McCoCo 2026 - 4 days!

Four Day Residential:

We all love coming to the beautiful venue at Wiston Lodge for this annual co-counselling residential, and we hope you’ll join us in spring 2026 to co-create another great experience together.

We are delighted to offer the McCoCo residential workshop. We are offering this exciting, international, supportive and beautiful space from Thursday evening 30th April to Monday 4th May. This will be the 26th McCoCo residential workshop. The Monday is a Bank Holiday for everyone in the UK.​

We have booked again the wonderful venue 37 miles south of Edinburgh called Wiston Lodge. It is a magnificent 19th century former hunting lodge, set in 52 acres of beautiful grounds, including much woodland and streams. There are several spaces suitable for different kinds of workshops including a hall for dancing and a big room for the opening circles. For more pictures of the venue, visit our website https://mccoco.org/gallery/ . 

The workshop program will follow the same format as many other co-counselling residentials,: a structure will be offered within which the  participants will co-create the programme each day. Anyone can offer a co-counselling workshop or ask for a topic group, massage, music, meditation or indeed any activity that makes your heart sing. As well as participating in workshops and support groups or simply having co-counselling sessions you can choose to enjoy dancing, chatting with people in front of a log fire, walking in the lovely grounds or up the nearby Tinto hill etc.
On the final evening we often have a ceilidh (informal cabaret).

Each morning we will have an Opening Circle, when we hope that: 
a) everyone will feel fully included the opportunity to co-create the programme, and 
b) you will feel you have adequate opportunity to voice any concern or need as we progress together through the event.

Are you hesitating? New to Co-Counselling?

We extend an especially warm welcome to Co-Counsellors who have recently completed Core Training Fundamentals or who have not been to an event like this before. This event provides an opportunity for you to meet Co-Counsellors from throughout the UK and beyond. We will offer a workshop at the beginning of the workshop to help everyone settle in to the event.

Feeling rusty...?
No problem, the only requirements for having sessions is to be able

• to give your free, aware caring attention to your client
• to refuse to enter into a session contract or to give a suggestion if you don't want to
• to keep confidentiality

If you are able to do this, you will very quickly remember again what you have learnt earlier in Co-Counselling, especially when you experience the support, freedom and encouragement that McCoCo has on offer.

Staying with a co-counsellor before of after McCoCo 
We may possibly be able to offer accommodation with Co-Counsellors in Edinburgh or the local region.

INFORMATION

Enquiries about food, travel, booking and everything else.... please see our website www.mccoco.org

McCoCo will be a drug-free workshop. That includes alcohol, but not prescription drugs, caffeine, and tobacco smoked outside the building.

We are looking forward to seeing you at McCoCo 2026

Bye for now,

Rachel Walmsley, Anna Green, Richard Charles Mills, Vicki Allen and Mick Drury.