Over the years, we have developed a unique and highly effective package that combines debriefing, counselling, and coaching, helping people move from understanding their story to finding a clear way forward. Feedback has consistently highlighted the value of this integrated process, describing it as one that brings together reflection, restoration, and renewed direction.
While many guests benefit from this integrated process, we recognise that everyone’s needs are different. If you are specifically seeking debriefing, counselling, or coaching on its own, we are always happy to work with you to design a programme that best fits your needs and goals.
Debriefing
Debriefing provides a structured space to reflect on your story, recent experiences, and key life transitions. The focus is on making sense of events, identifying key themes, and clarifying “stuck points” or areas that may need further exploration.
This is especially valuable for people who are coming to the end of an assignment or have been through a recent transition, trauma or significant event. This can be a stand-alone process in itself, or a helpful starting point for deeper work.
Counselling
Counselling offers a safe, confidential space to explore emotional difficulties in greater depth. This may include processing traumatic experiences, early life adversity, anxiety, burnout, or relational and marriage difficulties.
We have specialist expertise in couple therapy, helping partners understand unhelpful interaction patterns, rebuild trust, and strengthen emotional connection. Where appropriate, we also offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), an effective and well-established trauma-focused therapy.
Coaching
Coaching helps translate insight into meaningful and sustainable change. It provides an opportunity to reflect on what has been learned and consolidate important insights. Particular emphasis is placed on discerning next steps and turning new understanding into practical action.
Together, we clarify priorities, identify realistic goals, and develop a plan to support ongoing growth and wellbeing in life, relationships, and work or ministry contexts. The aim is that you leave not only with a deeper understanding of your journey, but also with greater clarity, confidence, and direction for the road ahead.
Marriage Retreat
Life in ministry places significant pressure on any marriage. Amid many competing priorities, spouses can gradually drift apart, sometimes without even realizing it.
Our marriage retreat programme is designed to help married couples enhance their capacity to communicate, deepen their emotional bond and generally revitalize their relationship. This process is particularly helpful for couples who feel they have got stuck in painful and repetitive patterns of relating.
The programme is based on Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT), a thoroughly researched model of couple therapy with well validated and lasting outcomes.
Online Retreat
We are very aware that some people may not have the time or the resources to travel to High Meadow in person.
We are sadly unable at this point to offer programmes for whole families, so we are also mindful that many people with childcare responsibilities would find it hard to get away.
We are therefore happy to talk through the possibility of offering an online retreat. We ask those interested in this option to consider making space in their calendar so that they are taking a full break from their usual work commitments during their High Meadow programme.
Aftercare
We very much hope that the counselling and coaching sessions here will give you the chance to make profound and lasting changes in your life.
It is important to acknowledge, however, that there are limits to how much can be fully resolved and worked through in a limited period of time. We recognise, therefore, that your time at High Meadow Retreat may be the beginning of a longer process.
We will discuss ongoing needs with you while you are here with a view to signposting you to continuing care, where requested.
In order to support you along the way, your retreat package will include a follow-up session three to six months after your stay in order to reflect on the impact of your time here and consider progress with the goals that you identified.
Training
We offer courses on:
- Cross-Cultural Communication Skills
- Coaching Skills for Leaders
- Psychological First Aid
- Created for Connection
All our courses can all be provided online or in-person.
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Confidentiality and Safeguarding
You can be assured that everything you discuss with us at High Meadow will be kept in the strictest confidence. If you would like a report to be sent to your organisation/company, we would be happy to do that with your consent. In accordance with safeguarding legislation and clinical ethics codes, we are legally bound to contact the relevant authorities/medical practitioners if you disclose a serious risk of harm to yourself or others.
Please note that we do not have the facilities or resources to care for people in extreme crisis, so our assessment is partly aimed at establishing whether people would be better served by longer term therapeutic support where they are or, where applicable, a return to their home country.
