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.
Forest Crown in-depth cohorts with Sarah will be offered again
This course is a full commitment that spans the space of 8 months.
We will work in cohorts and also come together for 4 weekend online trainings. All meetings take place on Zoom
Each weekend works through one of the new directions.
Materials, exercises, homework and group work will be provided.
When enrolled in the course, you will have access to the dedicated group on The Village Green, where we can keep in touch, share resources and meet together throughout the year.
Questions? Email hello@sarahmacleanbicknell.com for more information
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
Sarah Maclean Bicknell is a healer, teacher, and mentor.
She has studied healing and ceremonial work in North American indigenous traditions for 30 years. She has incorporated her Celtic roots into her present North American practice and is sought out for her intuitive readings, workshops, ceremony, and her soul doctoring practice. More recently, Sarah has held training and facilitated Family and Nature Constellations and has run a leadership/training programme called “The Arbor”. She stands in deep gratitude to her elders and teachers that have gone before and stands firmly in her own vision, a vision that is related and crafted for these times of the 21st century. Her work is about connection, community, ceremony and respect. Also raised in the Western world, she has lived the loss of disconnection and is profoundly thankful to her indigenous elders who taught her how to re-arrive more fully into her life.
Stevie Greenwell is a musician, singer, teacher, constellator, dreamer, and ceremonialist.
She is devoted to compassionate liberation through expression, resonance, and song. We all have the divine right to a voice which can be a tool of reflection and expression to help us learn who we are and what we want to express to the world.
She works with people one-on-one with expression and inclusion work, in family systems constellations, in workshops, and leading song circles. Stevie is co-artistic director of Wildchoir. She performs various artists throughout the bay. Her songs are rooted in connection to each other, our ancestors and the earth.
Stevie combines a deep study of music with the ever-ongoing study of the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of our world. She continues to be taught by her own voice, the natural world, and Spirit. She has been studying with her teacher, Sarah Maclean Bicknell for many years in Ceremony, Constellation, Dreamwork, and Shamanic principles and is honored to be helping with this offering.
Carmen Reed is a devout dreamer and ceremonialist.
She has had a natural curiosity and relationship with her dreams her entire life, and turned this passion into a deep practice over the past 5 years studying under Grandmother Sarah Maclean Bicknell. Carmen has also gained dream knowledge and practice with graduating from The Dream School taught by Jungian analysts Dr. Lisa Marciano, Dr. Deborah Stewart, and Dr. Joseph Lee.
Carmen’s dream knowledge is rooted in Celtic, Druid, and Lakota tribe practices as well as ancient Aboriginal traditions. With her own ancestral lineage connecting back to The Celts of Scotland, dream practice and interpretation is deep in her bones. She holds numerous dream circles in a group setting, one-on-one dream interpretation work, and she also sits in community dreaming circles to dream in a better way of living for all of humanity.