Alternatives: Winter 2011

A LTERNATIVES St James’s Church / Piccadilly / London Winter/Spring 2012 Programme

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We warmly welcome you to our Winter/Spring programme. We have many inspirational events for you with leading presenters in contemporary spirituality and personal growth.

We were very sad to hear about the recent passing of Gill Edwards and Roger Woolger. Both presented several events on our programme over the years which inspired and touched many people. Gill was known for her pioneering book Living Magically. Roger was a Jungian analyst and regression therapist known for his work on archetypes and past lives. Both will be dearly missed by family, friends and followers of their work.

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Steve Nobel & Richard Dunkerley Co-Directors

About Alternatives Alternatives explores world spirituality and personal growth through regular events and online resources. Based at St James’s Church, Piccadilly since 1982, Alternatives is a not-for-profit organisation serving a global audience.

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. We recognise that quick solutions to some issues are not always possible. 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.

Cover Photo: Celine Gamble Your Pictures – Light

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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 - 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 - become a Good Friend for £50 a year. Same benefits as Friend, plus you receive free entrance to three talks per year and a Coaching Circle (worth £50), 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 - 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).

7pm Talks at St James’s Church Pay on the door for our Monday talks or 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, jobseekers and DLA. 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. There is an accessible toilet in the church foyer. For those with hearing impairments, an induction loop operates in the Church.

Listen to our free back library of talks at www.alternatives.org.uk

talks Wednesday 18 January Soul of Coaching: Re-Charge and Re-Balance Your Energy SALLY TOPHAM Soul of Coaching is a continuous, monthly professional development group for anyone interested in learning more about different approaches to coaching.You do not have to be a coach to attend.

This month we have Sally Topham presenting on effective energy techniques for managing, re-charging and rebalancing blocked energy caused by the stresses and challenges of everyday living.

7pm–9pm £15/£10 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St, WC1N 3AL

On the Edge of the City

Brian Whelan

Monday 9 January Journey to Superconsciousness MAHASATVAA MA ANANDA SARITA For thousands of years in the East, particularly in India, the chakra system has been used as a map to help spiritual seekers find their eventual reunion with source, or what is commonly referred to as enlightenment.This evening’s talk explores the journey of the soul and how it is unique for each individual.

There is no dogma or creed that can take us there. And yet, there are maps and signposts which can be of help.You will explore the map of the chakra system and how this can be used to empower us to awaken into superconsciousness. Each of the seven chakras holds a life lesson. As we learn to open ourselves to these seven life lessons through our own direct experience, we naturally evolve our capacity for sensitivity, love, creativity, genius and bliss.

Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita PhD is a renowned Tantra master and author.

She began her journey into tantra, meditation and healing arts in 1973 in India, with Osho, and lived for many years in his community. She has been teaching tantra around the world since 1990. www.tantra-essence.com £10/£5 concs Sarita is leading a workshop Sexuality and Superconsciousness on Saturday 11 February – see page 8.

Monday 16 January The Sacred Healer NATALIA O’SULLIVAN The Western world is largely future orientated and focused on achievement.

Very rarely in daily life do we look to the past and where we have come from and what we have accomplished? In the fast pace of today’s world there is a growing need to reconnect to the sacred elements of life. This evening Natalia will speak about connecting and responding to nature and the cycles of the earth. And how we can be more conscious and aware of our responsibility to the earth and how we can learn to heal past inherited pain and trauma from our family and family history.

Natalia will also advise how to bring into your daily life sacred practices such as prayer, meditation and ritual.

Natalia O’Sullivan is a holistic therapist, psychic and healer. Her work is founded on a blend of the wisdom of ancient indigenous cultures alongside a modern psycho-therapeutic approach.

She is the co-author of Soul Rescuers and The Body Shop Book of Well Being, and author of Do ItYourself Psychic Power and Mind Power.With her husband she is the founder and creator of The Soul Rescuers Foundation course www.sacredhealers.co.uk £10/£5 concs

Monday 23 January Finding Your Life Vision JULIAN RUSSELL This talk will explore two key ideas: the idea that you have a life calling, a special purpose that you want to fulfil in the world; and you have a life vision, how that special purpose translates into tangible goals that can be achieved and measured. Imagine what your life would be like if you were following a vision that might take your whole life to fulfil? Imagine how your life could be if you lived this with passion, humility, perseverance, curiosity and excitement? This is about a life well lived.

During this talk you will begin to dream your life vision that will continue to unfold in your waking and sleeping states in the days that follow bringing new clarity to your direction.

Julian Russell helped to introduce NLP into the UK and founded the Life Talent programme.

He leads workshops, groups and coaches leaders in global organisations in Europe and USA. He is co-author of Alpha Leadership -Tools for Business Leaders Who Want More Out of Life He is a UKCP psychotherapist, a 2nd Dan in Aikido, and long-term student of Buddhism. £10/£5 concs Julian Russell is leading a workshop Discovering Your Life Calling on Saturday and Sunday 24/25 March – see page 12.

Natalia is leading a workshop The Sacred Healer on Sunday 12 February – see page 9.

