Alternatives Winter / Spring 2010

A LTERNATIVES St James’s Church / Piccadilly / London Winter/Spring 2011 Programme

Inspiring heart mind and soul

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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 a not-for-profit 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 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).

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Cover Photo: Candles, Chartres Cathedral Ann Parr

to our Winter/Spring programme. We have many inspirational events for you with some of the world’s leading presenters in contemporary spirituality and personal development.We look forward to seeing you very soon.

Most of the images in this programme have been contributed by our readers. We would like to thank everyone who has submitted photographs or artwork. Full details on how you may contribute are on the back page.

Please visit our website where there are lots of additional resources on forthcoming events – video clips, podcasts, articles, and book extracts.

We recently said farewell to our codirector Esther Waldron who has left Alternatives to pursue her writing career. Esther was with us for six years and made a huge contribution to Alternatives with her integrity, new ideas, deep sense of spirit and heartful wisdom. We will greatly miss her humour, style and love of very high heels.We send her much love and blessings for the future.

Richard and Steve, Co-Directors

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 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.

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talks Wednesday 19 January The Coaching Circle: A Graphic Approach to Coaching SONYA WELCH-MORING Graphic coaching puts pictures to words and conversations to support and expand the understanding and experience. Used for team visioning and development sessions and for conflict resolution.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St WC1N 3AL

Dream Keeper

Suzanne Crook

Monday 10 January Precious Jewel Concert MICHAEL ORMISTON & CANDIDA VALENTINO This evening's event is a concert to celebrate the New Year and we are privileged to be hosting Michael Ormiston and Candida Valentino, two amazing singers and performers in the Mongolian art of Khöömii singing.

Khöömii singing is also known as overtone or throat singing. It allows the singer to produce harmonic tones that can mirror the sounds of waterfalls, the blowing of the Steppe winds, and the chants of Buddhist monks. At this concert Michael and Candida will play Mongolian melodies on traditional Mongolian instruments and will also play their own compositions using Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, harmonic flutes, conch shells, shamans' drums and Native American flutes. They will play pieces from their new album Chintamani, meaning ‘Precious Jewel'.

Michael Ormiston has studied Khöömii (overtone singing) for over 20 years, has learnt from the masters and is one of the world's leading Khöömii teachers. He has performed for HH the Dalia Lama, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and recently played on the acclaimed BBC TV series Sacred Music.

Candida Valentino is the only British woman to perform Khargyraa, an undertone style of singing that has strong connections with shamanistic practices of Mongolia and Tuva. £10/£5 concs

Monday 17 January Supernatural: The Ancient Teachers of Humanity GRAHAM HANCOCK In this talk Graham Hancock will outline how less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking.Then in a dramatic and electrifying change - described by scientists as 'the greatest riddle in human history' all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers.

Graham's talk will explore the hidden teachers behind these developments.You will be taken on a journey from the stunningly beautiful painted caves of prehistoric Europe to rock shelters in the mountains of South Africa that depict the ancient teachers of mankind.

This talk shows how evolution is not just a meaningless process but something more purposive and intelligent that we have barely begun to understand!

Graham Hancock is the author of many international best-sellers including Supernatural: Meeting the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. Graham's latest book is a novel entitled Entangled. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. www.grahamhancock.com £10/£5 concs

Monday 24 January Plant Spirit Medicine ELIOT COWAN While it is obvious that plants offer us food, oxygen and medicines, it is less known that plants have spirits with wisdom to nurture and heal us physically, emotionally and spiritually.Ancient cultures and their shamans have known for millennia that the medicine of plant spirits can bring us into balance and harmony, but much of this tradition has been lost in the West. Like us, plants have spirit, and their spirit can nurture and heal. Plant Spirit medicine uses the spirits of plants to bring us into balance and harmony, recognising that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Tonight you will learn the way of Plant Spirit medicine. Our ancestors lived this way - an existence in which there is no illusion of separation from nature. Plant Spirit medicine restores us to this state of grace, restoring to us our birth right.

