ALL PRICES INCLUDE FULL BOARD ACCOMMODATION FINISHING WITH BREAKFAST ON DAY OF DEPARTURE (Packed lunches for departure day are available for extra £5)

Friday 10 - Sunday 12 February: Compassionate Communication

Led by Sarah Ludford

Do you to want to communicate in a way that supports peace? By focussing simply on the intention to connect, we will learn steps that will enable us to:

• Build relationships based on compassion and understanding
• Be assertive and transform conflicts into opportunities for building connection and trust
• Hear others with empathy, even when they express themselves in a hostile manner
• Transform enemy images to enable compassionate understanding of ourselves and others

Feedback from previous course attenders:

"As a Quaker, and someone who works with others in groups committed to justice, I have found the approach taken by nonviolent (or compassionate) communication immensely fruitful.  It has helped me to curb my hastiness when interacting with others, and has given me ways to understand better what is happening when I find myself at odds with those with whom I want to be in accord. It isn't easy to put what I have learned into practice, but the whole effort is worthwhile - sometimes I am startled by unexpected harmony."

 "Nonviolent Communication opened up a new way of looking at the world for me. With Sarah's clear gentle wisdom and leadership I was introduced to a way of communicating compassionately. As a Quaker and a mother, I try to live this kind of compassion in my every day - but it's not always easy. Attending a course like this one gave me some of the tools I need." 

To find out more about the course, and Sarah's work with Nonviolent Communication, contact Sarah on Tel: 01768 774601 

Email: sarah@ludford-buric.freeserve.co.uk

Fee: £198

 

Friday 17 - Monday 20 February: Stilling the Mind (Women only)

Led by Alison Goodwin

An opportunity to turn down the volume of our busy lives and allow ourselves to settle, calming our minds, enabling greater connection to ourselves, other, nature and spirit.

We will draw on a range of practices including gentle walking (approx 4 hours per day), meditation, body awareness, breathwork, and an hour of beginners' yoga per day. Please note, these are all optional, and there will be free time as well. We usually walk up to five miles, going no higher than 200 metres, covering gentle gradients and some rough ground.

For further information, contact Alison on 07968 763398  www.creatingpositivemoodnaturally.co.uk

 Fee: £253

  

Monday 16 - Friday 20 April: Purely Patchwork  Led by Janice Alloway

Bring your sowing machine to make a French Braid Quilt, or experiment with the nine degree wedge ruler.  Bring your own project if you prefer.  All welcome.

 Fee: £290

 

Monday 23 - Friday 27 April: Boot Boat and Goat   Led by David and Marjorie Ball

Visitng various parts of the Lake District by minibus, this holiday is suitable for those, both able and less able, who would welcome the companionship of a small group. There will be opportunities for short, gentle walks and a cruise on the lake.  We will also have a day excursion using the Mountain Goat minibus. Stout footwear and suitable clothing will be required.  Single rooms are available. All excursion costs are included.

Fee: £343

 

Friday 27 - Monday 30 April: Painting and Sketching   Led by Sue Ford

Sue Ford is an experienced tutor/artist, running course throughout the UK and abroad.  This holiday provides a great opportunity to paint in Grasmere and the surrounding countryside. You will be using a variety of methods to capture the landscape for painting back in the studio -  a superb way to both simplify your paintings for drama and impact, plus improve your painting skills.

Mainly working in watercolours - other media are welcome.  A full list of requiremets and itinerary can be sent by contacting Sue by email: sue_ford@email.com.  Or telephone: 01642 712926

Details of Sue's work and other courses can be viewed on www.sueford.co.uk  This course is suitable for all levels of painting ability and levels of walking will be kept to a minimum.

(This weekend course is also offered 1-4 June).

Fee:  £247

 

 Friday 11 - Sunday 13 May: Friends Fellowship of Healing Gathering 

This event, which will be facilitated by Jim Pym, author and Quaker Spiritual Healer, is open to members of the Friends Fellowship of Healing and those ineterested in joining.

The FFH membership subscription is £10 per year (minimum) and information/application form can be downloaded from the Fellowship website:  www.quaker-healing.org.uk or by phoning the membership secretary Sandra Kirk tel: 07761 534730

Further information about the FFH Gathering at Glenthorne from Kay Horsfield

Tel: 01923 675671  email: horsfield.k@googlemail.com

£150

 

Monday 14 - Friday 18 May: Circle Dancing   Led by Jackie Spearpoint

This course is for both experienced circle dancers and beginners. We dance in the morning and after dinner, leaving the afternoons free for you to enjoy roaming in Grasmere and beyond.

