Overcoming MS Retreat: measurable benefits, lasting change

Are you ready to take control of your health journey with MS? Our Retreat includes eight weekly online sessions and a three-day residential weekend, designed to help you understand and apply evidence-based lifestyle approaches to living well with MS. Teaching is led by experts with lived experience of MS and supported by practical sessions and peer connection. You’ll gain clear, usable tools around diet, physical activity, stress management and emotional wellbeing, with a focus on changes you can realistically maintain in everyday life, alongside others who understand what it’s like to live with MS.

Wherever you are right now, the Retreat provides practical support to help you live well with MS.

A life-changing and transformative experience … If you are looking to implement and maintain lifelong changes to improve not only your symptoms but your general health, then this Retreat is for you.” Retreat participant 2025

Ammerdown 2026

What is an Overcoming MS Retreat?

Our Retreat starts with an online course delivered live in weekly sessions by qualified experts with lived experience of MS. It is then followed by a three-day immersive residential experience. Our Retreat supports people who are new to making lifestyle changes, as well as those who want to take their understanding and practice of the Overcoming MS Program to the next level. 

Our Retreat combines expert-led learning with practical sessions and peer connection, so you can make evidence-based lifestyle changes that feel achievable in everyday life. You’ll leave with clear next steps, personalised ideas you can try at home, and tools to help you stay consistent over time.

How does an Overcoming MS Retreat support your health and wellbeing?

We focus on giving you tools you can keep using. People tell us they leave with a clearer understanding of what to do next, plus practical ways to make lifestyle changes stick.

What participants reported after our 2025 retreat

• 18% average improvement in mental wellbeing immediately after the retreat.
• 17% average improvement in physical wellbeing immediately after the retreat
• Participants continued to report improvements six months later, linked to consistent lifestyle changes such as increased physical activity, improved diet, and greater emphasis on stress management.
• 94% overall quality rating, with participants highlighting facilitation, practical sessions, evidence-based information and connection with others as key reasons they’d recommend the retreat

 In September 2024, the Science and Research Committee accepted the Overcoming MS abstract, “Hybrid Retreat Model Supports Health Improvement in Multiple Sclerosis”, for presentation at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM) Conference.

To learn more about the evidence behind our Retreat, click here.

Feedback from past participants

This Retreat has been truly life changing for me and I feel it has given me the tools for resilience that will allow me to adapt to all the challenging life experiences that will come with the unknowns of MS.” 

I thought I knew everything about MS after living with it for over two decades. But after attending the Overcoming MS Retreat, I realized I had so much more to learn. I feel invigorated with a robust set of tools I can use to live with MS in a more holistically healthy way. I made some new friends too. It was so worthwhile.” 

A life changing experience. The power of connection, of belonging, being seen… Not just transformative for knowledge, but also the way we live.” 

The Retreat was life changing and has helped me manage my MS in a way I never thought possible. Even though I was following the Overcoming MS Program for four years before the Retreat, this has changed it all.”