Group programme

Open to anyone, every Wednesday. 
A local guide will lead the activity.

No referral, no waiting list, no commitment required. Someone who decides on a Tuesday that they want to be there on Wednesday can be.
 

The session is built so that most of it does not look like a support group:
 

• Warm-up on the beach — running and stretching to start

• Beach volleyball

• A beach clean — collecting rubbish along the shore

• Helping the fishermen with the boats and the catch

• Yoga and meditation

• A reflection session led by a monk

• Talking together — where people say where they are, and work through it with each other rather than being advised
   

The physical and useful parts are not a warm-up act for the talking. Doing something ordinary alongside other people, in public, is most of what changes how a person sees their own week — and a beach clean is a reason to be out in the morning that nobody has to explain to their family.
 

Some of this draws on Buddhist practice, including meditation and the reflection sessions. It is here because it works and because it is familiar in these towns, not because we ask anyone to adopt it.
Every activity is optional, the group is open to people of any faith and none, and nothing we offer depends on taking part.
 

Before someone attends for the first time they have a short private conversation with the facilitator — ten minutes, the questionnaire, and an explanation of how the group works. Nobody is turned away from the group on the basis of it. It exists so that no one walks into the room without knowing what they are walking into, and so that someone who needs medical care is told so.