Join Us For Our HSP Summer 2025 Retreat At Early Bird Rates!
Join Us For Our HSP Summer 2025 Retreat At Early Bird Rates!
I'd love you to join us for this unique four-day gathering in Devon on June 12-15
Hello!
I’m so excited to announce that we have just released early bird tickets for our annual four-day summer retreat for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) I’m co-hosting with my great friend Jules De Vitto, a coach and trainer who specialises in high sensitivity.
We have changed our retreat location for 2025 to Selgars Mill in Devon. Selgars Mill is a beautiful converted 19th Century mill house with cottages, set in eight acres of secluded grounds in the Culm Valley. We believe that the beautiful natural surroundings of the Devon countryside will truly feel like a "home away from home," and make this a nourishing, relaxing experience for all.
The retreat will take place from Thursday 12 (pm) to Sunday 15 June (pm), 2025.
We’re excited to share an Early Bird Discount: Save 10% before the end of October: Enter code 'HSH10' for your early-bird discount.
All tickets include accommodation, all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), all activities, a team of facilitators, unlimited tea/coffee and full access to all site facilities. If you would like to set up a payment plan to pay in 2,3 or 6 monthly instalments please email hspretreat@gmail.com.
To check out pricing and book, please click here.
Why An HSP Retreat?
Are you interested in your self-discovery, self-care, and connection with fellow kindred souls?
At the HSP Retreat 2025, you'll:
🌟 Unwind in a tranquil natural setting
🌟 Explore mindfulness and self-compassion
🌟 Engage in enriching workshops and discussions
🌟 Connect with HSPs from around the world
🌟 Embrace your authentic self
We know how important it is to come together in community and connect with like-minded people.
That’s why we’re so excited to offer this unique opportunity to engage in holistic well-being activities; connect more deeply with our authentic selves; and experience how it feels to be nourished by a safe and supportive group.
And don’t worry: All activities are optional, and we encourage everyone to take time to immerse themselves in nature to rest, relax and soak in the beautiful surroundings.
Daily Schedule
The scheduled events will vary each day but include the following: ecstatic dance, sound baths, breathwork, nature activities, wild swimming, singing, yoga, meditation, workshops on making the most of the gifts that high sensitivity brings, sharing circles, and cozy fire-side gatherings in the evening. .
8am - 9am - Morning yoga/Meditation/Breathwork
9am - 10am - Breakfast
10-11am - Community sharing circle (small pod sharing)
11.30am - 1230pm - Workshop
12.30pm - 1.30pm - Lunch
2pm - 3.30pm - Nature activity/walk
4.30pm - 6.00pm - Yoga/Dance
6.00pm - 7.00pm - Dinner
7.15pm - 9:30pm - Fire-side gathering
A Retreat Designed For And By HSPs
As an HSP, I know how much resistance I’ve often felt in the past to anything involving groups. HSPs tend to dread small talk, and we don’t like being herded into activities, or constantly asked “are you okay?”
None of that will happen at Selgars Mill.
At the same time, I have had some of my most profound experiences at retreats where I’ve had a chance to recharge my system at a deep level; connect with like-minded people; and explore deeper conversations than you tend to get at the pub.
Jules and I are curating this retreat specifically to appeal to HSPs from any stage of life. This summer we had everyone from students to retired, men and women; introverts and extraverts. Participants even flew in from around the world including Costa Rica and America — this retreat is for anyone and everyone.
We’ll be running sessions on many topics which we believe will resonant with HSPs— such as regulating our nervous systems; self-compassion; setting boundaries; owning our gifts.
We’ll create an accepting environment where you can take time to recharge on your own if you want — taking advantage of the beautiful woodland, walled vegetable garden, forest gardens, large open grassy areas, ponds, streams and secluded spots.
Your Hosts
Dr Genevieve von Lob
BSc (Hons) MSc DClin Psych PGdip (CBT) FBPsS
HCPC registered and Associate Fellow BPS
Dr Genevieve von Lob is a clinical psychologist, conscious parenting coach and author. After 15 years working in the NHS, private practice in Harley Street and inside big corporations, she wrote two parenting books with Penguin, including ‘Five Deep Breaths: The Power of Mindful Parenting.’
