HIRAETH

Hiraeth (pronounced 'hirr-eye-th') was established in 2008 and is an ever growing association of professional practitioners offering bespoke 'needs-based' health and human development services and training for the public, independent, statutory and corporate sectors across the UK and around the world.

Hiraeth's heart lies in Wales: the homeland and residence of Hiraeth's Founder and Managing Director. 

The company gets its name from a feeling term in the Welsh Language with no literal English translation; Hiraeth is a longing, yearning or calling to journey home to a place of belonging or wholeness. The feeling stimulates connection to self, others, relationships and the environment.

Hiraeth's 54 acre woodland site high in the mountains of rural Mid Wales symbolizes the mission: to fuel human development whilst promoting ecological diversity. Whenever it is possible and appropriate to do so Hiraeth uses The Arts and the Natural Environment to act as vehicles for human development; offering creative and natural solutions to complex personal, social and cultural difficulties.

About the:

Founder and Managing Director:

Martin D. Cope MA Registered Dramatherapist, PgDip, BA(Hons), DipCoun

Therapy Advisor to the Welsh Assembly Government: Welsh Therapies Advisory Committee (WTAC)

Wales Representative: British Association of Dramatherapists (Badth)

Dramatherapy Representative : All Wales Network of Creative Arts Therapy Professions (AWNCATP)

Active Speaker / Presenter: European Consortiuum for Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE)

MA/Registered Dramatherapist, Counsellor and Trainer.

Lecturer for Post-Graduate Studies

Author of a number of Scientific Articles and Chapters

Performing Arts Practitioner

Forest Schools Practitioner

Musician