Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/05/2020
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
SEEDS OF HOPE
Finding positive growth in crisis times
Saturday May 20th Online Workshop
with Alan Heeks and Karim Hadden
Any crisis brings opportunity as well as loss. This half-day online group is a chance to find and nurture seeds of hope: for yourself, for your community, and for our planet.
The pandemic has already prompted a lot of positive change, as well as hardship: personal acts of generosity, communities acting together, governments stepping in. Already we’re asking what can we learn here for the future, how do we ensure things don’t go back to the old normal? And how we grow through coronavirus will assuredly help us to adapt to the ongoing climate crisis. We’ll draw on a variety of approaches, including:
- Ways to find our creative potential and draw on our unique gifts
- Shared practices to help us connect with our sense of purpose and with mutual support: sacred songs and meditative movement (body prayer).
- Exploring the range of ways that we can make a positive contribution in a time of crisis
- Creation spirituality teachings to help us find our positive role in the unfolding story of Gaia, Mother Earth.
- Exploring how to deepen our sense of community and grow towards the kind of future we want to see with others
Alan Heeks: has focused on future resilience since 2012, working with Jem Bendell since Autumn 2018: nominated by Jem as a Deep Adaptation advocate. Alan has co-led many spiritual retreats, including several on spiritual resilience.
See www.futurescanning.org, www.naturalhappiness.net.
Karim Hadden: is a highly experienced leader of Dances of Universal Peace. He has been a student of Universal Sufism for many years and is also a craniosacral therapist.
PRACTICALITIES
- The workshop will be run as a Zoom call (similar to Skype); you’ll need a laptop or smartphone plus wifi connection
- The cost is £7, concessions £4, or pay what you can afford
- Group size limited to 14 participants
- For bookings and enquiries, contact Karim mikejhadden@gmail.com or phone 01981 500764