Eliot Cowan is the author of Plant Spirit Medicine and an initiated Tsaurirrikame (shaman) in the Huichol Indian tradition. He began his study and practice of herbalism in the 1960s and subsequently apprenticed with Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, an eminent Huichol Indian shaman. Don Guadalupe ritually recognised Eliot as a guide to shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition, an unprecedented honour for a westerner. www.plantspiritmedicine.org £10/£5 concs

“I greatly admire what Alternatives is seeking to do in widening horizons. I have attended several talks at Alternatives and have always come away with new thoughts and ideas. So keep exploring, keep questioning, keep pushing the limits – we need you”.

Michael Meacher MP

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talks Bärbel Mohr 1964–2010 Bärbel Mohr, the creator of cosmic ordering, passed over to spirit in the autumn. Bärbel spoke many times on our programme. She was one of our favourite presenters and a pleasure to host. With her joyful spirit and inspiring message, she encouraged many people to follow their dreams. We send our prayers and thoughts to her family.

Bärbel, thank you for everything you gave us. You will always be in our hearts.

Monday 31 January Mood Mapping LIZ MILLER In the same way that you can train yourself to be fitter or to study harder, you can also train yourself to manage your moods. Dr Liz Miller introduces the simple yet unique tool, Mood Mapping, and shows how you can use it to improve your everyday life. Mood Mapping is a new and revolutionary approach to emotional intelligence. It helps you understand why you feel the way you do, and how to fix it. Dr Liz Miller will show you 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.

Mood Mapping also helps you understand other people better and understand why they behave the way they do.

Dr Liz Miller is a medical doctor, mental health campaigner, and author. In 1996, following her own experiences with bipolar disorder, she helped set up the support network for doctors with mental health problems. In 2008 she was voted Mind Mental Health Champion. She is author of Mood Mapping. www.moodmapping.com £10/£5 concs

Free Podcasts At our website, you can listen to many free podcast interviews with leading presenters including Marianne Williamson, Bruce Lipton, Robert Holden, Gangaji, Joe Dispenza and Debbie Ford. You can either download or stream the MP3 interviews. Click on ‘Free Podcasts’ on the homepage, then follow the simple instructions to download the interview of your choice.

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Jason Maverick

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson Monday 7 February The Re-Imagination of Success RICHARD OLIVIER In this talk, Richard Olivier will discuss the meaning of success in our society; what it is, and what it might be. In difficult times we often fall back on the old, habitual ways of doing things when what may really be demanded of us is that we re-imagine our future. Current definitions of success are all too often limited to money and fame. Sometimes it takes a growing awareness that a particular story or definition of life has outlived its usefulness. This evening Richard Olivier will draw on his unique interpretation of the wisdom of Shakespeare to explore the roots of renewal and regeneration. For if we are to survive the challenges that lie ahead we must re-imagine and redefine our answer to the question 'what is success?'

Richard Olivier is a founder of Olivier Mythodrama, a unique leadership development consultancy. Richard was a leading theatre director for more than a decade and directed Henry V for the opening of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. He is author of Shadow of the Stone Heart and Inspirational Leadership. www.oliviermythodrama.com £10/£5 concs

Monday 14 February Valentine’s Day Concert CHLOË GOODCHILD This is a love concert with difference.

Chloë Goodchild brings a repertoire of love songs and poetry from East and West, sacred and secular, ancient and contemporary, that will touch your own romantic heart strings, and arrest your heart, as she traces the journey from first love to mystical union, from absence into presence.This evening will awaken your soul's longing with inspired music of intimacy and belonging. Chloë's unique presence, humour and participative style welcome you into a singing field of love beyond all condition, deepening our personal and global conversation with the unknown and the unseen. Do not miss this unique opportunity to listen and to sing with a pioneering voice of spirit, Chloë Goodchild and her breath-taking ensemble of world musicians.

Chloë Goodchild founded The Naked Voice after a transformative experience in Northern India. She has recorded and performed with many leading musicians, poets and directors. www.thenakedvoice.com £10/£5 concs Chloë is leading a workshop The Singing Field on Sunday 27 February – see page 9.

