Alternatives

A LTERNATIVES St James’s Church / Piccadilly / London Autumn 2010 Programme

Inspiring heart mind and soul

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Welcome to our autumn programme. We have many fantastic events for you with inspirational presenters. We look forward to seeing you very soon.

You may have noticed that St James’s has a beautiful new terracotta red roof which complements the original Wren design of the church. Alternatives contributed over £30,000 to the roof appeal donated by our Monday audiences. We would like to thank all who contributed.

This autumn, St James’s Church has has a new Rector, Lucy Winkett. We warmly welcome Lucy to the diverse and vibrant place that is St James’s, Piccadilly.

Esther, Richard and Steve Co-Directors

About Alternatives Alternatives is a place of inspiration for heart, mind and soul. We are dedicated to the exploration of diverse ways of living and being.We honour all spiritual traditions and welcome people of all cultures.

Alternatives is an independent nonprofit making organisation based at St James’s Church, Piccadilly. It was founded in 1982 to explore alternatives to mainstream Western spirituality and is now London’s leading centre for holistic learning.

We are honoured to hold our talks in this beautiful Christopher Wren church. St James’s is a vibrant centre of creative spirituality and is the baptism place of William Blake.

A Friendly Disclaimer We take great care in selecting our presenters and equally we ask you to use your discernment regarding opinions and information presented.

Although St James's Church, in its openness of heart and mind, includes Alternatives, the ideas in this programme are not necessarily representative of the church itself.

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Alternatives talk, St James’s Church

Alternatives Friends Membership Become an Alternatives member and gain many benefits. You can become a member at our website or by sending us a cheque.We have three categories: Friend - You can become a Friend for £25 a year. You will receive the programme three times a year and have priority entrance to our busiest talks.

Good Friend -You can become a Good Friend for £50 a year. Same benefits as Friend, plus you receive free entrance to three talks per year (worth £30), and 15% discount on workshops (saving almost £10 on a full-price workshop) a saving of £59 if you book three workshops a year.The more workshops you attend the more you save.You also will receive our CD 'Eternal Delight: Songs For The Soul’ (14 tracks from various artists who have played at Alternatives, including Deva Premal, Chris James and Chloe Goodchild).

Business Friend - You can become a Business Friend for £100 a year. Same benefits as Good Friend. Plus a free classified advertisement on our website for up to six months (worth £75). And 25% off one advert in our e-newsletter (worth £25).

Richard Dunkerley

7pm Talks at St James’s Church Pay on Door or Book Online Pay on the door for our Monday talks.

You may also book in advance via our website. Our talks are in St James’s Church unless stated otherwise. Doors open at 6.30pm. The talks start at 7pm and end at 8.30pm. Vegetarian food and books are available afterwards.

Concessions are for full-time students, over 60s and those in receipt of jobseekers allowance.

Please bring proof to show at the door.

Alternatives Friends have priority entry at our busiest talks where stated. Please show your Friends card at the door.

Getting to St James’s St James’s Church is on the south side of Piccadilly, opposite Swallow Street and 200m from Piccadilly Circus. Nearest tubes are Piccadilly Circus and Green Park. Free car parking is available after 6.30pm in St James’s Square.

Access St James’s is accessible to wheelchairs via a ramp at the Piccadilly entrance. If arriving by car, wheelchair users may find it more convenient to alight in Jermyn Street, and move via Church Place at the side of the church to the main Piccadilly entrance. For those with hearing impairments, an induction loop operates in the Church.

Cover Photo: Green Tara Macy Wood

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Alternatives, St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL 020 7287 6711

talks Monday 6 September The Frontiers of Human Consciousness STANISLAV GROF “I know of no work other than Grof’s that so well incorporates the findings of Freud and Jung, adding fresh insights, which the methods of those psychotherapists could never have achieved.” – Joseph Campbell For the first time at St James’s we are honoured to be hosting Dr Stanislav Grof, one of the founding fathers of the modern consciousness movement, for an unmissable talk on the future of humanity. Humanity has the resources to combat disease, eliminate hunger and poverty, and save the planet. So why aren’t we doing it? After more than 50 years of intensive study of non-ordinary states of consciousness, Dr Grof has come to the conclusion that the problems that stand in our way are not economical or technological. They reside within us – if a sufficient number of people undergo a process of deep inner transformation, then humanity can reach a level of consciousness that will transform the rest of the world. Come to this rare UK appearance by Dr Grof and be inspired to step up to the task of playing your part in the process of spiritual opening and transformation of the world.

Dr Stanislav Grof PhD is a psychiatrist with over 50 years of experience researching non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and founder of the International Transpersonal Association.

He is the bestselling author of numerous books and the codeveloper (with wife Christina) of Holotropic Breathwork, a non-drug method for exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness using deep breathing. www.stanislavgrof.com £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

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Deepak Chopra Wednesday 15 September The Coaching Circle: The Career Itch GRACE OWEN The Career Itch is an inner restlessness about the direction of your career. Grace Owen shares insights from a journey of discovery that enabled her to take control of what she did next in her career.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The Seven Dials Club 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LA

Alex Stewart

Monday 13 September Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness SRIKUMAR RAO Michael Neill says: “Srikumar Rao is one of my heroes. A master of ‘east meets west’ practical spirituality, I look forward to hearing him speak whenever I can.”

We invite you to explore with us the transformational power of happiness.

Imagine leaping out of bed every morning with your blood singing at the thought of who you are and what you do. Imagine feeling radiantly alive throughout the day, and sinking to your knees in involuntary gratitude at the tremendous good fortune of your life.

This vision of your life is not a pipe dream. It is achievable and Srikumar Rao is the man to show you how.

Leave this inspiring talk infused with more joy for life, a deeper understanding of your life’s purpose and how to make your highest vision a reality.

