The Nature of Coming Home Retreat (All inclusive)

Erasmus+ Wellbeing Course for Educators

A five-day experiential programme designed to help teachers strengthen personal resilience, prevent burnout and bring sustainable wellbeing practices into their professional and everyday lives.

The Nature of Coming Home is a slow, green retreat for teachers who feel the pull to step back, to breathe, to slow down, and to reconnect with the parts of themselves that everyday life tends to crowd out.

This is a space to:

• – Rest without a strict agenda.
• – Reconnect with your own rhythm.
• – Create with your hands (cooking, blending, painting).
• – Share honestly with a small circle of people.
• – Leave with something real, a ritual, a letter, a habit, not just a memory.

Details:

• Eligible participants: teachers, professors and education professionals.
• Duration: 5 training days.
• Language: English.
• Certificate of participation.
• Erasmus+ organisational documentation available.

Learning outcomes: 

• participants will be able to recognise personal and professional sources of stress;

• apply practical self-regulation and restorative techniques;
  
• develop sustainable wellbeing rituals;
• use reflective and creative methods in educational settings;
• exchange wellbeing practices with educators from other European countries.

Methodology:

The course uses experiential and non-formal learning methods, including guided wellbeing practices, reflective exercises, creative workshops, outdoor learning, peer exchange and facilitated group discussions. Participants actively connect each experience with their professional context and develop practical strategies they can apply in their educational institutions.

Who is this course for?

• primary and secondary school teachers;
• university professors and lecturers;
• school leaders;
• counsellors and education professionals;
• Erasmus+ coordinators.

Tentative Schedule:

• Day 1 – Monday: Arrival in Gornje Međimurje
  Transfer from Zagreb, check-in at the thermal springs, and your first afternoon slowing down, lunch at Sukha House, then a Yoga Nidra session in nature, followed by a quiet dinner back at the hotel.

• Day 2 – Tuesday: Harvest & Connect
  Breakfast, then off to a local family farm to pick your own vegetables. Hands in the soil, no rush. Back at Sukha House, the group cooks lunch together from what was picked. A free afternoon at the thermal springs, then dinner by the Mura river as the sun goes down.
  
• Day 3 – Wednesday: Walk & Ritual
  A morning walk through the countryside to Sukha House, followed by a simple beauty rituals (dry brushing and a facial massage), the kind of self-care to take home. After lunch, a playful musical time machine trip through the decades, then a wine tasting on Mađerka Hill as evening falls.
• Day 4 – Thursday: Into town
  Check out of the thermal springs, transfer into Čakovec, and a walk into its old town. Barefoot on the grass, you blend your own herbal tea, a small ritual to take home. An afternoon freestyle portrait art workshop, then an evening free to explore, closing with dinner in the old town.
• Day 5 – Friday: Full circle
  A morning yoga session to start the day slowly. Then the heart of the week: a letter to your future self, a circle of gratitude with the group, and your certificate. After a relaxed afternoon, the week closes somewhere unexpected: an evening watching birds along the Drava river, part of the “Amazon of Europe” biosphere reserve.
• Day 6 – Saturday

  A slow breakfast, then the transfer back to Zagreb, carrying a little more quiet with you than when you arrived.

  (Full minute-by-minute itinerary available on request / sent after booking.)