There is nothing my holiness cannot do – A Course in Miracles

talks Monday 21 February Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination ROBERT MOSS When we dream, we have access to rich sources of healing and creativity. In our dreams, we are coached on how to handle challenges and opportunities that lie in the future; we become time travellers and communicate with spiritual teachers and allies. Coincidence may be a signal from a deeper world, and a chance encounter may be an amazing opportunity. By monitoring the play of coincidence, we awaken to a hidden logic of events, and gain access to extraordinary counsel. Synchronicity opens paths we never noticed before, and draws new people and events towards us according to our passions and our willingness to go with the flow.

Through the practice of imagination, we can help to heal our bodies and move towards the manifestation of our heart’s desires. In this talk, you will hear about the new discipline Robert Moss calls 'dream archaeology' and why you need the skills of shamans, scholars and detectives to fathom the past and prepare for the changes that are coming in the future history of our world.

Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dream work.

Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood and first learned the ways of a traditional dreaming people through his friendship with Aborigines. His seven books on dreaming and shamanism include Conscious Dreaming and The Secret History of Dreaming. www.mossdreams.com £10/£5 concs Robert Moss is leading a workshop Active Dreaming on Saturday 26 February – see page 8.

Wednesday 23 February The Coaching Circle: Quantum Level Coaching SUE COYNE & PENNY MALLINSON Quantum level Coaching is about connecting with our energy field and using the energy around us.This helps us to tap into our creativity, vision and passion, and enable the realisation of potential in others.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St

Rebirth

Monday 28 February Shift Happens!

ROBERT HOLDEN Shift Happens! is a book about ‘more’ – more happiness, more success, more love and more confidence. It is about personal alchemy and inner transformation. It shows you how to unblock blocks, transform thoughts, release fears, drop struggle and embrace a new level of creativity and joy. If you want to manifest more of what you really want, be more of who you really are! Join Dr Robert Holden for a rich inquiry into personal alchemy, inner transformation, and new beginnings. Robert will speak about the people, the principles and the practices that have inspired his work.

Key themes will include: you are what you seek; love is your true power; forgiveness gives you wings; beware of the WAIT Problem; and when you take a step a bridge appears.

Robert Holden PhD founded The Happiness Project in 1995. His innovative work on happiness and success has been featured on Oprah and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy.

He is author of the best-sellers, Happiness NOW!, Success Intelligence, Be Happy and Shift Happens! www.robertholden.org £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry Robert Holden is leading a workshop Happiness Now on Sunday 6 March – see page 10.

Milagritos Flores Bell

Monday 7 March Trance-Formational Magic URSULA JAMES This evening is about using the power of hypnosis to access magical states. It is also about Ursula James’s connection to the wisdom of Ursula Sontheil, otherwise known as Mother Shipton, the 16th-century Yorkshire prophetess and healer who was burnt at the stake. The spirit of Mother Shipton came to Ursula as a child and shaped her early years and when she was ready to listen, came to her again when she was an adult. Through Mother Shipton’s prophecies and spells, Ursula James transformed her own life and learnt that magic must be shared or it is diminished. As the magic began to grow it took on a life of its own and spread around the world.This evening she will discuss her extraordinary experiences and reveal the impact of allowing ‘the old ways’ into her life.

Ursula James is a one of the leading hypnotherapy practitioners and teachers in the UK. She teaches hypnosis at Oxford University Medical School, Barts and the London Medical School.

She has had her own TV series on Channel 5. She is author of four books including How to Be Amazing and her latest The Source – A Manual of Everyday Magic. www.ursulajames.info £10/£5 concs Ursula James is leading a workshop The Magic of Hypnosis on Sunday 20 March – see page 11.

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talks Wednesday 23 March The Coaching Circle: Spiritual Intelligence in Coaching SARAH ALEXANDER Our innate spiritual intelligence is an energy force within us which for some is our higher self or our connection to source.This inner energy and wisdom can be used in our coaching sessions to guide all that we say and do as coaches.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St WC1N 3AL

Angus Ford-Robertson

Monday 14 March Countdown to Coherence HAZEL COURTENEY In this fascinating talk, Hazel Courteney will explain the latest theories about life after physical death as well as science-based evidence as to the possible forms that consciousness takes after death. Hazel will also discuss the beliefs of some scientists that we are biological computers operating inside a pre-programmed ‘simulator’ and that our universe is little more than a hologram. She will share insights into time travel, multiple universes, spontaneous healing, and reincarnation - as well as how it’s possible in scientific terms for objects to store information which can be retrieved hundreds or even thousands of years later. Looking at the bigger picture, Hazel will discuss her idea of a unifying theory of human existence. Coherence denotes ‘everything coming together as one’; a union; a unity of consciousness – and scientists have demonstrated that if we all want to become more enlightened then it’s crucial that we learn to become more coherent at every level of being.