Dr Srikumar Rao teaches a worldrenowned, pioneering course in Creativity and Personal Mastery that is one of the highest rated at Columbia Business School and London Business School. An academic, executive coach and seminar leader, Dr Rao is author of Are YOU Ready to Succeed?

Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life. www.areyouready.com £10/£5 concs

Monday 20 September Spirit, Power and Mystery STARHAWK Do join us in welcoming renowned spiritual activist Starhawk for a rare UK appearance. Starhawk believes that in modern life, domination so often equals oppression. She also believes that the way to overcome oppression is to step into our own personal power.As well as a discussion about how best to access our personal power, Starhawk will weave fascinating tales from her own life’s work in spiritual empowerment.

Her talk will encompass the lessons of nature, the power of our intuition, and the importance of embracing mystery.

Come and learn how to become more personally empowered and play your part in creating a world of justice, balance and healing.

Starhawk is a writer, world-renowned social activist and pagan in the Reclaiming tradition. She is the author of nine books, including her bestsellers The Spiral Dance and The Pagan Book of Living and Dying. A veteran of progressive movements who is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, she travels internationally, teaching magic, ritual and activism. www.starhawk.org £10/£5 concs

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talks

Unconditional Love

Nanne Nyander

SPECIAL EVENT Wednesday 22 September

Stairways to Heaven LORNA BYRNE Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels daily and has done all her life.

Her first book Angels in my Hair became an international bestseller with its message that no matter how alone we sometimes feel, we are all, always, accompanied by a guardian angel. This will be Lorna’s first public event after publication of her second book, Stairways to Heaven, which contains more angelic revelations.

Among other things, Lorna will share with us the future that God envisages for us. She will also introduce us to the guardian angel of the earth and share what the angels have told her about reincarnation.

Lorna Byrne has been seeing and talking to angels all her life.With her family now reared, she is talking openly for the first time about what she has seen and learned from them. This decision led to her international bestseller, Angels In My Hair. Lorna lives quietly in rural Ireland www.lornabyrne.com 7.30pm–9pm £15/£10 concs Friends House 173 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ THIS EVENT IS LIKELY TO SELL OUT. ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED.

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Monday 27 September Befriend Your Monkey Mind ED AND DEB SHAPIRO “Ed and Deb bring compassion and heart to a modern world where it is sorely needed.”

-Ram Dass.

‘Monkey mind’ is a Buddhist term meaning ‘unsettled, restless, confused, uncontrollable’. Has your mind ever felt like that? Does it sometimes drive you crazy? Meditation appears to be the best antidote, but the mind is notoriously resistant to being quiet. Just as a monkey leaps from tree to tree, so the mind leaps from one thought to another. Fear, anxiety, shame, blame and guilt are all tactics of the monkey mind.This evening Ed and Deb will teach you to still the monkey mind, and how we can all transform our neuroses into enlightenment.

Ed and Deb Shapiro write a weekly meditation column for Oprah.com, and they are featured bloggers for HuffingtonPost.com and Care2.com.

They are the authors of the 2010 Nautilus Gold Book Award winner BE THE CHANGE, How Meditation Can TransformYou AndTheWorld, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Deb is also the author of the bestselling book Your Body Speaks Your Mind. www.edanddebshapiro.com £10/£5 concs Monday 4 October Erotic Innocence & Sexual Alchemy SAIDA DESILETS & SOL SEBASTIAN Together, our sexuality and sensuality are the animating force that allows us to experience the world around us. Bliss is your birthright and through simple, fun and practical methods, you can connect more deeply with this energy for greater health, wellbeing and vitality.

Tonight, Saida and Sol explore the subject of sexuality as our most misunderstood and misused resource to vitality, fulfillment and health. Learn the wisdom of Taoist sexuality, the concept of ‘erotic innocence’ and why sexual energy is particularly worthy of our cultivation. Whether you are man or woman, single or coupled, this event will leave you inspired and delighted about your body.

Saida Désilets PhD is the founder of The Désilets Method and the author of The Emergence of the Sensual Woman. She speaks worldwide on conscious sexual energy cultivation. She explains the ancient wisdom of Taoist energy practices in a simple, charming and practical way.

Sol Sebastian is the founder of The Alchemy of Man and the author of The Five Secrets of Dynamic Sexuality. He is globally renowned for his work on conscious sexuality, and living with erotic power and wisdom. www.thedesiletsmethod.com £10/£5 concs Monday 11 October A Hundred Thousand Angels LUCINDA DRAYTON After their beautiful evening with us last year, we warmly welcome back Lucinda Drayton and Marcus Cliffe for another concert. In the 1990s, Lucinda had a mainstream number one hit that left her feeling less fulfilled than she had hoped. This resulted in a sea-change in her songs and her ambitions, leading her to study consciousness and meditation. She became a Raj yogi for 10 years and led an intensely spiritual way of life, spending time in India and then touring the world, singing with her band Bliss.Tonight Lucinda is accompanied by her partner, top session player Marcus Cliffe, who also produced her last two albums. They will perform songs both from the Bliss back catalogue and from their latest work.

Lucinda Drayton is best known as the vocalist and co-founder of the very successful band Bliss. Her CDs include The Mirror and Both Sides Now. She also leads meditation and self-empowerment workshops worldwide. www.blissfulmusic.com £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

Free Podcasts As a free service, you can download from our website inspiring interviews in MP3 format with leading presenters.

You can either download or stream the interviews via our website (click on ‘Free Podcasts’ on the homepage), then follow the simple instructions to download the interview of your choice. The download time depends on the speed of your computer’s connection, but should only take a few minutes.

Innocence dwells with wisdom but never with ignorance – William Blake

talks Monday 18 October The Legacy of Gandhi ARUN GANDHI Great leaders are often forged in times of great crisis and change. Arun Gandhi is a grandson of India’s legendary spiritual and political leader, Mahatma Gandhi. When he was 12, Arun’s parents took him to India to live for 18 months with his grandfather. Gandhi made special efforts to devote time to his young grandson, and the first lesson he gave the boy was how to deal with anger. Gandhi coined the phrase ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’ and Arun’s talk will be on this very theme, particularly how this call for global transformation begins with a transformation of the individual.‘Be the change’ is a loud call for personal transformation and the responsibility of the individual in building a culture of peace. What can you do to be the change?

