February
2 – 6 p.m.
Cost: € 60
A mindfulness day designed to help you tune into the healing power of nature. This workshop will include exploring our large labyrinth and practising different
types of walking meditation.
The labyrinth at The Hollies, nestled in a woodland between rocky outcrops, is inspired by the 12th century pattern at the heart of the cathedral in Chartres
(France).
More opportunities for walking our labyrinth will be offered for special events that can be booked by e-mailing us
info (at) thehollies.ie
or by phone 023 8847001
Facilitator: Selvi Iyilikci (Qualified Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator)
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
10 – 4 pm Cost:
€80
Venue: The Hollies Centre
Tutor: Thomas Riedmuller
To book please click here.
This full day course offers you practical exercises and time for reflection to help you learn new ways of communicating, de-escalating conflicts and creating more harmonious relationships.
It will include skills such as Non-Violent Communication (Rosenberg) and family conference (Gordon). It is helpful for negotiating boundaries, organising home life, and increasing lightness and fun in spite of problems. You can attend on your own or bring your partner and/or teenagers along.
March
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
Hands-on ‘ know-how- to’ workshop to get started growing your own veg.
Sunday mornings
Time: 10 – 2 pm
Cost: €60, tea/coffee/light snacks included
Facilitators: John ConwayThis practical workshop will get you started on transforming some of your garden into a productive vegetable
growing space. We start with exploring different methods of making beds, using mulching techniques or lazy beds with an emphasis on no-dig.
Permaculture perspectives will be demonstrated and discussed throughout the workshop. We will engage in skills, such as growing plants from start to finish, including seed sowing, transplanting, maintaining and harvesting a variety of easy to grow vegetables. Other topics include basic garden design, soil fertility, planting times and some pest and disease control.
To book please click here.
10 – 4 pm Cost:
€80
Venue: The Hollies Centre
Tutor: Thomas Riedmuller
To book please click here.
This full day course offers you practical exercises and time for reflection to help you learn new ways of communicating, de-escalating conflicts and creating more harmonious relationships.
It will include skills such as Non-Violent Communication (Rosenberg) and family conference (Gordon). It is helpful for negotiating boundaries, organising home life, and increasing lightness and fun in spite of problems. You can attend on your own or bring your partner and/or teenagers along.
Thomas Riedmuller facilitates learning from the experiences of other course participants as well as from himself.
Exclusive workshops for your family alone can be arranged outside of these dates.
Cost: € 70 pp (lunch, tea/coffee included) discounts available if you bring your family
Cost: € 80, Lunch included
Going for a walk through the weeds we will identify and gather common, easy to find plants that are beneficial to our health and safe to use. We will then use what we’ve found for our medicine making.
In this spring course we focus on herbs and preparations that will help us to get going and renew our energy after the winter. We will make spring tonics and food medicines as well as preparing other medicines like teas, compresses, poultices and ointments.
This will enable you to start filling your kitchen and home medicine cabinet with home made natural products to promote general health as well as remedies for coughs, colds, digestive problems, skin disorders, fatigue and first aid.
The workshops later in the year will focus on some different preparations.
To book please click here.
Herbs have been used for promoting health since the dawn of humanity. Our modern society seems to have lost much of the knowledge about those remedies and is pushing us to hand over the responsibility for our health to the professionals. This course could be a beginning for you in taking care of your and your family’s’ health – while still getting professional help for more serious issues.
Hands-on ‘ know-how- to’ workshop to get started growing your own veg.
Sunday mornings
Time: 10 – 2 pm
Cost: €60, tea/coffee/light snacks included
Facilitators: John ConwayThis practical workshop will get you started on transforming some of your garden into a productive vegetable
growing space. We start with exploring different methods of making beds, using mulching techniques or lazy beds with an emphasis on no-dig.
Permaculture perspectives will be demonstrated and discussed throughout the workshop. We will engage in skills, such as growing plants from start to finish, including seed sowing, transplanting, maintaining and harvesting a variety of easy to grow vegetables. Other topics include basic garden design, soil fertility, planting times and some pest and disease control.
To book please click here.
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
April
10 – 4 pm
Cost: €80 (lunch, tea/coffeeincluded) discounts available if you bring your family.
Venue: The Hollies Centre
Tutor: Thomas Riedmuller
To book please click here.
This full day course offers you practical exercises and time for reflection to help you learn new ways of communicating, de-escalating conflicts and creating more harmonious relationships.
It will include skills such as Non-Violent Communication (Rosenberg) and family conference (Gordon). It is helpful for negotiating boundaries, organising home life, and increasing lightness and fun in spite of problems. You can attend on your own or bring your partner and/or teenagers along.
