I'm supporting Alfoxton's Time To Grow campaign. Please consider sponsoring me. The crowd funding page closes 6th October.

Going on retreat is no mere indulgence for the affluent, I believe what we can learn from / at the Alfoxton community is what the world needs right now...

I'm just back from the 'living from the heart' retreat at Alfoxton learning skills from the late Marshall Rosenberg's 'Non violent communication'. During his life Marshall taught and worked with all sorts of people including those involved in serious conflict...bringing Palestinians and Israelis together for example..he always worked on a donation only basis, rejecting the world of transactional relationships based on money...

Alfoxton Park runs many other types of retreat too...

More about Alfoxton from the team:

It's a magical place. Hidden in 52 acres of wild Somerset woodland lies Alfoxton Park House — an 18th-century country house that's being revived as a Buddhist retreat centre, arts sanctuary, and home for spiritual ecology.

It's home to wonderful woodland, including a 900 year old oak tree, and once home to William Wordsworth. But it ended as a ruined hotel, it's grounds uncared for and overgrown.

Now this historic site is coming alive again — as a place where poetry, meditation, and nature meet.

The community, helped by hundreds of volunteers and supporters, have started carefully transforming Alfoxton Park over the past five years.

Now they have launched their first ever fundraiser to help them take the next beautiful step - building better facilities so they can host more guests to experience the magic of the place.

I love Alfoxton and have so benefitted from my time there.

Will you join me in helping raise money?