Arun Gandhi is the author of several books including World Without Violence: Can Gandhi’s Vision Become Reality?

Arun and his late wife Sunanda have instigated a number of projects together for the social and economic uplifting of the oppressed, including the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and the new Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute.

Their programmes have changed the lives of more than half a million people and continue to help even more. www.arungandhi.org £10/£5 concs Wednesday 20 October The Coaching Circle: Yoga for Stress Management NTATHU ALLEN This evening, you will learn yoga exercises to stretch your body and release tension, breathing practices to calm and clear your mind and meditation techniques to bring yourselves back to that still place of calm deep inside. The session is ideal if you support individuals and groups and will benefit both coaches, practitioners and individuals alike.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The Seven Dials Club 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LA

Richard Clare

Monday 25 October Reflections on Life, Love and the Soul PETER OWEN-JONES Parish vicar and television presenter Peter Owen-Jones is perhaps best known for last year's BBC2 series Around the World in 80 Faiths in which he witnessed the most important rituals of 80 of the world's religions. However, it was before 80 Faiths that Peter took his most profound journey. For his BBC series Extreme Pilgrim, Peter set out in the footsteps of St Anthony, living in the heart of the Egyptian Sinai Desert.Alone in a hermit's cell, he spent his days in contemplation and prayer.

From that experience he wrote a collection of letters, which are the subject of his talk tonight. Revealing and heartfelt, the letters combine personal memoir with broader issues of faith, morality and relationship. Peter will read from a selection of his letters and take audience questions about his travels, letters and faith.

Rev Peter Owen-Jones is a Sussex vicar, broadcaster and writer. His television presenting credits include The Lost Gospels, The Battle for Britain’s Soul, Extreme Pilgrim, Around The World in 80 Faiths and HowTo Live A Simple Life. His books include Bed of Nails, Small Boat, Big Sea, and his latest book Letters From An Extreme Pilgrim. £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

Monday 1 November Good Vibrations MICHAL LEVIN “Michal Levin is one of the world's foremost teachers of energy. Her skills, insight and integrity are extraordinary.”

– James Redfield Good Vibrations is not just a song by The Beach Boys; it is also a phrase that touches on a truth we are only just beginning to understand. Good vibrations are energetic vibrations, and they are the key to true love, saving the planet, personal development, even knowing the divine. So how can we access them? Many years ago Michal Levin was given the ability to see, intuit and interpret energies. She was taught by the spirit world, in great depth, about the nature of reality and the part that energy plays. Tonight Michal will share her teachings, including giving you a blueprint for developing your energy to give your life meaning and direction, and to enable your power, purpose and love to blossom.

Michal Levin is a spiritual teacher who is known as ‘the intuitive's intuitive’ by the thousands of people worldwide who have benefited from her intuitive readings, healing workshops, books and seminars. Her books include Meditation: The Path to the Deeper Self and Spiritual Intelligence. www.michallevin.com £10/£5 concs

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talks Wednesday 17 November The Coaching Circle: Leadership Coaching DAVID McQUEEN Leadership coaching provides tools and methods to help leaders step into their potential. This process can be very challenging as it means the leader has to face their own demons as well as embrace their magnificence in order to be able to influence and empower others.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The Seven Dials Club 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LA

Ian A Fraser

Monday 8 November The Way of Conscious Eldership MALCOLM STERN In our youth-obsessed culture, we constantly strive to combat ageing as if it were an unwelcome intruder. We delight in hearing how youthful we look, as we seek to permanently prolong the spring and summer of our lives. However, if we instead allow ourselves to accept gracefully the passage of time and the changing seasons of our lives, there are many tremendous opportunities to be experienced. We can come to understand the call to serve life and to leave the planet in better shape for generations still to come.

This talk is an exploration of the hidden treasures awaiting us as we develop and mature, including the great secret of living that Malcolm has learned from his lifelong studies of the great mystics of all traditions.

Malcolm Stern is a psychotherapist specialising in group dynamics and relationships, and co-founder of Alternatives. He trains other therapists, has presented television programmes for Channel Four and is the author of Falling in Love, Staying in Love. His life experience includes sailing on the Rainbow Warrior with Greenpeace, working in a terminal cancer hospice, and spending six years living in community. www.malcolmstern.com £10/£5 concs

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Monday 15 November Towards the Light PETER FENWICK Is there life after death? What happens when we die? Does consciousness survive the ending of the physical body?

These are questions that have facinated us for millenia. This evening Dr Fenwick will discuss life beyond death, latest research into consciousness, how the mind may well be separate from the brain, as well as near-death experiences - including how and why they are real, and how they occur. Dr Fenwick will also discuss the spirituality of dying.

Come and hear how death is not the end, and how many people’s experiences of near-death suggest a profundity to the experience that makes it a transition, not an ending.

Dr Peter Fenwick is an internationally renowned neuropsychiatrist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is Britain's leading clinical authority on near-death experiences, a co-director of both research and clinical programmes at the Department of Neurophysiology at Broadmoor Hospital, and consultant neuropsychiatrist at the London Sleep Centre. He is the co-author with his wife Elizabeth of The Art of Dying. £10/£5 concs

Monday 22 November The Greatest Story Never Told DENNIS PRICE ‘And did those feet in ancient time/Walk upon England's mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God/On England's pleasant pastures seen?’

Do William Blake’s lyrics for the popular hymn ‘Jerusalem’ reveal an extraordinary insight into the so-called ‘missing years of Jesus’ - the 18 years that are unaccounted for in the Bible from when Jesus was a boy of 12 to his sudden reappearance at the age of 30?

