The SENSE Retreat
A sensory sanctuary for deep feelers, thinkers, and seekers.
Are you someone who experiences the world deeply - feeling, thinking, and sensing with depth and intuition? Do you often find yourself moved by beauty, truth, and energy? Are you empathetic, imaginative, and deeply sensitive?
Do you yearn for deeper meaning and feel called to live a purposeful, creative, and healing life? Maybe you carry powerful gifts - intuitive, emotional, or artistic - that have been overlooked, dismissed, or misunderstood?
Are you longing for a space to rest, discover, and truly belong?
If so, you belong here - with us.
This isn’t just a retreat - it’s a movement. You'll leave soothed and empowered, with a clearer sense of self, a supportive new community, and a renewed call to use your sensitivity as a strength - a force for personal and collective transformation.
About Us
The SENSE Retreat is a four-night immersive experience taking place at Broughton Sanctuary in Yorkshire which brings together sensitive souls - those who experience their worlds deeply, noticing the subtle and feeling the depth and meaningfulness of their realities.
We are inclusive.
The SENSE Retreat is a uniquely inclusive offering, created by and for those who experience the world through deep sensitivity. Whether you identify as a ‘highly sensitive person’ (HSP), and /or are neurodivergent (e.g., autistic, ADHD or both (AuDHD), or on a discovery journey to understanding yourself through a new lens. Maybe you identify as an empath, creative, or are simply drawn to depth and authenticity - however you identify you are welcome here.
We celebrate neurodiversity in all its forms and are committed to being a neuroinclusive space. We meet you exactly where you are on your journey - however you identify - you belong here. What matters most is that you feel welcome, seen, and honoured. Together, we’re gathering for a journey of restoration, exploration, and personal empowerment - each of us arriving as we are, with our own way of being, feeling, and sensing in the world.
We are holistic.
As well as fostering capacities of deep intuition, creativity, empathy and perception, we know that depth and sensitivity can come with challenges too – e.g., of being overwhelmed, misunderstood and sometimes experiencing internal shame from hearing life-long flawed messages of your being 'too sensitive' or 'too much'. As such, the SENSE Retreat holds space for all of this, and through a trauma informed, experience sensitive approach gently invites participants into awareness, curiosity and growth - to embrace their innate gifts as talents of beauty and brilliance, for innovation, leadership, healing, and meaningful social change.
We are sensitive.
Designed by a team who experience the world in a deeply sensitive way, this retreat offers everything from restorative solitude to nourishing connection. Through a unique blend of science, somatics, philosophy, creativity and nature-based practices, the retreat provides space for deep rest and also time to embrace sensitivity as a strength, rather than something to fix or suppress. Workshops and immersive experiences will guide you to explore the deeper dimensions of your whole self. Our guests can cultivate self-understanding and self-compassion, while unlocking their unique gifts. Together we will honour our stories, celebrate our sensitivity - and weave a little magic as we ‘sense the future together’ too.
OUR LOCATION
The perfect retreat space is at the multi-award winning Broughton Sanctuary which offers highly sensitive people the optimal conditions for deep rest and rejuvenation whilst they discover their hidden talents to become fully empowered in their sensitivity.
Broughton Sanctuary, Broughton Hall Estate,
Skipton, Yorkshire, BD23 3AE,
United Kingdom
JOIN US
REST
Enjoy sensory sanctuary with us. The SENSE retreat offers profound rest and rejuvenation, respite from a busy world. From sound baths, nature immersion, creativity, to a fire circle guided meditation, along with therapist-led space holding if and when you need it. We welcome you to come home to yourself and feel soothed and held.
DISCOVER
Inquire deeply within as sensitive scholars, practitioners and coaches share their insights. Explore and experiment with your subtle senses and see realtime feedback from the field of consciousness. Give and receive wisdom with others so we develop and synthesise the best ideas and innovations together.
BELONG
Community and collaboration fuelled by stories of real life and experience. SENSE is an opportunity to connect and make aligned friendships, meet and collaborate with thought leaders, influencers and researchers around sensitivity and neuroinclusion. Be part of a movement towards a more sensitive future for all.
OUR MISSION
Through a delicate blend of arts, science and philosophy and embodied practice, we support people who experience the world deeply - feeling, thinking, and sensing with depth and intuition - to embrace their true nature, step into their light and play their important role in a new wave of human flourishing.
By recognising sensitivity as a strength of depth and awareness, you can harness your natural gifts: empathy, creativity, intuition, imagination and heightened perception - and leverage them as an 'innate magic' for positive influence, social change and psycho-spiritual transformation.