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Lisa Ratcliffe

Monday 30 January Little Tibet – Film Screening Tonight we welcome you to a screening of LittleTibet, a fascinating documentary by film-maker Joseph Brett. Nawang N Anja-Tsang (Sonam) is a Tibetan who can no longer return to his own country Sonam is in search of Tibet outside of Tibet. He journeys to Ladakh, in the northern most part of India (which is known as Little Tibet). Ladakh borders Tibet and shares much of its culture, language and landscape. Here, in this remote, high altitude land, Sonam finds the beauty of his culture both preserved and living. During his journey across the breath-taking landscape of the Himalayas, through rain, snow and desert, Sonam discovers ancient Tibetan monasteries and talks with nomads in Chang Thang, the pasture-lands that once stretched over the Indo-Tibetan border. He sees His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama give teachings to an audience of thousands, joins in the celebrations of a Tibetan wedding and encounters marmots. In this land still rich in Tibetan culture, he finds the beauty and gems of his lost homeland. £10/£5 concs

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Monday 6 February Authentic Success ROBERT HOLDEN The Monty Python comedy sketch: 100 Yards Dash for People with No Sense of Direction offers a perfect metaphor for our mad-dash world says Robert Holden. Our modern lifestyles are more manic, busy, and hyper than ever.

In the name of success, we go about our day in a sick hurry, we are permanently busy, we are missing in action, we sacrifice our relationships, and we are often too tired to enjoy our lives. There is a better way! Robert calls upon you to re-think success. Success is more than a to do list, a business card or a frantic race - it is about soul, love, authenticity and following your joy. Robert outlines a powerful plan for living a truly rich life that creates more soulful success for yourself and those around you.

Robert Holden PhD is director of Success Intelligence and The Happiness Project. His innovative work on success and happiness has been featured on Oprah and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy. His many books include Happiness NOW!, Shift Happens!, Be Happy and Authentic Success (previous title Success Intelligence). www.robertholden.org £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

Monday 13 February Burning with Love – Rumi Concert DUNCAN MACKINTOSH “I am burning with Love. Does anyone need a light?You can set your rubbish ablaze from the fire within me.” - Rumi Rumi’s poetry is considered by many to be the greatest of all time. He is without doubt comparable to Shakespeare.

His words have an almost magical ability to speak directly to the heart of people of all races and faiths.Though rooted in 13th century Islamic culture, Rumi’s universality of spirit transcends creeds, lands, and even time, and is a profound voice of inspiration to our true humanity. His passionate, wise, and beautiful words still have a remarkable ability to touch contemporary audiences - firing the imagination and nourishing the heart. Come and celebrate the approach of Valentine’s Day and be warmed by the work of Jelaludin Rumi.

Duncan Mackintosh has been performing Rumi for over 20 years. A storyteller, actor, and teacher of performing arts, he has been a student of truth all his adult life. He runs workshops on the Alchemy of Presence.

His work is dedicated to the awakening of the One in all beings as love. www.rumitour.co.uk £10/£5 concs

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire – W B Yeats

talks Monday 20 February The Message BAREFOOT DOCTOR We are living in a time where things are changing rapidly and also there is a great deal of uncertainty around what the future holds. This is not a time for fear but for hope. This is not a time to seek greater security but to find greater flow.This evening, the Barefoot Doctor will explain how having reached this point of deep transition from one world to the next, the time has now come to live together in a totally new way if we are to evolve to the next stage.And that by learning to centre ourselves correctly and thus enter the transcendent realm (for which he will share the failsafe Taoist method), we naturally elicit an internal ethos, for which the Ten Commandments make a perfect template, but rather than commandments they become precepts for an individual and collective state of grace. This is the first time the Judeo-Christian and Taoist cosmologies have been connected in this way.

Barefoot Doctor is one of the world's leading lights in self-development specialising in the philosophy and techniques of ancient Taoism. He has had an extraordinary training over 30 years, in the human psyche with RD Laing, shamanism while living with the Native Americans for 4 years in New Mexico and acupuncture and Taoism.

He is the author of 15 bestselling books and holds retreats and seminars worldwide. www.barefootdoctorworld.com £10/£5 concs Wednesday 22 February Soul of Coaching: Conscious Relationships MALCOLM STERN Soul of Coaching is a continuous, monthly professional development group for anyone interested in learning more about different approaches to coaching.You do not have to be a coach to attend.

This evening will explore conscious relationships and the skill set needed to radically transform your relationships and learn to coach your clients to do the same.

7pm–9pm £15/£10 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St, WC1N 3AL

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Monday 27 February Buddha Standard Time LAMA SURYA DAS Buddhist wisdom teaches that the minutes and hours of our days do not simply march from future to present to past - looming, engulfing us, passing us by forever. Rather, each moment is intersected by a fourth dimension, a dimension of timelessness. Only by accessing that timeless dimension, the Buddha believed, can we learn to fully inhabit the Now.As an alternative to our ceaseless hustle and bustle, Surya Das offers the possibility of living in Buddha Standard Time. In this talk, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike will discover reasons and inspirations, tools and techniques that not only significantly reduce the amount of stress in our lives but help us find more focus, fulfilment, creativity, and even wisdom. Far from being at the mercy of time's demands, we will finally realise that we have, in fact, all the time in the world.

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. He is author of many books, including his latest, Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now www.surya.org £10/£5 concs Lama Surya Das is leading a workshop Awakening the Buddha Within on Saturday and Sunday 25/26 February – see page 10.

