A modern sanctuary for focus, creativity, and meaningful work — where ideas get the attention, structure, and support to come to life.
A Creative Ashram day retreat at Yarn Ballycastle — for that idea that keeps whispering to you. All mediums, all ideas, all people welcome.
Sunday 27 September 2026 · 10:00–17:00
Yarn Ballycastle · £85 · lunch from Ursa Minor · sixteen seats.
Creative Ashram blends wisdom and neuroscience — where deep work meets deep practice.
Built on a PhD in Education and twenty-five 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, UKRI-funded PhD residential retreats. 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.
Why creativity isn’t just for artists — why it’s the evolutionary superpower of every human, and why in the age of the attention economy and AI, the urge to make something is the serious work.
“Attention is our most precious life force.”
— from the first essay
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