one-day course

downshifting/change your life


venue: Hulme Community Garden Centre, Manchester

This course is run by Jo and Georgina of Smoky Jo's, who downshifted from London to run a food smoking business on a farm in Cumbria.

Many people dream about changing their lives and doing something different. Few people actually do it.

  • if you are fed up with your work/life balance
  • if you long to do something different with your life
  • if you want to downshift or live a simpler life
  • if you feel trapped on a treadmill
  • if you want to work for yourself
  • if you are facing redundancy

Then this motivational day could change your life. This one day course is all about looking at how you could live your life differently.  Some people may just want to make small changes in their lives – others will want to make huge changes.

The day will help you look at all of your ideas and dreams. It will help you start to make sense of them all, allowing you to decide on realistic possibilities for your future. This is a thought-provoking course that helps you look at all the issues concerned with changing your life - from emotions through to financial constraints and even the things that are stopping you from changing.

We will help you will look at how you live your life now and think about how you would like to live your life in the future. Then based on your own vision of the future you will be able come up options and an action plan on how to achieve it.

See this clip for more on Jo and Georgina.

"Thank you - my life has been transformed since I attended your course.  Thanks to you I am now doing things that I have wanted to do for ages and I feel so much more fulfilled and energised"  - J. Tooke

more on downshifting


how to book:
 

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arrive:
 
for a 10am prompt start
depart:
 
after the course finishes at 5pm
directions:
 
click here for a map and directions to Hulme Community Garden Centre
what to bring:
 
work clothes; pen and notebook
let us know:
 
if you have any special needs
price:
 
£60
Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30 admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course
lunch:
 
bring a packed lunch or you can get lunch at the wacky and wonderful 'Kim by the Sea' cafe over the road
car sharing:
 
visit our car sharing forum to offer or request a lift
 

 

 

 

downshifting course - group discussion


 

 

 

 

 

downshifting usually involves more fresh air and exercise; here people at Smoky Jo's prepare a bed for raspberry canes, with a home-made little haystack in the background

 

 

 

 

 

 

downshifting always seems to involve chickens in some way; here are some free-range chooks at Smoky Jo's