We help break down patterns of isolation and fear to pave the way for more peaceful, creative, happy lives.
We believe knowing who you are and makes you tick is vital to the healing process. We support individuals and communities to identify what is needed to lead a healthy, peaceful life.
Our events and retreats offer space, time and highly skilled support to explore life in all its challenge and beauty.
Rite to Freedom’s work is born from lived experience. The teams who lead our work share decades of challenging life experiences. We know well the barriers and struggles in life and how we can transform these into our greatest strengths.
We believe that everyone should have equal access to supportive communities and opportunities to learn healthy ways of expressing and untangling confusing life stories. We offer access to some of the most beautiful, wild natural environments in the world and inspiring immersive, creative experiences.
Our Core Aims
To offer nature based experiences and immersive arts activities to build bridges of connection between diverse communities
To offer highly skilled, lived experience support to those experiencing mental and physical health challenges
To increase access to, and deepen people’s connection with, natural environments
To promote meaningful self-expression through the creative process, including but not exclusive to: the written and spoken word, film, photography, music, arts and crafts
To provide positive, authentic, accountable role models
To offer contemporary ‘rites of passage’
To demonstrate the use of story and narrative as a means of transformation
To support and guide the increase of participants’ self-awareness, self-belief and self-compassion
To build stronger communities through inter-generational sharing and mentoring
To shift attitudes away from ‘labels’ and towards ‘stories’
To create a safe space where individuals can explore personal and collective accountabilities
To prioritise engaging with people who are socially excluded, marginalised and would otherwise be unlikely to access or able to access, similar interventions