£309

 

Sunday 20 - Friday 25 May:  How to be Happy with Yoga  Led by Fiona Agombar

Yoga sees our true nature as being happy, peaceful and calm. However, we get out of touch with this and forget our true identity.  We become attached to things that go on in the world. When we look for happinness, we are disappointed, because the world is always changing.

Using self-enquiry based on the teachings of Patanjali and Vedanta, Fiona will help you get back your sense of joy and peace through discussions, gentle postures, breathing, meditation and relaxation.

This course is suitable for anyone who asks "Who Am I?" and will take you deep into the stillness which is always there.........

 £360

  

Friday 8 - Sunday 10 June: Christian Meditation Weekend

"Exploring Silence - To recover silence as part of everyday life."

This weekend will offer times of shared silence and opportunities for private meditation; also short talks and times for reflection together. In these ways, on our own, and with each other, we hope we may discover more about the benefits of silence at the heart of everyday life.

ENQUIRIES AND BOOKINGS FOR THIS EVENT:

Sarah Kirkup, The Cherry Tree, Brough Sowerby, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, CA17 4EG.

Tel: 01768 341258   email: sarah.kirkup1@virgin.net

Fee: £160

Printable event information flyer with booking form also available HERE

Friday 22 - Sunday 24 June: What Canst Thou Say? Revisiting Quakers and Christianity.

Led by Janet Scott

Janet Scott's Swarthmore Lecture "What Canst Thou Say?  Towards a Quaker Theology" was published in 1980. The questions Quakers in Britain then faced were about Christianity and universalism.  What of today?  Friends in Britain now have more security in realising that the Quaker form of Christianity is universalist. But there are now fresh challenges from humanist and secular approaches.

This course looks at what Quakers can say today about their own form of Christianity.  Each session over the weekend  will have opportunities for discussion in groups or plenary.

£150

 

Friday 6 - Sunday 8 July: The Singing Tree: the role of journey and transformation within poetry and the writing process.

 Led by Victoria Bennnett 

Together, we will take a journey to explore our personal and spiritual journeys and the transformations that are held within them.  Through engaging with our own stories -  and the words of others, from mystics, poets and life's travellers - this course offers the opportunity to enter into the process of change from within and find the words that act as our maps and as our footprints that we leave behind.

For more information about Victoria and her work:www.blissfool.co.uk

£154

Monday 23 - Friday 27 July: Yoga : Led by Julia Slater

Dru Yoga for all levels.  Enjoy flowing sequences and classical postures.  Free time in the afternoon for walking, or aromatherapy/deep tissue massage/ reflexology to restore and refresh. www.druyogawithjulia.co.uk

£297

 

Monday 6 - Friday 10 August: Painting and Sketching  Led by Sue Ford

Sue Ford is an experienced artist/tutor, running courses throughout the UK and abroad.  This holiday provides a great opportunity to paint in Grasmere and the surrounding countryside.

You will be using a variety of methods to capture the landscape for painting back in the studio.  A superb way to both simplify your paintings for drama and impact, plus improve your painting skills.

Mainly working in watercolours - other media are welcome.  A full list of requirements and itinerary can be sent by contacting Sue by email sue_ford@email.com. Or telephone 01642 712926

Details of Sue's work and other courses can be viewed on www.sueford.co.uk. This course is suitable for all levels of painting ability.  Levels of walking will be kept to a minimum.

(This Monday to Friday course is also offered 27-31 August).

Fee: £306

 

 Friday 10 - Monday 13 August: Finding Calm  Led by Alison Goodwin

The aim of this workshop is to provide a different way of finding calmer mental states, allowing us more room to breathe. It is from this place that we are then more likely to find solutions to problems since our mind has become much quieter, more spacious and still.

The tools used will include stress management techniques, yoga, body awareness, breathwork, meditation and free time for you to spend out in nature - the ultimate stress reliever!  There will also be information sessions covering subjects such as symptoms and causes of stress, nutrition, developing strategies to support us and making changes. (All sessions optional). For further information contact Alison on tel: 07968 763398.  Website: www.creatingpositivemoodnaturally.co.uk.

£250

 

Monday 13 - Friday 17 August:  Stilling the Mind (Women Only)

Led by Alison Goodwin

An opportunity to turn down the volume of our busy lives and allow ourselves to settle, calming our minds, enabling greater connection to ourselves, other, nature and spirit.

