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Please register your serious interest with Angie - we need at least 15 people for this workshop to be viable.
PRACTICAL MINISTRY - ATWO DAY WORKSHOP
Angie Alexandra (2004) and Will Russell (2005)
March 2012 (exact dates to be confirmed)
9.30am – 1pm; 2pm – 5pm both days
Venue tbc, London
£150, CPD accredited
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DAY ONE includes |
DAY TWO includes |
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Where we’re each at |
Inland Revenue, PAYE and Accounts |
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Finding the inner ‘yes’ |
Taking Bookings |
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Manifesting (Being & Doing) |
Insurance & Associations |
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Marketing Materials |
Context & Competitors |
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Encouragement & Support |
Burn out & Boundaries |
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Top Tips from IF Ministers |
Making Plans – Taking Action |
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Questions and Completion |
Questions and Completion |
This workshop has been designed, by us as Ministers, for other Ministers who’d like to have an active ministry offering ceremony and or spiritual counselling. Building on the foundation of the two year training we offer practical help and encouragement, as listed above.
We offer tips and ideas for good business practice from that first phone call or conversation out of the blue, which then leads to a dialogue about what exactly you offer as a counsellor or celebrant, through the whole process of preparation and holding of a session or ceremony, and your own process afterwards. We can suggest procedures and structures to have in place for keeping records, responding to enquiries, making bookings, gathering information and creating ceremonies, holding SC clients, and every aspect of what is, in essence, traditional ministry in an alternative way.
We’ll use a mix of - small group discussion, large group discussion; meditation, prayer and closed eye process; information in spoken and written format, and audio visual; song and movement; fun and games; questions and answers – and setting up buddy support to take steps following the workshop.
Our aim is for Ministers to feel informed, supported and inspired to go away from the workshop to begin taking first steps into offering counselling and ceremony in order to earn some or all of their living from ministry.
Please contact Angie for further information angelaalexandra@aol.com and to register your interest.
Deepening our humanity – opening to Love
An Easter Gathering
Co-creating our emerging future in changing, challenging times
Book through www.findhorn.org/intochristconsciousness/
See our website to support exploration and group work: www.intocc.net
We live in extraordinary times,calling us to take a further step in consciousness as we co-create our emerging future. It is time to transform how we think, act and relate in the world.
The Into Christ Consciousness Gathering draws together different streams of experience to rebuild our relationship with the wholeness of Life and to generate positive, compassionate and creative change.
The four-day gathering is shaped around the dynamic of the Easter mystery, and brings together contributors from various backgrounds. All are contributors, and your input is valued. There will also be:
- William Bloom, author, educator and spiritual activist
- Fionntulach, Head of the Céile Dé order of Celtic spirituality
- Jeddah Mali, spiritual teacher dedicated to enabling others to operate in a unified field
- William Meader,author and spiritual teacher whose passion is to help humanity express the soul more effectively in the outer world
- Philip Roderick, Christian priest, musician and founder of The Quiet Garden movement and Contemplative Fire
- Barbara Swetina, travelling artist and troubadour
Including half-day workshops from Fay Barratt, exploring how the wisdom of Mary Magdalene moves and speaks through us, and fromJulia MacDonald, Master NLP practitioner, offer NLP in service to Spirit.
Fay, Julia and William Bloom will also offer post-retreat workshops for those wishing to stay on – or come specially for those. See Findhorn Foundation Events
Convening this event:
Gillian Paschkes-Bell: interfaith minister with an open spirituality and a Christ-centred path
Janice Dolley: author, initiator, workshop-leader dedicated to the evolution of consciousness
Income related price (click on the Findhorn Foundation website for more information): £395 / £495 / £595 includes 4 nights’ accommodation and all meals.
Early-Bird discount of £50 on all bookings paid by 31 October 2011
Our annual Convocation Gathering 2012 will be held in London on 9/10 June. It is being organised by a host team convened by Rev John Merrill.
The theme for the weekend is Connectedness which will be explored in several different ways. On the Saturday there will be meditations, short inputs, movement activities, and small group sharings. There will be our regular opportunity to re-express our vows together. There will also be an open session with the trustee and staff groups. On the Sunday, in a new development, John will lead a sacred pilgrimage and service in London.
Refreshments including a hot vegetarian buffet lunch will be provided on Saturday; bring your own picnic food on Sunday.
Programme
A copy of the draft programme for the weekend is attached
Venue
The main venue on the Saturday will be Friends House on Euston Road. This is in central London and directly opposite Euston Station. A map of the venue is attached. On the Sunday, there are plans for a walk/pilgrimage connecting significant places of faith and worship.
Accommodation
You can stay with friends, or there are 100 hotels and guest houses within a mile of Euston Station.
This hotel is almost next door to Friend's House: Premier Inn, 1 Dukes Road, Euston. Tel. 0871 527 8656
Comfort Inn, King's Cross, 2-5 St. Chad's Street. Tel. 020 7837 1940
www.eustonhotels.co.uk/london - over 50 hotels with great rates.
www.premierinn.com/London-Euston
www.laterooms.com/Euston-Hotels
www.hoteldirect.co.uk/EustonStation
Accommodation offers from London minsters and students
If you are willing to offer accommodation to others in your London house/flat, please contact Lindsay with the details and we will post it here.
Fees
IMA members and current Seminary students: £63 (£58 for payment received before 1 April)
Non-IMA members: £78 (£70 for payment received before 1 April)
How to book
Booking is essential for everyone attending. Please complete and return the attached Event Registration Form.
Annual Convocation for all interfaith ministers and students will be held at Gaunts House in Dorset. This will be a fully residential gathering and and including a retreat for ministers. Details to follow.
