Burnout Medicine
Personalised Day Retreats in Crookes, Sheffield
“I can’t even put into words how beautiful this was. This has been something radically powerful, the beginning of a true transformative moment for me.”
When we are deep in burnout it can be difficult to believe that life can feel any different. But recovery is possible, and not only that, but burnout can become a catalyst for deep, personal transformation if we know how to navigate the experience.
Step away and into held space, tailored to your personal burnout recovery journey.
Ideal for solo retreatants or pairs, spend between a couple of hours to a full day adventuring in a mixture of healing practices including...
Deep Listening.
I’m a coach with over ten years’ experience in facilitating human processes. We all need spaces where we can come as we are, and through the deep listening of a compassionate other unlock the truest answers to our greatest challenges.
Nature Connection
Nature can be one of our greatest allies on our journey through life if we know how to listen. We’ll work with the wisdom of nature drawing, for example, on what different ‘endings’ in nature might teach us, have a facilitated ‘conversation’ with nature, or learn to read nature omens when they cross our path.
Ritual & Ceremony.
These intuitive and creative expressions, used by humans since the beginning of our existence, free us from our thinking minds and enable us to access the deepest and wisest parts of ourselves.
Grief Tending
In grief tending, we break open rather than trying to hold it all together, and are put back together differently. The cracks are still there, but now the light can shine through again. My grief tending training lineage includes Joanna Macey and Malidoma Somé.
Energy Medicine
This is where the sessions can get a little ‘woo’ if you’d like them to. I am trained in Reiki, which is a Japanese practice to unblock and balance energy. We might also delve into dream or waking vision work or simply explore how gentle movement, such as dance, might heal what needs to flow within you.
All retreats include a mixture of self-guided time to rest, reflect and journal, and some facilitated time with me. The balance between those two things we can work out together depending on what you need at that time.
About Me
Hi, I’m Jo Musker-Sherwood (she/her); culture worker, mother, activist, and deeply feeling human.
For six years I set up and ran a national climate change charity here in Sheffield before burning out and eventually coming to inner work as a new form of activism. Now, I work with activists all around the world who want to deepen their offerings in the world by working for healing from the inside out. You can read a bit more about my journey with that here.
More recently I have felt a pull to hold more in person, place based offerings, and to work with anyone, whether they explicitly identify as an activist or otherwise. Sheffield is a wonderful city full of wonderful people.
If you’re struggling with burnout, wanting to make a major life change, or simply in need of a little top up, it would be my joy to craft a retreat personally tailored to you.
These are not therapy retreats and I am not a trained therapist. Instead, I will come alongside you to support your own healing, discernment and resting processes. Some of my training includes; nature connection and facilitation with Change in Nature, grief tending with Grief Tending in Community, and Reiki.
Some of my areas of expertise include; social justice, activism & liberation work, motherhood, grief and loss, and spiritual exploration.
