What’s Coming Up?
Retreats, Seminars, Workshops & More
The Work Creative
I’m co-owner of The Work Creative, a space where self-inquiry, creativity, music, and community come together to support deep personal exploration and transformation. I co-create and facilitate this work in collaboration with Eimear Crehan.
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The Work Creative is built around Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction (The Work of Byron Katie), enriched with live music, reflection, and shared experience in a supportive environment.
It brings together structured inquiry and creative expression to create spaces where people can slow down, reflect, and engage with their inner experience in a meaningful way.
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This work invites honesty, openness, and a willingness to explore what we believe.
Through guided inquiry, participants begin to question the thoughts that create stress and limitation, allowing space for clarity, presence, and a different way of seeing.
These are active, reflective experiences, not passive ones, where you are supported to engage deeply with your own thinking, while being held within a community that values connection, creativity, and authenticity.
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The Work Creative is designed to support ongoing practice beyond a single retreat or session.
It offers opportunities to return to inquiry in different formats, deepen understanding over time, and integrate this way of working into everyday life, so the insights gained can continue to unfold long after the event itself.
Time In, Time Out
The Work Creative - Retreats
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Inis Oírr Retreat (Full)
1–4 May 2026 (in-person)
This four-day retreat on Inis Oírr invites you to slow down, settle into presence, and explore the heart of inquiry in a deeply embodied way. Grounded in The Work of Byron Katie and woven together with live music, meditation, and shared reflection, this retreat creates a spacious container for inner clarity and transformation. With time for sea swims, walks, shared meals, and silent reflection, the rhythm of island life supports a gentle yet profound unfolding of insight.
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Bundoran Retreat
4–7 June 2026 (in-person)
This weekend retreat brings together inquiry, voice, and community in the wild beauty of Bundoran, County Donegal. Alongside Eimear Crehan and special guest Dr Easkey Britton, we explore how thought, emotion, and connection shape experience, including a session focused on the wisdom of water and an ocean immersion. Expect guided inquiry sessions, creative expression, deep listening, and shared reflection that open space for new ways of seeing and relating.
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Amsterdam Retreat
25–28 June 2026 (in-person)
Set in the peaceful surroundings of Waaldijk, this retreat blends inquiry, singing, and reflection to support clarity, connection, and emotional freedom. Each day flows with rhythm and ease, inquiry sessions, vocal exploration, time in nature, nourishing food, and meaningful conversation. This weekend offers a chance to pause from everyday life and reconnect with your inner truth through practice, creativity, and community.
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Inis Oírr 7 Day Retreat
This immersive seven-day retreat on Inis Oírr offers space for deep rest, inquiry, and transformation. Combining structured inquiry, creative expression, music, and shared reflection, this extended retreat gives you time to slow your pace, open your heart, and let the work move through you. The island’s rhythms; sea swims, morning practices, silent walks, shared meals, and song, support a holistic experience of presence, insight, and renewal.
Freedom Friday
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Freedom Friday is a short, focused online session designed to support ongoing practice in Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction.
It provides a consistent space to return to the work in a simple and accessible format, alongside others on a similar path.
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Each session begins with a short meditation, followed by guided inquiry into a chosen theme or real-life experience.
Participants are invited to explore their thinking in a supported group setting, allowing for both personal insight and shared reflection.
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A 60-minute live online session
Guided meditation and inquiry
Group reflection and optional sharing
A calm, supportive environment for practice
Freedom Friday is a space to maintain consistency in your practice, reconnect with clarity, and experience the benefits of returning to inquiry regularly.
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Apr 10, 2026 09:30 AM
Apr 24, 2026 09:30 AM
May 8, 2026 09:30 AM
May 22, 2026 09:30 AM
June 12th 2026 09:30 AM
Time: 9:30–10:30AM IST (Online)
Price: €10–€15
Freedom Friday is a one-hour online practice space for those familiar with The Work, offering a regular opportunity to pause, reflect, and reconnect through guided meditation and inquiry.
Iceberg Sessions
Iceberg Sessions are focused, day-long gatherings designed for those who have already experienced The Work Creative and wish to go deeper into specific themes through inquiry, reflection, and shared practice.
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Iceberg Sessions are immersive, in-depth sessions that explore a single theme such as shame, body, or grief.
They are designed to go beyond what is possible in a retreat setting, allowing space to slow down and work more closely with a particular area of experience.
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Each session combines guided inquiry, live music, group reflection, and shared exploration.
Participants engage in both individual reflection and group connection, supported within a safe and structured environment that encourages honesty, openness, and curiosity.
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A typical Iceberg Session includes:
Guided inquiry sessions
Live music and reflective practices
Time for walking, shared meals, and informal connection
A full day held in a supportive group container
These sessions offer a grounded yet expansive space to revisit the work, deepen understanding, and uncover new layers of insight.
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Grief
April 17–18, 2026Day 1: 7:30–9:30PM (Online)
Day 2: 9:30AM–7:30PM (Trim)
Price: €195 / €175
MedMind
I’m co-owner of MedMind, a space where self-inquiry and current medical insights come together to provide powerful awareness and inquiry of thoughts and beliefs and practical, evidence-based information about health. I co-create and facilitate this work in collaboration with General Practitioner, Dr Brendan O’Shea.