Charlotte Vassallo

Monday 5 March The Power of Forgiveness SONDRA RAY In this talk, Sondra Ray will discuss two of the most important forgiveness processes...A Course in Miracles, the popular modern day self help guide to personal inner peace and enlightenment, and Ho'oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian process of forgiveness. A Course in Miracles tells us that we attract all experiences to us by the quality of our own thoughts. It is always possible to replace the thought system of the ego with the Holy Spirit's thought system of forgiveness. Ho'oponopono provides a step-by-step approach to achieving peace, balance, and a new meaning of life through an understanding of one's self identity. It is a daily practice to "make right" what is already right, to correct and to rectify errors through repentance, forgiveness and transmutation. The essence of the process is to know who you are. This evening offers simple, yet profound methods of forgiveness that work to unravel problems and remove stress. It helps you to walk softly, lovingly and kindly within the chaos of the world.

Sondra Ray is a spiritual teacher and healer who pioneered rebirthing in the 1970s. She is the creator of Liberation Breathing which brings the divine Mother energy into the breathing sessions. She has a renowned expertise in relationships and is founder of the Loving Relationships Training. www.sondraray.com £10/£5 concs

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talks Monday 12 March You Can Create an Exceptional Life CHERYL RICHARDSON Join us for an evening with coach and author Cheryl Richardson as she talks about her latest book - You Can Create an Exceptional Life - co-written with Louise Hay. Learn about the daily habits and spiritual principles that have shaped their lives; the most powerful place to focus your time and energy; the keys to creating sustainable success, and their unique approach to the end of life.

Cheryl will also talk about how our thoughts influence and affect energy and the ways in which we can harness the creative power of the mind and spirit to live a more soulful life.You will leave feeling inspired and motivated to make new, positive changes in your life.

Cheryl Richardson is a leader in the coaching profession and was the first president of The International Coach Federation. Her books include Take Time forYour Life,The Unmistakable Touch of Grace,The Art of Extreme Self Care and her latest You Can Create an Exceptional Life (co-written with Louise Hay). She was the team leader for the Lifestyle Makeover series on The Oprah Winfrey Show. www.cherylrichardson.com £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry Monday 19 March The Out of Body Experience ANTHONY PEAKE The sensation of leaving the body behind and encountering another level of reality is of the greatest mysteries of the human experience. In his talk, Anthony Peake will expand and elucidate on his research into different experiences linked to astral travel – including the near-death experience, lucid dreaming, remote viewing and dream yoga. He will show how all of these are all elements of the same phenomenon.

This tells us that the universe is far more complex than we can ever have imagined.Anthony Peake will also refer to the history of this fascinating subject and will show how recent discoveries in neurology, consciousness studies and quantum physics present a challenging new model of how consciousness interfaces with ‘reality’.

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Anthony Peake is a researcher and author in the fields of quantum physics, neurology and consciousness. He has recently been listed as one of the 200 visionaries for the 21st century. His books include Is There Life After Death, Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences and his latestThe Out of Body Experience. www.anthonypeake.co.uk £10/£5 concs Wednesday 21 March Soul of Coaching: Serendipity through Social Media SANGEETA HAINDL This evening we have Sangeeta Haindl presenting on how serendipity works through the power of social media to benefit your business.

7pm–9pm £15/£10 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St, WC1N 3AL Javier Lartiga Pellicer

Monday 26 March The Science Delusion RUPERT SHELDRAKE The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in. Science as we know it is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical; there is no reality but material reality.The world is a kind of machine. Consciousness is byproduct of the activity of the brain.

Matter is unconscious. Nature is purposeless. God exists only as an idea in human minds and hence in human brains. This evening Rupert Sheldrake will show how science is already transcending these old assumptions. He transforms the ten dogmas of materialism into questions and shows how each question opens up new possibilities, pointing to a richer and more engaging view of nature and consciousness.

Rupert Sheldrake PhD is one of the world’s most innovative biologists. He is best known for his theory of morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He is a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His books include The Rebirth of Nature, Seven Experiments that Could Change theWorld and his latestThe Science Delusion. www.sheldrake.org £10/£5 concs

Monday 2 April Riding the Elephant ROY MARTINA There is a beautiful metaphor for our journey through life: it is like riding on the back of an elephant.We try to steer it where we want it to go. Sometimes this works pretty well, but occasionally, the elephant has a will of its own. It gets distracted from the path. In your life this will manifest as setbacks, challenges, sickness or stress. Most of the time you don’t know why this happens, and you probably know by experience how difficult it is to get back on track.The elephant is your subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind is the key to your destiny: it controls you and sabotages your good intentions. For that reason you get stuck in habits and patterns that are difficult to change through willpower alone. This evening, Roy Martina will show you how to get to grips with your subconscious mind, your elephant, and change your life.

Roy Martina MD is a medical doctor specialising in health coaching (preventive medicine) and personal development. He is the author of more than 50 self-help books which have sold in their millions. His latest book is Emotional Balance. www.roymartina.com £10/£5 concs Roy Martina is leading a workshop Emotional Balance on Sunday 29 April – see page 14.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more and become more, you are a leader – John Quincy Adams

David Eppstein

Wednesday 11 April Sacred Masculine, Divine Feminine MATTHEW FOX The survival of our species requires, among other things, a healthier balance between Yin and Yang, Feminine and Masculine, energies. The Goddess has been returning to Western consciousness for decades through the women’s movement, feminist scholarship, Goddess rediscoveries, and more.We will explore some of the rich and hopeful implications of that achievement with special emphasis on the return of the Black Madonna. It is also time to resurrect the “sacred masculine” as well so that the Goddess may have a proper consort. Much of what passes for masculinity in our culture and religion is anything but sacred. It is toxic, and this toxicity affects not only men but also women in their roles as mothers, sisters, spouses, and human beings. Discover how we can we invite this sacred marriage into our own lives and into the world.

