The Blessing Mirror
An eco-psychology training in the art of evoking Soul through nature based story.
One of the greatest gifts one human being can offer another is Soulful insight into their Wholeness. A trained Blessing Mirror Guide can enable the other to see and retrieve their Wholeness through the Mirror of Nature. A Blessing Mirror absorbs the other's story, tracks the thread of Self, and then offers the story back imbued with Soul.
This programme will run again in 2025.
“A blessing evokes a privileged intimacy. It touches that tender membrane where the human heart cries out to its divine ground.”
Why The Blessing Mirror?
At Wild Rites we have developed a unique way of training you to mirror. We show you how to track the Wholeness that Nature reflects in another’s story so you can offer the story back as a blessing to its owner. To do this requires a training of your own Being, deep relationship to your own soulful nature and deep relationship to greater Nature. You need to be able to inhabit both the light and the shadow at the centre of your own story to be able to see this in another’s .
This development pathway enables you to polish your mirror. As a mirror we need to be clear enough to see the other and enable the other to see themselves through us, otherwise mirrors project and cloud visions of the Soul.
We work pan culturally and mythically alongside the medicine wheels and psychosynthesis psychology to bring forth the Blessing Mirror in you. Some people do this training as a ground to work with others, some do this for their own psycho-spiritual development and to deepen their relationship to Nature.
You will learn to:
Develop your soul life through Mythopoetic thought.
Open up to the sensory field, active imagination, and deep love and empathy for yourself and other.
Perceive Soul in Nature, yourself and other.
Work collaboratively with Nature to retrieve soul.
Create ceremonies where a person can retrieve their past, present and future story.
Take in another’s story and offer it back more enlivened and empowered.
Find the thread of Self in a person’s story and use this to pull their spiritual essence into the world so they can embody it.
Work with eco-psychosynthesis to understand projective identification, Nature as a mirror to the Self, and how we project onto each other and Nature.
You will learn to facilitate the following methods:
Mirroring - including methods for finding the story to be mirrored.
The Way of Council – as a method of holding space.
The Medicine Wheel as a map of Wholeness for the Self.
Mythopoetic Thought – storytelling, myths, fairy/folk tales, mythology, poetry & song as a way of self-understanding. To provide lenses beyond the rational.
Nature as a mirror to Self - Nature as our ground of Being.
“Mirroring is about receiving and investing yourself in another’s story, finding the gold that’s hidden in plain sight, and offering it back to the one who hid it in the first place”
Who is this training for?
The Blessing Mirror is for those who wish to collaborate with Nature for personal, spiritual, or psychological development, either as a practitioner, or for their own development such as:
Therapists, coaches, counsellors, leaders, consultants and facilitators who want to practice in Nature.
Nature based soul guides who want to deepen their Being and take their practice to the next level.
Anyone who wants to perceive and magnetise the spiritual Self in another through story-seeking and mirroring.
Those seeking profound soulful relationship with Nature.
What participants Say About The Training
Dates, Logistics & Cost
This training runs in four x 4-day residential learning modules at Wild Rites Lake District basecamp . Upon graduation you will receive a certificate of completion. Places are limited to 12 participants.
The next guide training will commence in Spring 2025. Please email us if you would like to be among the first to hear.
The cost is £2495 including accommodation (non-returnable deposit £495 to secure your place after application. Balance to be through installments).
Our venues are self-catering. Wild Rites provides the evening meal on the Friday of each weekend, all other meals you will cater for yourselves - groups typically cook together. Teas, coffee and some cooking basics like oil and herbs/spices are provided.
Wild Rites founders, Alex Hatfield and Jon Keen will be your trainers and guides, click here to read about them.
There will be small group online reconnects between the July and September weekends to help you with ceremony design.
You will receive a downloadable training manual at the end of the training.
Enrollment Process
It is pre-requisite that you have worked with Wild Rites before, this is so that you have had first hand experience of being mirrored and know what its like to work in the way we do at Wild Rites. If you have yet to work with us and are interested please enroll for the May 2025 Call of the Wild Soul and arrange a call back with us using the button below.
f you have already work worked with us simple complete the form below and we will be in touch.
If you would like a no obligation conversation about this training please contact alex@wildrites.uk or jon@wildrites.uk.
I’d like to register my interest for a place on The Blessing Mirror guide training 2025:
Accommodation, Logistics and Base Camp
Wild Rites base-camp is in a remote mountainous valley in the Lake District National Park. It nestles between two rivers and a wild indigenous woodland. It is a rustic place with a bunk-barn, camping ground, toilet/shower block and a main gathering/cooking barn with full cooking facilities. There is no central heating, although there is a large wood burner in the main barn and the showers are hot. Please prepare for rustic and natural, its part of the charm of the place! For more info about our location click here.
Logistics:
Each module will begin at 1pm on the Friday (12pm arrival) and finish at 1pm on the Monday.
Travel: If you are coming by car there is ample parking available. Directions to base-camp will be provided upon booking. We encourage car-share. If you are travelling by train you can arrange a pick-up and drop-off with us from Oxenholme Lake District mainline station.