Hazel Courteney became the UK's first alternative health Agony Aunt in the national press, with her column What's The Alternative? in the Daily Mail. In 1997 Hazel moved to the Style Section of the Sunday Times and was voted health journalist of the year. She lectures around the world and is the author of several books including her latest Countdown to Coherence. www.hazelcourteney.com £10/£5 concs

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Monday 21 March An Awesome Power MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In the words of Martin Luther King, “There is a power in us more powerful than bullets.” What is this power within, and how do we apply it? Is it mere symbol, or genuine force? Is it metaphor, or an actual power to be used on behalf of our own salvation and evolution as a species? Now is the moment for us to not merely believe, but to consciously apply on a practical level the awesome forces of faith and love. By becoming what in A Course in Miracles is called a 'miracle worker', you transform your life and the lives of those around you.

By allowing the love of God to channel through your consciousness, you break down all barriers to the healing of the world. Join Marianne this evening for an inspiring exploration into the practical implications of an all-powerful love, and our capacity through its application to work miracles in our lives and in the lives of others.

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

Author of the 'Powerful Beyond Measure' prose often attributed to Nelson Mandela, Marianne has written 11 books, including the international best-sellers A Return to Love, Everyday Grace and The Age of Miracles. www.marianne.com £15/£10 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry THIS TALK IS LIKELY TO SELL OUT. ADVANCE BOOKING VIA OUR WEBSITE IS REQUIRED.

Monday 28 March The Feel Good Factor PATRICK HOLFORD This evening, leading nutrition expert and mental health specialist Patrick Holford reveals highly effective methods to make a difference to how you feel - without the need for medical drugs. Given that low mood and depression are endemic and on the increase, and the recession has further fuelled the need for the practical, down-to-earth advice, this event offers information on lifestyle and life management techniques, as well as revealing the right foods to eat, and those to avoid, to help improve your mood dramatically. Patrick Holford's accessible approach is supported by substantial research, and poignant and motivating case histories - including stories of people with serious depression who failed to get better with conventional approaches, but who recovered completely on Patrick's regime. Come along and discover 10 proven ways to improve your mood and motivation.

Patrick Holford is a pioneer in new approaches to health and nutrition, specialising in the field of mental health.

He founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 1984. He is one of Britain’s best-selling nutrition writers, frequently appearing on national television and in the press. During the past decade he has written over 30 books including The Optimum Nutrition Bible, The Holford Low GL Diet Optimum Nutrition for the Mind and his latest The Feel Good Factor. www.patrickholford.com £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

Be who you are and your life will transform forever – Deepak Chopra

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Lisa Ratcliffe

“ There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.

This is the light that shines within our heart.”

Bhagavad Gita Monday 4 April Financially Fearless MICHAEL NEILL Most people agree that money is not the secret to happiness, yet they spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make more of it in an attempt to feel better about themselves and their lives.

Others dismiss money as little more than 'a necessary evil', alternating between anger at an unjust system and fear of being cast out or left behind. In this inspiring and entertaining talk, you will learn to distinguish between courage and fearlessness and have the chance to transform your relationship with money, thought, consciousness, and spirit. And as you connect more deeply with your essential nature, you will find the game of money and success becomes considerably easier to play.

