The Bridge is five-day personal development experience which offers life transformation through deep healing. The Bridge unfolds in three phases:

1. The Past
In order to fully inhabit the present moment, you go back in time to complete unfinished business, such as unresolved family and ancestral wounding, negative school experiences, missed life opportunities and significant losses. You are safely supported to fully grieve, let go and move beyond your negative past.

2. The Present
In this phase you address powerful internal blocks, defence strategies and self limiting beliefs that prevent you from moving forward. These blocks may be related to your self-worth, relationships, career, money, boundaries or life purpose and you will explore your capacity to give and receive love. You are skilfully guided to become wholly present to your life and your world.

3. The Future
Through fresh-eyes you allow a new way to be present to yourself and your life. With a fully open heart you feel able to access your inner wisdom and trust in Universal support. This phase focuses on integration, gratitude and being in service. You leave unencumbered by the myth of thoughts; embodying a place of trust, truth and love.

Each of these three phases merge seamlessly together, using a powerful mixture of silence, catharsis, meditation, visualisation, witnessing, ritual, expressive breath and body work, movement, dance, touch and the healing power of love.

Participants are lovingly guided through a beautifully choreographed series of experiences, with the aim of processing deeply-held emotions, in order to remove unconscious blocks that prevent us from living an authentically joyful life. You are asked to leave your cellphones, computers and handheld devices with us, and use these five days as a digital detox to assist with your healing work.

WHO IS THE BRIDGE SUITABLE FOR?
People who recognise they have unprocessed emotions holding them back in life

People who have experienced loss of any kind including divorce and separation, bereavements, loss of innocence, betrayals of trust, identity, health, empty nest syndrome and missed opportunities

Anyone who feels they are not living their life’s true purpose

Those who feel blocked or hijacked by their life experiences and conditioning

Those for whom life feels out of balance and yearn for something more

Those who are ready and willing to work deeply for their own healing

People who believe there is a bigger picture to life and existence

People who have already done some therapeutic work and have a sense of a spiritual connection

People who wish to end the searching and recognise that peace comes from within.
It is possible to share The Bridge experience together with a significant other. Examples of this can be partners, mother and daughter, father and son, friends and siblings. To share such a deep emotional experience together can be incredibly healing for all types of intimate relationships.

Whether you are experiencing stress, burn out, depression, anxiety, grief, over work, joylessness, low energy, lack of direction or blocks to your creativity…
The Bridge has something to offer you.

BENEFITS OF THE BRIDGE
These may include:

Identifying and releasing the conscious and unconscious blocks that have prevented you knowing and reaching your full potential in life

A safe space to grieve and move on from life’s losses as a route to unwrapping your true positive self

Time for yourself to slow down, rest, reflect and launch the life changes that you desire

The healing power of community and how to bring this connection into your everyday life

Understand love in all of its facets; embodying love, living in love and being truly open to giving and receiving love

Breaking free from the myth of thoughts and explore living from a true and authentic place

Integration of the ‘wounded’ parts of yourself together with your own wise, intuitive and loving self

Remembering the bigger picture of existence and recognise the gifts within your life experiences

Returning to your true self and be able to live authentically, in peace and love

Donna Lancaster
Donna has been working with individuals, couples and groups for over twenty years. She originally trained as a social worker, specialising in child protection and worked extensively within this and related fields for ten years.

Donna is an experienced group facilitator and trained in Advanced Facilitation. She has designed and delivered numerous accredited courses on a range of subjects and delivered these courses internationally in a wide variety of environments including women’s refuges, schools and prisons.

In 2007 Donna qualified as a Hoffman Teacher with the Hoffman Institute UK and became a Supervising Hoffman Teacher in 2009. She then went onto become their Head of Teaching between 2011–2013.

Donna completed the Imago Relationship Clinical Training Programme in 2009 and also trained with the Centre for Systemic Constellations in 2014 to support her work in appreciating and honouring the ancestral influences and dynamics. Her work is heavily influenced by the teachings of David Richo and Sobonfu Some.

Donna is passionate about the subject of grief and the grieving process which she believes offers the missing link for many in their search for wholeness. This interest stemmed from her own very personal experience of ‘depression’ which she suffered from for many years, and now knows to have in fact been unprocessed grief.

In her private London practice and on The Bridge, Donna uses a variety of approaches including ancient ritual practices to support people to grieve and move on from their losses. These losses can include bereavements, divorce and separation, loss of innocence, betrayals of trust, identity, empty nest syndrome and lost opportunities.

‘Through allowing and supporting the natural order of the grieving process to flow, people find themselves remembering who they really are and living from this true place. When there is ‘unfinished business’ in our lives, it is very hard to move on and engage with life fully. Grieving allows us to cross the bridge from past hurts and sorrow into a place of lightness and joy.’

