Authentic living

‘Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover’.

Mark Twain

Become more confident and authentic,

and connect more deeply

with yourself and others

Compassionate
communication

Compassionate communication offers a paradigm shift in how we relate, where quality of connection is primary. It moves away from authoritative, power and control strategy into a more collaborative approach, serving both the shared task, and respect and care for the individual concerned.

Mindful intuition training

Mindfulness intuition training takes you to the heart of what it means to be living in a spontaneous, fresh and in the moment way that is grounded and rooted in the richness of the sensing body.

Meditation

Meditation is one of the most direct and effective strategies for personal growth and anyone can learn. It is well researched that even if you meditated for 20 minutes a day, you would reap multiple health benefits, and areas of the brain reconfigure in as little as 6 – 8 weeks, bringing you major shifts in wellbeing and vitality.

Focusing

Focusing is innately mindful and compassionate, subtle and profound. This amazing process offers a unique and powerful way of connecting with those parts of you most needing attention in a way that is respectful and gently transformative.

Compassionate communication

Compassionate Communication offers a practical and doable means to authenticity where the emphasis is on quality of connection and appreciation.

Compassionate Communication will help you to

Inspire greater trust and meaning in all your relationships
Make clear requests that others will willingly respond to
Community build
Work more collaboratively with others
Empathise a way that will enrich your connection
Resolve conflicts to ‘connect and empower’, rather than ‘divide and fall’
Give and receive feedback safely and in a non-threatening way
Naturally increase your self-confidence and sense of wellbeing
Breathe new life and inspiration into stagnant relationships

Watch a video featuring Marhsall B Rosenburg, who developed Non-Violent Communication

Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we’ll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

Marshall B Rosenburg

Mindfulness intuition training

This innovation comes from a blend of Mindfulness and Focusing where there is a shift from the rational, cerebral two-dimensional, to the intuitive, spontaneous Being level – where life is more about quality of connection (inwardly and outwardly) and resonance with a deeper level of self trust and that of the Universe.

Whilst there is obviously an important place for the rational, and analytical, it is not uncommon to feel and be oppressed and trapped by our thinking faculty.

We are not engaging here with any psychic level development, but working in the realm of presence and body wisdom, that is rooted in common sense but not constrained by it.

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This training will offer you

an understanding of mindfulness and intuition
a means to explore and develop your intuitive side
a way of increasing your creativity
an exploration of spontaneous and in the moment sense of wholeness
fun and engaging exercises
a sense of whole-body connection, free of the constraints of analysis & judging
a more simple and profound sense of who you are
an ability to listen in and sense ‘the more’ inside of you
an ability to be more receptive to nature and others for a richer quality of living
skills in how to enter a more curious and explorative in the moment attitude
a greater sense of freedom based on a deeper trust and confidence
decision-making that is inclusive, organic and ecological to your and other needs

We are not engaging here with any psychic level development, but working in the realm of presence and body wisdom, that is rooted in common sense but not constrained by it.

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Who for?

For people who are wishing to refine their humanity and open to increasing their levels of creativity, vitality, wellbeing and choice in life.

At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Meditation

Meditation empowers us with immediate access to the potential of what it means to be truly human. We offers skills and supports to develop and maintain an effective meditation practice.

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Benefits of meditation

Enhanced Mental Agility
Offers relaxation, Peace and Wellbeing
Improved Clarity and Focus
Builds Self-confidence and Self Esteem
Increased Creativity
Enhances Energy, Strength & Vitality
Offers Direction and Purpose
Quality Sleep
Reduces Anxiety Attacks (lowers the levels of blood lactate)
Improved Perception, Memory and Intelligence
Lower Blood Pressure
Slowing of Aging Process
Helps with Weight Loss
Enhances a Spiritual Awareness
Aids Freedom from Addictions
Better Work Performance
Improved Relationships
Improved all-round Health
Increases Serotonin the Feel good hormone (low levels of serotonin are associated with depression, headaches and insomnia)

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What skills and practices does meditation offer?

Mindfulness based practical skills and approaches for everyday life
Body scans and guided meditations
Mindful movement and whole body movement
Soothing and calming techniques
Whole body awareness and development practices and approaches

How?

Either in person, by Skype, or on the phone – at a time or place most convenient for you. Sessions are an hour long

Meditation Courses: meditation instruction can also be offered in course format

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime

Sogyal Rimpoche

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Focusing

Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing may be described as:

Coming home to yourself. Discovering within you that which is innate and welcoming, in which there is often a deep sigh of relief and the open space of Ok-ness with whatever if present in you. Focusing offers a doorway to the heart home of your being, and with it a new lease of care-free living.

Learning how to abide in the home of your being and in presence is really the theme of the workshop, or one to one session.

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Focusing will teach you

Befriend and soothe hurt, scared or anxious parts of yourself
Say ‘Hello’ to whatever is present within you
Become more at ease and carefree by ‘clearing a space’
Invite the light in – qualities you would like more of
Increase your intuitive, spontaneous side
Make more balanced, integrated and fruitful decisions
Develop a more grounded, intuitive and creative sense of yourself
Develop a heightened sensitivity to your and others’ needs
Manage your stress levels towards greater wellbeing and wholeness
Be congruent and authentic to your deeper sense of who you are

Focusing was developed on the basis of research by Eugene Gendlin and Carl Rogers in the 1960s when they were trying to understand if success in psychotherapy could be predicted. What they discovered was that change for a client was more likely if the client was more connected to their inner experience as it happened in the moment, with all its ambiguity, and not just expressing intellectual judgments and causes of their behaviour, thoughts and feelings.

UPCOMING COURSE: details here

Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people – in fact, the whole universe

Eugene Gendlin

author of ‘Focusing’

Watch a video introducing Focusing by its creator