Michael Neill is an internationally renowned transformative success coach, radio personality and the best-selling author of You Can Have WhatYou Want, Supercoach, and Feel Happy Now! He has spent the past 20 years as a coach, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, business leaders, royalty, and people who want to get more out of their lives. www.geniuscatalyst.com £10/£5 concs Alternatives Friends Priority Entry

Monday 11 April It’s Normal to be Psychic HEIDI SAWYER Most of us believe we have some form of psychic or intuitive ability. We all have a sixth sense but few know how to tap into this curious and very helpful skill. Recent research suggests up to one in ten people are born with a sensitive nervous system. These people are naturally talented with extra sensory abilities, a keen intuitive sense, and are drawn towards the healing arts. If you see things out of the corner of your eye, know others feelings before they’ve told you, have a fascination with past lives, angels, or a strong pull towards the healing and intuitive arts you are a sensitive. This talk will open your eyes to what it means to be one, and will help you understand your purpose. Heidi Sawyer will focus on how you can access your psychic talent and the most important aspects of psychic development to remember.

Heidi Sawyer is the course director for The Institute of Psychic Development.

She is known for her clear, concise and direct approach to psychic development. Her popular psychic course material is used for TV research, and is featured on BBC radio. Heidi is the author of The Intelligent Guide to the Sixth Sense and How to Develop Your 7th Sense. www.psychiccourses.com £10/£5 concs

Monday 18 April Science, Spirit and the Human Future ELISABET SAHTOURIS Join evolution biologist and futurist Elisabet Sahtouris to understand our living, self-organising universe in which spirit materialises physical form and evolves through a cyclic process in which hostile competition gives way to mature collaboration. Most people looking at problems of ‘market-driven capitalism’ are becoming aware on some level that the measure of human success must shift from money to wellbeing for all.To do this, communal values must be reclaimed and acted upon in a way that ensures a balance of global interests with local interests. As a more enlightened view gains prominence - that life is far too intelligent and naturally cooperative to proceed simply by blind accident and dominance struggles - it will be increasingly translated into a more enlightened view of our human society.. Humans, no matter how spiritual, are inescapably biological creatures, and the solutions we seek are readily available in nature's experience.

Elisabet Sahtouris PhD is an internationally renowned evolution biologist and futurist. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a UN consultant on indigenous peoples.

She is a member of the World Wisdom Council. She presents to businesses, banks, and governments on the maturation of humanity from competition to cooperation. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us and Biology Revisioned. www.sahtouris.com £10/£5 concs Wednesday 20 April The Coaching Circle: NLP and Compassionate Coaching ARIELLE ESSEX Compassionate Coaching combines Neuro-Linguistic Programming with many other practical psychology techniques. Everything a person says, and how it is said is important.

The words and phrases a person uses to describe their problem, reveal their thought structure, beliefs and values.

7pm–9pm £20/£15 concs The October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St WC1N 3AL

If you can’t live in total insecurity, live in as much insecurity as you can – Osho

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workshops Saturday 12 February

Tantra: Portal to Ecstasy 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.

The ancient Eastern science of tantra merges with the modern Western lifestyle in this tantra workshop.We will be exploring methods from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, a 5000 year old treatise on: self realisation through love, pleasure and awareness, and discovering their relevance for men and women of today.These methods are so very beautiful and inspiring that by the end of the day, you may be surprised to find yourself alive in each cell, vibrant with bliss, remembering your true nature as love itself.Tantra is a process of discovering who we really are.

This day is experiential and there will be gentle exercises. Please note that there will be no nudity.The day is open to all levels, and beginners are welcome.

Zoë Burt

Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita PhD is a world renowned tantra teacher and founder of the School of Awakening. She was initiated into tantra in India, with Osho in 1973, and spent 26 years living in his community, receiving much direct guidance from him. www.schoolofawakening.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

Weekend 19/20 February

Creativity Boot Camp

Saturday 26 February

JULIA CAMERON

Active Dreaming

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.

Dreaming isn’t just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind. Our lives become much richer and juicier when we learn to become active dreamers.

In this workshop, you will learn how to master the arts of conscious dream travel.This goes far beyond what 'lucid dreaming' is commonly thought to be. Using shamanic techniques for shifting consciousness, you will embark on intentional journeys – often with partners or a whole group – on agreed itineraries.You will scout out possible futures and explore alternate realities or locations in the imaginal realm.You will learn how to harvest personal imagery for healing, and how to grow a vision so deep and strong that it wants to take root in the world.You will discover that the passions of the soul actually work magic.

