Facilitators
This course is taught by Simone Silver Path with Nikki Wilkinsun as co-faciltator.
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Simone Silver Path
I am a BACP Senior Accredited Psychotherapist and trainer and have trained in Person Centred Therapy and in Psychosynthesis, a transpersonal therapy. For the last 40 years have worked in social care and in private practice. For 15 years I was the manager of a children’s psychotherapy service in the North East and it was there that I developed the original training course, which was then called Holding the Space. This way of working was taken into residential children’s homes and I developed a two-year training course for residential workers in the North East of England and in Scotland.
I have been apprenticed to sacred medicine ways for over fifty years. I first trained in Council many years ago and have since completed a number of trainings with the Ojai Foundation. I have also trained with the School of Lost Borders in the Four Shields and in wilderness work and have co facilitated with one of the schools co-founders, Meredith Little. I am trained in sacred ceremony and ritual and have spent many years training in shamanism. I am also licensed practitioner Five Element medicine, a Taoist system of healing.
For many years I was a peace activist living at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and I stood against Margaret Thatcher in the 83 election. I did a number of speaking tours across America and Europe organised by the peace movement and the Quakers.
These days I work in private practice offering psychotherapy, sacred ceremony, shamanic healing, soul retrieval, plant spirit medicine and wilderness therapy. I run training courses in shamanism and occasionally work as a celebrant. I teach a Women’s Moon Lodge in the sacred ways of ceremony and ritual. My most recent work is the sacred journey of the Seven Gates based on Five Element medicine and the Taoist journey of descent into the self. This is work developed in the Silver Lodge, a women’s lodge of elders that meets for three days over the eight festivals to create ceremony. We are a group of old women who do not obey the rules.
I live in Northumberland a wild and beautiful land where I walk with my little dog Poppy and continue to fall in love with life.
I am a BACP Senior Accredited Psychotherapist and trainer and have trained in Person Centred Therapy and in Psychosynthesis, a transpersonal therapy. For the last 40 years have worked in social care and in private practice. For 15 years I was the manager of a children’s psychotherapy service in the North East and it was there that I developed the original training course, which was then called Holding the Space. This way of working was taken into residential children’s homes and I developed a two-year training course for residential workers in the North East of England and in Scotland.
I have been apprenticed to sacred medicine ways for over fifty years. I first trained in Council many years ago and have since completed a number of trainings with the Ojai Foundation. I have also trained with the School of Lost Borders in the Four Shields and in wilderness work and have co facilitated with one of the schools co-founders, Meredith Little. I am trained in sacred ceremony and ritual and have spent many years training in shamanism. I am also licensed practitioner Five Element medicine, a Taoist system of healing.
For many years I was a peace activist living at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and I stood against Margaret Thatcher in the 83 election. I did a number of speaking tours across America and Europe organised by the peace movement and the Quakers.
These days I work in private practice offering psychotherapy, sacred ceremony, shamanic healing, soul retrieval, plant spirit medicine and wilderness therapy. I run training courses in shamanism and occasionally work as a celebrant. I teach a Women’s Moon Lodge in the sacred ways of ceremony and ritual. My most recent work is the sacred journey of the Seven Gates based on Five Element medicine and the Taoist journey of descent into the self. This is work developed in the Silver Lodge, a women’s lodge of elders that meets for three days over the eight festivals to create ceremony. We are a group of old women who do not obey the rules.
I live in Northumberland a wild and beautiful land where I walk with my little dog Poppy and continue to fall in love with life.
Nikki Wilkinsun
I live in Southern Spain and have an MA in Creative Arts Psychotherapy from the Higher Institute of Psychological Studies in Madrid. I have also studied Wilderness Psychotherapy and am dedicated to our reconnection with nature and the Sacred Ceremony of Council. I have taken Council and the Creative Arts into a men’s prison here in Spain and I teach the way of ceremony in workshops, celebrating the eight festivals. As a creative arts therapist I work with young people and with adults in my private practice. I run workshops in Spain, the UK and in India and I run courses in the educational sector for teachers and students as well as running online courses.
I trained as a teacher of dance for a number of years in Barcelona and sacred dance is my passion. I have studied dance for many years and have performed and taught dance here in Spain. I have also studied shamanism and the way of ceremony and I celebrate the eight festivals of the year. I am a conscious movement facilitator and have been dedicated for over 20 years to helping others to tap into a path of wisdom, the elements and nature, enabling people to come home to themselves.
I also work as a Celebrant, accompanying and honouring the major life transitions of Birth, Coming of Age, Leaving Home, Marriage and Death; I facilitate these powerful rites of passage. I am the founder of Free Spirit Movement, a practice dedicated to enabling people to reclaim their inner strength and radiance of spirit through dance, the arts, therapy, coaching and mindful movement.
My book, The Spinning Stones, a practice of stone divination, is available through Amazon.
I live in Mojacar with my family and I love to walk in the mountains and practice yoga and meditation every morning by the ocean. I live with my husband and my cats and dogs and I have a daughter, Aisha, who is the beat of my heart. I am in love with the whole of life and celebrate that daily.
I live in Southern Spain and have an MA in Creative Arts Psychotherapy from the Higher Institute of Psychological Studies in Madrid. I have also studied Wilderness Psychotherapy and am dedicated to our reconnection with nature and the Sacred Ceremony of Council. I have taken Council and the Creative Arts into a men’s prison here in Spain and I teach the way of ceremony in workshops, celebrating the eight festivals. As a creative arts therapist I work with young people and with adults in my private practice. I run workshops in Spain, the UK and in India and I run courses in the educational sector for teachers and students as well as running online courses.
I trained as a teacher of dance for a number of years in Barcelona and sacred dance is my passion. I have studied dance for many years and have performed and taught dance here in Spain. I have also studied shamanism and the way of ceremony and I celebrate the eight festivals of the year. I am a conscious movement facilitator and have been dedicated for over 20 years to helping others to tap into a path of wisdom, the elements and nature, enabling people to come home to themselves.
I also work as a Celebrant, accompanying and honouring the major life transitions of Birth, Coming of Age, Leaving Home, Marriage and Death; I facilitate these powerful rites of passage. I am the founder of Free Spirit Movement, a practice dedicated to enabling people to reclaim their inner strength and radiance of spirit through dance, the arts, therapy, coaching and mindful movement.
My book, The Spinning Stones, a practice of stone divination, is available through Amazon.
I live in Mojacar with my family and I love to walk in the mountains and practice yoga and meditation every morning by the ocean. I live with my husband and my cats and dogs and I have a daughter, Aisha, who is the beat of my heart. I am in love with the whole of life and celebrate that daily.
Gilly Thirlwell
I grew up in the North Pennines and spent much of my childhood free-ranging in the beautiful hills and valleys around home. Yearning for something more than the conventional life on offer after leaving school, I caught a bus to London and another to Athens...One journey led to another and as the years passed, I met many wise teachers from diverse cultures and traditions. I trained to teach yoga in India; and studied Buddhist philosophy and mindfulness meditation in Suan Mokkh Forest Monastery, Thailand, where I lived for a year, coordinating silent retreats and teaching yoga.
I spent a few years in London, teaching English in a hostel for refugees, then worked as an advocate for people with learning difficulties and mental health issues.
I returned to Northumberland in the early 2000s and have lived and worked here as a yoga teacher, therapist and nature-based group facilitator since then.
My way of working is rooted in Nature, the elements and the seasons. I am inspired by and have trained in wilderness work of Meredith Little and Steven Forster; and in Joanna Macy's 'The Work that Reconnects'. I trained as a wilderness rites of passage guide (vision quest facilitator) with the School of Lost Borders and as a woodland activity leader with Wild Things, Findhorn.
I am passionate about supporting people to reconnect with the Wild and stand up for Nature through environmental activism, Council of all Beings; and tending a Tree Sisters grove.
I love the unconditional peace I find within and I love guiding people to find this peace within themselves.
I grew up in the North Pennines and spent much of my childhood free-ranging in the beautiful hills and valleys around home. Yearning for something more than the conventional life on offer after leaving school, I caught a bus to London and another to Athens...One journey led to another and as the years passed, I met many wise teachers from diverse cultures and traditions. I trained to teach yoga in India; and studied Buddhist philosophy and mindfulness meditation in Suan Mokkh Forest Monastery, Thailand, where I lived for a year, coordinating silent retreats and teaching yoga.
I spent a few years in London, teaching English in a hostel for refugees, then worked as an advocate for people with learning difficulties and mental health issues.
I returned to Northumberland in the early 2000s and have lived and worked here as a yoga teacher, therapist and nature-based group facilitator since then.
My way of working is rooted in Nature, the elements and the seasons. I am inspired by and have trained in wilderness work of Meredith Little and Steven Forster; and in Joanna Macy's 'The Work that Reconnects'. I trained as a wilderness rites of passage guide (vision quest facilitator) with the School of Lost Borders and as a woodland activity leader with Wild Things, Findhorn.
I am passionate about supporting people to reconnect with the Wild and stand up for Nature through environmental activism, Council of all Beings; and tending a Tree Sisters grove.
I love the unconditional peace I find within and I love guiding people to find this peace within themselves.
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