Four Weekends. Four Directions.

One Turning.

These four weekends have not been taught by Sarah before. After years of requests for these teachings, now in 2026 & 2027, these are teachings for these times.

There are not many forces that shape a life, not really. Strip away the language and the models, the complexity and the noise, and you begin to feel them as presences — one that sparks and moves, one that draws us into relationship, one that holds us to the ground we must answer to. Electricity. Magnetism. Gravity. We are not outside of these, we are made of them.

Sacred Directions, 2nd turning is four weekends across the year, each one a threshold, each one a homecoming.

What we enter together is old - ancient chemistry - the way the cosmos builds itself from the same handful of principles at every scale. Sacred geometry, fractals, the greater cycles that turn beneath the news and the noise, older than any civilisation, patient as stone. We bring these not as intellectual frameworks but as lived experience, as the body beginning to remember what it always knew.

Alongside this we walk with the earth medicines,  plant and animal allies, geomancy, the intelligence of place, and we learn again what it means to be in genuine relationship with the living world rather than simply moving through it.

And we do none of this alone -the cohort is part of the medicine. Practice groups, song, prayer, ceremony, dreaming, these are not additions to the work, they are the work, the ancient technologies of belonging that have held human communities through every threshold time the world has known.

Father Sky   |   Weekend 1 | October 24th - 25th, 2026

The great expanse. Stars, cycles, the subtle currents moving through cosmos and body alike. We remember scale, we remember orientation, we begin to feel ourselves as participants in a living, breathing universe rather than observers of one. This is where the spark ignites.

Mother Earth |  Weekend 2 | February 6th-7th, 2027

The body from which we are made and to which we return. Not only sustenance but intelligence slow, enormous, the wisdom of roots and stone, decay and renewal. Here we learn what it means to belong, not as a comfort but as a responsibility. Here the great gathering begins.

The Void | Weekend 3 | April 3rd - 4th, 2027

Session three descends into the void, into the dark and holy silence beneath all things, the fertile blackness the old ones knew as the womb of becoming. We gather at the roots of the tree of life, down where the ancestral waters pool and the great axis rises through bone and breath, joining the below to the above. Here we open to regeneration, to the slow green returning, remembering that we too are made of this dying and this rising, this dark and this green.

Completing The Wheel | Weekend 4 | June 5th - 6th, 2027

The wheel is not a fixed circle, it is a living spiral, carrying us through the seasons again and again, never to the same place, and each direction holds its own gift, its own discipline, its own medicine, so that as we tune ourselves to these seasonal intelligences, we stop walking against life and begin walking with it.

With each turning, our depths rise to greet us, ancient remembering surfaces, and with it something new, a different vision of ourselves, of our communities, of what is possible in the world.

This is threshold work, it asks everything of us and gives everything back, and in times that ask us to forget who we are, it is the light that helps us remember.

Four weekends. One year. The turn begins.

The material for these weekends is not a repeat of the work in 2026.
This round of teachings is also open to those who didn’t attend the 2025-2026 Four Directions training.

Forest Crown in-depth cohorts with Sarah will be offered again

PRICING :

Reciprocity Equity Tiers for Business: A New Economy 

Benefactor Tier – Sustains others – $1,600 plus

This tier contributes beyond the base cost, helping to fund the Seed Tier and expand access for others. It’s a gift that ripples outward.

Equity Tier – Honors the true cost – $1,300

This reflects the actual cost of the retreat. Choosing this tier helps sustain the offering, supports facilitators, and upholds balance in the circle.

Seed Tier – Nourished by community care – $1,000

This tier is for those with limited financial access. It’s supported by the generosity of others and rooted in trust, mutuality, and collective flourishing.

PAYMENT LOGISTICS:

$200 non-refundable deposit holds your spot.

A NOTE ON PAYMENT AND EXCHANGE:

I’m changing the way I invite support for my work, because the old ways—pricing things like products, locking offerings into rigid fees—don’t reflect the spirit this work comes from. What I offer is relational, alive, and rooted in deep listening. It takes energy, time, preparation, tending. And I know I’m not the only one navigating these shifting times—many are holding resources close, and many are quietly in need. So I’m moving toward a different kind of economy—one based in reciprocity, trust, and enoughness. I’ll be naming the real costs, offering a range of ways to contribute, and trusting the circle to hold itself through mutual care. This is an experiment in right relationship. Thank you for walking it with me.