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–5.30pm £150/£128 Good Friends/£110 Concs Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street Russell Square, WC1H 0XG

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ROBERT MOSS

Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood and first learned the ways of a traditional dreaming people through his friendship with Aborigines. His seven books on dreaming and shamanism include Conscious Dreaming, and The Secret History of Dreaming. www.mossdreams.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven – Rabindranath Tagore

Dee Dee McCalla

Sunday 27 February

Saturday 5 March

The Singing Field

Taking the Lead

CHLOË GOODCHILD

MICHAEL BOYLE

A Singing Field is a place to sing together, beyond the boundaries of creed and culture. Singing Field 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. Singing Field is a return to the source. It is a nourishing and calming activity that brings a profound inner stillness and awakens the voice of your naked heart.

The day will help you deepen your understanding of the relationship between sound, voice and self-awareness.

Sharing sound and music-making as a metaphor for life, you will discover oneness within diversity, opening our hearts, inspiring the highest of sound values, harmony, cooperation, compassion and community spirit. All are welcome to attend this joyful, celebratory, song-filled day. No previous singing experience is necessary. Come and find your voice.

To a large extent, you, your energy, power, passion skills and experience are your business.The more you can access and live by your own personal greatness, and manage what blocks you, the more happy and successful you become.

This workshop is about becoming more of an initiating force in your life, it will help you access and live with a greater sense of inspiration and purpose in what you do.You will learn: how to become the initiating force in your life; how to access and live by your sense of inspiration; grow yourself to expand your business; recognise the gold and gifts you are a steward of that will cause your success; and how to embody your gold and integrate your shadow.

This workshop will show you how to know your direction and mission in life. It is for you if you are: already an entrepreneur either full time or part time; aspiring to be more entrepreneurial; or are in transition and seeking some clarity of direction.

Chloë Goodchild is the founder of The Naked Voice. She has recorded and performed with many leading musicians, poets and directors, including Coleman Barks (poet-translator of The Essential Rumi); Hollywood film composer Angelo Badalamenti; Byzantine composer John Tavener; Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) and film director Jane Campion (The Piano, Holy Smoke). www.thenakedvoice.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, NW1 7AY

Michael Boyle is a Senior Associate of Olivier Mythodrama and delivers programmes internationally. He has formed and facilitated a wide range of groups including theatre, prison, boardroom and NHS settings and co-created Mythodrama workshops for the cast of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre’s productions of Henry V and Merchant of Venice.

10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

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workshops Sunday 6 March

Happiness Now ROBERT HOLDEN Are you living a happy life? Are you clear what true happiness is? Would you like to be happier? Join Robert Holden for a practical workshop that features a creative mix of principles and exercises that have inspired his work with The Happiness Project over the last 20 years.Together you will explore the value of true happiness and what it means to “follow your joy”; the modern myths and blocks to true happiness; and how to enjoy greater happiness in your life, work and relationships – starting from now.

Robert Holden PhD founded The Happiness Project in 1995. His innovative work on happiness and success has been featured on Oprah and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy.

Robert travels the world coaching leaders in the field of business, education, politics, healthcare, and sport. He is author of the best-sellers, Happiness NOW!, Success Intelligence, Be Happy and Shift Happens! He also hosts a weekly radio show for Hay House Radio called Shift Happens! www.robertholden.org 10.30am–5pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Amadeus Centre, 50 Shirland Rd, W9 2JA

Saturday 12 March

Cosmic Energy ANNE JIRSCH You are energy. Everything you see, smell, taste or touch is energy. Every plant, tree, creature, object - even your thoughts and feelings – are energy. Once you accept that that energy is everywhere and that is it all around you, you can work with it to improve your life.We think we are clever with our mobile phones and sat navs; yet within us we have the power to create, heal and manifest. Our ancient selves didn’t need such devices - their instincts would guide them, they could send messages with our minds, sense danger and flow with the earth’s own natural energy.

