Join Jennifer Marschal and Victoria for a unique retreat incorporating biking through the local Ontario countryside, walking in the forest, taking time to slow down and take in nature while visioning into living a life you would absolutely love. Jennifer offers content-rich, interactive workshops that take participants on a journey in which they design, define, test, and experience a crystal-clear vision of the life they would love – a life that is in alignment with their highest purpose. They will have a unique opportunity to “step into” the life they are imagining and feel a resounding “yes!” This retreat is designed for women who love to stay active while having a “time out” from their family and work. By consciously slowing down and bringing mindfulness to activity, this weekend is a perfect time to connect with your inner self, create transformational new thinking patterns, while meeting like-valued women and giving yourself permission to disconnect from busy-ness. Register early to avoid disappointment. Maximum 8 people.
Two workshops are planned that will cover boxmaking and experimental folded artist’s books, including a potential for collage and alternative printing techniques to create contents for binding.
Boxmaking – July 5-6
Over the weekend we will address the construction of box formats leading to a hinged, clamshell-style box. Covering technique will be explained and practiced.
Experimental Artist’s Books – July 25-27
Various options for making folded artist’s books will be presented and the group may decide to focus on particular techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring visual materials to work with or collect them onsite. A photocopier may be used to create pages or acetates for blueprinting. Sewing and gluing will be simple and appropriate for those without binding experience, while more complex approaches can be selected by those looking to develop more advanced skills. We will begin with a Friday evening introductory session depending on when participants are able to arrive.
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please register online or contact us at workshops@scff.ca.Participants may arrive on Friday to stay the weekend at SCFF or arrive for each day’s session. Accommodation arrangements include all meals.
A deposit of $60. will hold your place with the balance due two weeks prior to the workshop.
Seeing Black and White: The Zone System – July 18 – 20 (Friday evening – Sunday afternoon)
Matsudera walk – Temple Garden
Have you been wondering how to get the grey tones that you imagine into your black and white digital file or film negative when you make the exposure?
Have you heard about Ansel Adam’s Zone System approach and wanted to know how to use it?
Are you unsure about meter calculations and mostly letting your camera do what it wants?
This workshop will cover practical aspects of black and white photography, based on the Zone System methods of understanding light and exposure. Addressing both digital and film photography, this approach allows for pre-visualization of the grey values of the image, resulting in improved negatives and digital files that are closer to what one sees in one’s mind when imagining the image.
Participants may work with digital and/or film processes. Exercises and photography will take place around the farm property just outside Tamworth, Ontario. Digital results will be reviewed onsite and post-processing approaches will be discussed. Film work will be processed later on your own time, but can be evaluated through online sharing.
Peter Sramek learned the Zone System when studying at MIT with Minor White, author of the original Zone System Manual, and taught black and white photography at OCAD University for over 40 years.
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please register online or contact us at workshops@scff.ca. Participants will stay the weekend at SCFF or arrive for each day’s session. we will begin with a Friday evening session.
Practicalities
Participants will arrive in Tamworth on Friday afternoon or evening and may stay an extra night on Sunday to make a long weekend should they desire.
Cost: $575 includes tuition, accommodation and meals; $390 for those who do not require accommodation and breakfasts.
A deposit of $60 will hold your place with full payment due 2 weeks prior to the workshop. A non-refundable fee of $60 will apply if you cancel less than 2 weeks prior.
Ride sharing can be coordinated where possible. Pick-up and drop-off in Napanee is also possible should one wish to take the bus or train from Toronto area or Montreal.
A hands-on workshop with local business The Yellow Lion Apothecary and entrepreneur Stephanie Potter. This workshop will include a meditation, some forest bathing, picking plantain and making a salve that you can use on your cuts and scrapes.
Plantain has been documented as a medicinal plant as far back as 1390. Plantain is most famously known for its ability to heal and draw out poison. A poultice or salve of Plantain will help “draw” the itch out of a mosquito bite and help heal wounds, scrapes, cuts and bruises. Readily available everywhere, plantain is a good all round herbal plant to add to your sustainable medicinal herb cabinet and consider adding Plantain to your diet as a substitute for your regular leafy green. Full of enzymes, minerals and vitamins A, C and K, its deep green leaves can provide a vitamin-rich alternative to other domestic greens.
About Stephanie Potter: Stephanie uses locally foraged and homegrown herbs and plants to create all natural products you can be proud to use. Created during the pandemic as a way to provide family and friends with herbal remedies, it became so much more! Stephanie graduated last year from The Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine, receiving her Herbal Practitioner Diploma and plans on continuing her education to receive her Masters. Stephanie believes that nature is healing and is proud to provide you with herbal products created with love and nature in mind.
Cost: $99 10-3pm on July 19th The workshop will include materials and a light lunch. Please dress for being out in nature; wear walking shoes and a hat; bring sunscreen and plenty of water. Please email victoria@scff.ca if you would like any further details.
Co-hosted at SCFF by Sine Andersen and Victoria. Please join us for self-loving, self-image building and self-empowering transformational weekend retreats in nature. Located in the beautiful and private 100 acre off-grid property, we shall spend time in the forest, enjoying the process of therapeutic relaxation focusing on sensory engagement to connect with nature. We’ll meditate, walk and study spiritual practices to help you connect to your inner-self
Register early to avoid disappointment. Maximum 8 people. Contact victoria@scff.ca if you have questions.
Sine Andersen is a certified coach in life and business from Naestved, Denmark. She is a spiritual leader and a meditation guide connecting people to their soul and inner wisdom. As a solopreneur for the past 3 years, Sine offers individual coaching and has hosted beautiful retreats in Italy and Zanzibar. She loves working with and through her heart & soul and helping people to grow into and become-in who they truly are. https://www.instagram.com/sine_a_andersen/
Sine and Victoria with VIsion Workshop group, Naestved, Denmark, March, 2025.
Similar to last year’s land-based photo workshop, we invite photographers and non-photographers alike, to engage with the land in constructing site-specific assemblages using natural materials and then to photograph them. The image remains as a record of what will inevitably change and fade in the landscape. Over the weekend we will use alternative printing methods to turn digital images into tangible prints.
Cyanotype print form digital exposure, Will Wright, August 2024
Participants will work with digital cameras, but are free to shoot film for later processing as well. Exercises and photography will take place around the farm property. Digital results will be reviewed onsite and historical cyanotype printing (blueprinting) will be experimented with. All materials will be provided and a basic camera or phone for making exposures is all that is required.
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please register online or contact us at workshops@scff.ca. Participants will stay the weekend at SCFF or arrive for each day’s session.
Practicalities
Participants will arrive in Tamworth on Friday afternoon or evening and may stay an extra night on Sunday to make a long weekend should they desire.
Cost: $575 includes tuition, accommodation and meals; $390 for those who do not require accommodation and breakfasts.
A deposit of $60 will hold your place with full payment due 2 weeks prior to the workshop. A non-refundable fee of $60 will apply if you cancel less than 2 weeks prior.
Ride sharing can be coordinated where possible. Pick-up and drop-off in Napanee is also possible should one wish to take the bus or train from Toronto area or Montreal.
