Why create this Conference?
There is a growing movement of professionals, carers, and those who have experienced emotional and mental problems who know that both mental illness and mental health have a spiritual dimension. We believe that it is time to develop forums where the accumulated knowledge, wisdom and experience can coalesce, be shared and can grow.
Bridges to Spiritual Awareness is such a forum and is beginning with a small group committed to exploring this notion with like-minded people, and with those who are curious to discover the significant possibilities that already exist for helping ourselves and others. We were stimulated by work being undertaken elsewhere in Europe* and in the USA and from our early discussions some 30 people have so far expressed an interest in researching this subject further.
Who is this for?
We welcome anyone who feels an affinity for this subject, be they professionals from the medical and helping professions, social workers, mental health workers, teachers, or anyone who feels that they have something to learn or contribute.
Where is the Conference?
Regents College, Room T101 Tea/Coffee provided
Inner Circle Lunch is available in the restaurant
Regents Park Road Nearest Tube - Baker Street
London NW1 4NS Some parking is available at £4 per day
What does this cost?
£35 for the day
(£30 if you pay before 19th May)
(£20 concessionary rate for Students)
Please make cheques payable to: Bridges for Spiritual Awareness
Send to: 6 Ravenscroft Avenue, London NW11 0RY
Please advise: Your name, address & telephone number
plus your career field/area of interest
There will be a mixture of information giving, and questions, with some discussion and experiential components to reinforce the understanding.
Clive Digby-Jones - Moderator
Clive is a healer and executive coach who works in the corporate world. After years of working in corporate life as a senior executive, he rediscovered his humanity and for the last 15 years has consulted in creativity and personal development.
Morning
Cross-Cultural Spirituality. Natalie Tobert
Our perceptions of birth, health and death affect our understanding of life on earth. This talk explores various cultures’ beliefs about existence.
Natalie is a Visiting Lectures in ‘Anthropology & Religion’ at the University of Wales, Lampeter. She facilitates a seminar series on ‘Spirituality’ at Richmond-upon-Thames College and teaches a course on ‘Death & Dying’ for the Open University.
Dying into Love – A Personal Story. Simon Macnab
This journey of awakening will illustrate both that ‘dying to the self’ is at the heart of transformation, and the length to which the ego will go to avoid this process.
Following an international career in business, Simon Macnab has taken a Sabbatical, during which he has devoted himself to the search for wholeness. This period of spiritual inquiry has been both stormy and rewarding.
The Inconvenient Spirit. Alan Sanderson
Spirit attachment’ as a cause of illness: its diagnosis and treatment.
Alan is a consultant psychiatrist in
private practice. He helps patients to access spiritual realities in altered
states of consciousness.
Afternoon
Discovering Inner Reality. Terence Coleman
Exploring the process of progressive self-awareness in terms of the interaction between energy and consciousness
Terence is an Australian, living in France. After formal training in Mathematics and Psychology, he worked for 30 years in Information Technology. For the past 10 years, he has been a Reiki Master, teaching this spiritual practice and supporting individual healing and spiritual evolution.
Birthing the Spirit. Eileen Watkins Seymour
Memory blocks, fragments of the self, and suppressed and hidden energy; are features of life for most of us, if we but realised it. How does one help a person to this realisation and to birth themselves into full expression?
Eileen is an American living in London since 1976. She is a psychotherapist who has developed ‘The Ravenscroft Approach' to wholeness & healing. She facilitates people’s journey towards authenticity.
Meditation & Psychotherapy. Jean-Marc Mantel
Is there a place for integrating psychotherapeutic approaches into spiritual therapies and meditative approaches into psychotherapies? What is the meaning of meditation? Is it a technique or a natural state arising when the inner conflict ends?
Jean-Marc Mantel is a psychiatrist deeply involved in yoga, meditation and non-dualistic approaches to self-knowledge. Founder of the International Association for Spiritual Psychiatry, and Essence, presenting non-dualistic wisdom in a clear and comprehensible form.
Closing Session – Presenters
The closing session will help to draw conclusions from the day and answer as many questions as time permits.
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