Join mythologist, storyteller and award winning rites-of-passage guide Martin Shaw in a weekend exploring the relationship between deep story and wild landscape. For thousands of years men and women have been nourished by the movement of a Hawk, the curling of a river and the rousing, ever deepening world of myth. We will be taking our place at this archaic fireside and asking 'How do we cultivate this nourishment in the 21st century?

We will work with two stories over the weekend, Celtic and Siberian, as well as enjoying a ribald treasure chest of poetry from the likes of Hafez, Mirabai and W. B Yeats. We will see how wildness exists in words as well as moss and rock. However, should they become lonely, our afternoons will be spent out, together and alone, deepening our relationship to the living world. All Bandit Queens and Hedgerow Intellectuals most welcome.

Martin Shaw is author of 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Wilderness, Myth, and the Life Not yet Lived' (avail 2008), and a visting lecturer on the Strategic Leadership programme, Templeton college, Oxford. An international teacher, Martin spent four years living under canvas studying rites-of-passage, myth and the poetic imagination.

'Shaw presides over an astonishing flow of language, Owls and Stags live here. He is talking about experiencing ancient myths in an a new way.'             
Robert Bly, author of 'Iron John'

Cost: £175 including evening meals.

The course will take place at a wildwood location near Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor, Devon.