Rooted in Ireland. Growing through change.
Síolta exists to cultivate the inner capacities needed for the times we are living in. Rooted in Irish culture, community and the wisdom of the living world, we create spaces for healing, inquiry and collective renewal – supporting people to meet themselves, one another and our changing world with greater depth, presence and responsibility.
Fásaimid le chéile
Our Story
Síolta was founded in 2023 as a home for wellbeing, personal growth and community. Through workshops, retreats and conversations, we gathered people seeking deeper connection – with themselves, with one another and with the natural world.
As our work evolved, so did the questions we found ourselves asking.
It became increasingly clear that the challenges people were bringing into these spaces could not be understood only through the lens of individual wellbeing. They were also cultural, ecological and collective.
We are living through a period of profound transition. Rapid technological change, ecological uncertainty, growing isolation and a deep longing for belonging are reshaping how we live and who we are becoming.
As practitioners, we recognised the need for spaces that move beyond wellness as self-improvement, and towards a deeper inquiry into what these times are asking of us.
Today, Síolta is dedicated to cultivating the capacities needed to meet this moment – with courage, compassion and responsibility.
Rooted in Place.
Our work is grounded in the understanding that place shapes people.
Ireland carries stories of colonisation, resilience, migration, spirituality, language, loss and belonging. These histories continue to live within our culture, our communities and, often, within ourselves.
Whether through family history, inherited patterns or the wider cultural psyche, we all carry something of the places that have shaped us.
We believe that understanding these inheritances is not about remaining bound to the past.
It is about creating the freedom to participate more consciously in the future.
As we deepen our relationship with ourselves, we deepen our relationship with one another, with the land beneath us and with the generations who will follow.
What Guides Our Work
The Union of Opposites
Our Vision
We imagine an Ireland where:
• emotional depth is valued
• community is woven into everyday life
• people feel rooted in place and purpose
• personal transformation naturally contributes to cultural renewal
• future generations inherit stronger communities than the ones we received
Every gathering becomes part of a wider cultural remembering.
Every conversation plants a seed.
Meet Our Team
HANNAH BOWLER
Founder, Mentor, Facilitator, Artist.
I founded Síolta in 2023 with a vision of laying the foundations for a community rooted in personal and collective growth, where inner transformation becomes the ground from which a more connected future can emerge.
My work sits at the meeting place of depth psychology, embodiment, interpersonal relationship, ecology and culture. While much of modern wellbeing focuses on individual optimisation, I am interested in a wider question: how do we become people who are resourced enough to contribute meaningfully to the communities, cultures and futures we are creating together?
I believe that personal transformation is never solely personal. The way we relate to ourselves shapes how we relate to one another, to the natural world and to the systems we participate in every day. For me, inner work is not an escape from the world but a preparation for meeting it with greater presence, responsibility and imagination.
Through workshops, retreats, mentoring and community gatherings, I create spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, explore the deeper patterns shaping their lives, and cultivate the psychological and emotional capacity needed to navigate complexity with integrity.
I hold a First Class MA in Jungian (Depth) Psychology, where my research explored Jungian somatics, the inner child and the integration of psychological opposites. My work also draws from years of study in body-based approaches, contemplative traditions, yoga, relationship education and collective healing practices. I am currently completing an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy, and I see myself as a lifelong student, continually learning from teachers, community and the living world.
In founding Síolta, I came to recognise healing as both an individual and collective endeavour. Through collaboration with practitioners, artists, thinkers and community leaders, Síolta seeks to nurture a culture of depth, reciprocity and conscious participation, supporting people not simply to feel better, but to become active participants in shaping a more connected, compassionate and life-giving future.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief: the seeds we plant within ourselves inevitably grow into the world around us. By tending to those seeds with care, we help create the conditions for communities, and future generations, to flourish.
JENNY O’HARE
Facilitator, Educator, Mentor.
My work is rooted in deep ecology, and the belief that all realities are interconnected.
Deep nature work always brings us back to the true meaning of being human, and the best ways we can tend to our shared reality.
Taking a systems approach means realising that not one thing is separate from another.
I am passionate about grief work as medicine for these times.
I’m also passionate about working with folks to cultivate their eco-soul centric selves - individuation rather than individualism - essential developmental work that contributes to a healthy thriving whole.
As a facilitator, I work with groups in cultivating our ecological selves, dis-entangling some of our griefs, and honing our belonging.
As an educator, I teach climate and emotional literacy, taking a regenerative approach to people, process and place.
As a mentor, I work with individuals in honouring our personal stories and growing our wholeness.
I hold a masters in ecological conservation, training in eco-therapy & eco-psychology, in ritual, rites of passage, grief and death & dying, as well as social theory and hosting the conversations that matter.
My tools are varied; ecosomatics, interpersonal dialogue, ancestral practice, systems theory, and the animistic wisdom of the individual as part of the whole.
I believe our cultural inheritance is influenced by systems of colonialism and power that morph and live through us.
Our wellbeing and thriving is intrinsically linked to biodiversity, community health, freedom of expression and spiritual sustenance.
I am passionate about what can emerge when we meet life with the fullness of our attention and intention, together, le chéile, because we were never meant to do this alone.
CLAIRE KILLILEA
Coach, Facilitator,
My work is at the meeting place of shadow work, ritual and relationship, creating spaces where people can meet the parts of themselves that have been silenced, forgotten or suppressed. It is rooted in the belief that our shadows are deeply human and, when explored, have the capacity to reconnect us with ourselves and each other, allowing us to cultivate more authentic relationships.
I believe that when we are willing to turn towards what has been hidden, whether that is grief, shame, fear, loneliness or inherited stories, something profoundly life-activating begins to emerge. The shadows we fear often become the very places from which our deepest truth, creativity and purpose can grow.
My work draws together trauma-informed practice, shadow work, somatic approaches, ritual, coaching and the Irish grief tradition of keening. Together, these offer ways of honouring life's thresholds, whether that is bereavement, relationship endings, identity shifts, burnout, illness, becoming a parent, or the quiet deaths and rebirths that shape every human life. I see these moments not just as endings, but as initiations into a deeper relationship with ourselves.
Alongside my work through CLAIRITY, I continue to work within the corporate world as a workplace wellbeing consultant. Keeping a foot in both worlds has taught me how to adapt across different languages and environments, while recognising that the human experience is remarkably the same.
Through 1:1 mentorship, rites of passage, retreats, ceremonies, keening and The Unspoken podcast, I create spaces where people can unveil themselves, share the truth of their experience, and discover the wisdom that can only emerge when they give voice to their unfiltered truth.
At the core of everything I do is a simple belief: grief is our birthright. It is one of the deepest expressions of life we possess. When it is witnessed, honoured and given space, it becomes not only a pathway through loss, but a doorway into a more authentic, alive and fully lived life. I believe in keeping these ancient traditions alive while allowing them to evolve to meet the needs of modern life, in the hope of contributing, in some small way, to a culture that remembers how to grieve, how to belong, and ultimately, how to be human.
with special thanks to
WAYNE DIGNAM
for his care, guidance and support in the founding of Síolta.
Fásaimid le chéile
We grow together