From the Harbour to the Sea
A free one hour workshop on purpose and what’s been keeping us from it
With Hamish Mackay-Lewis
There comes a point when the life we have built — however successful it looks — no longer feels like the whole story.
The question is this really it? becomes harder to ignore.
This workshop is an invitation to pause, look more honestly at where you are, and begin listening for your deeper calling.
Much of the life we build is organised around what we could call default purpose — a way of living shaped by expectation, security and the approval of others. It often looks right from the outside. But it rarely leads to a fulfilled and authentic life.
What the hour includes:
We explore the harbour and the sea — the guiding metaphor of this work — and map where we are and what’s keeping us here.
A short teaching on the three kinds of purpose — including the one most of us were never taught to recognise.
A guided visualisation to meet a version of yourself that has already navigated what we are still finding our way through.
Time for reflection and questions.
Rather than a lecture on purpose theory, I am offering an experience — spacious and grounded.
Who this is for
Thoughtful adults who have spent years building a good life and sense that the deeper journey may only just be beginning.
What you might leave with
You may not leave with answers, but I hope you will leave with a different quality of listening to your life - and one sentence you wrote to yourself that you will want to remember on a Monday morning.
Remaining dates for the workshop series summer 2026:
18th June
Time: 6pm UK time.
All workshops are FREE to attend, on ZOOM and if you can’t make them live, sign up to receive the REPLAY.
When you sign up you’ll also receive Hamish’s Field Notes from time to time. You’re welcome to unsubscribe at any time.
If something here resonates
For those who want to go further, the workshop is also an opportunity to learn about The Journey — a six month programme for people who sense that deeper work is calling.
Attendees also have the option to receive my Starter Kit — From the Harbour to the Shoreline.
“I attended one of Hamish’s sessions as a coach myself, and was struck by the quality of his work. His harbour-and-sea metaphor does something difficult — it’s vivid enough to be memorable and structured enough to be genuinely useful, giving you handles you can carry into situations the session never touched. A few days later I found myself reaching for his reframes in entirely different contexts. He holds depth and warmth with real skill, and creates the kind of space where something true can surface. I came expecting a useful reflective hour and left moved. That’s not easy to do, and rarer still to do well.”
“I came away from Hamish’s session last week lifted & encouraged that I could finally get to the heart of purpose for myself both personally but also professionally. His coaching style is so open & comfortable. I totally trust his process & know I would benefit from joining ‘From the harbour to the sea’”
“Thank you for the workshop - it was brilliant. I came away feeling full of calm, with more clarity and tools for thinking.”
“I found Hamish’s Harbour and the Sea workshop deeply moving, it stirred me in all kinds of ways. I am so grateful for the time and thoughts that were shared, and which will continue to inspire me.”
About Hamish
Hamish is a purpose and wilderness guide who helps people find belonging both in themselves and in the natural world.
He believes that land and people are medicine for each other, and that wisdom lives in the immediacy of our lived experience.
Drawing on ancient and indigenous wisdom, embodiment practices, and contemporary psychology, Hamish helps people cultivate the honesty and courage to follow what brings them alive.
His journey from the British Armed Forces to guiding others into nature and purpose has given him a particular understanding of what it means to sense a deeper life calling — and what it takes to answer it.
He lives in Somerset and seeks out wilderness whenever he can.