Thomas Riedmuller facilitates learning from the experiences of other course participants as well as from himself.
Exclusive workshops for your family alone can be arranged outside of these dates.
Date: Sun, 6/4/25
With John Conway
10 am – 2pm, tea/coffee, light snacks included
This half day course will be a practical look at how to maximise the productive output from your garden. The emphasis will be on natural ways to enhance the fertility of your soil for great veg; plus ways to promote biological and species diversity for a more nature friendly garden. We will discuss how to create a garden space that not only nurtures but also offers beauty for the senses.
3 – 5 p.m.
Cost € 30
This 2 hour walk at The Hollies will introduce you to a great variety of wild plants that are growing in this
season.
Thomas and Ulrike Riedmuller will give you information about safe identification and uses of these
plants.
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
10:00am – 5pm
Cost: €80 (Lunch included)
To book please click here.
This course is a hands-on introduction to cob-building. If you’ve heard about cob and want to find out whether cob is something you’d like to build your house (or other structures) with, this course will give you a clear idea of what’s involved, an enjoyable first experience and loads of valuable information.
You will learn about the specific properties of cob, how to find suitable materials, mix cob and build walls and sculptural details with the material you’ve produced. You will also be able to see and experience the wide range of cob structures here at the Hollies.
10.00 am- 4.30 pm
Cost: €80, includes a wild food lunch.
To book please click here.
Food foraging is a powerful way to re-awaken your senses, to re-connect with nature in a powerful way, giving us a deep appreciation of the land and our place in the natural cycles and rhythms of life.
From seaweeds and coastal plants to fields, hedgerow and gardens -you’ll be learning to recognise the right plants and experiencing tasty ways to prepare and eat them.
We will be picking prime ingredients full of interesting flavours, packed with natural goodness.
We’ll also show you how to use specific plant identification books in order to deepen your learning and point out which plants are poisonous. You’ll also learn about some medicinal uses.
This course is mainly outdoors. If the weather forecast is particularly wet for the day we’ll postpone it and arrange an alternative day. To collect seaweed we’ll be walking between rocks at low tide.
Booking is essential, as we need to give you directions.
This course will inspire you to continue your path of food foraging.
To book a place click here
Hands-on ‘ know-how- to’ workshop to get started growing your own veg.
Sunday mornings
Time: 10 – 2 pm
Cost: €60, tea/coffee/light snacks included
Facilitators: Selvi Iyilikci & John Conway
To book please click here.
This practical workshop will get you started on transforming some of your garden into a productive vegetable growing space. We start with exploring different methods of making beds, using mulching techniques or lazy beds with an emphasis on no-dig.
Permaculture perspectives and techniques will be demonstrated and discussed throughout the day with an emphasis on creating a wildlife friendly space. Skills such as growing plants from start to finish such as seed sowing in trays, transplanting, maintaining and harvesting a variety of easy to grow vegetables will be demonstrated. Other topics include garden design, soil fertility, planting times and pest & disease control.
To book a place click here
May
More opportunities for walking our labyrinth will be offered for special events that can be booked by e-mailing us
info (at) thehollies.ie
or by phone 023 8847001
3 – 5 p.m.
Cost € 30
This 2 hour walk at The Hollies will introduce you to a great variety of wild plants that are growing in this
season.
Thomas and Ulrike Riedmuller will give you information about safe identification and uses of these
plants.
10.00 am- 4.30 pm
Cost: €80, includes a wild food lunch.
To book please click here.
Food foraging is a powerful way to re-awaken your senses, to re-connect with nature in a powerful way, giving us a deep appreciation of the land and our place in the natural cycles and rhythms of life.
From seaweeds and coastal plants to fields, hedgerow and gardens -you’ll be learning to recognise the right plants and experiencing tasty ways to prepare and eat them.
We will be picking prime ingredients full of interesting flavours, packed with natural goodness.
We’ll also show you how to use specific plant identification books in order to deepen your learning and point out which plants are poisonous. You’ll also learn about some medicinal uses.
This course is mainly outdoors. If the weather forecast is particularly wet for the day we’ll postpone it and arrange an alternative day. To collect seaweed we’ll be walking between rocks at low tide.
Booking is essential, as we need to give you directions.
This course will inspire you to continue your path of food foraging.
Testimonial:
Had a really lovely day today on a wild food foraging course at @The Hollies! Started with foraging for seaweed at low tide at Simon’s Cove stopping off at Ring, Gaggin and Enniskeane foraging for wild garlic, ground elder, three corner leek, sorrel and other wild delights before heading back to The Hollies centre for lunch prepared with these and other lovely things foraged – soups, quiches, fritters and salads and then heading out for a final walk through the lands of The Hollies digging for Pig Nuts and generally eating our way around the woods and gardens! Learned loads – there really is a world of free food out there! Thanks for a great day!
