“I have had two significant opening experiences in my life, one of them following a Wilderness Quest.”
- International Meditation Teacher following a quest with Regenco
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“Let us be thankful for Regenco because they really care. The community is still feeling the benefit.”
- Organiser Dartmoor Youth Activities Club
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“After 37 years I am no longer afraid of the dark!”
- Gardener, 30+
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“The success of such events, performances and workshops is no accident and is the result of a community based, professional approach which is totally sympathetic to the subject matter.”
- Oz Osbourne, coordinator of the award-winning West Devon Environment Network.
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“Thankyou once more. It has been a truly empowering year and I am now filled with the courage to stand on my own two feet.”
- Student
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“How wonderful that work like this happens, and how perfect that there is a place like this for it to happen in”
- Eric Hodges, gardener, participant in our wilderness quest work
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“I felt the most contented and whole and happy and alive, being with you on the Quest was such a special time, thank you again.”
Secretary 20+
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“The work you offer fosters a care about and understanding of the earth which I wholeheartedly support.”
- Teacher
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“Regenco’s work isn’t just environmental education but also an education in belonging. After many years in this field I am excited to have come across it”
Sustainability Consultant
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“I feel greatly enriched by the experience and would be happy to recommend you and the Quest to anyone.”
- Craftsman, 30+
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“I’m so grateful for Epona and the chance to be involved there”
- Volunteer
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“Thankyou so much. This work has given me exactly what I needed. There really is nothing like a quest!”
a therapist and mentor returning for a second quest after ten years
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“At this time, when we so clearly need to heal the perilous divide between man and Nature, the work of Jeremy Thres and his colleagues provides just such a bridge. I have worked with him twice both individually and in a group and am happy to recommend him”
Alan Heeks, re Transition Consultancy
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“Thank you for providing and facilitating such a wonderful Walkabout experience! I have returned to Schumacher feeling more alive, more peaceful and much more enthused! It was most certainly the kind of healing retreat that I desperately needed.”
- Melanie, Msc student
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“I have been on many journeys, most far longer than this, yet this one took me furthest. It was also one of the hardest, but then the hardest are always the best.”
Previous trainee
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“I am continually amazed at the depth of this work.”
- Trainee
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Returning to work I find I have gained a great deal from the quest. I felt very safe in your hands.”
Businessman 40+
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"I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and providing me with the opportunity to do a quest. All the dreams, meetings with important strangers, places and just general magic it seemed to feed in myself. I wouldn’t have missed it for all the world. Everyone should do one!”
- youth worker writing seven years on
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“Nature is the healer, the wisdom keeper and the inspiration and working with Jeremy you couldn't be in better hands.”
- Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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“It was truly amazing. The strong holding enabled me to look with new insight to the past and an eye to the future and most of all to appreciate what it is to be really alive!”
- Bushcraft facilitator/youth worker, re The Conscious Practice of Living and Dying
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“Thankyou. You have given us an experience that touched our hearts. I will always remember it.”
- Vitali, Russion Physicist, 40+
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“For me it sort of confounded my rational mind. It provided an experience deep enough and wide enough to suddenly find I’d let myself fall into it. What happened there was utterly simple and had the unerring feeling of truth. It was like a good bath: at first before I came, I didn’t know if I could be bothered to get undressed - afterwards I felt thoroughly refreshed. And with a new conviction that I chose to follow.”
- Community Project officer
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"Thankyou for guiding me with such care, enthusiasm and insightfulness. I feel as if my reach has been extended, that I see further - or in a wider arc of vision."
- Child Psychologist 50+
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“I cannot thank you enough. I feel truly humbled & privileged both for a wonderful experience & just to be alive on this earth”
- Homeopath 40+
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“I’m so grateful for this land, I have gained so much through my time working here at Epona”
- International WWOOFER(willing worker on organic farms)
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“Thankyou so so much, it was the best outing we’ve had”
- Child from local primary school
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“WalkAbout was definitely the highlight of my summer.”
- WalkAbout participant
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"The walk was wonderful. I was so grateful for the variety of invitations you initiated...I loved your inclusion of story. it just made my heart sing to have mythic tales recounted whilst in nature. It is something I would definitely do again, ideally longer if time would allow."
- Community artist, re a WalkAbout in South Devon
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“I'm glad I trusted my intuition in taking the time to come and work with you. I believe that it was more than a good time (though it was that also). I trust that part of it will stay with me, and I like the personal changes I've felt as a result of the quest. Of course these are small changes now, but they may make a tremendous difference some months and years down the road.”
- Research Physicist, Belgium
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“Thanks again for such a great few days. It was really really good and gave me just what I needed. Ten out of ten!”
- Student
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“Thankyou, you have helped me more than you will know”
- musician and lover of life, Bristol.
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“I want to express my gratitude, a deep gratitude, to you and your work. Not only is it resourcing but it is also very re-affirming of individual potential, beauty and harmony with that of which we are so connected to. I find the work with you taps into a source of inspiration, creativity, love and potential as well as fear, darkness and shadows. So much richness yet so simple.”
- Student, now student adviser
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“It’s amazing. I didn’t realise the depth of what I was doing on the Quest, and what it meant for my own healing.”
- Therapist, 30+
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“It was wonderful. It enabled me to put behind me and move on from a whole stage in my life.”
Professional musician, 40+
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“I enjoyed the whole thing. It’s great to have the opportunity to get outdoors with like minded people, to know that the north, the south, the east and the west are more than just points of the compass. Fair wind to you”
- College Student
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“It’s amazing to me the depth of healing I get from this work. I’ve got so many challenges in my life at this time, but I feel ready to return to them now and feel so incredibly refreshed.”
- Community project worker
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“I loved it, really loved it, and had a brilliant time. I felt as if I’d had a month’s holiday!”
- Walkabout participant
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“Never have I felt so close to my inner peace and so deeply interconnected to all that surrounded me.”
- Walkabout participant