The Hedge School

The Hedge School is a small, dialogue-based learning space I host at my off-grid cottage in the west of Ireland. It’s a simple place: a cottage, a stove, a long table, and the beginnings of a native woodland I’m planting and tending. Wild things are left to be. People come here to pause, think, and return to themselves.

Each Hedge School gathers a small group for conversation, reading, and reflection. We work slowly, listening to one another and allowing ideas to deepen in their own time. The aim is not to master a subject, but to give attention to the inner life and to the movement of thought.

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Next Hedge School – BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED

Saturday, 27 December, 11am-3pm
Theme: Thresholds

In this session we’ll explore what it means to stand on the edge of change, letting go, stepping forward, and recognising the quiet transformations already at work in a life.

Guided by readings from Simone Weil, Søren Kierkegaard, and Rainer Maria Rilke, we’ll explore thresholds as both challenges and invitations. These are places where something asks to be released. Something else begins.

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If you’d like to join us or receive details about future sessions, you can enquire below.