Kate Ryan, Clonakilty
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
With John Conway
10 am – 2pm, tea/coffee, light snacks included
This half day course will be a practical look at how to maximize the productive output from your garden. The emphasis will be on natural ways to enhance the fertility of your soil for great veg; plus ways to promote biological and species diversity for a more nature friendly garden. We will discuss how to create a garden space that not only nurtures but also offers beauty for the senses.
Time: 10 – 2pm,
Cost: 60 euro, light snacks, tea & coffee included
Facilitator: Selvi Iyilikci
Take time out to be in nature, switch off and focus on trust building and meaningful engagement with the horse.
During this workshop, participants have the opportunity to deepen their relationship with their natural environment with the help of our equine team. Horses can help us greatly to slow down, clear our minds, be in the moment and ground ourselves.
Engaging with our equine partner, participants can gain personal insights while receiving feedback from the horses in a non verbal, authentic and non judgmental manner.
This process creates a safe setting for touching base with yourself, your feelings and your needs.
We will also use creative interventions such as journaling, working with natural materials, drawing and we will explore grounding techniques such as basic breath work.
Hands-on ‘ know-how- to’ workshop to get started growing your own veg.
Sunday mornings
Time: 10 – 2 pm
Cost: €60, tea/coffee/light snacks included
Facilitators: Selvi Iyilikci & John Conway
To book please click here.
This practical workshop will get you started on transforming some of your garden into a productive vegetable growing space. We start with exploring different methods of making beds, using mulching techniques or lazy beds with an emphasis on no-dig.
Permaculture perspectives and techniques will be demonstrated and discussed throughout the day with an emphasis on creating a wildlife friendly space. Skills such as growing plants from start to finish such as seed sowing in trays, transplanting, maintaining and harvesting a variety of easy to grow vegetables will be demonstrated. Other topics include garden design, soil fertility, planting times and pest & disease control.
10.00 am- 4.30 pm
Cost: €80, includes a wild food lunch.
To book please click here.
Food foraging is a powerful way to re-awaken your senses, to re-connect with nature in a powerful way, giving us a deep appreciation of the land and our place in the natural cycles and rhythms of life.
From seaweeds and coastal plants to fields, hedgerow and gardens -you’ll be learning to recognise the right plants and experiencing tasty ways to prepare and eat them.
We will be picking prime ingredients full of interesting flavours, packed with natural goodness.
We’ll also show you how to use specific plant identification books in order to deepen your learning and point out which plants are poisonous. You’ll also learn about some medicinal uses.
This course is mainly outdoors. If the weather forecast is particularly wet for the day we’ll postpone it and arrange an alternative day. To collect seaweed we’ll be walking between rocks at low tide.
Booking is essential, as we need to give you directions.
This course will inspire you to continue your path of food foraging.
Testimonial:
Had a really lovely day today on a wild food foraging course at @The Hollies! Started with foraging for seaweed at low tide at Simon’s Cove stopping off at Ring, Gaggin and Enniskeane foraging for wild garlic, ground elder, three corner leek, sorrel and other wild delights before heading back to The Hollies centre for lunch prepared with these and other lovely things foraged – soups, quiches, fritters and salads and then heading out for a final walk through the lands of The Hollies digging for Pig Nuts and generally eating our way around the woods and gardens! Learned loads – there really is a world of free food out there! Thanks for a great day!
Kate Ryan, Clonakilty
June
with The Hollies Horse sense
Introduction to Equine Assisted Learning with The Hollies Horse Sense
Date: Sunday, 1/6/2025 & 7/9/2025
Time: 10 – 2pm,
Cost: 60 euro, light snacks, tea & coffee included
Facilitator: Selvi Iyilikci
Have you heard of Equine Assisted Learning?
It is a recognised and innovative approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. Through interactions with the horses, participants learn a heightened self-awareness. It is a process where people work with horses to develop their emotional growth, personal awareness, relationships, and trust, e.g. boundary setting, team work, communication and problem solving.
This is an introduction/taster workshop in which participants will experience first hand the positive effects of Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). We will cover some of the principles and theoretical foundations of EAL as an evidence based practice and we will explore who can benefit and how. We will spend time with our equine team to experience the benefits and learning outlined above.
This method does NOT involve horse riding and does not require any experience in horsemanship.
A 2 day course
Sat/Sun 28/29 May ;
Time: 10am- 5pm
Cost: € 150
To book please click here.
