Takeaway #1: Presence

Before starting each session such as gardening, logging, kitchen or the morning check-in we held hands, very unBritish I know, and focused on who was there and what was happening around us.

This proved an effective way of dropping the thoughts or chatter leading up to the moment and homing in onto where we were.

I remember during large Embercombe sessions people silently raised their hand when ready to participate, simple but equally effective.


Nowadays we multi-task, play with our phones, looking around and getting distracted from the moment, anything but focus.

So whilst hand-holding might get me arrested at the Asda check-out till, I'll be inserting that pause to see how Erraid goes down in Zone 1 & 2.