Donna Lancaster
For more information about Donna and her work:
www.donnalancaster.co.uk

Gabi Krueger
Gabi is looking back at 20 years of work in the field of self-development and healing. She is a ITEC quallified Holistic Therapist with a history of Energy Healing and Aromatherapy. She also studied Transpersonal Psychology with IAPP, Düsseldorf, Germany and holds a qualification as an Advanced Counsellor with IAPP with a strong focus on Jungian Psychology, body based approaches of Wilhelm Reich and Bioenergetics by Alexander Lowen.

During her years of living in Singapore she was fortunate to study and practise various buddhist approaches and was a student at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery. From 2000 until 2005 she ran her own coaching practice in Bahrain, her place of residency at the time. During this time Gabi especially enjoyed organising and delivering lectures and hosting workshops on various transpersonal topics, eg. East meets West, understanding our being through ancient Chakra philosophies and western psychology, sacred contracts, archetypes, meditation, vibrational medicine, etc.

Upon her return to Europe in 2006 she trained and worked as a Hoffman teacher in the UK and the Middle East. She was promoted to Supervising Teacher in 2012. Gabi has also received training in the following modalities: Imago Therapy, NVC by Marshal Rosenberg, Trauma Training Peter Levine, NLP and more. Her work has been inspired by the work of Angeles Arrien PH.D., cultural anthropologiest, Carolyn Myss and David Richo just to name a few.

“In my work, I often wondered why it was so difficult to change and heal in order to find purpose and lasting happiness. Over the years I came to believe that what we most long for is to find and integrate our spiritual identity. It is my interest and passion to give people a broader understanding of the overall human experience and especially our mystical nature, so that we can than view life´s struggles as a temporary transformational crisis leading us into authenticity and wholeness. On The Bridge, we enter into this dialogue to allow your spirit to reveal the true story of your life!”

Gabi Krueger

Testimonials:

"Totally and utterly mind-blowing. I went to the Bridge hoping to heal the sadness I was feeling following the break up of my marriage but it was only when I got there that I started to understand how my emotional life was still hanging under the big cloud of my mum’s death when I was a child, age 9. All that long-repressed grief was having a massive knock-on effect, amplifying every subsequent loss including my divorce." Queen of Retreats (http://queenofretreats.com/)

“It produced in me an effect that the greatest artists can only hope for — rich epiphanies and insights, and the most intense catharsis… I feel alive.”
Nirpal Dhaliwal , The Sunday Times

