Embark on a journey of self-discovery with our Introduction to Mindfulness Workshop! Dive into the essence of mindfulness, understanding its profound impact on stress, anxiety, and pain. Led by a qualified and experienced facilitator, this workshop unravels the secrets of mindfulness, offering insights into its transformative benefits. Learn practical techniques and explore how to seamlessly integrate mindfulness into your daily life. Join us for an immersive experience, where you'll be guided through mindfulness practices that pave the way for inner peace and well-being.
Join artists Vivian and Tash for a Queer Crafting workshop at Out and Wild 2024. This is a space for folk to come together, make and reflect on the histories of queer crafting.Participants are invited to contribute to a communal quilt that will be worked on throughout the festival. Participants are invited to embroider and appliqué motifs and text that celebrate the festival and our queer community.
Van life: Whether you're a seasoned traveller or just starting your journey, there's something magical about sharing stories and insights about our beloved vans. Whether it's swapping renovation tips, discussing the best off-the-grid camping spots, or geeking out over the latest gadgets and gear, our vans are more than just vehicles—they're our homes, our adventures, and our ticket to freedom. So, grab your favourite mug, pull up a chair, and let's dive into the wonderful world of van life together! See you there!
Gender expression: Creating safe havens for authentic conversations is so important to us. In this hour, we warmly invite you to delve into the experiences of our trans, non-binary, genderqueer, and questioning community (parents of, welcome too!). Guided by the incredible Bobbi Pickard, let's gather with a chair and a cuppa to share, listen, and celebrate our diverse experiences. Your voice matters. Let's empower one another through shared stories and support!
The Pleasure Project is the world’s leading organisation putting the sexy into safer sex since 2004. Because sex education is rarely sexy, and erotica is rarely safe. We defined pleasure based sexual health, ensured the first global Pleasure Declaration by the World Association of Sexual Health and invented the inspiring Pleasure Principles – to put more pleasure into sexual health. Last year we published research with the World Health Organisation to prove that pleasure based sex education is more effective in improving our sexual health. Those who are research inclined read it here. Come along to explore how to mix pleasure with prevention and why that works better than the usual focus on ‘death, danger, or disease’. There will be no expectations that you will need to share any personal or intimate life details, just some fun exercises to explore what is pleasure based sexual health and why it works better than those usual types of sexual health interventions that we are more used to. Expect fun and why Food and Sex are good to talk about together.
Join our Festival fave band Dryadic for a singing workshop in the beautiful church just a few mins from our festival site.
The Power of your Voice: This hour will be dedicated to women and non-binary people of colour to come together in a safe and supportive space. As we gather in this sharing circle, expect to engage in deep listening and compassionate sharing. Each person will have the opportunity to speak from their own unique perspective, sharing their experiences, challenges, and triumphs. This circle is a place of empowerment, where we honour the strength and resilience of our voices and stories. Expect to find connection and solidarity as we uplift each other and explore the intersections of our identities. Together, we will create a space of understanding, validation, and healing, where every voice is valued and celebrated.
Using Mindfulness Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skills (and creative activities), participants will learn a range of strategies for improving mental wellness and overall health. Focusing on the more creative and fun skills and activities, the session is a short introduction to this evidence based therapy. Participants will leave feeling more grounded, calmer, and with practical strategies that they can easily practice and master at home. Becks is a teacher, trade union activist (holding a range of positions), artist, mental health advocate and the founder of aRTpRIDE and Nuneaton Pride. DBT is an intensive, one and a half year program that saveslives and give users a ‘life worth living’. It is often an intensive, long-term course, (often requiring 12+ hours a week commitment); and targets those experiencing suicidal ideation, self-harm behaviours and those who feel emotions intensely. Becks started as a DBT service user, then became a trained up practitioner, and is now an advocate of this therapy. This DBT workshop gives a small taste of Dialect Behavioural Therapy skills that can be of benefit to everyone's lives, irregardless of their mental health status.
Older and Bolder: This workshop will be led by Jane Hoy (75) and Helen Sandler (56). They live together near the sea in Mid Wales. Helen is a writer, editor and event organiser. Jane is a community theatre practitioner. Together they perform as Queer Tales from Wales and are part of the team that produces Aberration – queertastic arts events in Aberystwyth. Helen is interested in how we cope with menopause, midlife and ageing as lesbians (and/or bi, queer, genderqueer, trans folks) and how we connect back with our younger selves. Both are experienced workshop leaders and love bringing people together to share wit, wisdom, creativity and ideas, and to make new friends.
Street Art - Want to be the next Banksy or learn to upcycle? No artistic experience needed, you will learn how to create your own stencil and spray your first street art masterpiece on a poster to take home. Decoupage - Decoupage Craft Workshop Learn how to upcycle anything from furniture, home items and even shoes in this introduction decoupage workshop. Create your own piece to take home.
