Your subtype is the trigger for your personality's most unconscious barriers to spiritual awareness and growth. Discover your own subtype, describing basic strategies for survival in arenas of one-to-one intimacy, social interaction and self-preservation. Exploring Head, Heart and Belly in more depth as centres of spiritual perception.

• exercises, meditations etc
• oral tradition teaching
• eligibility: must complete basic course and be familiar with type

The oral tradition is the best way to learn the Enneagram and Karen Webb is its leading exponent in this country.

Experience the transforming power of story and learn some tools of the trade. Do you want to discover your own potential as a storyteller, incorporate stories in your ministry, or are you simply drawn to the delight of hearing stories? A chance to explore bible stories, traditional folk tales and personal stories. Experiment safely with listening to and telling stories. Enjoy discovering more about a wonderful art form - the shortest route between truth and the human heart!

• suitable for beginners
• great resource for all in ministry
• fun, gentle, inclusive exercises
• structuring, improvision, visualisation & tricks of the trade

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Simon Airey is a professional storyteller and University Chaplain in Durham.

Looking at the life of Jesus and how he relates to himself and others – his intimates and those he meets along the way. What can we learn from Jesus as exemplar for relating to our own inner worlds, our physical and emotional beings and our fellows?

• individual and group work
• formal input based on reflections subsequent to Brian’s well known book “Behold the Man”

Brian Thorne is Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia with an international reputation as a person-centred therapist and writer.

An accessible and well structured resource for understanding how people approach spirituality, work and relationships in such different ways. Valuable personal and professional training for anyone who lives or works with others.

Gordon Jeff and Dorothy Nicholson both have wide experience of parish ministry and spiritual direction. They have been qualified MBTI practitioners for over 20 years.

The pervasive type-based habits of attention that are embedded in our thinking act as a way of forgetting Presence - the gift of collected spiritual awareness. The attentional bias that consistently filters out aspects of reality makes our subjective point of view utterly believable. This highly interactive workshop examines the placements of attention that oppose Presence in 27 (9x3) different ways. Panels, pair work, meditation and exercises are structured to compare the conditioned awareness of type with the reference point of inner Presence.

The Enneagram is taught most effectively through the techniques of the oral tradition. Karen Webb is its leading exponent in the UK.

Learn your own Type with its unconscious habits and perceptions leading to typical emotional concerns and behaviour patterns. Recognise your responses to stress, and draw on profound resources of sacred tradition to enhance spiritual development.

The Enneagram is taught most effectively through the techniques of the oral tradition. Karen Webb is its leading exponent in the UK.

Story is the shortest route between truth and the human heart! Experience its transforming power and learn some tools of the trade. A chance to explore bible stories, traditional folk tales and personal stories. Experiment safely with listening to and telling stories.

Simon Airey is a professional storyteller and University Chaplain in Durham.

Learn a variety of short massages to share with the important people in your life. The relaxed but focused learning environment will also help you let go of your own tensions and unhelpful postures. A wonderful way to develop attention, caring, presence and awareness.

Philippa Wackerbarth has over 25 years’ experience giving and teaching massage including in retreat and health care settings.

• book in pairs