A modern sanctuary for focus, creativity, and meaningful work — where ideas get the attention, structure, and support to come to life.
Creative Ashram blends wisdom and neuroscience — where deep work meets deep practice.
Built on a PhD in Education and over twenty years of contemplative practice, this work approaches focus and flow as a trainable discipline — not a productivity hack, not a wellness escape, but a way of learning to think, create, and work with clarity and intention.
We work with people who have something to create — thinkers, makers, writers, and builders — supporting them to bring their ideas into form through retreats, immersions, corporate work, 1:1 coaching, and, later in 2026, a workbook you can hold in your hands.
Creative Ashram is built on a single core methodology — Focus & Flow — expressed through different lenses for different people at different stages of their work. If one of those rooms is yours, you’ll feel it.
PhD · early-career academic · writer with a manuscript
University-connected or formerly so. Burned out by institutional rhythm. Starving for silence, structure, and peers who take ideas seriously. The person with the thesis-shaped weight on their chest.
Start with the PhD Writing Blueprint.
Writer · maker · podcaster · founder
You have a project — a book, a podcast, a venture, a body of work — and you are looking for the container that finally lets you get it out of your head and into the world. Cohort retreats, day immersions, and the workbook.
Start with a day retreat, or the autumn cohort.
Founder · executive · director in values-led work
Charities, social enterprises, arts, education. Wants nervous-system regulation that doesn’t feel cringe. Values discretion and rigour. Brings their whole team — or says let’s ashram it — the second time.
Start with Compass — a leadership day at Larchfield.
Four nights, doctoral writers, funded by the Northern Bridge Consortium DTP. Shepherd’s Dene 2025 · Corrymeela 2026.
Learn more →A Georgian farmhouse outside Lisburn. Ten seats. £120 · where focus meets flow and ideas come alive.
Learn more →One day at Larchfield Estate. £60 · for the leader navigating by vitality, clarity, and purpose.
Learn more →A one- or two-day creative intensive for teams carrying a real question. Strategy off-site meets contemplative container. From £2,500 a day.
Learn more →Your attention, time, and energy are sacred — treat them as such.
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