Winter Light Sessions 2026
Winter Light Sessions 2026 — Boundaries, Consent, Release & Renewal
(plus one cooking class!)
The Winter Light Sessions are back! Four days woven through the heart of winter.
Join me for a group journey in which we’ll share practices, winter walks, beautiful home-cooked healing meals, and somatic exercises that invite us to go a little deeper than we usually dare.
As one year comes to a close and another begins, we’ll use this natural threshold to explore boundaries, closure, and the deeper meaning of true consent. In order to give a wholehearted yes in life, we also need to have access to a genuine no, which we own and can truly hold. And yet, how often do we find ourselves saying yes when something in us is quietly disagreeing? Perhaps we want to please and prioritise the needs of the other. Perhaps we haven’t quite listened to ourselves. There are so many ways in which we can move away from ourselves without even noticing.
Together, through EFT and gentle somatic practices, we’ll explore what happens when we begin to listen more closely. To notice the subtle signals of the body, that helps us recognise where we override our deeper truth. Together, through EFT tapping on the body’s meridian points, and through gentle somatic practices, we’ll explore what happens when we begin to listen in more closely. We’ll explore conflict not simply as something to avoid, but as a potential pathway to greater intimacy — an opportunity to understand ourselves and each other more deeply.
We’ll draw on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to explore what lies underneath our reactions and how we can express what we really need without blame. We’ll also use clean language to help us become more precise about our inner experience and what we actually want to communicate.
And through systemic constellation work, we’ll have the opportunity to look beyond the immediate situation and explore some of the wider relational and family patterns that may shape how we respond to boundaries, conflict, belonging and intimacy.
But most of all, these Winter Light Sessions are about community. About sharing the winter months in good company. About gathering around a table, walking together through the winter landscape, sharing what is alive for us, and discovering that there is something deeply healing about being witnessed and supported by others. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, winter belongs to the Water element- which governs the kidneys and the reserves of the vital energy we carry within us. Winter invites us to conserve, listen inward and to protect what is precious- this is what we’ll do.
There will be space to reflect, to rest and laugh, to eat well and tap, to walk, and simply to be together. A place to pause, to reconnect with yourself, and to remember that whatever you are moving through, you don’t have to move through it alone.
What we’ll do together
Each day runs from 10:00 to 17:00. We’ll have group sharings, coaching, EFT and somatic exercises, a delicious home-cooked lunch, and — weather and mood permitting — an afternoon walk through the forest. Each day will end with a closing practice, giving us time to integrate what has moved and to gather it back into the circle. And on the second workshop day, by popular request, we’ll also cook together: a hands-on cooking class where we prepare a delicious seasonal vegan meal to share.
The four days
28th November — Boundaries & True Consent
What does a true yes feel like? And how can you better recognise and feel in the body, when you disagree? How to become aware of it? How to dare expressing it? So many of us have learned, early in life to override our own signals. This day is an invitation to begin gently unlearning that — through feeling, exercises, EFT tapping, somatic exploration, and the support of the group. We’ll look at people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and the places where we may have stopped trusting ourselves. And we’ll begin to explore what becomes possible when we listen to the body before automatically saying yes.
We’ll also begin to explore how we communicate our boundaries.
Using elements of Nonviolent Communication and clean language, we’ll practise finding words for what we actually feel, need and want — so that saying no doesn’t have to mean rejecting the other person. We’ll explore the difference between a boundary and a rejection, between staying connected and abandoning ourselves, and what it means to own our decisions while remaining in relationship. Step out of this day owning your decisions more firmly — and with a little more trust in what your body is telling you.
13th December — Letting Go & The Nourished Body (+Vegan cooking class)
Just before the year closes, we make space.
We’ll use two of the most grounding things there are — tapping and cooking — to explore what we are still carrying, what we are ready to release, and what it means to truly nourish ourselves.
The morning will be devoted to EFT tapping on the things that may still be asking for attention: old patterns, regrets, unfinished business, the difficulty of owning our “no”, or simply the weight of a year lived.
Through systemic constellation work, we’ll have an opportunity to gently explore some of these deeper patterns and ask:
What am I carrying that may not actually be mine?
What belongs to me, and what have I inherited, absorbed or taken on in order to belong?
Then we’ll come together in the kitchen to prepare our lunch as part of the session — a hands-on seasonal vegan cooking class.
In the afternoon, we’ll turn towards nourishment in a deeper sense: receiving care and allowing ourselves to be nourished. We’ll look at the relationship between self-worth and how we nourish ourselves, and the difference between what genuinely sustains us and what we have learned to consume out of habit.
What are you still carrying that was never truly yours? And what would it feel like to put some of it down?
16th January — Inviting the New
Welcoming the New Year and honouring the depth of the winter, we’ ll explore the resistance, self-doubt and old stories that can keep us from moving towards what we long for in our life: the “not yet, not you, not possible… “. Through somatic work and gentle creative practice, we’ll make space for your voice and how can you take steps towards creating the life you want. Give your attention to in the year ahead, what kind of support will help you bring it into the world? We’ll also explore what happens when we begin to speak from that deeper place — and what gets in the way. Sometimes the difficulty isn’t knowing what we want. It’s allowing ourselves to say it, ask for it, and let ourselves be seen wanting it. Drawing on clean language and NVC, we’ll explore how we can give language to what is emerging without immediately talking ourselves out of it.
6th February — Coming Home: Belonging & Integration and Celebration!
The final day is about bringing it all together. After three days of exploring boundaries, release and renewal, we turn towards the place where all of this becomes possible: relationship. How do we stay connected to ourselves while remaining connected to others? How do we belong without abandoning ourselves? How can we receive support, and how can we offer it? We’ll revisit some of the practices and themes from our time together, noticing what has shifted, what has become clearer, and what we want to carry forward.
What’s included
All sessions are facilitated by me — Irene Nolte, holistic practitioner, EFT therapist, and author of A Healing Map. Seasonal meals are provided each day (I cook — people tend to love this part! :). We walk together in the countryside each afternoon. You leave each day with a recorded tapping sequence to continue the work at home. The group is small by design. This work asks for safety and intimacy, and that requires knowing everyone in the room.
There will be plenty of space for sharing, for listening, for walking, for eating together and for simply enjoying one another’s company. And perhaps most importantly, we’ll take time to celebrate the circle we’ve created. Healing and connection happens best in community!
Investment
Full Winter Light Sessions — 640€
Four days woven together as one journey.
Early bird — 560€ Register here!
Book the full series before 8th October 2026.
Early bird payment plan — 5 x 120€ Register here!
Available when you book the full series before 8th October 2026.
A note about the payment plan: This is a payment plan for the full Winter Light journey rather than four separate day bookings. When you choose this option, you are committing to the complete four-day circle and your place is reserved for all four sessions. If you are unable to attend one of the days, the payment remains due, although I will of course share the recording and any practices from that day with you.
Single day — 150€
Including a beautiful home-cooked lunch.
Lower income spaces
I would love for these days to be accessible to people who genuinely feel called to join, regardless of their financial circumstances. A small number of community places at €460 for the full series are therefore available for those for whom the regular price would be a real stretch. If this would make it possible for you to take part, please get in touch with me. There is no need to explain or justify your circumstances — simply let me know.
Location
Centre Ressourcements, Overijse — a beautiful, quiet space just outside Brussels, easy to reach by car or public transport.
To register or ask a question:
📩 info@irenenolte.com
I look forward to spending this winter with you.
With warmth,
Irene