Archaeologist and classical scholar Dennis Price has investigated the clues in Blake’s evocative poem and has paid meticulous attention to the accounts in the ancient Aramaic and Greek versions of the Bible. He has also conducted an exhaustive and unprecedented study into the myths and legends of Christ in Britain. Dennis now presents compelling and highly original evidence that Christ did indeed visit Britain in the company of Joseph of Arimathea ‘in ancient times’. The implications are astonishing and Dennis presents them tonight as ‘the greatest story never told’.

Dennis Price is a classical scholar and archaeologist. Since the publication of his book, The Missing Years of Jesus, he has been in increasing demand as an interviewee and speaker on a subject that exercises a growing fascination over people of all faiths and none. £10/£5 concs

“Thank you Alternatives for holding such a marvellous space for transformation and enlightenment.”

Marianne Williamson

I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun – Virginia Woolf

talks Monday 29 November The Shift – The Movie FEATURING WAYNE DYER Watching a film at St James’s Church is a special experience, and especially when the intention is to inspire your spiritual development. From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes The Shift, a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new meaning and direction. In the movie, the modern obsession with self and status and always wanting more is shown in stark contrast to a life of meaning, focused on serving and giving back. This entertaining movie not only inspires, but also teaches us how to find the path to our spiritual purpose and therefore our greatest joy. Filmed on California’s spectacular Monterey Peninsula, The Shift captures everyone’s longing for a more purposeful, souldirected life. The Shift is the brainchild of Wayne Dyer PhD, the internationally renowned self-development author and speaker. www.dyermovie.com £10/£5 concs Monday 6 December Conscious Medicine GILL EDWARDS Why do people become ill? How can you help yourself and others to heal?

Why do some people heal ‘spontaneously’ from various diseases? And why should you believe six impossible things before breakfast if you want to experience vibrant health and happiness? Tonight, Gill Edwards outlines how the current scientific revolution in physics and biology must transform conventional medicine. Gill considers the role of stress and trauma in emotional and physical dis-ease, how our thoughts affect our DNA and why our emotions provide the key to health. As we begin to live in a conscious (rather than a material) universe, we realise that the power to create health or disease comes from within. Health is all about our vibrational frequency. If you consistently shift your vibrations, then almost every disease will heal.

Gill Edwards is a clinical psychologist who has trained in shamanic healing, and energy medicine. She is the author of bestsellers Living Magically, Stepping Into the Magic, Pure Bliss, Wild Love and Life Is A Gift, and her latest Conscious Medicine. www.livingmagically.co.uk £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

Winter Solstice Celebration 2009

Wednesday 8 December The Coaching Circle: Playing the Enlightenment Game PAM CARRUTHERS This evening Pam will introduce you to the transformational healing principles of Psychology ofVision that she uses in her work. She will give an overview of the POV Triangle model with handouts, then the group will form into pairs and start giving readings for each other, assisted by Pam. 7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The Seven Dials Club 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LA

Your Pictures We are always on the look out for pictures to use in our programme and on our website which in some way illustrate some of the aspects of what Alternatives is about. So we are starting a regular competition to build up a library of images (either photographs or art), which we may use.

We will pay £25 for pictures used in our programme and will feature selected images on our website chosen by our panel. Each programme will have two themes for your submission which for the autumn are: Inspiration Spiritual Practice Hi-res digital images only please and a maximum of 3 pictures per theme. Email your pictures by 1 November to Richard at richard@alternatives.org.uk

The best way out is through – Robert Frost

Richard Dunkerley

Monday 13 December Winter Solstice Celebration ALTERNATIVES TEAM & FRIENDS Winter Solstice has been celebrated in cultures the world over for thousands of years.This start of the solar year is a celebration of light and the rebirth of the sun. The Winter Solstice is the time of longest darkness and shortest light north of the Equator. It is the traditional time to celebrate the truly important things in life: your family, your children, your home and looking forward to a wonderful year to come.Yule is a time throughout time that honours love and new birth, as well as the collective unity of humanity. Just as Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, Yule celebrates the birth of the sun god - child of the goddess in the Pagan belief system.Yule is primarily the celebration of the rebirth of the sun. Tonight we will have a magical invocation to the directions, a releasing ritual so you can let go of the limiting energies of 2010, some amazing drummers and other surprise performances. £10/£5 concs We wish you many blessings for Christmas and Yule time.

Monday 10 January First talk of our Winter programme

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workshops Weekend 18/19 September

Voices of the Ancestors ROGER WOOLGER For the most part, our culture has few rituals or practices to facilitate the safe passage of departing spirits after death, with the result that many of our energy problems can be due to old or ancestral spirit energies trying to speak or act through us to resolve unfinished issues of their own making.

This weekend you will learn simple and safe methods to release ancestral and past-life spirits and tune into what Roger calls ‘the ancestral field’. His principles and approaches derive from Jungian, Buddhist and European views of spirits, and his work shows that spirits respond to loving and compassionate treatment.With Roger’s experienced guidance you will learn: * ways to recognise attachments; * techniques to access your own ancestral memories; * how to body-scan your ancestral field for disturbed or lost energy forms; * how to talk to and aid unhappy spirits; and * how to send them lovingly to the light.

Peaceful Warrior

Herewood Gabriel

Sunday 19 September

Creativity, Purpose and Mastery

Dr Roger Woolger is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in past life regression and for creating a unique form of spiritual psychotherapy named Deep Memory Process. Having trained as an analyst at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, Roger teaches worldwide. www.rogerwoolger.com 10.30am–5.30pm £130/£80 concs Wellington Hotel, 71 Vincent Square, SW1P 2PA

SRIKUMAR RAO

Saturday 2 October

This workshop will help you discover your unique purpose in life. At the very least, it will get you started on your quest, for this is a course on creativity; about the human mind and its immense potential; how you can harness your potential to achieve your own ends and how to discern which ends are really worth achieving. Come and be helped to learn the grand design that gives meaning to you, and find that to which you can enthusiastically devote the rest of your life.

