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WHAT IS ROCK BANK OFFERING?

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We feel ourselves to be both spiritual and unique, yet often we are unhappy and unfulfilled. The soul has become far away and out of reach. We have lost touch with the sacredness of all life, and the gods, neglected, have returned as troubles of all kinds.

Many of us have been desperately hurt and wounded in our lives. Torn between extreme opposites, we may feel ourselves to be flung and pulled in all directions : 'Either I stay with my partner and go mad, or I leave, lose the children and die of loneliness.' - 'Either I leave my job, go bankrupt and die of fear and boredom, or I stay in it and die of a heart attack.' We fear there may be no solution.

Just as the immune system heals the body, so does our inner wisdom heal the soul. It's a natural process, like the healing of a wound. Our own inner world, when trusted, heals itself. However, it's tricky. That's why we need support in finding strength, comfort, healing. It's not about other people telling us what to do, how to be. We need encouragement to find within ourselves the quality and essence of our own innate wisdom, which can answer so many questions and problems.

The Transpersonal way is to ask, not 'What's wrong with me?' but 'What's right with me?' Those who come to Rock Bank have sometimes found inside themselves what is often an astonishing awareness of their own wisdom and compassion. This can be seen as a quest; and while to be on a quest may not be comfortable, to be aware of life as a developmental journey may well lead individuals to move in and out of spiritual areas, invoking another dimension, acknowledging the unique touching of their souls. So we may find our way back to wholeness, to intuition, the values of the feeling heart, the warmth of the hearth-fires of home. However, both head and heart, reason and emotion, instinct and knowledge are needed if the soul is to come home in us, and in our children and in our world.

Offering workshops, counselling, therapy and coaching, as well as supervision, books and meditation, the work at Rock Bank is appropriate for many people, including professionals: it is for all who seek to know and befriend themselves, and thus each other. It is for everyone who has known something of hurt or grief or betrayal, of the pain of loss, the excitement of the inner journey, the quest, the new birth that is itself a profound healing.

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WHAT HAPPENS AT ROCK BANK?

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TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY, WORKSHOPS IN LEICESTERSHIRE

At Rock Bank, weekend and single day workshops are held.
A variety of themes have included:

Dreams
Alchemy
The Seven Rays
Myth and Legend
Heroine to Wise Woman
Drawing on the Inner World
Transpersonal Astrology
Science, Nature and Art
Sacred Space
Initiation

Longer courses and Meditation are available, and also individual Counselling and Therapy, Coaching and Supervision .

Transpersonal Weekends.

The three introductory Transpersonal Workshops, originating with Barbara Somers and Ian Gordon-Brown, form the heart and core of the work here.

Visitors to Rock Bank.

Monica Anthony returns to Rock Bank on February 23rd 2008, with a day on 'The Raincloud of Knowable Things'. Emma Ramsden brings a day of 'Play and Laughter' on May 17th. Ruth White comes back in November 2008, with 'Reaction, Action and Interaction: Factors in the Journey to Co-Creativity'

A third volume of the work of Ian Gordon-Brown and Barbara Somers, entitled 'The Raincloud of Knowable Things: A Manual of Transpersonal Psychology Workshops', is to follow 'Journey in Depth' and 'The Fires of Alchemy'. Editor Hazel Marshall. Publication early 2008, by:

Archive Publishing
ian@archivepublishing.co.uk
Tel. 01202 848 352
www.archivepublishing.co.uk.

Personal Work. Individual Counselling, Therapy, Coaching, and Supervision are all available at Rock Bank.

Transpersonal Perspectives, London. Recently launched, 'Transpersonal Perspectives' is based on the original Transpersonal vision. About the hearts and souls of us all, it is reaching quietly and steadily into the future.

Meditation at Rock Bank. On Thursday mornings, the house is open for quiet sitting and meditation, followed by coffee and discussion. Free. All welcome.