For great outdoor fun and the real Italian taste these wood fired Bread and Pizza Ovens built with Cob are hard to beat. Learn how to build your own in just 2 days from firebricks, clay, sand, earth and straw. After this course you’ll be equipped with enough skill to go home and build your own in the garden and cook in it.
These ovens weigh several tons and can usually not be moved. It is, however, possible to build similar ovens on car trailers and make them movable. Generally, an oven like this needs a stone plinth (to keep the clay off the splash water) and a roof. During the 2-day workshop we’ll concentrate on the oven itself. The plinth is built before the workshop. The roof can be built before or after it.
Cost: € 70, Lunch included
10.30am- 4.30pm
Cost:€80
To book please click here.
Going for a walk through the weeds we will identify and gather common, easy to find plants that are beneficial to our health and safe to use. We will then use what we’ve found for our medicine making.
In this summer course we will focus on herbs and preparations using the abundance of summer flowers and some other plants. We will make creams and tinctures as well as teas, compresses, poultices and ointments.
This will enable you to start filling your home medicine cabinet with home made natural products for coughs, colds, digestive problems, skin disorders, fatigue, first aid or simply promoting general health.
The workshops later in the year will focus on some different preparations.
Herbs have been used for promoting health since the dawn of humanity. Our modern society seems to have lost much of the knowledge about those remedies and is pushing us to hand over the responsibility for our health to the professionals. This course could be a beginning for you in taking care of your and your family’s’ health – while still getting professional help for more serious issues.
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
At the end of the course you will know all you need to be able to go off and build a cob cottage. This intensive course will be hands-on, and you will learn every aspect of the construction of a cob building. From locating and testing the right kinds of soils for cob, to different ways of mixing it, wall building techniques and all the sculptural details. Get practical experience with windows, doors, arches, niches and roofs. Lectures and practical exercises will cover siting, passive solar design, drainage, heating, plumbing and wiring, basic carpentry, natural roofing, and flooring.
Through the length and intensity of this course it tends to create a real sense of community between the participants and team, so if you are interested in building a house, and want a life-changing inspirational immersion into the world of natural building this really is a course not to be missed.
Concessions for group bookings are possible.
The Hollies team have built several family homes and other buildings with Cob and have been teaching Natural Building with The Cob Cottage Company for many years.
To book a place click here
July
Time: 10 – 4pm
Cost: 90 euro, lunch included
Facilitator: Selvi Iyilikci
To book please click here.
Have you heard of Equine Assisted Learning?
It is a recognised and innovative approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. Through interactions with the horses, participants learn a heightened self-awareness. It is a process where people work with horses to develop their emotional growth, personal awareness, relationships, and trust, e.g. boundary setting, team work, communication and problem solving.
This is an introduction/taster workshop in which participants will experience first hand the positive effects of Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). We will cover areas such as:
• Some of the principles and theoretical foundations of EAL as an evidence based practice
• Who can benefit and how?
• The horse as co facilitator: Horse behavior, horse handling and horse use ethics
• What activities can we engage in?
• The importance of observation and feedback
This method does NOT involve horse riding and does not require any experience in horsemanship.
August
- Forest Bathing
- Mindfulness and Somatic Experiencing with Horses
- Natural Weaving
- Foraging
- Fire
- Stories and Song
- Homegrown & plant based food
A 2 day course
Time: 9:30am- 5pm
Cost: € 150
To book please click here.
For great outdoor fun and the real Italian taste these wood fired Bread and Pizza Ovens built with Cob are hard to beat. Learn how to build your own in just 2 days from firebricks, clay, sand, earth and straw. After this course you’ll be equipped with enough skill to go home and build your own in the garden and cook in it.
These ovens weigh several tons and can usually not be moved. It is, however, possible to build similar ovens on car trailers and make them movable. Generally, an oven like this needs a stone plinth (to keep the clay off the splash water) and a roof. During the 2-day workshop we’ll concentrate on the oven itself. The plinth is built before the workshop. The roof can be built before or after it.
September
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
Introduction to Equine Assisted Learning with The Hollies Horse Sense
Date: Sunday, 1/6/2025 & 7/9/2025
Time: 10 – 2pm,
Cost: 60 euro, light snacks, tea & coffee included
Facilitator: Selvi Iyilikci
Have you heard of Equine Assisted Learning?
It is a recognised and innovative approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. Through interactions with the horses, participants learn a heightened self-awareness. It is a process where people work with horses to develop their emotional growth, personal awareness, relationships, and trust, e.g. boundary setting, team work, communication and problem solving.