About the Facilitators

The Invisible Thread:

Shamanic Dimensions within Systemic Constellations

In Person Training : February 25th-March 2nd, 2027
Seattle, Washington

This retreat focuses on the shamanic approach to the constellation field.

This training offers a shamanic approach to the Family Constellation field, an invitation to meet the field not only as psychological terrain, but as living, sacred ground.

We will explore what soul retrieval looks like when it arises within the field itself, and how ceremony and ritual find their own way to be expressed there, often without our planning it. We will look closely at the clearing of misaligned magic left along the ancestral line, including hauntings that have gone unnamed for generations.

This approach reaches beyond the family members present to include the land and the circumstances that were there at the very onset of the event. It offers a way of seeing a larger gathering, all that carries the event and the trauma that followed it. Nothing stands isolated, all is involved, all is witnessed, all is remembered.

We will also work with helping spirits, how they arrive and represent within the field, and, as facilitators, how we can learn to step back just enough to let the field's own presence constellate what wants to be known.

This is deep work, offered with reverence for what the field already holds and knows.

Prerequisite: Participants must have completed a substantial amount of constellation repping to be eligible for this training and have taken the online course on the Trickster:
Working with the Trickster in the Field - February 13th

Register Here

A shamanic constellation is a ceremonial approach to systemic constellation work, a field originally developed by Bert Hellinger…infused with the cosmology, ritual, and spiritual awareness found in shamanic traditions.

In essence, it’s a way of revealing hidden patterns of energy, ancestry, and spirit within a person or a community by giving form and voice to the unseen.

Where a traditional constellation might explore family dynamics or social systems, a shamanic constellation widens the field to include ancestors, land spirits, elements, dreams, and archetypal forces.

In a shamanic constellation:

• The circle is treated as sacred space. The facilitator often opens it ceremonially, calling in the directions, the elements, and the helping spirits.

• Participants may stand as representatives not only for family members but also for dreams, illnesses, rivers, ancestors, or collective wounds.

• The process invites embodied listening—feeling what moves through the field rather than analyzing it.

• Ritual actions—breath, drumming, offerings, movement, ceremony…..may help release what has been held or bring the system back into balance.

• The goal is not just insight but restoration of harmony..between people and their ancestors, between humans and the more-than-human world.

• The use of the word shamanic is used as an adjective to describe a cosmology that is earth based and includes a magical world where everything has a spirit and is alive

Exchange

Benefactor: $1100
Equity: $900
Seed: $800
*Oak Grove members receive 10% off of Equity and Benefactor prices.

*Includes 6 days of training, and coffee, tea, and snacks.

For more information about tiered pricing, cancellations and refunds, and continuing education credits, see Sarah’s Policies.

All participants registered for The Invisible Thread training will get free access to the bonus half day online workshop “Working with the Trickster in the Field”.

This bonus class will be held on Feb 13th 8.30am-1pm prior to the start of this training.

For more information, click here.

Register Here

Mapping the Dream in the Field: Dream Constellation Facilitator Training

with Sarah Maclean Bicknell

4th-8th May, 2027 10-6 BST in London, UK

Do we pursue the dream, or does the dream pursue us?

At this training we will explore how to constellate the dream/dreamtime.

“Mapping the Dream in the Field” is a five day training coming to the UK, bringing together three living lineages of systemic work, the traditional, the phenomenological, and the shamanic, and asking them to meet inside the oldest human practice there is, the practice of dreaming.
Facilitators learn to work with dream not as private symbol but as a living member of the field, a relation carrying messages from the ancestors, the land, and the spirit world into the room.
Supervised practice builds through the week, from a single noticed image to full constellations, so each participant leaves having stood inside the work themselves.

This event is hosted by Illi Adato from the London School of Systemic and Family Constellations

Held at Violet Hill Studios, St John's wood, London.

Participation is limited (around 20 people) and attendees join daily.

Times are TBC (accommodation/food not provided)

To be notified when registration opens, add yourself to the interest list here: