Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/09/2025 - 17/09/2025
12:00 am
The Raft: wisdom for stormy times — an emerging network for inner and outer adaptation
“There are two ways to grow a movement … You push outwards and expand the number of people involved, or you go inward and deepen the core” (Sophy Banks, founder of Inner Transition.)
More and more people feel that waters are rising. Our homes, the literal and imaginary landscapes we inhabit, are becoming unrecognisable. While some are rushing to solutions, we feel that regenerating our failing civilization will require stepping into mystery and asking difficult questions. The Raft is a network and centre of gravity for people committed to cultivating a sound society through practical skills, spiritual inquiry, and active citizenship. Its inaugural gathering just happened in the first half of May with Iain McGilchrist.
On 11-17th September, in mid-Wales, we are organising a gathering for courageous youths grappling with the challenges and opportunities of our times.
This is a week-long gathering for 18-35 year olds who, like us, are grappling with these questions and long for a space to explore them with depth, honesty, and connection.
Over the course of a week, we will gather in nature to:
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Share – stories, silence, song, and sacredness.
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Embrace mystery – How do we stay whole in a time of unraveling? How do we navigate both beauty and illness in this world? How to live meaningfully in a rapidly changing world?
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Face the mess we’re in – Honouring our feelings about the world in times of crisis and possibility.
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Reconnect – With land, lineage, and the wisdom traditions that remind us how to walk with reverence.
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Imagine – the wisdom of the past can unlock possibilities ahead: What kind of future do we long for? What can we learn from both ancient traditions and emerging ideas? What pragmatic steps can we take in our lives today?
Join this journey with a young crew of facilitators: Gwyneth Jones from Northern Wales is an accredited work that reconnects facilitator and coach, Jadzia Tedeschi (the Raft co-founder) is the Climate Majority Project coordinator with years spent in community living environments, Liam Bureau grew up in Alaska and is part of the Scientific and Medical Network. All three of us for several years have gone through the highs and lows of engaging with a the terrifying challenges and awesome opportunities of these times.
Through dialogue, storytelling, time in nature, and practices such as movement, meditation and dance, we will create a space of restoration and brave inquiry, all while learning how to live together in community by cooking, cleaning, and living together – including with the Welsh land and its spirit. It is a space to remember what it means to be human together, to consider what that could look like in the world to come, and to start planting the seeds for that future.
No particular background or belief system is required—only a willingness to step together into the unknown.
More info and sign up here!