At this workshop, renowned psychic intuitive Anne Jirsch will show you how each of us uses energy each and every day with our thoughts and feelings. She will teach you how to harness the pure power of the universe to create the life you deserve.You will learn how to send telepathic messages, to astral travel, to raise your love vibration, to send powerful healing, to attract abundance and to discover your soul path.

Anne Jirsch is a psychic with an extraordinary gift. She is also a tarot consultant, metaphysical teacher and past life regressionist. She pioneered the revolutionary Etheric Energy Technique which she teaches in her workshops and in her first book Instant Intuition. Her second book The Future is Yours established her as a leading Future Life Progressionist. www.annejirsch.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

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Sunday 13 March

The Practice of Mindfulness SHAMASH ALIDINA Mindfulness is a way of developing greater focus and 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.Today, you will: * Discover the benefits of mindful living; * Experience some extended core mindfulness practices; * Learn how to integrate mindfulness in your daily life; * Find out how you can deepen your mindful practice.

At this workshop you can try mindfulness for yourself and learn techniques and tips that will vastly improve your daily quality of life.

Shamash Alidina is the author of Mindfulness for Dummies.

He has taught mindfulness for more than a decade, and has taught at and managed a secondary school where most of the students practised meditation on a daily basis. He has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli PhD at the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts. Shamash is founder of Learn Mindfulness, an organisation that trains people in evidence-based mindfulness. www.learnmindfulness.co.uk 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Rembrandt Hotel, 11 Thurloe Place, SW7 2RS

Would you rather be right or free? – Byron Katie

workshops Sunday 20 March

The Magic of Hypnosis URSULA JAMES 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. Ursula will use her considerable skill as a hypnotherapist to induce magical trance states during this workshop. Magic is a very personal experience, and 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.

Ursula 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.This is a transformational workshop, and will benefit all who would like to bring magic safely into their lives and use it to create positive states.

Ursula James is a one of the leading hypnotherapy practitioners and teachers in the UK. She teaches hypnosis at Oxford University Medical School, Barts and the London Medical School. She has had her own TV series on Channel 5. She is author of four books including How to Be Amazing and her latest The Source – A Manual of Everyday Magic. www.ursulajames.info 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

Saturday 26 March

Healing Beyond Reason CAROLINE MYSS This seminar will expand your thinking and experience around physical or psychological illness and the potential we all have for healing. Caroline Myss researched many inspiring yet ordinary people who overcame a wide array of ailments. At the same time she 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/£64 Good Friends/£55 concs Friends House, 173 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ

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Energetic D-Linking System ROY MARTINA Did you know that you have energetic links that keep you attached to your past and are now holding you back? Most people don’t know this and it is the biggest missing link in alternative medicine. Get rid of these links with EDS (Energetic D-linking System), is a quick and effective way to free yourself from these limiting links to the past.

Energetic cords are invisible energetic links between you and other persons (alive or deceased).You can be corded to a variety of objects, like a house, items of jewellry, a painting, etc.You can be corded to abstract concepts such as, emotions, an authoritative figure, feminine energy, money problems, a basic need, and so forth.These cords affect your life in one way or another. Some cords are positive, others are negative.The aim of EDS is to remove all the negative cords while keeping all positive cords intact.

Today, you will learn: * How to find and remove negative energetic cords; * How protect yourself from getting hooked to negative energetic cords again * How to create energetic wellbeing that lasts a lifetime; * How to help others remove their negative energetic cords.

Roy Martina MD is a medical doctor specialising in health coaching 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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Self Power

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We invite you to join Deepak Chopra for a rare one-day seminar, in which he will teach you to deconstruct your self-imposed limitations and take your life to its next level.

The subject of this event is self power: what it is and how to have it. Deepak will share his latest work and inspire you to become your own empowered, authentic self, capable of gaining ultimate mastery and influence over your own life. According to Deepak, self-power means having the knowledge, skills and attitude needed to cope with our changing world and the circumstances in which we live.

During the day, Deepak will offer you clear and loving encouragement towards having greater confidence in your own capacities, given that it is only by having full confidence in yourself that you can experience the tremendous power of true self-sufficiency.

The seminar will be a combination of Deepak speaking and leading audience visualisations and meditations.There will also be the opportunity to meet Deepak for a book signing at the end of the event.