This is an introduction/taster workshop in which participants will experience first hand the positive effects of Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). We will cover some of the principles and theoretical foundations of EAL as an evidence based practice and we will explore who can benefit and how. We will spend time with our equine team to experience the benefits and learning outlined above.
This method does NOT involve horse riding and does not require any experience in horsemanship.
Time: 10am – 5pm
Cost: €80 (Lunch included)
To book please click here.
This course is a hands-on introduction to cob-building. If you’ve heard about cob and want to find out whether cob is something you’d like to build your house (or other structures) with, this course will give you a clear idea of what’s involved, an enjoyable first experience and loads of valuable information.
You will learn about the specific properties of cob, how to find suitable materials, mix cob and build walls and sculptural details with the material you’ve produced. You will also be able to see and experience the wide range of cob structures here at the Hollies.
Cost: € 80, Lunch included
To book please click here.
In this autumn course we will focus on herbs and preparations that will help to get us prepare for the winter by boosting our immune function and filling our store cupboard with preparations that will help us get through the winter colds. We will make fermented foods, oximels and syrups, as well as tinctures and teas.
Going for a walk through the weeds we will identify and gather common, easy to find plants that are beneficial to our health and safe to use. We will then use what we’ve found for our medicine making.
This will enable you to start filling your home medicine cabinet with home made natural products for coughs, colds, digestive problems, skin disorders, fatigue, first aid or simply promoting general health.
The workshops later in the year will focus on some different preparations.
Herbs have been used for promoting health since the dawn of humanity. Our modern society seems to have lost much of the knowledge about those remedies and is pushing us to hand over the responsibility for our health to the professionals. This course could be a beginning for you in taking care of your and your family’s’ health – while still getting professional help for more serious issues.
October
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
10 – 4 pm
Cost: € 80 Venue: The Hollies Centre
Tutor: Thomas Riedmuller
To book please click here.
Learn how to create and maintain harmony in your family and other close relationships. This course will include skills such as Non-Violent Communication and Non-Defensive Communication. It is helpful for negotiating boundaries, organising home life, and increasing lightness and fun in spite of perceived problems.
This full day course offers you practical exercises and time for reflection to help you learn new ways of communicating, de-escalating conflicts and creating more harmonious relationships.
Thomas will facilitate learning from the experiences of other course participants as well as from himself. There will be also be opportunities for deepening the learning through role play as a way of practising these skills in every day life.
November
2 – 6 p.m.
Cost: € 60
A mindfulness day designed to help you tune into the healing power of nature. This workshop will include exploring our large labyrinth and practising different
types of walking meditation.
The labyrinth at The Hollies, nestled in a woodland between rocky outcrops, is inspired by the 12th century pattern at the heart of the cathedral in Chartres
(France).
More opportunities for walking our labyrinth will be offered for special events that can be booked by e-mailing us
info (at) thehollies.ie
or by phone 023 8847001
Cost: €80
10 – 4 pm
Venue: The Hollies Centre
Tutor: Thomas Riedmuller
To book please click here.
This full day course offers you practical exercises and time for reflection to help you learn new ways of communicating, de-escalating conflicts and creating more harmonious relationships.
It will include skills such as Non-Violent Communication (Rosenberg) and family conference (Gordon). It is helpful for negotiating boundaries, organising home life, and increasing lightness and fun in spite of problems. You can attend on your own or bring your partner and/or teenagers along.
Thomas Riedmuller facilitates learning from the experiences of other course participants as well as from himself.
Exclusive workshops for your family alone can be arranged outside of these dates.
Interested teenagers can come along on the adult workshops. For families with younger children we recommend to plan this ahead of time for a fine tuned workshop design.
Cost: € 70 pp (lunch, tea/coffee included) discounts available if you bring your family
Please book directly through Niamh.
Email: [email protected]
Household remedies for common ailments.
Cost: € 80, Lunch included
To book please click here.
In this winter course we will focus on preparations made from herbs, spices and foods that are commonly found in a household .
We will explore how they can help us to get through winter colds, digestive upsets, cystitis, aches and pains, minor injuries and more.
We will also head out for a foraging walk to see what medicinal plants are available even in winter.
From cold- bannishing teas to flu-fighting soup, spice-infused oils and ointments for chilblains, sore muscles and joints, honey preparations for sore throats and other infections, remedies for indigestion and more.
Herbs have been used for promoting health since the dawn of humanity. Our modern society seems to have lost much of the knowledge about those remedies and is pushing us to hand over the responsibility for our health to the professionals. This course could be a beginning for you in taking care of your and your family’s’ health – while still getting professional help for more serious issues.