Matthew Fox is a radical theologian, spiritual activist, and founder of creation spirituality. He has written 30 books that have been translated into 43 languages including Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, A Spirituality Named Compassion, and The Reinvention of Work. www.matthewfox.org £10/£5 concs

Monday 16 April Making a Living Without a Job BARBARA WINTER Are you ready for the satisfaction, freedom and creative challenge of jobless earning? While the conventional wisdom may still be telling you to get a job, this talk will show you new possibilities for working when you want, where you want and how you want.

Barbara Winter will give you the basics you need to join the ranks of the joyfully jobless. You will learn how to recognise and manage obstacles you will face, how to create multiple profit centres, how to design a work life that’s perfect for you, and get paid on top of that. Whether you want to make the transition from employee to entrepreneur or create another source of income, do not miss this talk.

Barbara Winter is a teacher, entrepreneur and self-employment advocate. Thousands of people throughout the US and Canada have attended her popular seminars and discovered their own entrepreneurial spirit. She is the author of Making a Living Without a Job. www.joyfullyjobless.com £10/£5 concs Barbara Winter is leading a workshop Energise Your Entrepreneurial Spirit on Saturday 21 April – see page 13.

Monday 23 April A Return to Love MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Do you yearn for more love in your life? Erupting throughout the world, we may wonder where love fits in. What place does a tender heart have in within the chaos of modern society? At a personal level isolation, anguish and suffering does not have to be an intrinsic part of the human condition.

Modern society is so consumed with success, competition, and acquiring material things that we forget that love, joy and wonder are also part of everyday life. It is our birthright to experience joy and to open to love in all its forms. What value does life hold if we cannot love or allow ourselves to be loved? Join Marianne Williamson this evening for an inspiring exploration of love, healing and miracle consciousness.

Marianne Williamson is one of the world's most respected spiritual teachers who has helped millions reconnect to their spirituality and find inner peace.

Marianne has written many books, including the international bestsellers A Return to Love, Everyday Grace and The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife. www.marianne.com £15/£10 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry THIS TALK IS LIKELY TO SELL OUT. ADVANCE BOOKING VIA OUR WEBSITE IS REQUIRED.

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workshops Weekend 14/15 January

Release the Writer in You ANNE AYLOR What sort of writer are you? What sort of writer do you dream of becoming? Have you found your 'voice'? If you have not written creatively, do you want to find out what that voice might be? If you wish to put your ideas and experiences on paper, but don't know where to start, this two-day workshop will help you to free your imagination and give you the confidence to release the writer within.

This journey of self-discovery includes: writing exercises to access the conscious/unconscious mind; techniques to start writing; developing pieces which may lead to a short story or novel.This workshop will help you develop your creative skills in fact or fiction and explore your unique powers of expression. Conducted in a friendly, constructive atmosphere, it is open to anyone wanting to learn, from beginners to experienced writers.

Limited to 20 participants.

Angus Ford-Robertson

Anne Aylor is an author, playwright and creative writing coach. She has had stories published by the Arts Council, The Literary Review and Stand Magazine and broadcast on BBC Radio. She is author of two novels No Angel Hotel, and The Double Happiness Company. She has been teaching creative writing for many years.www.anneaylor.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £130/£110 Good Friends/£80 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Sunday 29 January

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation SHARON SALZBERG This workshop is about meditation practice which is far simpler, more fun, less esoteric and highly relevant to the wide-ranging situations we encounter in everyday life.

Rather than an ornate, arcane set of instructions, meditation consists of practical tools to help deepen concentration, mindfulness and compassion.We rely on this depth when things change, though we would much prefer stability, when we feel out of control of events, and above all when we want a quality of happiness that is not so fragile, so dependent on shifting conditions. During this workshop we will discuss, and practice three tools suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators.

“In Real Happiness Sharon Salzberg introduces us with a gentle but firm hand to the meditation experience.To those who have taken her courses (like me) this book contains all of the jewels of Sharon's teachings plus more.” – Ram Dass Sharon Salzberg is co-founder (with Jack Kornfield) of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. She has been guiding meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Her books include The Force of Kindness, Faith:Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and her latest The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness.. www.sharonsalzberg.com 10am–5pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, NW1 7AY

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Saturday 11 February

Sexuality and Superconsciousness MAHASATVAA MA ANANDA SARITA Tantra is an ancient Eastern philosophy integrating spirituality and love, and offering methods of meditation that can be practised by couples or singles, leading to states of expanded consciousness and ecstasy.

This workshop offers keys to understanding and experiencing how it is to have a vibrant alive and fluid chakra system, opening up the pathway from sex to superconsciousness. Exploring, understanding and opening the chakra system is vital to anyone interested in Tantra.

Chakras are the gateway to universal consciousness.When the chakra system is awakened in its fuller potential, we experience ecstasy in everyday life, find flow in our creative expression and are empowered with free flowing communication and communion in relationships.

This will be an experiential day open to beginners and other levels of experience.

Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita PhD is a renowned Tantra master and author. She began her journey into Tantra, meditation and healing arts in 1973 in India, with Osho.

