Dr Peter Selwyn (MD, MPH) is Chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine, and Director of the Palliative Care Program, at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. Peter trained at the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center in Virginia and has over 25 years’ experience in leading grief workshops for care givers and health professionals in the United States and internationally. He has been a caregiver for people with AIDS and others at the end of life for close to 40 years. Peter is the author of Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. He is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher since 2021.

Jenny Fahy (MA) is an Irish 5Rhythms® teacher, creative psychotherapist, and lecturer in Applied Social Studies. Passionate about creating social change, she has consistently applied creative action and the healing arts to address social issues. With extensive experience working with diverse groups, Jenny creates a safe, accessible, and inviting space where participants can explore and deepen their relationship with movement and self-expression. Jenny has been moving with 5Rhythms® practice for 25 years and trained with the founder, Gabrielle Roth in 2007. Jenny is an accredited member of the 5Rhythms Teachers Association and regularly teaches classes in Ireland.

Dr Áine Aventin (PhD, MSc) is an Irish academic psychologist specialising in bereavement support following pregnancy loss. Guided by over 20 years’ experience in mental health research, a PhD in psychological trauma, and certified training and experience in grief tending and systemic and family constellations, she uses an intuitively guided approach to facilitate group processes and meet individual needs. Áine trained as a grief tender with Francis Weller and uses ritual, creative practices, and a grief- and trauma-informed approach, to create a safe space to explore unspoken and unprocessed grief. She offers tools and resources to help people find meaning in loss and move forward with a grounded and empowered sense of self.

Integrating the Kübler-Ross model with 1:1 somatic work involves using the model's stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) as a framework for understanding a person’s emotional landscape while applying somatic techniques to process and release the corresponding physical sensations and trapped energy in the body.

The 5Rhythms is a creative, healing, moving meditation practice that is enjoyed by many people across the world. There are no steps to learn, it is open to all ages, genders, body sizes, physical abilities. Unchoreographed movement and dance increases self-awareness and the relationship with one’s body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit.

Francis Weller's approach to grief-tending sees grief not an enemy to defeat, but as a vital, lifelong apprenticeship with sorrow relating to all forms of loss (personal, ancestral, global). The approach involves simple rituals and communal practice to safely process loss, in ways that our ancestors have done for millennia. It welcomes grief as a vital human condition, rather than bypassing it, to foster healing, connection, and resilience, transforming suffering into wisdom and vitality.

4 single rooms, ensuite

These rooms are in the Courtyard, near the Octagon retreat space, seperate from the Lodge, the hub of social activity, therefore quieter spaces during the day.

€595

4 single rooms, each sharing an interconnecting en-suite with one other room

These rooms are in the Courtyard, near the Octagon retreat space, seperate from the Lodge, the hub of social activity, therefore quieter spaces during the day.

€555

3 Triple rooms with 3 single beds, ensuite, three person’s sharing together in each room. One room is male-only, and two rooms are female-only

These rooms are in the Lodge, the hub of daytime social activity during meal times and evening socialising.

€500

1 Dorm room, 4 person’s sharing, 4 bunk beds, but only using beds on the lower half, with shared bathroom

These rooms are in the Lodge, the hub of daytime social activity during meal times and evening socialising.

€485

3 spaces available - Bring your own tent to pitch yourself, or park up your campervan

Use the camp hot showers and compost toilets. This is a space for nature, outdoor lovers in the group.

€445

3 spaces available - for North Clare residents only

Retreat fees and all meals included, but participant sleeps elsewhere in North Clare, and organises this themselves.

€400