To help you discover your unique purpose, today you will carry out various mental exercises, drawn from varied disciplines, many of which have their roots in different ancient traditions.They have been used and refined by the US armed forces and trainers of Olympic athletes among others to produce effective results. Srikumar will show you how to mobilise resources to make your life purpose a reality - including learning to create serendipitous opportunities- and crucially, he will advise you on attaining balance between striving mightily in life while remaining serene throughout it.

Healing Your Life With the Tao

Dr Srikumar Rao teaches a world-renowned, pioneering course in Creativity and Personal Mastery that is one of the highest rated at Columbia Business School and London Business School. An academic, executive coach and seminar leader, Dr Rao is author of Are YOU Ready to Succeed?

Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life. www.srikumarrao.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Dragon Hall, 17 Stukeley Street, WC2B 5LT

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BAREFOOT DOCTOR The Chinese character 'Tao' has a variety of translations in English and can mean road, channel, path, way, doctrine or line.Tao can be roughly stated to be the flow of the universe, or the force behind natural order, equating it with the influence that keeps the universe balanced and ordered.

That said, healing is a super-skill. Every situation and person presents an opportunity to repair the perceived rent in reality, to alleviate suffering, relieve depression, anxiety and loneliness and make life better for everyone. Making situations and people whole is what yields the miracles or quantum shifts you require in your own life.

Today, come and learn to access, sustain and develop the strength, vision, courage, assertiveness, confidence and energy to not only survive but thrive in these uncertain times, reharmonize your relationships, up your value and enjoyment levels in your career, and altogether heal your life, the ancient yet universally applicable Taoist way.

Stephen Russell , aka the Barefoot Doctor, is the author of 13 books and an acclaimed master of Taoist practices to improve your life. In over 25 years of training, Barefoot Doctor has learned from some of the most colourful, inspiring and innovative teachers and gurus of their generation. www.superchargedtaoist.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, NW1 7AY

workshops Sunday 3 October

Befriend Your Monkey Mind ED AND DEB SHAPIRO ‘Monkey mind’ is a Buddhist term meaning ‘unsettled, restless, confused, uncontrollable’. Has your mind ever felt like that? Does it sometimes drive you crazy?

You may have sought to still your mind and discovered that after years of distraction your mind is not always so ready or willing to be quiet, preferring to imitate a monkey in the jungle, swinging hastily from tree to tree (or, in our case, thought to thought). As you get to know and make friends with your monkey mind, wonderful things begin to happen: you get to realise how insubstantial many of your fears really are, how to identify less with your thoughts, and instead identify more with the awareness that lies beyond.

Ed and Deb will teach you various techniques, including inner conscious relaxation, breath awareness meditation and loving kindness meditation to help you develop greater compassion for yourself and others.

Lisa Ratcliffe

Saturday 9 October

Brand You JOHN PURKISS & DAVID ROYSTON-LEE What is your personal brand and why is it important? Well you already have a brand. As Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, once said: “Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.”

Personal branding is becoming increasingly important in the areas of career, and business.Your brand needs to be real – based on who you really are. Personal branding is about authentically and successfully getting your message across to employers or clients.

This workshop, tailored to help you identify your personal brand, will consist primarily of practical exercises, in which you will learn how to: * identify your talents, values and purpose: * discover which archetypes best express the person you are, and ensure that your appearance, behaviour and presentation fit your archetype; * build a network that helps you to pursue your purpose; * develop your ‘three-second statement’ so you can convey your message succinctly to the world; and * develop a stronger presence and increased visibility in the world.

John Purkiss is a headhunter and co-author of How to be Headhunted and Brand You. His former career in banking and management consultancy gave him a keen taste for personal development.

David Royston-Lee is a founder member of the Association of Business Psychologists and has over 20 years’ experience in coaching, counselling and mentoring. He is co-author of Brand You. www.brandyou.info 10.30am–5.30pm £75/£55 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Ed and Deb Shapiro write a weekly meditation column for Oprah.com, and they are featured bloggers for HuffingtonPost.com and Care2.com.They the authors of the 2010 Nautilus Gold Book Award winner BE THE CHANGE, How Meditation Can Transform You And The World, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Deb is also the author of the bestselling book Your Body Speaks Your Mind. www.edanddebshapiro.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Saturday 16 October

The Practical Miracles Method ARIELLE ESSEX Arielle Essex believes that deep within you, in the living matrix of your body, mind and spirit there is a power that sparkles like a beautiful gem.Today she will teach you a new way to polish the facets of your soul so this inner light can shine out. Radiate the kind of energy that magnetically attracts solutions and desired results with less effort.This interactive, experiential day will inspire you to: * re-connect with inner wisdom; * access unique personal insights; * turn problems and traumas into gifts; * dissolve blocks to healing, and increase your healing capacity; * find the answers that help you shift; * discover your own meaningful purpose; and * be open to miracles happen in your life!

With findings based on the latest informational medicine theory, this is a day for all who are dedicated to positive personal change and reconnection to your source.

Arielle Essex has a background in complementary medicine. Having healed a brain tumour, ovarian cyst, and breast lumps, her psychological healing methods are featured in the film documentary The Living Matrix.The founder of Practical Miracles NLP, Arielle’s books include Compassionate Coaching and The Eight Factors of Healing. www.arielle-essex.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

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Christine Heidel

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Saturday 30 October

Evolutionary Enlightenment

Matrix Reimprinting

ANDREW COHEN

SASHA ALLENBY

Change happens when an individual begins to awaken to a new consciousness, a new way of being.This in turn leads to the impulse to do something quite different in the world.

Acting on the principle that inner awakening leads to outer change, the awakened individual starts to want to take an active role in creating a new future and no longer wants a future that repeats the conditionings of the past.