After many years living in his community, she began teaching Tantra around the world in 1990. She founded the School of Awakening and is the author of Divine Sexuality. www.tantra-essence.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful – Thich Nhat Hanh

Lisa Ratcliffe

Sunday 12 February

Saturday 18 February

The Sacred Healer

Mood Mapping

NATALIA O’SULLIVAN

LIZ MILLER

A sacred healer is trained to use shamanic healing practices in a contemporary way to encourage a harmony between mind, body and spirit.These sacred practices will show you how to release many of the stresses that build up due to modern lifestyle and professional demands.These stresses cause imbalances in physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing which in turn creates problems in daily life.

This workshop will show you how to use your intuition to diagnose and heal physical, emotional and spiritual problems using simple ritual, prayer and other sacred practices. By learning how to pray, meditate and perform simple rituals you learn to become peaceful and grounded.

Today will also show you how to be more conscious of nature and its cycles.This is incredibly important as we become bombarded by external influences from family issues to personal spiritual blocks. Shamanic healing techniques and sacred rituals will help to reconnect you with the earth and your true nature.

Mood Mapping is a new and revolutionary approach to emotional intelligence, created by Dr Liz Miller.The workshop starts with the basic psychology of mood and will help you understand how you feel, and how other people feel within a simple easy to understand framework.The process of MoodMapping gives you tools to manage yourself and the people in your life.This enables you to achieve more in life making better use of your potential.

Whatever mood you are in, your mood affects the way you think feel and behave. Mood Mapping helps you understand why you feel the way you do and how to fix it.

Today you will learn how you can use the five keys to mood; surroundings, physical health, relationships, what you know, and being you to develop strategies to improve your mood, so you can live a more fulfilling and effective life.

Natalia O’Sullivan is a holistic therapist, psychic and healer.

Her work is founded on a blend of the wisdom of ancient indigenous cultures alongside a modern psycho-therapeutic approach. She is the co-author of Soul Rescuers and The Body Shop Book of Well Being, and author of Do It Yourself Psychic Power and Mind Power.With her husband she is the founder and creator of The Soul Rescuers Foundation course www.sacredhealers.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Park Crescent Conference Centre 229 Great Portland St, W1W 5PN

Dr Liz Miller is a GP, psychologist and occupational health physician. She first trained as a neurosurgeon until becoming ill with bipolar disorder. It was through her experience of managing her own mental states that she developed Mood Mapping. She co-founded the Doctors’ Support Network and was featured in Stephen Fry’s 2006 TV documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive and was voted Mind Mental Health Champion in 2008. She is the author of Mood Mapping. www.moodmapping.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Columbia Hotel, 95 Lancaster Gate, W2 3NS

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workshops Weekend 25/26 February

Awakening to the Buddha Within LAMA SURYA DAS The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In this 2-day workshop, Lama Surya Das will show how you can awaken to who you really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life.

You will explore spirituality in Lama Surya Das's inimitable light and lively style, which is deeply rooted in tradition while innovative and original regarding transformative spirituality and enlightening practices for us today and tomorrow. Mindful living is a way of loving and more fully accepting ourselves as well as befriending our Selves and the whole world.

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars and founder of the Dzogchen Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has spent 40 years studying Zen,Vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers, and has twice completed the traditional three year meditation cloistered retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. www.surya.org 10am–5pm £130/£110 Good Friends/£80 Concs Baden-Powell House, 65 Queen’s Gate, SW7 5JS

Saturday 3 March

Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Activism AMIT GOSWAMI There is a revolution going on in science…a genuine paradigm shift.While mainstream science remains materialistic, there are a growing number of luminaries who have re-discovered that the foundations of reality are rooted not in the material world but in the realm of consciousness itself.We are entering an era of post material science.

The work of Amit Goswami reveals with stunning precision (without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics) the overarching unity inherent in the world’s major religions and mystical traditions. Quantum physics reveals about the nature of God and religion, evolution, creativity, inner and outer experienced reality. It answers how we can use the models of the most subtle aspects of reality to structure an economic model that can benefit all of life.

Amit will be joined today by his wife Uma Krishnamurthy PhD who will lead the experiential parts of the workshop including chanting, meditation and slow yoga.

Amit Goswami PhD is a pioneer in the new science within consciousness and was featured in the hit documentary What the Bleep Do We Know? Dr Goswami is the author of 10 books including The Self-Aware Universe, Quantum Creativity, Physics of the Soul, and The Quantum Doctor.

10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Park Crescent Conference Centre 229 Great Portland St, W1W 5PN

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Your Pictures – Light

Tara Vimala

Sunday 4 March

Sacred Contracts CAROLINE MYSS Do you believe you have a higher calling and purpose in life? Have you ever wondered what your mission in life is supposed to be? Caroline Myss believes that each of us is guided by a Sacred Contract that our soul made before we were born.That Contract contains a wide range of agreements regarding all that we are intended to learn in this life.

It comprises not merely what kind of work we do but also our key relationships with the people who are to help us learn the lessons we have agreed to work on.

In this seminar, Caroline Myss will explore the notion of Sacred Contracts and the role they play in our spiritual journey on earth. She will also discuss the difference between concepts such as destiny, fate and free will, and how our understanding of these ideas affects our spiritual growth.

