MOSSDALE, GALLOWAY · A LIVING PLACE OF LEARNING
The land is
our teacher.
Consciousness work rooted in the land.
Gatherings, stories, cards and a living laboratory.
The Clearing begins in China, December 2026. Join the waiting list for 2027.
Find your place →A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEARNING
Knowing you are nature.
Feeling it for yourself.
The space between those two things is where our work begins.
Return to the same place. Sit down. Say nothing. Do it again tomorrow. After twenty minutes the birds come back. Everything here grows from that practice. At Hensol, we make time to walk, listen, share food and pay attention.
We treat the land as a living participant: growing food, making things together, and bringing the needs of other lives into our decisions.
Land as a living participant →
Meet the work, and the people behind it ↗THE YEAR AHEAD
Three ways in.
01 / IMMERSIONThe Clearing ↗
Step away from the usual pace. Make room for attention, connection and a deeper relationship with the living world.
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02 / THE SEASONSThe Turning Year ↗
Four seasonal gatherings. Return to the same place as light, life and the wood change around you.
Follow the turning year
03 / THE STORIESMossTales ↗
MossTales, a second volume taking shape, and five evenings to gather around the stories hidden in a familiar landscape.
Enter the storyworld
ROOTED HERE
A wood. A barn.
A place to revisit.
At Hensol, our woodland setting sits beside the Loch Ken and River Dee Marshes wetland landscape, within the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere. This is a place of ecological significance, where woodland, open water, reedbeds and wet ground meet.
The marshes are recognised internationally as a Ramsar wetland and Special Protection Area. The River Dee (Parton to Crossmichael) SSSI and nearby Woodhall Loch SSSI protect a rich mosaic of habitats, from wintering waterbirds to fen plants, dragonflies and aquatic insects.
Explore the ecology of this place ↗
THE LETTERS · PAUL CLARKE · OCTOBER 2026
What the Wood Does
With Its Dead.
On leaf fall, fungi, and the part of the year we are taught to look away from.
Read the latest letter →FROM THE WOOD · WEEKLY FIELD NOTES
Something to think with.
What changes when we return?
A small practice for a turning year: choose one place, return to it, and allow the record to become longer than the first impression.
Read this field note →AI-written · clearly attributed · rooted in the themes of our workMORE WAYS TO EXPLORE
The work continues.
Forest Giants
A living wood that grows, competes for light and makes its own sound.
↗The Moth Project
A living laboratory and three public evenings in the woodland.
↗The Symbol Cards
Twenty years of testing. A community tells the story of its place.
↗The Letters
Slow reading for the turning year, including Paul’s latest letter.
↗Listening to the Land
The established five-day immersion at Hensol Wood.
↗The Hermitary
Thirty-six contemplative lives. An interactive card deck.
↗Seasonal Eats
Food from the land, shared around the table.
↗School of Sustainability
Continue the conversation through Paul’s companion website.
↗COME AS YOU ARE
Begin with curiosity.
Find a gathering, join a waiting list, or simply start a conversation.