STANDING OUR GROUND:
Learning to Be Assertive

Leaders

Jim Hirsch

(Click on Jim's name to see his details.)

Email: jim_hirsch@hotmail.com

5th April 2009
(9.30 am - 5.00pm)

Underhill Centre
Underhill
Romiley,
Stockport, SK6 4QP
U.K.

Even in the most pressured of situations we can be balanced and relaxed. We can manage Standing our ground is fundamental to ensuring we live happily and cooperatively with others. Many people, however, think the opposite, that taking a stand creates conflict and contention, so they don't do it. Of course, some people are afraid to do so because of past experience where they have paid a high price for doing so. Yet, the fact remains, that standing our ground is important, whatever experiences we have had with it.

Forget about being a doormat, forget about bullying or acting rebelliously. Learning to act assertively while taking account of yourself, others and the world around you is wonderfully liberating. People start to change with us, even when the changes we make are quite small. This workshop will take you on a journey into understanding and experiencing how to be strong, clear and assertive. You can learn to say, No and Yes, when to say, Not that way, this way, and when it is right for you to say each. Come and learn what true personal power is and how assertiveness is a powerful path to cooperation and mutual respect.

Fees: In addition to the fees below, there are scholarships available for all workshops, including one to cover the full fee.

Normal Fee - £30.00

For further information and bookings:
Kathryn Schofield  0161 456 4668

Venue

This map shows the location of the Underhill Centre in Romiley town centre.

For further information please contact Jim Hirsch:
Email: Jim_hirsch@hotmail.com
Tel: 0161 448 7836 or 07833 924702

Turning Points

Leaders

(Click on Jim's and Kathryn's names to see their details.)

Jim Hirsch                                     Kathryn Schofield

0161 448 7836                                 0161 456 4668
07833 924702

jim_hirsch@hotmail.com             kathryn_es@hotmail.co.uk

7 Whimberry Way                            25 Station Road
Withington                                       Hazel Grove
Manchester M20 4SG                     Stockport SK7 4EX

at Trigonos on

Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2009

Jim Hirsch and Kathryn Schofield

Please note: Residential bookings require a on-returnable deposit of £10 pppn.  To secure a room in Trigonos, deposits must be received by 17th April 2009.  Rooms may be available after that but may also be given to other groups.

What is a Turning Point?

A “turning point” is a time in which many things, perhaps everything, that we have assumed to be true or permanent, or given in some way, now appear to be intangible or not true.  Our basic assumptions are suddenly challenged. We can feel as if the very foundations on which we have built our lives no longer exist, or are now irrelevant.  Life itself will always be different after it is over.

However, at every moment in our lives we have the opportunity to change direction and start new patterns and new behaviours.  Most of us do not tend to be particularly aware of this most of the time.  We get on with life in our usual sort of ways.  Turning points do not allow us to continue as we were.  We are vividly, powerfully and resoundingly challenged to take notice of change.  Perhaps it is connected with a notable event in our life, such as, getting married or having a child, losing a job, separating from a partner, becoming sick, having an accident or with the death of a parent.  Turning a particular age is the precipitating event for some, for example, ages ending in zero are often significant.  Many incidents can provide us with this chance of direction change.

This workshop is designed to help us through times of change and to give us ways of heading in new directions.

It is open to all, and beginners are welcome as well as experienced meditators.

For further information, please contact Jim Hirsch or Kathryn Schofield.

About Trigonos

Trigonos is a residential centre in Nantlle in the Snowdon National Park.  The views of Snowdon, the surrounding mountains and Lake Nantlle are magnificent, and the peace and beauty of the location make it an ideal venue for a meditation workshop.  The rooms are very comfortable, the food is always delicious and the staff are very welcoming.

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Inner stillness, open heart

The Freedom of Body-full Awareness

Leader

Martin Wells

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Leader

Martin Wells

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Edinburgh 16th and 17th of May 2009

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The more we can still ourselves within, the more our hearts will open. Simply by noticing and accepting our experiences, we relax about whatever is there. In so doing, we also open up to a deep acceptance and compassion for ourselves and others. These experiences arise naturally from within our hearts.

In the workshop, participants will learn simple practices that have a profound effect on our capacity to live Life. These tools can also help to dissolve conflicts and difficulties naturally and easily, and to promote inner stillness and peace.

Bristol 28th of May 2009

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We often feel constricted and confined in our lives. Cultivating body-full aware enables us to digest and transcend everyday concerns, and to free ourselves from inner conflict and tension.  As we open up to our experience, ground ourselves in the here-and-now, and cultivate inner alignment by centering in the observer, we come to realize that we are free, spacious and eternal.

In the workshop, participants will learn some ancient routes to this kind of freedom. Regular practice of these simple, profoundly effective techniques will enable us to live a life of liberation and inner peace, provided we persist.

Joining Together

Leaders:

Jan Doyle, Gordon Law, Kathryn Schofield, Martin Wells

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All leaders are experienced practitioners.

Contact any of the following for more information.

For more information contact:

Annie Hirsch
0161 448 7836, anniehirsch@hotmail.co.uk

Gordon Law
01684 566268, gordon.law1@btopenworld.com

Jan Doyle
0117- 914 0327, jandoyle2002@yahoo.co.uk

Kathryn Schofield  
0161 456 4668, kathryn_es@hotmail.co.uk

Martin Wells
0117 9247457, martin_wells@lineone.net

May 23rd & 24th

Malvern, UK

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We can live in fulfilment through joining together. Great openness is available: openness to others and the community and world we live in, openness to material and economic resources, openness to everyday opportunities, openness to inner truth, openness to Love and Light.

At the heart of this event we will centre in how we can best live in the midst of this openness so that all may benefit.

We will share how we can join with others in fellowship, and with a common cause or purpose, that transcends individual and personal concerns.

During our time together we will focus on:

• How we can best live to fulfil this purpose

• What we make available through unified group activity that is not available when we act alone

• What we can do together to foster a community of spirit and oneness in the world we live in

• Ways we can make widely available the benefits and resources available through Biame Network

• Provide a two day programme of choices between different meditations that fulfill these aims

• Share ideas and information through group discussion, and have plenty of time for fun and enjoyment.

We will meditate together, share ideas and information through group discussion, and have plenty of time for fun and enjoyment.

Come and join us for this Biame Network event in the UK. You need have no previous experience of meditation—everyone is welcome—and we look forward to seeing you.