CREATIVE Retreats

The common theme that winds through Shannon’s life is seeing potential in others and collaborating with them to assist more of their emergence in the world. Whether through coaching sport, listening well through counselling, being a mother and care-giver, or facilitating group spaces. All these creative endeavours have more recently been joined by old-school writing with fountain pen on paper. The act of using beautiful ink, green or purple, to form words has seen poetry and short stories arrive on the page. This intuitive writing has helped Shannon connect more deeply with nature, to heal, and find a new unexpected sense of her ‘work-to-do-in-the-world’. 

Having stumbled into creativity with the support and encouragement of others, Shannon longs to facilitate spaces for others to do the same. Especially those who say they are not creative. (Pssst - we are all creative!)

Jasmine loves creating. Whether crafting seasonal food in the kitchen, tending a garden, making art, designing spaces, or shaping furniture in her workshop, her hands move with an innate knowing. She loves how art—or any creative act—can reveal more about ourselves when we're ready to see it.

For the retreats, Jasmine brings her deep love of cooking, where the alchemy of preparing nourishing meals becomes part of the contemplative experience. To her, the kitchen and dining table are spaces where rich conversations naturally unfold alongside the sensory gifts of food.

Jasmine also offers coaching in the Tara Mohr style and essence companionship. She loves journeying alongside people as they discover their wholeness through essence qualities—aliveness, freshness, spaciousness. She sees these not just as concepts but as lived experiences that emerge through our senses and guide how we create and live.

An avid reader of books about creativity, spirituality, and psychology, Jasmine has now embarked on writing her own—a memoir about "coming to her essences," a journey of discovering essence through her senses while walking daily in nature (her beloved "meadowtations"). Jasmine's path has been far from easy, marked by numerous health crises, yet these became the catalyst for meeting life in a whole new way.

Rose loves story.  She has heard many stories shared, particularly children’s stories of grief, loss and change. She sees the huge treasure that are people’s stories, recognizes the creativity, resilience and beauty that each story carries.

Rose also writes, having focused on producing children’s picture books about emotional literacy and problem solving. She enjoys the challenge of breaking down big ideas into simpler concepts for young minds and particularly loves that moment when an idea hits just right and true magic happens.

Rose’s current project is a bit of a gnarly one, as she is writing her first adult non-fiction book, due to come out in the first half of 2026. Rose’s writing develops best when she has unlimited access to tea, colourful teapots to pour from, happy mugs to drink from and of course, fresh baked goods to nibble on.

Rose’s own story of creativity is crooked and winding, with joys, disappointments and mishaps along the way, so she understands the spectrum of feelings we can feel when it comes to our own very personal creative pursuits.