NICKY TEMPLE | SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
Retreats
A safe, loving space
I offer both online and in-person retreats, creating and holding a safe, loving space for everyone who attends. My retreats offer a deep dive into life and explore the joys and struggles of being human. They offer an opportunity to discover more about your true self, whilst experiencing freedom and healing from what has wounded, constricted or held you back. As a retreat attendee you will find yourself loved and deeply seen, you will make connections and new friendships, and you will leave with a deeper connection to yourself, The Divine and others. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, I won’t bring advice or give opinions, but I do create a space in which you can discover these for yourself in communion with The Beloved and other people seeking to grow and transform.
Online Retreats
Advent 2023
Connect with great hope as we journey through Advent together within a peaceful and contemplative space.I love the season of advent and am very happy to be offering an advent retreat again this year. It seems we are in great need of hope and advent is a time to...
Contemplative Community
An online retreat for those who value contemplative practice.
Advent 2022
Advent exploring endings and beginnings An online retreat leading up to Christmas For the past 3 years I have offered an online advent retreat. We explore advent themes with the aid of lectio-divina, spoken and visual liturgy, music, video, personal reflection and...
Divine Feminine Wisdom Circle
Divine Feminine Wisdom Circle a deep dive into the Divine Feminine as God and as ourselves Exploring the Divine as mother, friend, within nature, with each other within community. This Wisdom Circle creates space for deeper self-knowledge, healing, freedom and...
Residential Retreats
January 2024: A Winter Retreat
A Dartmoor Winter Retreat Take a deeper breath at the start of the year This weekend, women only gathering is a wonderful opportunity to take a deeper breath at the start of a new year. Take time to look back over the year that was and to notice invitations that are...
July 2023 Second Half of Life Retreat
Embracing the Second Half of Life The possibility of great hope, fulfilment and meaning This retreat will invite you to take time to connect more deeply with your life and the movement of God within it. It will invite you to notice where you are living authentically...
June 2023 A Dartmoor Retreat
A Dartmoor Retreat Restoration & connection in the flow of Divine Love Come away for a two-night retreat in a secluded natural setting in the heart of Dartmoor, to experience rest and stillness, and to connect deeply with yourself, other women and God. This...
November 2022 LEGO Retreat
Compass Retreat using LEGO to take a deep dive into our lives Using the compass as our guide As you contemplate your own story on this weekend, we will be using the compass to help you orient yourself to which part of your story you want to journey with during our...
May 2022 Storytelling Retreat
Storytelling Retreat giving voice to your story Each one of us has a story to tell, a story like no other, an epic tale which charts a journey deep and wide through all kinds of terrain fraught with danger and rich with opportunity. It’s a story of sorrow and joy,...
Feedback from past retreats
It was a wonderfully rich retreat that exceeded my expectations by a long way.
Nicky provides a safe space, where all are welcome. She offers reassurance and comfort and I have gratefully benefitted from her wisdom and spiritual guidance.
The storytelling retreat… has gone beyond what I could have imagined. I found deaths I didn’t know needed to be explored and the whole process has both resolved some things, put others into perspective and started me off on my next journeying.
I had very high expectations and hopes – and these were completely exceeded! What a wonderful space and time together.
I never imagined I would gain so much; but I now that this experience will be following me on the next part of my life.
Your qualities of quiet gentleness, wisdom of experience and confident allowing and loving presence helped me to feel safe.
Nicky creates a safe and loving space for us to be together. I found the retreat profoundly healing, with plenty of fun and humour to keep me smiling.
This time away has far exceeded my expectations. The journey has been so helpful; the cocoon I was in is starting to break open, I’m seeing things more clearly.