Xskool is the germ of an idea: a professional development programme for mid-career designers, architects and design professors. The idea is to equip you with the ideas, skills and connections you need to help your organization change course and engage with the restorative economy that is now emerging.

An early evening event for brewers and their families to unearth some new secrets from leading local expert brewers, and to walk away inspired to continue to brew amazing beers.

 Edmund, Kirsty and Caspar from the West Lexham team invite you to the penultimate event in the Next Big Shift dinner series exploring who really has the power to make a difference. 

Permaculture is a practical design system for sustainable living. It offers and ethical, and inspiring response to the global challenges of climate change and peak oil. It stresses working with nature and helps you identify steps for positive change for yourself, your family and your community. The Permaculture Design Certificate Course is a practical course is for anyone who believes that we need to find ways to care for ourselves, for each other and the Earth.

Cultivating our capacity for hosting systemic transformation.

The art of collaborative leadership is more than just a training. It is a practice ground for all who aspire to bring out the best in themselves and others. It is based on the assumption and experience that human beings have an enormous untapped potential and resilience.

Fees for the course:  £980 (Organisational contribution)    £680 (self funded/small voluntary org) 

Financial constraints should not stop you from participating - we have a few scholarships available. To enable scholarships we invite those who can contribute to the scholarship fund to do so. Please feel free to get in touch with Valerie and Simone at aocl2011@natural-innovation.net

This 3-day retreat experience is fully catered with delicious local, organic food to allow you to really unwind. Accommodation must be booked separately in advance.

Creating Change Through Positive Stories – Youth Residential Personal Storytelling & Our Grand Narrative.

A five-day residential for young change-makers to develop their own stories and explore the story of their future.Set in the beautiful countryside of Norfolk, young people will have the space and supportive guidance to let their ideas and visions of positive change flourish.

Fees - £125 waged / £50 non-waged,student

Join us for a wildly enlightening and exploratory weekend piecing together all the learnings of the Next Big Shift dinners, with a fresh stable of speakers, debates and collaborative design processes to empower us all to understand what social changes are on the horizon.

Escape the digital world and retreat to a more genteel analogue sanctuary. Welcome to the inaugural pilot session of Charm School at West Lexham. The weekend will focus on the back to basics of etiquette: don’t think posh, think simplicity. Put away your mobiles and iPads as they will be replaced with a feather quill and beautiful stationery.

Presenting the highly anticipated Happy Kitchen FULL weekend - yes that's 2 nights & 2 days - packed with nutrition, recipes, optional exercise & yoga sessions, camp fire cooking, feasting on beautiful & natural organic food. Come, detox your mind & body. Walk away inspired & empowered to be confident in the kitchen & in many areas related to wellbeing.

A two-day intensive workshop with a leading international physical theatre, voice and community practitioner exploring personal creativity through ensemble practice and archetypes.

Traditionally folk music was passed on aurally and this course is no exception. Explore your voice and find out what it will do. Tune in your ear and learn how to harmonise as a group.

This course is run over four weeks (August 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd) culminating in an opportunity to show off your new found skills at a free Folk session on the 24th August, where you and other singers and artists will get together to share in your passion for music.

A place on this course should be booked through Carol O'Neill by email carolone@homecall.co.uk or call 01328 838316.

The cost of the course is £30.

For those wishing to stay the night before or even the night after please contact Carmen to arrange accommodation by email carmen@westlexham.org 

Reboot is a social design lab that invests in people who want to improve livelihood – together. Bringing eclectic teams to refreshing spaces, we share insights and unleash our creativity to do some good.  

Reboot_ Camp is a two-day immersive retreat set in Norfolk’s West Lexham.  No computers or smartphones permitted, it is an opportunity to unplug from the digital world and the everyday routine.  It is a chance to generate social impact while connecting with new people and to nature.  Participants can also enjoy collective cooking, boating, hiking, swimming, games, creativity workouts, and engaging conversation fueled by late night campfires.

Less of a course or workshop and more of an excuse to get a bunch of girls together and gossip...oh and a bit of baking will happen too.

Plenty of bubbles and possibly cake set in the idyllic surroundings of West Lexham Manor. Let you hair down but don't get any in the cake mix.

September 2nd - 4th

Course fee: £150

Set in the beautiful outdoor kitchen at West Lexham, this workshop is set to teach you the culinary delight that is the Pork pie. You will learn how to make authentic jelly stock, pastry and filling to a slightly adapted eight hundred year old recipe.

The course lasts one full day and costs £125.

Accommodation is available for those wishing to make those most of the surrounding countryside as well as the wonderful facilities available within the Manor itself.