Instead, there is a compulsion to create a new horizon of potential and possibility for all rather than simply survive the crises we are facing as a species.In this one-day seminar, Andrew Cohen will guide you through an experience of non-dual awakening and how it can open you to new dimensions.You will: * Learn to identify the evolutionary impulse that seeks to move within you; * Discover an unbelievable excitement and thrill about life and what it means to open to the life force and to always seek the possibility of the new; and * Begin to live from a place that excites you, turns you on constantly and lights up your heart and mind.

The day will include dialogue and meditation.

A cutting-edge personal development technique that dramatically improves health and wellbeing by allowing you to access and transform painful memories, Matrix Reimprinting has been developed from Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a meridian tapping therapy that has shown outstanding results with both physical and emotional issues. Now Matrix Reimprinting advances EFT by incorporating all the latest developments in the new sciences and quantum physics.

Matrix Reimprinting can be learned quickly and easily and is believed to be particularly effective in helping to overcome a variety of health and emotional challenges, including negative beliefs; stress; addictions; phobias; traumas; allergies; relationship issues; issues arising from birth traumas; long-term illness and disease; and blocked or suppressed memories.

This workshop will give you an introduction to basic Matrix Reimprinting techniques so that you can begin to use them for your own wellbeing and development.

Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher who offers talks, retreats, publications, and ongoing dialogues with the leading philosophers, mystics, and activists of our time. He is founder and editor-in chief of the award-winning magazine EnlightenNext. He is the author of several books, his latest being Living Enlightenment: A Call for Evolution Beyond Ego. www.andrewcohen.org 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

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Sasha Allenby co-authored (with Karl Dawson) the forthcoming book Matrix Reimprinting: Using EFT. Sasha has contributed much to the development of Matrix Reimprinting and overcame two serious health conditions (CFS/ME and bipolar disorder) by using the method. www.matrixreimprintingcourses.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious – Albert Einstein

workshops Saturday 6 November

Creating a Business to Love JUDITH MORGAN As the nine-to-five treadmill becomes increasingly unappealing for many, the task is to create a business that you love and that serves the life you want. Do you want to be successfully self-employed, exchanging time for money and paying your bills every month with ease and grace? Would you like to rest easy in pricing yourself appropriately and asking for money? Do you wish to reconcile your spirituality with your financial needs?

Today Judith will help you discover how to: * design a business that allows you to live your dream life; * become successfully self-employed or an effortless business owner; * vanquish any limiting beliefs around money and success; * create abundance using manifestation and mindset; * climb the ladder of business success with the '10 Steps to Entrepreneur Heaven'; and * enjoy work you love, attract clients you love, and create a life you love.

You will leave this workshop equipped with numerous tools designed to help you in your small business.

Judith Morgan has always been called to be her own boss.

She is an accountant turned business and wealth coach with more than 30 years’ experience of running her own businesses and those of her clients. Judith is the author of the e-book Creating a Business to Love. www.judithmorgan.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Sunday 7 November

The Traveller

Herewood Gabriel

Saturday 13 November

Healing the Emotional Body MARK ATKINSON

Energetic NLP is an exciting holistic healing technique that combines the best of energy healing with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).This workshop will use Energetic NLP methods and techniques to help you open up your intuition, connect with your inner wisdom, and bring your spiritual nature into your daily life.

We all have unconscious limiting beliefs, karma, and spiritual contracts that block us in life.This workshop will help you to clear these by accessing the incredible wisdom and spiritual power within you. In this workshop you will learn different ways to connect with your intuition by opening inner pathways that allow your inner wisdom and spirit into your daily decisions, actions, emotions, relationships, collaborations, problem solving, and creations. No previous experience of energy healing or NLP is required.

At the heart of many people's dissatisfaction with life is emotional pain.This unprocessed emotional charge is held and carried within the emotional body (the invisible body through which our patterns of energy (emotions) rise and fall).We think and at times feel we are in charge of our lives, but in truth, our unprocessed emotions and their associated limiting beliefs are.What's more this is often a significant barrier to our wellbeing and authentic soul development. If you are committed to your health and well-being, and to living consciously, then healing the emotional body is essential.

This experiential workshop will provide you with the tools and insights that will enable you to start processing effectively the emotional patterns that are preventing you from healing and evolving.You will learn how to: Managing stressful thoughts; Access your emotional experiences as gateways into peace and stillness of your authentic self; and heal emotional pain.

Art Giser, the founder of Energetic NLP, has studied with many leading energy practitioners from the Western, Eastern and South American traditions. He has received two empowerments directly from the Dalai Lama and worked for seven years with the internationally renowned Brazilian healer, John of God. Based in San Francisco, Art teaches Energetic NLP round the world. www.energeticnlp.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Dragon Hall, 17 Stukeley Street, WC2B 5LT

Dr Mark Atkinson is an internationally renowned expert in mind-body healing, author of The Mind-Body Bible and the developer of Integral Well-Being Therapy. As a practising holistic medical doctor, he advocates an integrative approach to health and healing. In 2008 Dr Atkinson established The Academy of Human Potential, through which he offer professional training programmes, workshops and retreats. www.drmarkatkinson.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

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workshops Sunday 14 November

The 12 Sacred Principles of Karma STEVEN HAIRFIELD Karma is a Sanskrit word that means “action.” Karma has commonly been considered a punishment for past bad actions, but karma is neither judge nor jury. Rather, it is simply the universal law of cause and effect that says every thought, word and act carries energy into the world and affects our present reality.

There are twelve principles of karma of which we, in this part of the world, misunderstand and pay little or no heed.Today we discuss the principles and offer ideas on how to balance the effects of our cause, the idea of the principle of Alpha and the Omega.This workshop will cover discussions about natural universal law; the Buddhist philosophy of cause; becoming the first cause; karma, the 12 principles and how to clear them; the moment – creation in motion; and renewal of purpose.

This workshop will appeal to those with an interest in Eastern and Western mysticism, as well as those keen to learn more about the importance of practising presence.

