Workshops & Retreats

I ran the following workshops at the 2011 Summer Gathering:

Aspects of Love

Love means many things to many people. Some say its an emotion, a feeling, others would say affection or attachment. Is it a virtue or an act of human kindness, compassion or perhaps more than that it is the basis for all being and can also be thought of in terms of divine love, eternal Oneness or God in whatever form you know and believe. You can love many things like a Chinese meal or a film or a person it can be romantic, sexual, fulfilling or painful parental, romantic, platonic or familial. You can feel love from many sources, people, nature, environment, art, music. Love can be an intense feeling but can also be a feeling of calm within.

This workshop gave an opportunity to think about what love means and has meant to you. We worked together to define love and then thought about how we can personally take love forward in a positive way. Included a meditation and intention on love

The Six Thinking Hats

Our rapidly changing world requires new ways to develop concepts and ideas to make real differences to our lives. To take an idea through the development stage requires a great deal of planning, creating, thinking and communicating. Whilst people may all have good intentions and similar goals it can be challenging to break through the "spaghetti bowl" of differing thoughts, opinions, ideas and oppositions in order to get things moving. The Six Thinking Hats is a constructive thinking tool for group discussion and individual thinking. It is a simple, effective process to enable parallel thinking, help people to be more productive, focused and mindfully involved. This workshop provided an opportunity to learn to think in six clear and distinct styles, identify and understand thinking patterns and find ways to change the process of thoughts. Based on the work of Dr Edward de Bono the Six Hats represent six different brain states. The technique allowed everyone together to consider problems from all sides.

All workshops are interactive and experiential, and enable participants to engage at a deep level for learning and self-discovery. This is a useful workshop for team building and can be taken into organisations to increase creativity and productivity.

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At the 2010 Summer Gathering at Gaunts House I ran 3 workshops:

1. Journey into Love – an exploration of our own journeys of love connection – looking at past, present and future with a view to manifesting a loving world for ourselves and others
2. The Love Addict - am I in love or am I addicted to love – will look at healthy v. unhealthy love – ending with a cord cutting meditation to clear unwanted attachments
3. The Tree of Life – understanding ourselves through the natural growth of trees. An experiential opportunity to learn more about yourself using creativity and imagination.

Glastonbury Retreat

For the previous 3 years I have run retreats at the Shekinashram in Glastonbury on letting go of anxiety, transition and flow and learning about archetypes.

Money raised from this weekend was donated to a charity in India that custom makes bicycles for disabled people to enable them to have freedom to move about. If you are interested in helping to raise money for these bikes please contact me.

Wales Retreat

Retreats in Wales are held at the beautiful healing landscape of Cae Mabon in North Wales.

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