Personal Development
Through personal development we can raise consciousness and so become self-aware. Without conscious living we are without purpose. The secret of our self-help retreats at the Crucible Centre is our compassion for your spiritual development.
Through personal development we can achieve our highest goals for ourselves and in relationship. The holistic healing of our souls and meditation support the most loving answers to the soul's journey. The Law of Spiritual Attraction states that when you feel good you attract goodness to you.
The skills we use for personal development remain principally Sandplay, Voice Dialogue and Dynamic Facilitation. It is well-known that the deepest therapy occurs when the therapist has themselves been on the same journey.
Our workshops are held monthly on each full moon, on these dates. They are relaxed, exploratory and close. We are interested in the present, in living in the now in a fast evolving world. We will deal with past traumas and experiences in order to clear the log-jams to our future, but this is no longer our primary aim.
We are forming a new Community of Compassion and Resilience where we may support each other to live more fully and more capably.
The White Tara of Compassion on our Sanctuary wall is our guide and inspiration. She was painted by a Tibetan monk now living in Daramsala under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
We believe in seeking ways to offer each of you exactly the most powerful tools for transformation that you personally need. We believe in exploration and we encourage you to reassess what does not work in your lives.
You can read of our Crucible Methods here.
It is so important in this age devoted to shopping and exotic excitements that we give time to maintaining our positivity and connection with soul. We all benefit from having a more resilient and meaningful path in these uncertain times.
A testimonial: "I wanted to give myself a chance to come down from the "high" of the weekend, before I thanked you. What an extraordinary experience I’ve had. As I said, I had no idea that the processing would be so powerful. All credit to your masterful facilitation and to the sandplay medium. I sense that I made some major shifts. The sense of being so present with myself and my surroundings is still with me. What a blessing!"
We are running workshops on every full moon during 2011 - click for workshop dates. Cost including bed and meals is only $390 for two days.
We support you to use ALL your gifts for a better and more conscious life through Resilience and Consciousness. Much of our philosophy is contained in John's beautiful book Notes to Transformation.
To describe our work and the nature of energy John wrote The Great Field, which won the Award for the Best Spiritual Book for 2008. Click for a review of the book, and here If you want to own The Great Field.
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