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

Easter 2026

Connect with great hope as we journey through this Easter season within a peaceful and contemplative space.Join me to take some deeper, contemplative breaths as Easter draws near. Over 4 Wednesdays meeting for an hour online in sacred community we will explore death...

Advent 2025

Connect with great hope as we journey through a Celtic 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...

Advent 2024

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...

Advent 2023

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...

November 2026: A Quiet Week at Othona

A Guided Quiet Week I’m really thrilled to be offering another retreat as an Othona Quiet Week. What a gift it is to take time out to be still, refreshed, restored and find The Divine waiting amongst the lives we are living. We will be giving space to storytelling...

January 2027: A Winter Retreat

A Dartmoor Winter Retreat Take a deeper breath at the start of the year This retreat is the fourth of its kind and offers a very rich transformative and cosy time together. A women only gathering that is a wonderful opportunity to take a deeper breath at the start of...

March 2027: A Spring Retreat

A Dartmoor Spring Retreat Take a deeper breath as spring awakens This offers a very rich and transformative time together. A women only gathering that is a wonderful opportunity to take a deeper breath as spring awakens. We gather over the Spring Equinox in a...

Easter 2026: Death, Grief and Life

Death, Grief, Life A retreat Join me back at Othona in West Dorset over Easter to discover the richness of the themes of death, grief and life. There is one certainty in life for us all and that is the reality that we will all die, but sadly, in western culture we...

January 2026: A Winter Retreat

A Dartmoor Winter Retreat Take a deeper breath at the start of the year This retreat is the third of its kind and offers a very rich transformative and cosy time together. A women only gathering that is a wonderful opportunity to take a deeper breath at the start of a...

October 2025: The Revolutionary Love Retreat

Revolutionary Love A retreat This retreat offers you the gift of journeying with Valarie Kaur’s inspirational material in her Revolutionary Love Project. Valarie is a Sikh activist with a huge heart of compassion and love. During the retreat we will be discovering in...

January 2025: A Winter Retreat

A Dartmoor Winter Retreat Take a deeper breath at the start of the year This retreat is the second of its kind following on from a really rich and transformative time together last January. It offers a women only gathering and is a wonderful opportunity to take a...

April 2024 Awaken to life: a creative retreat

Awaken to life A creative retreat Discover the true beauty of your inner spirit, learn to love your unique self more deeply, uncover the riches of your soul and connect with the God who delights to call you home. We will use the compass as our guide by exploring its...

July 2024 Unfurl and Awaken: A Dartmoor retreat

A Dartmoor Summer Retreat unfurl and awaken As a fern unfurls given space, light, and nourishment, so your inner being can unfurl as it is nurtured by stillness, rest, and connection. This four-day retreat in a secluded natural setting in the heart of Dartmoor offers...

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...

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.