You will learn how to take the next step in your personal evolutions. Caroline will take you through her ‘tool box’ of 12 major archetypal patterns, and explain their roles in the alchemy of spirituality. You will be shown how to discover your personal archetypes, uncover their higher purpose, and then work with them for self-understanding and spiritual development.

Caroline Myss is a mystic, medical intuitive and inspirational teacher. She is author of many books including Anatomy of the Spirit,Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, Sacred Contracts, Entering The Castle and 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/£64 Good Friends/£40 Concs Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, W8 7NX

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Karen Szulakowska

Saturday 10 March

Sunday 11 March

The Magic of Hypnosis

The Gift of Ageing

URSULA JAMES

MARTIN COCHRANE

Magic is real.You just have to know how to access it. And the magic is within you.Trance has been a route into magical manifestation for thousands of years.

In this workshop Ursula James will teach you the tools of hyponosis and self-hypnosis that you can use to experience magic in your life in new ways.You will learn how to use hypnosis to empower your dreams and access higher states of aliveness, joy, passion and wonder.

She will use her skills as a hypnotherapist to induce magical trance states during this workshop. She will teach you how to use hypnosis safely. Magic is a very personal experience, and as such Ursula uses her own journey to the source to illustrate the benefits (and pitfalls!) of setting out on a journey to the source of your own magic.This is a transformational workshop and will benefit all who would like to bring magic safely into their lives.

The role of Elder has vanished from our society, instead we ‘re-tire’! The cult of youth that now plagues our generation has made fortunes for cosmetic firms with a vast array of anti-ageing formulas. It is time to take action and to value who and what you have become!

You must know by now that in life we either are ‘growing’ or dying’.You can spend the rest of your time here on earth doing something you have always wanted to do.You can rise to the level of your abilities and dreams or sink to the level of your excuses! What will your contribution be now? Today you will: * Transform your attitude to ageing; * Celebrate your journey so far; * Re-inspire yourself; * Clarify what you want to create for the rest of your life.

Ursula James is one of the leading hypnotherapy practitioners and teachers in the UK. She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Oxford University Medical School and an Honourary Lecturer at Barts and The London Medical School. Her books include How To Be Amazing – Transform your life with hypnosis,You Can Think Yourself Thin, and The Source – A Manual of Everyday Magic. www.ursulajames.info 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Martin Cochrane worked for many years as a successful actor. He then became a coach and coached top business figures such as the Chairman of the Stock Exchange and Chief Execs of FTSE 100 companies. He is author of The Seven Secrets of Successful Presentation. He has had a long connection to the Findhorn Foundation, where he has run The Gift of Ageing workshop for the last 4 years. www.ursulajames.info 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens – Jimi Hendrix

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workshops Sunday 18 March

Angelic Sound Healing STEWART PEARCE In this unique workshop you will explore powerful sonic meditations, and mind-body experiences to stimulate heightened awareness.You will feel an inspired connection with a communion of light known as the Angels of Atlantis, your own guardian angel, and discovery of the ‘7 Steps to Heaven’ – the maxims that the people of Atlantis lived by.

During the day you will: * Discover the song of your soul – your signature note; * Rebalance chakra disturbances; * Be inspired by angelic elixir; * Transmute any challenge that stops your creativity; * Engage in profound sonic meditations; * Rediscover the sound of the soul of the cosmos; * Feel vital well being creating sustainable joy.

Angel with Holy Spirit

Brian Whelan

Stewart Pearce is a world renowned voice coach who was Head of Voice at the Webber Douglas Academy from 19801997 and Master of Voice at Shakespeare’s Globe from 1997-2008. Stewart is also a sound healer, seer, angel medium, and the author of two books, The Alchemy of Voice and The Heart’s Note. During the harmonic convergence of 1987 Stewart was given divine transmission from twelve archangels about the dawning of Aquarius. www.thealchemyofvoice.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

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Saturday 31 March

Discovering Your Life Calling

Exploring Past Lives

JULIAN RUSSELL

LORRAINE FLAHERTY

Your life calling is not only about vocation: it is a passionate way of being which gives clarity, power and integrity to all aspects of your life. It is the driving force that enables you to make your difference in the world. Any job can be a calling, and any calling can become a job. By the end of the weekend, you will have: * A deeper and more intimate sense of your life calling: * A stronger connection with your passion for your life; * An appreciation of your strengths; * Excitement about your future; * A vision of your life; * Clarity on some practical action-steps.

This workshop will focus on your personal journey, using a range of exercises and individual and group coaching. Come expecting to be stretched and challenged and delighted in waking up to your unique potency and purpose.

Have you ever wondered whether you have lived before?

Have you ever had a strange affinity to a place or a country; where it felt like home even though you had never been there before? Are you curious about the people who have appeared in your life, the ones that have had an impact on you; be it good or bad?

On this day you will get the opportunity to explore the concept of Past Lives and, along the way, discover a little more about you, your behaviours, and get a greater understanding of why you make some of the choices in life that you do.This knowledge leads to greater freedom and more personal power.There will be an opportunity to experience a positive Past life; enabling you to reconnect to the skills and the talents you had back then.The day will include guided visualisations and light hypnosis.