Genevieve is one of the leading experts in the UK on high sensitivity in children, with regular appearances in the media including BBC Woman’s Hour, Channel 4 and The Guardian and has appeared on webinars with Sensitivity Research. Genevieve specialises in working with highly sensitive children and their parents. She is the author of “The Resonant Parenting Project,” and “The HSP Revolution.”
In the 20 years since Genevieve qualified as a psychologist, Genevieve has helped hundreds of people from all walks of life transform trauma and stress into a greater sense of confidence, ease and flow.
But her own healing journey has taught her that a supportive community can be the catalyst for transformation on a whole new level.
Born to a single mother in an alternative community in the east of England, Genevieve’s earliest experiences of feeling safe and protected in a village-like atmosphere laid the foundations for her later professional interest in community healing spaces.
While earning her psychology doctorate, Genevieve wrote a thesis on the psychological benefits of group singing. But it was only in her late 20s, when she was starting to confront unresolved traumas and losses from her own past, that she began to discover the true power of healing in community.
Over a period of several years, Genevieve explored countless healing modalities, investigating everything from nature connection to shamanic drumming, sound bowls and ecstatic dance. When she stumbled upon a sweat lodge ceremony in Oxfordshire in southern England, she finally understood what it meant to feel truly safe and held. The community there was so supportive that for the first time she truly felt comfortable being vulnerable in front of others, and never felt judged. Nobody stepped in to try to fix or rescue – but they did bear witness, and it was in that space that Genevieve did some of the most profound work on herself.
Running retreats for highly sensitive people represents the fulfillment of a vision that Genevieve has held ever since that time – of creating healing spaces where people can find sanctuary, connect and learn from others on the same journey, and rediscover who they really are.
Jules de Vitto
MAEd, MSc Certified Coach and Trainer for Highly Sensitive People
Jules De Vitto has a BSc in Psychology, MA in Education and MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness and Spirituality and is an accredited transpersonal coach, trainer and experienced educator. She is the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy - a central hub that offers courses, coaching, articles and a podcast for Highly Sensitive People. She is a leading expert in the field of high sensitivity and helps those who identify with the traits of to navigate emotional overwhelm, step into their authentic power and align with their true purpose in life.
She is a published author and wrote one of a series of books on Resilience, Navigating Loss in a time of Crisis. Her research has also been published in the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal and Journal of Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology.
In addition to her academic and coaching pursuits, Jules has spent years engaging in deep transformative healing work. She is a Reiki Master and Teacher and has completed Michael Harner’s Shamanic Practitioner Training through the Foundation of Shamanic Studies and a Grief Ritual Leadership Training with Francis Weller. She offers holistic sound baths with Tibetan Singing Bowls, a ancient healing modality she studied in a monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Jules is passionate about creating community for Highly Sensitive People and embracing the full spectrum of our emotional and sensory capacities rather than trying to ‘fix’ ourselves. Deepening the connection to our sensitivity enables us to open our hearts and form better relationships with ourselves, others and the world.
As an expert in the field of high sensitivity, her writing has been featured in SAND and Highly Sensitive Refuge and she has been invited to speak on the Sensitive SEO Podcast, Quiet and Strong Podcast and the Healthy Sensitive Podcast.
Guest Facilitators
We’re delighted that Josh Silver will be running a conscious dance session, Alan Piatek will be leading breathwork sessions and Brogan King will be leading yoga sessions.
Healthy, Nutritious Vegetarian Meals
All meals are included in the ticket price and we'll be providing homemade vegetarian cuisines using healthy ingredients such as handpicked wild food, fresh fruit and vegetables and high quality wholefoods. Gluten-free and dairy-free diets will be catered for.
So book now and treat yourself to a unique opportunity to power down your HSP nervous system, and connect with others looking to make the most of the joys that sensitivity brings.
See you there!
