Residential Retreat 2026

UKAGP Residential Retreat 2026

Navigating Safety and Fear in a Shifting Field

This year’s theme

Our theme, Navigating Safety and Fear in a Shifting Relational Field, feels especially timely.

Experiences of safety and fear are shaping our work, our institutions, and the wider social and political landscape. They appear in moments of contact and withdrawal, in groups and organisations, and across the systems we inhabit.

This retreat offers space to explore how these dynamics arise between us, and how we meet them.

Across the weekend there will be whole-community gatherings, workshops, and facilitated spaces, alongside process groups and time for reflection, informal dialogue, and rest. The pace will be spacious, allowing experience to unfold and deepen over time.

EarthSpirit marks a complete departure from the corporate conference hotels we usually inhabit. The setting is simpler and more rustic, and we hope it will enable us to meet the environment, one another, and ourselves in different and meaningful ways.

Arrival & Departure:

The programme will be announced shortly, and exact times will be available then.

Arrival: Thursday 30 July
Registration from 17:00
Dinner 18:00–18:30 (tbc)

Opening session: Thursday evening, 19:30 (tbc)

Closing: Sunday 2 August
After lunch, approximately 15:00 (tbc)

The EarthSpirit Centre website has instructions on how to get there.

Retreat Tickets (excluding accommodation):

Tickets will be released in stages and do not include accommodation.

First 30 Member Tickets: £235

First 10 Trainee Tickets: £210

Next release: £250

The price includes dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, lunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and tea and coffee throughout.

We have kept pricing as low as possible to support accessibility across the community. Student places are limited.

Accommodation

Accommodation at EarthSpirit is simple, comfortable, and mostly shared. Options include shared rooms and spaces accommodating between two and six guests, as well as tents, caravans, and camper van spaces.

If you would like to stay with specific colleagues or friends, we encourage you to coordinate with them and include their name(s) in the Room Share Request field on the booking form.

Room allocations depend on the combination of bookings we receive. If you do not request a specific person, or if the named person does not complete a booking, we will allocate you a place within the accommodation type you selected with another participant of the same gender.

Final room allocations will be confirmed closer to the retreat.

View various accommodations on Main Centre Earth Spirit and Little Earth.

To help create this different kind of experience, and to keep costs as accessible as possible, we will invite everyone to share in caring for the space during our time together. In this way, tending the environment becomes part of the retreat itself: a simple, shared contribution that supports the whole community.

There is no licensed bar on site, but you are welcome to bring your own drinks and borrow glasses from the retreat. The venue asks that glasses are returned washed to the kitchen after use.

Further practical details will be shared in due course.