The Embercombe Experience – July 5th – 8th 2015
We invited our French and Italian partners to experience staying at Embercombe for 3 nights. We introduced them to many aspects of Embercombe life : the Morning Circle, Living in Community, Nature Connection, Land Based Education, Natural Learning (parents with young children). We led a juggling workshop, showed them Mac's talk "The Children's Fire" and piloted a guided visualisation devised to support a positive relationship with our own parents: “Tending the Children’s Fire”. Our Italian Partner came with 2 teenage boys who as well as having the opportunity to listen to and express themselves in English also enjoyed several new experiences: bee-keeping, lighting fires through friction, laying a brick path, speaking in the group check-in, staying in yurts, having free access to the woods and the Lake.
We also introduced our partners to Pat Fleming, who helped us with our funding application, who runs a local permaculture small-holding which hosts international volunteers through the WOOFing network, who offered us a Devon Cream Tea.
In addition we showed them some of the sights in Dartmoor National Park, and took them for a meal in a local traditional pub, with Embercombe's founder and our colleagues who had visited Hungary and the Czech Republic with us.
We also introduced our partners to Pat Fleming, who helped us with our funding application, who runs a local permaculture small-holding which hosts international volunteers through the WOOFing network, who offered us a Devon Cream Tea.
In addition we showed them some of the sights in Dartmoor National Park, and took them for a meal in a local traditional pub, with Embercombe's founder and our colleagues who had visited Hungary and the Czech Republic with us.
