Margaret’s life journey has been one of learning to face into the many ‘little deaths’ (not always so little) that have come her way, allowing all the associated emotions and questions their place, and coming to rest in the newness that in time ensues.
This has honed in her a capacity to walk alongside others, whatever their sorrows, calamities or uncertainties, holding a steady and gentle space.
Her books, Hello, Little Death:welcoming ‘dying’ to allow a fuller life, and Soul Midwife’s Journal: stories of honouring death, offer food for thought and new perspectives, and have become the basis of many transformative group explorations.
Margaret thrives in the community-creating and generative environments that retreats and workshops offer.
She finds replenishment in being anywhere nature is found – walking, lying, gardening and swimming.
Touching Grief, Touching Earth
A Solstice Retreat
This five-day retreat is an exploration of the apprenticeship of grief — learning how to turn towards what is difficult, rather than away from it; learning how to be shaped by not-knowing, restraint and humility as acts of reverence.
Touching the Earth at Solstice with Jaime Howell and Team
A 6-day solstice retreat of embodied ecological awakening through Touching the Earth practices, weaving wilderness rites-of-passage, movement inquiry and soul-level belonging as we discover our unique gift for the Great Turning of our times.