Julian Russell helped to introduce NLP into the UK and founded the Life Talent programme. He leads workshops, groups and coaches leaders in global organisations in Europe and USA. He is co-author of Alpha Leadership -Tools for Business Leaders Who Want More Out of Life www.ppdlearning.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £130/£110 Good Friends/£80 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

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Lorraine Flaherty works as a transformational therapist, using the tools of hypnotherapy, NLP, past life therapy, future life progression, life between lives and spirit release therapy to help people live up to their highest potential. She has taught clinical hypnosis at many medical schools including Oxford and Cambridge. She is a director of The Past and Future Life Society. www.innerjourneys.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken – Oscar Wilde

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Mindfulness for Joyful Living SHAMASH ALIDINA Do you find it difficult to control your racing mind?

Looking for a way to step back and have greater clarify in your life? Want to stop taking the stories in your mind so seriously, and want to experience the joy of living in the present moment? Then this workshop is for you.

Mindfulness is a way of developing greater focus and joyful calm, and offers a way of reducing stress, anxiety and depression in a clinically proven approach. By practising mindfulness meditations, you become more aware of your surroundings as well as your thoughts, emotions and body in a warm, friendly and accepting way.This gently transforms your state of mind from habitually worrying or stressing out, to a greater sense of freedom, choice and peace.

In this workshop you will experience some extended core mindfulness practices including the body scan and mindful sitting meditation; enjoy a sense of greater focus and relaxation; learn how to integrate mindfulness in your daily life.

The Pathway

Jo Skinner

Shamash Alidina is one of the UK's top mindfulness trainers. He is author of Mindfulness for Dummies and Relaxation for Dummies and has featured in several newspapers and magazines. He has been teaching mindfulness for over 10 years. www.learnmindfulness.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Park Crescent Conference Centre 229 Great Portland St, W1W 5PN

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Saturday 21 April

Quantum Breakthrough

Energise Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

SUE COYNE & PENNY MALLINSON

BARBARA WINTER

By connecting with our energy field and using the energy around us we can develop greater awareness, tap into our creativity, vision and passion, enable the realisation of our own potential and establish a connection to the potential in others. By living with this greater awareness and being connected to the world in this way we have the ability to access a heightened level, that of quantum intelligence.

Today is about creating a quantum breakthrough in your life.You are likely to have personal breakthroughs during the workshop and learn to apply the techniques in their work.You will explore: *Being in a state of flow; *Accessing your knowing and intuition; *Awakening your passion, potential and vision; *Moving from problem to potential; *Experiencing amazing breakthroughs.

Whatever your reasons for starting your own business, you probably brought something with you that is hindering your progress.That unconscious baggage is 'employee thinking'. The good news is you can learn entrepreneurial thinking and put it to work building the business of your dreams.

Today is an exploration of the entrepreneurial thinking and attitudes most people are never taught, including: * What makes entrepreneurs different; * How to recognise and eliminate Employee Thinking; * Six power tools that smart entrepreneurs use; * How to deal with an up and down cash flow; * Five ways to expand your circle of influence;

Sue Coyne is an executive and team coach and a graduate of the advanced diploma course at the Academy of Executive Coaching.

Penny Mallinson left a successful business career to become a director of various NFP’s involved in the area of selfdevelopment and education. www.connectiveness.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Columbia Hotel, 95 Lancaster Gate, W2 3NS

This workshop will kickstart your entrepreneurial spirit.You will learn how to connect, nurture and unleash the attitudes and thinking you need to make your business soar.

Barbara Winter is a teacher, entrepreneur and selfemployment advocate who overcame her early notions that work equalled drudgery after starting her first small business.Thousands of people throughout the US and Canada have attended her popular seminars and discovered their own entrepreneurial spirit. She is the author of Making a Living Without a Job. www.joyfullyjobless.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Columbia Hotel, 95 Lancaster Gate, W2 3NS

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workshops Sunday 22 April

The Natural Mystic THOMAS MOORE We tend to connect mysticism and spirituality with special practices of meditation, yoga, and lifestyle associated with an old tradition. Another way to be spiritually alive is to appreciate the deep implications of ordinary experiences like making a home, parenthood, study, travel, teaching, healing, making art, and even playing.

The lives of natural mystics teach us how to be spiritual today without losing the deep pleasures of life and the world’s beauty and sensuality. It is mysticism in the world and not away from it. A life work naturally flows from the union of person and nature.

This workshop will take specific lessons from natural mystics and show how to be spiritual in an ordinary way and how to sense the sacred in all aspects of life.This approach makes for a grounded and personally vivid spirituality suited to our times.

Lisa Ratcliffe

Saturday 28 April

A Return to Romantic Love MARIANNE WILLIAMSON This day is for exploring and nurturing love in your romantic relationships.What value does life hold if we cannot love or permit ourselves to be loved?

What is the connection between our spiritual journey and the attraction and cultivation of relationships?

How do we best prepare ourselves for love? What are the deeper forces at work in fostering, and sometimes destroying, our relationships? What part does the masculine/feminine dynamic play in understanding romantic relationships? What is true intimacy and how is it achieved? How can a romantic relationship best become a portal to spiritual growth?

Join Marianne Williamson for an in-depth inquiry into love and romantic relationships as a personal force for transformation and healing. Engage in a deeper investigation as to where your own blocks to love deflect the miracles that are your natural right as the child of a loving universe.

