The Drawing In

THE DRAWING IN

A Samhain workshop for the darkening year

Thursday 5th November 2026 6.30pm–9.30pm, live on Zoom With Sarah Fox & Sam Gravestock

Additional practices offered on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th November

€120 per person

As the year turns towards Samhain, the world around us begins to draw in. The light shortens, the leaves fall and growth slows. Our ancestors gathered what could be gathered, preserved what would be needed, tended the fire and prepared themselves and their homes for winter.

The Drawing In is an invitation to do the same.

Join Sarah and Sam for an evening of storytelling, practical seasonal skills and ritual, followed by two days of practices to carry the work into your own home and landscape. Together, we’ll explore our connection with the ancestors and consider what we want to gather, preserve and protect as we cross into the dark half of the year.

Stories for the threshold

We’ll work with old stories that speak to the season, including Cormac’s Cup and tales of An Cailleach.

Through their themes of truth, discernment, ageing, sovereignty, loss and the turning of the year, we’ll ask:

What do I want to bring with me

What needs protecting?

What can be preserved and nourished?

What can be laid down?

What will I draw in for the dark of the year?

Connecting with the ancestors

Samhain offers a time for remembering those who came before us and tending our relationship with them.

Through story and ritual, we’ll make space to honour the ancestors and explore how their skills and practices might inform our lives today. Gathering, preserving, making and paying attention to the land offer tangible ways to deepen that connection.

Practical ancestral and seasonal skills

Sarah and Sam will introduce practical skills for the drawing-in season, with guidance on making:

• A birch polypore strop, traditionally used for finishing and maintaining a blade’s edge

• Fire cider

• Apple cider vinegar

• Sloe gin or vodka

• Protective rowan charms for the threshold

We’ll explore these as ways of working with what the season offers, preserving some of its abundance and preparing our homes for winter.

Making a charm for the threshold will also give us space to consider our own boundaries: what we welcome, what we guard and what we choose to carry with us.

Seeing the change in the season

You’ll receive simple mindful practices for noticing the changing year in your own landscape.

What is falling?

What has gone to seed?

What remains?

What is withdrawing beneath the earth?

The additional practices will include an invitation to take a sunset walk, allowing time to witness the fading light and attend to the seasonal changes around you.

Beyond the Zoom room

The workshop continues with additional practices offered on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th November. These will help you integrate the evening’s stories and teachings, tend your ancestral connection and take the work into your everyday life.

Together, these days will accompany you across the threshold of the astrological Samhain alignment and into the darkening year.

What’s included

Your €120 includes:

• A three-hour live Zoom workshop with Sarah Fox and Sam Gravestock • Storytelling and guided reflection

• Practical ancestral and seasonal teachings

• Rowan threshold charm-making guidance

• Ritual and practices for connecting with the ancestors

• Additional practices for 6th and 7th November, including seasonal observation and a sunset walk

Come and draw in with us.

Gather what nourishes you, tend what needs protecting and make space for the dark of the year.

Payment & Refund Policy

Payment in full is required upon commitment to secure your place.
Due to the limited number of spaces and the nature of this work, all payments are non-refundable.

If you are no longer able to attend, your place may be offered to another participant. If your spot is filled, a refund may be issued at my discretion, minus any administrative costs. However, this cannot be guaranteed.