Over the past thousand years we’ve passed through eras of female and male leaders. In the 21st century we’re entering an era in which relationship itself will be the leader.The clear space at the centre of ourselves and our relationships with others will be the highly valued creative and co-creative catalyst.To reveal this clear space, we need to expand our capacity to give and receive love and to integrate greater levels of unity and intimacy.The energy liberated from habitual conflict then becomes available for easeful solutions and greater contribution.

The workshop is designed to show you how to do a process,The Relationship Catalyst, which creates a much deeper felt-sense of harmony and connection in your close relationships, whether you are single or partnered.You will learn: a new kind of commitment; tandem acts of kindness; the power of emotional transparency; and no-blame relationships. This workshop is based on over thirty years of relationship exploration with thousands of people and will give you both theory and experiential processes that you can use to create the kind of relationships you most want.

Katie Hendricks PhD has been a pioneer in the field of body-mind integration for forty years. She has a doctorate in transpersonal psychology and has consulted and taught in the graduate programs of many universities. She is the coauthor of ten books, including Conscious Loving, Attracting Genuine Love,The Conscious Heart, and Lasting Love. www.hendricks.com 10.30am–5.30pm £65/£55 Good Friends/£40 Concs Park Crescent Conference Centre 229 Great Portland Street, W1W 5PN

Deepak Chopra is a global authority on spirituality and personal empowerment. He is the author of more than 50 books, with 16 New York Times best-sellers on mind-body health, quantum mechanics and spirituality. Time magazine heralds Deepak as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as ‘the poet-prophet of alternative medicine’. www.deepakchopra.com 10.30am–4.30pm £85/£72 Good Friends/£65 Concs Friends House, 173 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment – Rumi

workshops Sunday 5 June

Energy Medicine DONNA EDEN Energy medicine is concerned with healing imbalances in the body's energy field that are believed to result in illness.

It uses a variety of techniques to restore balance in the body, including: tapping, massaging, connecting specific energy points on the skin; tracing or swirling the hand along specific energy pathways; focused use of the mind to move specific energies; and surrounding an area with healing energies.

Energy medicine is both a complement to other approaches to medical care and a complete system for selfcare and self-help. It addresses physical illness and emotional or mental disorders.You can heal the body by activating its natural healing energies; you also heal the body by restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed or out of balance. Join us for this workshop and learn how energy medicine awakens the body’s potential, increases your vitality and wellbeing, boosts joy, and sends healing to areas of your body that need attention.

Donna Eden is one the world’s most inspiring authorities on energy medicine. Her abilities as a healer are legendary, and for more than 30 years, she has taught many thousands of people worldwide how to work with their own energies for greater health and vitality. Her book, Energy Medicine, is the classic in its field, and is available in 15 languages. www.innersource.net 10.30am–5.30pm £75/£64 Good Friends/£55 Concs Heythrop College, 23 Kensington Square, W8 5HN

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Saturday 11 June

The Inward Dive

Saturday 16 July

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Living a Joy-Filled Life

Inquiry is not about sending the mind outward to gather information or experiences, it is about sending the mind inward to question our basic assumption of who we think we are.Through the gift of self-inquiry and your own deepest desire to live a true and authentic life, Gangaji invites you to discover the effortless simplicity of a resolve so total, that every aspect of daily life is used naturally for deepening surrender.

This one day retreat is a time to inquire deeply into yourself and to discover what is alive and free at the core.The day will consist of two meetings with Gangaji and a video programme. At each meeting we will spend some time sitting together in silence. Gangaji will invite questions and reports from participants. She will offer her full support and guidance for all to deeply inquire and discover the possibility of living freely and in truth.

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.

In this workshop, 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/£55 Concs Logan Hall, Institute of Education 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Gangaji is an American-born teacher who travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life. She shares her direct experience of the essential message she received from Papaji and offers it to all who want to discover a true and lasting fulfillment. She is the author of several books including The Diamond in Your Pocket and her latest Hidden Treasure. www.gangaji.org 10.30am–5.30pm £75/£64 Good Friends/£55 Concs Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street Russell Square, WC1H 0XG

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