Steven Hairfield PhD served in the military in Vietnam. His search for higher understanding guided him to a Zen Buddhist monastery in South Vietnam and to India to learn from spiritual masters.The author of several books including The 12 Sacred Principles of Karma, he travels and teaches internationally on the philosophies of the new age, spirituality, Buddhism, and Christianity. www.hairfield.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Sunday 21 November

The Heart Speaks STEWART PEARCE This unique sound healing workshop with world leading voice expert Stewart Pearce will encourage you to live and speak from the heart, and to make every decision from your heart centre.

When you are in harmony, the heart has an energy field five thousand times greater than the human brain, bringing expanded joy, uplifted physical energy and focused co-creativity.This in turn moves you from a love of power to the power of love, and so you create a fusion within yourself between mind and body, psyche and soma, embracing the heart as a secret chamber.

The workshop is filled with the experience of sound meditations and heart tools for healing ourselves so that we end the day fully in alignment with love, gratitude, non-judgment, compassion and forgiveness. Come and expand your heart five thousand times more and move into the power of love.

Stewart Pearce is a world renowned sound healer, voice alchemist and master of presentation. Author of The Alchemy of Voice and The Heart Speaks, he was Master of Voice at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for a decade. His illustrious client list includes the successful presenters of the London 2012 Olympic bid. www.thealchemyofvoice.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

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Green Tara

Anya Langmead

Saturday 4 December

Finding Lasting Love ANDREW G MARSHALL Today’s event aims to help you find lasting love, whatever your relationship experience and regardless of whether you are short-term or long-term single.

Drawing on his 25 years of practical experience, Andrew will show you how to make peace with your past so you can begin to create better bonds with people in the present. Learn how like attracts like, and what you can do to balance yourself to bring similarly balanced people into your life; how to approach people with a mindset that will create more fulfilling emotional connections; and how to tell whether potential partners have the makings of a successful long-term partnership.

This practical workshop contains plenty of exercises to help you understand your particular relationship dilemmas and devise your own well-made plan for finding love. A past participant of this workshop says: “I was particularly struck with the caring and supportive environment, the leadership, and the time taken with everyone to listen and advise in a totally sensitive way.”

Andrew G Marshall is 'Britain's best known marital therapist' (Radio 4 Woman's Hour) and author ofThe SingleTrap:The twostep guide to escaping it and finding lasting love. He works for Relate and writes on relationships for The Times and Psychologies magazine. His work has been translated into 15 languages and he runs workshops worldwide. www.andrewgmarshall.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal – A Course in Miracles

workshops Weekend 19/20 February

Creativity Boot Camp JULIA CAMERON Your creative spirit can express itself in so many ways in the world, through music, dancing, play, singing, poetry, and painting.Your creative spirit can also show up in the ways you relate to others, handle difficulties, and find innovative solutions to your life's problems.

In this two-day workshop, Julia Cameron will help identify and unravel old and unworkable ideas that block your creative spirit. Is it time to stop telling yourself it’s too late? Is it time to stop waiting until you make enough money to do something you love? Is it time to stop thinking it's just your ego whenever you yearn for a more fulfilling life?

Join Julia Cameron for an intensive two-day trek through your creative kingdom.Tools will include morning pages, artist dates and creativity totems.This event will be a mix of lecture, Q&A, and experiential work in creative clusters. Expect this course to jump-start your creative process and introduce you to a creative community.

Julia Cameron is the author of more than 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction. Best known as the author of The Artist’s Way, her bestselling works on the creative process have been translated into more than 30 languages. A playwright and poet, she has distinguished credits in theatre, film and television. www.theartistsway.com 10.30am–5pm £150/£110 concs Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG

Sunday 27 February

The Singing Field CHLOE GOODCHILD A ‘Singing Field’ is an place where individuals and groups can gather and create community together. It is a place to sing together, beyond the boundaries of creed and culture. It is an unconditional field of listening, similar to that of indigenous communities, in which both the individual and the collective wisdom is expressed, heard and honoured.

At this uplifting sound and voice event, we will create a beautiful singing field that will provide nourishment and support for all who are present, and deepen our understanding of the relationship between sound, voice and self-awareness.

Sharing sound and music-making as a metaphor for life. So at this event you will discover oneness within diversity, opening your heart, inspiring the highest of sound values, harmony, co-operation, compassion and community spirit. No previous singing experience is necessary.

Chloë Goodchild is founder of The Naked Voice and she records and performs with many world-leading composers, poets and musicians. Deafness in childhood catalysed Chloë's fascination with inner sound and the singing voice as the most intimate vehicle for spirit, unhindered by the limitations of social conditioning. www.thenakedvoice.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£40 concs Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, NW1 7AY

Michael Howe

Saturday 26 March

Healing Beyond Reason CAROLINE MYSS This seminar by visionary author and intuitive Caroline Myss will expand your thinking and experience around physical or psychological illness and the potential we all have for healing. She researched many inspiring yet ordinary people who overcame a wide array of ailments-from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer. At the same time Caroline Myss explored the works of many great mystics to gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual foundation required for healing. Based on her amazing findings you will discover why conventional and holistic medicine often fall short in times of need.

Integral to this mystical healing approach is the engagement of the soul, which we experience through exploring our seven shadow passions, building an empowered inner self around our seven inherent graces, and learning how to work with the mystical laws that govern the soul.This knowledge holds the key to understanding what it means to defy gravity and break through the boundaries of ordinary thought.You can heal any illness.You can channel grace and you can learn to live fearlessly.

Caroline Myss is a renowned medical intuitive, mystic and author of many books including Anatomy of the Spirit,Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, Sacred Contracts and Entering The Castle. Her latest book is called Defy Gravity: How to Heal beyond the Bounds of Ordinary Reason. She has appeared several times on The Oprah Winfrey Show. www.myss.com 10.30am–4.30pm £75/£55 concs Friends House, 173 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ

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Dates: Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd October 2010 Venue: Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH Tickets: £65.00/£55.00/£50.00

KIM ENG has created this special workshop to complement the work of Eckhart Tolle, to use the physical form – the body – in order to access the formless dimension within ourselves, the state of consciousness that is Presence. It consists of meditative movements, Yin-Yoga poses and Qi-Gong as well as T’ai-Chi exercises. No prior knowledge is required. The exercises and movements are gentle, enjoyable and suitable for most people, regardless of age or physical fitness.