Marianne Williamson is one of the world's most respected spiritual teachers who has helped millions reconnect to their spirituality and find inner peace. Author of the Powerful Beyond Measure prose often mis-attributed to Nelson Mandela, Marianne’s books including the international bestsellers A Return to Love, Everyday Grace and The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife. www.marianne.com 10.30am–4.30pm £75/£64 Good Friends/£55 Concs Tuke Hall, Regents College Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NS

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Thomas Moore PhD is the author of Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. www.careofthesoul.net 10.30am–5pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, NW1 7AY

Sunday 29 April

Emotional Balance ROY MARTINA Did you know some 90% of your emotional reality is determined by your subconscious mind? Today will show you how to work with the subconscious mind to end self-sabotage, eliminate blocks and break karmic links, and master your destiny.

Emotional Balance is a modern method based on the science of emotional therapy. Emotional Balance will give you the power to shift from a fear-based reality to an awareness of the oneness of all. In just a few minutes, most emotions can be transformed and you will be able to reconnect with your own source of power.When you are connected to that source, you will know true inner peace and harmony.

Today you will learn about going beyond your self-sabotage mechanisms to really achieve what you want.

You will go through how to eliminate blocks and break karmic links with Emotional Balance.You will learn a variety of highly effective techniques that will put you on the path to inner peace and harmony.

Roy Martina MD is a medical doctor specialising in health coaching (preventive medicine) and personal development.

He is the author of more than 50 self-help books which have sold in their millions. His latest book is Emotional Balance. www.roymartina.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

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Laurel Hart

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The Power of Your Spirit

Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

SONIA CHOQUETTE Our connection to spirit is one of the most significant lifelong relationships, but we often neglect it.We want to face our challenges and disappointment with grace; be creative and inspired; and live fearlessly through an intuitive, guiding wisdom.When you do truly make this connection, you will realise that it is the most authentic and lasting power you have in your life.

In this workshop, Sonia Choquette reveals the secrets to awakening your intuitive spirit and tuning into your inner wisdom and your ‘vibes’. She will show you that, no matter what is going on around you, with the power of your spirit, you can create a sense of purpose within that brings about profound contentment and personal peace. She reveals the secrets you need to awaken your intuitive voice, and trust your vibes. If you are ready to step into a divine, more energetically uplifting experience and live an easier, more satisfying way of life, you will learn how to do so at this workshop.

Sonia Choquette is a healer and sixth-sensory spiritual teacher. She helps people understand their souls’ plan and purpose and leads them to successful, meaningful and peaceful lives. She is the author of several books including The Answer is Simple, Diary of a Psychic,Trust Your Vibes, and her latest The Power of Your Spirit. www.soniachoquette.com 10.30am–5pm £75/£64 Good Friends/£55 Concs The Hellenic Centre, 16 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS

BYRON KATIE The Work of Byron Katie has been called the most powerful self-realisation technique ever developed. Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, says, “The Work is like a razorsharp sword that cuts through illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being.”

The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It is a way to understand what is hurting you and keeping you from living in peace and joy. It involves asking four simple questions that can transform how you experience problems. People who do The Work as an ongoing practice report life-changing results, including alleviation of depression, decreased stress, improved relationships, reduced anger, increased mental clarity, more energy and more peace.

Today, Byron Katie, with her humour and lovingly incisive clarity, will introduce you to The Work and show you how self-inquiry can bring you a joy-filled life.

Byron Katie experienced an awakening in 1986 that led to the founding of The Work. Katie, who recently did The Work with Oprah, has worked with millions of people round the world who report profound experiences and lasting transformations.She is the author of Loving What Is and I Need Your Love, Is That True? www.thework.com 10am–5.30pm £75/£64 Good Friends/£40 Concs Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, W8 7NX

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We are always looking 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 having 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 Winter/Spring are: Meditation Movement Hi-res digital images only please and a maximum of 3 pictures per theme. Email your pictures by 15 March to Richard at richard@alternatives.org.uk

advance booking

Release the Writer in You Real Happiness: Power of Meditation Sexuality and Superconsciousness The Sacred Healer Mood Mapping Awakening the Buddha Within Quantum Consciousness & Activism Sacred Contracts The Magic of Hypnosis The Gift of Ageing Angelic Sound Healing Discovering Your Life Calling Exploring Past Lives Mindfulness for Joyful Living Quantum Breakthroughs Energise Your Entrepreneurial Spirit The Natural Mystic A Return to Romantic Love Emotional Balance The Power of Your Spirit Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

workshop bookings To book a workshop, you need to pay the full amount at the time of booking. You can pay: 1) By debit/credit card or PayPal at our website www.alternatives.org.uk (no fee).

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 at least 3 days before the workshop if you wish to cancel your workshop booking. We will transfer your booking to another workshop or give you a credit against a future booking. We do not give refunds.

concessions Concessions are for full-time students, over 60s, and those in receipt of job seekers allowance. 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 email or address to workshop leaders without your permission.

Wisdom begins in wonder – Socrates

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 Workshop Co-ordinator Mary Daniels Administration Susanna Howe – Bookings & Friends Gemma Petherbridge – Events & Social Media Julie Swann – Bookkeeper Trustee Directors Tom Cook (Chair) Jackee Holder (Vice Chair) John Hunt Mary Priest-Cobern Malcolm Stern Chris Waters Team Gbone Adjene Renu Arora Richard Clare Martin Cochrane Daisy Compton Olga Dodekova Venetia Hall Chetna Malvi Jeremiah Mwaniki Lina Spyrou Lara Tiona Lauren Wethmar Elizabeth Anara Wong Design Richard Dunkerley Printers RAP Spider Web Printed on paper from sustainable resources Alternatives is a company limited by guarantee Registered in England & Wales Company no: 3978199