“I am able to look at my life and where I am going to, with ‘healthy eyes’ now. No longer an ‘adult teenager’, I truly feel like, thanks to The Bridge, I have finally grown up.”
Sarah Beckwith
“I learnt so much about myself and the world and it was a joy to be in such wise and capable hands. I’d love everyone to be able to benefit from the truly magical experience of The Bridge.”
Cathy Rentzenbrink , Best selling author of ‘The Last Act of Love’.
“Sometimes I don’t think but just do and that is what I did when I signed up for The Bridge Retreat. It was the best decision of my life for my soul. So beautifully put together. Since attending I feel so much lighter and less stressful. It made me think about my life and what I want to change. It’s really offered me a new beginning.”
Monique Bleeker , Art Director
“The Bridge offered me an incredibly loving & healing week. Before the retreat and after my relationship break up I had felt depressed & thought how could I ever trust people again. Afterwards I have found that the experience has really restored my faith in human kind!”
Lucy Buxton
“The experience woke up a part of my soul that had laid dormant in fear and I will never forget the awakening and the love at The Bridge. Donna and Freddy are healing earth angels and with every retreat they complete, I believe they are healing the world’s collective grief… Understanding the importance of finding your tribe and integrating rituals into our daily lives has made my experience here on earth, infinitely more beautiful and never lonely.”
Alessi Laurent-Marke , Singer-Song Writer
“Donna is an incredible woman, she has so much love, compassion and warmth mixed with a huge dose of knowledge and understanding.”
Lisa Butcher , Model and TV Presenter
“It produced in me an effect that the greatest artists can only hope for — rich epiphanies and insights, and the most intense catharsis… I feel alive.”
Nirpal Dhaliwal , The Sunday Times
“Donna Lancaster is one of the most inspiring people I know… It might just be the best time, effort and money you will ever spend.”
Thandie Newton , Actor and Director | Read Article
“ONE YEAR ON – HEALING MY INNER CRITIC… The one HUGE change for me was something that I didn’t even go in for. My entire life I have felt like I live with this ‘bit of a dick’ roommate in my head. The one that tells you, you’re not good enough, that angrily berates you for doing stupid stuff, like locking yourself out of your house, or losing things. That same asshole who is constantly having a massive go at you for ‘being late’ ‘being fat’ ‘being slow’. Basically a roommate that’s a pain in the butt to live with and ALWAYS around. Well that roommate has finally moved out. And what I am left with is this soft voice, one who encourages me, tells me that I am doing really well, that has a laugh at how forgetful I am when I lose my keys, or leave money hanging out of an ATM and weirdly enough, this roommate gets WAY better results because of it. Those 5 days at The Bridge have ultimately been the best gift I have ever given to myself.”
Bexy Cameron , Academic and Film Maker
“I admire Donna Lancaster as a person of great integrity and compassion. Her work has depth and healing power. I trust her as a healing guide on our human journey of challenge and joy.”
David Richo , Psychotherapist and Author
“The work of The Bridge is so beautiful..so remarkably profound! It’s an amazing achievement and created with such integrity to sustain a true awakening – not just another band-aid solution. It’s one of the most powerful ways of affecting change in this world. After all the years I’ve spent working in conflict zones around the world, I’m sure of it. Now to get as many people as possible to cross The Bridge! What a world it could be..imagine that!”
Charla Jones
“The Bridge course is truly transformational. Donna and Gabi are inspiring facilitators whose empathy, skill and warmth is far reaching.”
Sharon Walker , Queen of Retreats
“I signed up for the Bridge specifically to come to terms with the ending of a long marriage. In the course of the process I felt able to honour the past and then let go of it. Afterwards I felt so much lighter and happier, it was like taking off a heavy overcoat of grief that had been dragging me down for three years.”
Belinda
“I would sign up for any course conceived by Donna and Gabi because they are wise, insightful, inspiring, empathetic, non-judgemental, extraordinarily experienced and unequalled in the loving way they help clients to recognise and realise the best of ourselves.”
Anonymous
“Through the deep processing work I completed on The Bridge, I realise that now is the time to forgive both myself and others for things that seemed so big and unforgivable. Life is too short to hold onto resentment, anger and bitterness. I know now that I am ready to let it go.”
Nicola
“Disneyland for the soul”
Anonymous
“Outstanding! Gabi and Donna are incredible women who are such role models for society. Even watching them was such a learning for me. They were so openly authentic throughout the whole course and led us on a beautiful journey within. Each step of the way was with such tenderness, respect and love. Gabi’s own self awareness really helped me to discover parts of me that I had ignored all my life. Healing those divides within me has been life changing.”
Gillian Brennan
“I felt very safe being vulnerable in the hands of Gabi and Donna. Two super qualified facilitators who worked with me during The Bridge. I’m truly blessed to have gone through this experience of getting to know myself better.”
Anonymous
“My bridge to self love.”
Annemie
“The Bridge offered me the chance to fully face my losses for the first time in my life. Grief that had become so great, it was impossible to find happiness and peace. Donna and Gabi provided a wondrous and carefully-crafted journey over five days beautiful days which was by turns terribly sad and empowering, heartbreaking and healing, all at the same time. Thank you.”
Louise
“Since completing The Bridge I feel much stronger, more able to cope with life. I now realise that I have a lot to give & accept from others. I really have learnt so much from this experience & can now continue my life with a bigger heart.”
Tim Salvage
“The Bridge for me was a total life changer, it made me really understand what some of my big blocks were that were standing in the way of my happiness and contentment. Its given me the tools I need to a live a life where I dont just ‘like’ myself, but love and nurture myself on a daily basis.”
Anonymous
“It’s a life-changing experience. It altered my take on life, made me feel stronger and more positive. The group and facilitators felt like a second family and made me feel so welcome. The accommodation was breathtaking and really added to the experience.”
Anonymous
“I felt in need of another big jump forward in my personal development. I wanted to dig deeper in those issues that just keep me stuck. The Bridge gave me all that and more. Gabi and Donna have provided some new ways of looking at things, helped clear away some old feelings and have given me a clear picture of what I need to concentrate on next. I feel truly amazing!”
Anonymous
“SELF LOVE… My biggest feeling that is different for me now is one of self love. I don’t think that i really ever gave myself much of this. What your retreat has taught me that is SO indescribably different, is how to forgive myself. Not just for the big things in the past. But on a daily basis. How to talk to myself with kindness, how to give myself ‘kind eyes’ and really how to Love and look after myself. I feel like this really harsh horrible critic inside of me has gone. Like I had a nasty roommate and they’ve moved out, replaced by an encouraging, sweet, loving person. And i am laughing at myself ALOT. So I really felt compelled to tell you all this and that what you are doing works, the magic that you put into that week is real. THANK YOU!!! ”
Bexy Cameron , Academic and Film Maker
“I signed up for the Bridge because I felt I needed a significant intervention to help me with blocks and issues I was facing in my life. It didn’t disappoint. The course was artfully crafted and delivered with a truly mind-boggling (and emotion-boggling!) amount of love, compassion, skill and empathy. It has given me a secure grounding and tremendous hope from which I can now face challenges with awareness and self-compassion, in the knowledge that I have an abundance of love and support behind me from the incredible Bridge community. Thank you.”
Emma Vernon-Harcourt

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