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Tackling health and disease-related topics such as obesity & overweight, cancer, death & dying, pain, carers of people with dementia, this approach combines:
Self-inquiry sessions exploring negative core beliefs, stress, shame and fears
Medical sessions on disease/health issue, current treatments and medications as well as how to negotiate the healthcare system
The curriculum is delivered through a range of interactive teaching styles and formats, drawing on the experience, expertise and deep professional interest of Nadine and Brendan, and on their shared experiences in teaching and published research.
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A deeper, evidence-based understanding, including the latest medical insights on risks, causes, and effective interventions.
Practical experience in The Work (Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction), enabling participants to identify and question limiting beliefs about body, health, and self-worth.
Personalised clarity and compassion through guided inquiry and reflection, helping to reframe your own emotional narratives.
A set of realistic, actionable steps to support ongoing health, wellbeing, and informed choices, for oneself, a loved one, or in a healthcare setting.
Enhanced confidence in navigating the healthcare system, and strong advocacy for compassionate, stigma-free, evidence-based care.
Upcoming Sessions
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Obesity & Overweight
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Surviving Cancer
13 September 2026, 10am – 6pm, Dublin (in-person)
Hosted by: Seminars.ie*Not yet live on site, click below to register interest
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Carers of people living with dementia
8 November 2026, 10am – 6pm, Dublin (in-person)
Hosted by: Seminars.ie
Price: €80 - €150
*Not yet live on site, click below to register interest
MedMind Workshops
Beyond the Scales – Rethinking Overweight
23–25 October 2026 — The Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare (in-person)
An immersive two-day workshop combining current medical understanding of overweight and obesity with self-inquiry (The Work of Byron Katie), facilitated by Dr Nadine Ferris France and Prof Brendan O’Shea. This program integrates evidence-based medical insight with reflective inquiry to explore not only the physical aspects of weight, but also the emotional narratives, beliefs, and self-perceptions that influence wellbeing and self-worth.
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A facilitated, in-person workshop designed to bring together medical expertise and self-inquiry practices in a structured, interactive environment. It offers a space to explore weight and health through both a clinical and reflective lens, supporting a more complete and compassionate understanding of obesity.
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The workshop blends:
Interactive medical sessions grounded in current research and clinical practice
Guided inquiry using The Work (Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction)
Group reflection and shared discussion in a supportive setting
Participants move between learning, reflection, and experiential inquiry to engage both the mind and the lived experience of their beliefs.
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A clearer, evidence-based understanding of overweight and obesity and effective approaches to care
Practical experience using self-inquiry to question limiting beliefs about body, health, and identity
Greater clarity, compassion, and confidence to support your own wellbeing or that of others, along with actionable steps for moving forward
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This workshop is suitable for:
Individuals navigating their own weight or health challenges
Those supporting a partner, family member, or loved one
Healthcare professionals or practitioners working with people affected by obesity
Anyone interested in understanding the intersection of medicine, mindset, and self-worth
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A highly interactive and experiential weekend that includes:
Medical teaching sessions
Guided self-inquiry exercises
Group dialogue and reflection
Opportunities for personal exploration in a safe, supportive environment
The process is designed to be both informative and transformative, combining structured learning with lived experience
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Prof Brendan O’Shea is a GP with over 35 years of clinical experience and Professor in Public Health & Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin. He has extensive experience in obesity research and medical education, including doctoral research on childhood obesity and leadership within national obesity programmes. His work focuses on evidence-based care, patient-centred practice, and improving outcomes for people living with obesity.
Dr Nadine Ferris France is a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie (Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction) and holds a PhD focused on internal stigma and shame. She facilitates workshops and retreats internationally, specialising in self-inquiry, belief work, and supporting individuals to question limiting thoughts around identity, health, and self-worth. Her background includes international development and global health, with a focus on stigma-related issues.
Together, they bring a complementary approach that integrates medical science with deep self-inquiry, creating a balanced and supportive learning environment.
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Location: The Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Dates: 23–25 October 2026
Format: In-person weekend workshop
Cost: €550 (student/unwaged €450)
Accommodation & Meals: Not included (hotel rooms and nearby accommodation available and recommended)
Previous Workshops
Press Pause Retreat on Lambay Island
An off-grid retreat on private Lambay Island, just off the Dublin coast, combining reflection, creativity and connection. Inspired by Byron Katie’s practice, guests took part in workshops, music, walks, optional sea swims and shared island living. With luxury accommodation, chef-prepared meals and the peaceful energy of the island, the retreat offered space to reset, reflect and return renewed.
7-day Press Pause Retreat in Bali
A transformational 7-day retreat in beautiful Ubud, Bali, that included The Work of Byron Katie, yoga, nutrition and health coaching, along with locally available therapies such as sound healing and Esalen massage. It gave guests the opportunity to dive deeply into themselves, their mind, body and spirit, while nurturing all parts of themselves and learning practical, long-lasting tools for self-care.
Check out a video from our 2018 Press Pause Retreat to get a real feel for a glance inside the retreat