we’ll all be carriers of the story.

We’re going to be held by the place: ancient oak trees, beautiful river, valley, old cottage with a roaring fire.

Why?

For those whose work involves carrying others, hosts, teachers, facilitators, people on the journey towards elderhood...

Our way of life is changing. More than ever, in the unfolding years, our communities are going benefit from people who have done deeply resourced work, willing and able to carry grief, fear, anger and joy ahead.

The opportunity is to be held by story, place and the process of Recalling Fire’s mythic explorations, holding deep feelings and deep inquiry.

To explore the question: “What is the work I choose to do in these times?”.

To become a story-carrier.

What's included
The full story of Tristan and Isolde, not just ‘told’, but worked with over the whole weekend. We’ll return to the images from different perspectives, ensuring everyone leaves as a ‘story carrier’.

3 nights, 17th-20th September. Arrive mid-afternoon, depart mid-morning.

Vegetarian food provided throughout.

Facilitation and guided solo time in nature: story work, reflective practices, journaling.

Guided kayaking on the river.

Private access to the ancient woodland valley site.

Accommodation options (same-gender when sharing):
Single bed, sharing with one other (cottage).
Single bed, sharing with two others (cottage or hut).
Private double room (Shepherd’s hut).

Deposit/Part-payment:
50% of ticket cost (balance to be paid by 17th August).
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Earlybird 
£595 for first tickets.
£1100 for private double room.
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Price:
Free (bursary for those without financial means (email hello@recallingfire.com for more)).
£540 for those with lower financial means (email hello@recallingfire.com for more).
£695 full price (£595 earlybird).
£880 abundant (contribute to the costs of a bursary place).
£1200 for private double room (up to two people).
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Additional details:
Join Recalling Fire for an immersive weekend exploring your life through the underground work of Cornwall's deepest-rooted love story: Tristan and Isolde.

Told over four days, with way stops for group sharing, silent reflection, time in the wilds, the forest, the river, shared food and practices to deepen into your own story.

We, the Recalling Fire holding team, are going to share how we do this sort of work, how we facilitate the deep mythic terrain without rushing in to fix or looking for the right or best answers. Through the practice of going down into each of the images, we’ll explore the deep wells that participants of the oral tradition experience as moments within the overall journey. When receiving a story, we tend to trace along the surface, falling down when an image really speaks to us. When doing the work of bringing story, we see it as our duty and joy to have already gone down and down and down and down.

That’s how the images stay nearby. A king’s horses ears. The beauty of birth and death, a rudderless boat. The mythic antenna get tuned to the wider world. The specific story we’re working with will offer images to us, which will inevitably come up in moments of deepest need, some small things which might translate into bigger things will unfold for us, but the way of being with it will stay with us forever. The people around us will benefit in ways it’s hard to put a finger on.

And finally, this is for you. It will require you to come fully, not as a guest but as a full co-creator. It’ll be on you to find the time, the resource, the reasoning. Afterwards, it might not even be possible to explain to those around you what you’ve experienced, but that’s another signal of powerful work for you. You’ll be able to be in service in your own way, keeping a beautiful, glowing part of this work near your heart. Like a piece of jewelry or tattoo you keep hidden beneath your clothes. Like a secret ritual you bring to a secret place maybe even your closest loves know nothing about.

We’re offering you a mythic experience. For you. To help you in your acts of service. Drawn up and out from your own wisdom and experience of the world.

Preparation
Note, this event is off-grid. Pack light, wear reliable shoes, and plan to be 'away'. 

Preparation:
- Travel details, packing list and more will be provided. 
- We ask that you distill – for yourself and us – in a short letter, why now is the moment to bring greater clarity and courage to your story.

If you have paid in full, we can offer you a 50% refund until 17th Augustl.

We cannot offer full refunds.

For questions or comments, email hello@recallingfire.com

Deposit/Part-payment:
50% of ticket cost (balance to be paid by 17th August).
USE CODE 'DEPOSIT' AT CHECKOUT