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Awakening the Mystic Heart Pir Zia Inayat-Khan will be leading a weekend of Sufi teachings, meditations and practices on awakening the heart. He is the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International, a mystical and ecumenical fellowship rooted in the visionary legacy of his grandfather, Hazrat Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is also the President of the Suluk Academy and the founder of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. Pir Zia holds a Doctoral degree in Religion from Duke University and is a recipient of the U Thant Peace Award.

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Enrolling now for: â&#x20AC;˘ Introductory Weekend Workshops (September 2010) â&#x20AC;˘ Foundation Certificate (starting November 2010)

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Mon 6 Sept The Frontiers of Human Consciousness Mon 13 Sept Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness Wed 15 Sept Coaching Circle Mon 20 Sept Spirit, Power and Mystery Wed 22 Sept Stairways to Heaven Mon 27 Sept Befriend Your Monkey Mind Mon 4 Oct Erotic Innocence & Sexual Alchemy Mon 11 Oct A Hundred Thousand Angels Mon 18 Oct The Legacy of Gandhi Wed 20 Oct Coaching Circle Mon 25 Oct Reflections on Life, Love and the Soul Mon 1 Nov Good Vibrations Mon 8 Nov The Way of Conscious Eldership Mon 15 Nov Towards the Light Wed 17 Nov Coaching Circle Mon 22 Nov The Greatest Story Never Told Mon 29 Nov The Shift – The Movie Mon 6 Dec Conscious Medicine Wed 8 Dec Coaching Circle Mon 13 Dec Winter Solstice Celebration * Talks may be booked in advance only via our website

workshops W 18/19 Sept Sun 19 Sept Sat 2 Oct Sun 3 Oct Sat 9 Oct Sat 16 Oct Sun 17 Oct Sat 30 Oct Sat 6 Nov Sun 7 Nov Sat 13 Nov Sun 14 Nov Sun 21 Nov Sat 4 Dec W 19/20 Feb Sun 27 Feb Sat 26 March

Stanislav Grof P3 Srikumar Rao P3 Grace Owen P3 Starhawk P3 Lorna Byrne P4 Ed and Deb Shapiro P4 S Desilets & S Sebastian P4 Lucinda Drayton P4 Arun Gandhi P5 Ntathu Allen P5 Peter Owen-Jones P5 Michal Levin P5 Malcolm Stern P6 Peter Fenwick P6 David McQueen P6 Dennis Price P6 Featuring Wayne Dyer P7 Gill Edwards P7 Pamela Carruthers P7 Alternatives Team/Friends P7

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Voices of the Ancestors Creativity, Purpose & Mastery Healing Your Life with the Tao Befriend Your Monkey Mind Brand You The Practical Miracles Method Evolutionary Enlightenment Matrix Reimprinting Creating a Business to Love Intuition, Wisdom & Spiritual Power Healing the Emotional Body The 12 Sacred Principles of Karma The Heart Speaks Finding Lasting Love Creativity Boot Camp The Singing Field Healing Beyond Reason

Roger Woolger Srikumar Rao Barefoot Doctor Ed and Deb Shapiro J Purkiss/D Royston-Lee Arielle Essex Andrew Cohen Sasha Allenby Judith Morgan Art Giser Mark Atkinson Stephen Hairfield Stewart Pearce Andrew G Marshall Julia Cameron Chlöe Goodchild Caroline Myss

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workshop bookings To book a workshop, you can pay a £30 non-refundable deposit or the full amount. If paying a deposit, the full amount should then be paid one week before the workshop. You can pay: 1) By debit/credit card or PayPal at our website www.alternatives.org.uk. There are no card fees via our website.

2) By cheque payable to Alternatives. Send to our office with your name, address and phone number. Please send a separate cheque for each workshop.

Our workshops are often full – if you have not booked, please do not turn up on the day without having first checked with us that there are places available.

cancellations Please notify our office if you wish to cancel your workshop booking. Cancellations before 7 days of the workshop date will be refunded money paid less £30 deposit. We are unable to refund cancellations with less than 7 days notice. You may transfer your place to another stated workshop if you call us more than 3 working days before the workshop.

concessions Concessions are for people who are unwaged – full-time students, benefits, over 60s, and job seekers. Please send photocopied proof of status.

our workshops Alternatives provides an educational space for personal and spiritual exploration. You may find that taking one of our workshops can facilitate a powerful experience and we encourage you to take care of yourself during and after the workshop.

data protection We do not pass on your personal information to anyone. We do not sell our mailing list. We do not give your address to workshop leaders without your permission.

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A LTERNATIVES St James’s Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL 020 7287 6711 admin@alternatives.org.uk www.alternatives.org.uk Co-Directors Richard Dunkerley Steve Nobel Esther Waldron Office Staff Susanna Howe Julie Swann Trustee Directors Tom Cook (Chair) Jackee Holder (Vice Chair) John Hunt Mary Priest-Cobern Malcolm Stern Chris Waters Team Anthony Abreu Gbone Adjene Renu Arora Susan Bryceland Richard Clare Martin Cochrane Mary Daniels Olga Dodekova Kerrie Duggan Wendy Hannon Susanna Howe Cheryl Kempton Gemma Petherbridge Angie Shori Laura Steinhart Jo West James Westlake Design Richard Dunkerley Printers RAP Spider Web Printed on paper from sustainable resources Alternatives is a company limited by guarantee Company no: 3978199

Keep in mind that we are pioneers into the unknown and uncertainty is our ally – Deepak Chopra