We will draw on a range of practices including gentle walking (approx 4 hours per day), meditation, body awareness, breathwork, and about one hour of beginners' yoga per day.  Please note these are all optional and there will also be free time as well. We usually walk  up to 5 miles, going no higher than 200 metres, covering gentle gradients and some rough ground.

 For further information contact Alison on tel: 07968 763398.  Website: www.creatingpositivemoodnaturally.co.uk

 £304

 

31 August - 3 September : Ashram    Led by Sita Brand

Drawing on the teachings of the world renoned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh we will develop our practice of being aware and awake to the present moment. Kind attention, silence, simplicity and mindfulness will be the pillars of the weekend which allow us to develop inner peace and cultivate an open-hearted relationship to life.

This course extends over three nights (instead of the usual two) allowing participants to deepen their practice.

 £234

 

Monday 27 - Friday 31 August: Painting and Sketching   Led by Sue Ford

Sue Ford is an experienced tutor/artist, running course throughout the UK and abroad. This holiday provides a great opportunity to paint in Grasmere and the surrounding countryside.

You willbe using a variety of methods to capture the landscape for painting back in the studio. A superb way to both simplify your paintings for drama and impact, plus improve your painting skills.

Mainly working in watercolours - other media are welcome.  A full list of requirements and itinerary can be sent by contacting Sue by email: sue_ford@email.com. Or telephone 01642 712926

Details of Sue's work and other courses can be viewed on www.sueford.co.uk.  This couyrse is suitable for all levels of painting ability.  Levels of walking will be kept to a minimum.

(This Monday to Friday course is also offered 6-10 August).

£306

 

Monday 5 - Friday 7 September: Quaker Spiritual Healers Training Week 

 Led by Cherry Simpkin and Elizabeth Angus, members of the QSH tutors team.

Everyone has the natural ability to heal, but not everyone has the confidence tot try! Therefore, this Quaker-based "training" course offers those who feel themselves drawn to the field of healing the opportunity to explore their own potential, in a safe and supportive atmosphere. Those who may then wish to go further can become fully insured probationer QSH members.

For further details contact Ros Smith tel: 01359 252248

£296

 

Sunday 9 - Friday 14 September: Yoga to Beat Fatigue  Led by Fiona Agombar

Using gentle yoga postures, breath work, mantra (sound) and relaxation techniques, Fiona shows us how yoga can bring us to a deep state of healing by connecting with the real stillness that is within and that is always present. This course, which includes some philosophy as well as therapeutic asanas, is suitable for anyone who wishes to increase stamina and energy, including those with ME (chronic fatigue syndrome) or other health challenges.

(This course is also offered 11-16 November)

£360

 

Friday 28 - Sunday 30 September:  Breakthrough to Unity - The Quaker Way and Mystic Traditions

Led by Roswitha and Peter Jarman

This will be a Kindlers' event to deepen our spiritual lives through personal and shared reflection. We will look for inspiration from readings by Quaker mystics and mystics of other traditions who have direct inner knowledge of the Spirit within and an understanding of the Unity of all: 'interbeing'.

There will be time for being in touch with the natural world around Glenthorne and for expressing ourselves in creative ways.

£150

Monday 1 - Friday 4 October:  Boot Boat and Goat   Led by David and Marjorie Ball

Visitng various parts of the Lake District by minibus, this holiday is suitable for those, both able and less able, who would welcome the companionship of a small group. There will be short, gentle walks and a cruise on the lake. We will also have a day excursion using the Mountain Goat minibus.  Stout footwear and suitable clothing will be required. Single rooms are available.  All excursion costs are included.

£343

 

Friday 5 - Sunday 7 October: Experiment with Light weekend workshop

Led by facilitators from the Experiment with Light network

Quaker faith and life are based on experience. "This I knew experimentally," said Fox. But what is this experience? In this course we will look at what that experience was at the beginning of the Quaker movement.  We will then undertake an experiment to see whether the experience is still available to us. Part of this will be a meditation in which we try to experience "the Light" as early Friends understood it. This can be searching and powerful.  Finally, in small groups, and in the larger group, we will try to make sense of what happened and reflect on the significance of the light for our lives today.

 £167

 

Friday 19 - Sunday 21 October: Quaker History in a Nutshell    Led by Ben Pink Dandelion

Enjoy the Lakeland autumn colours and spend a weekend hearing about the beginnings of Quakerism and the three centuries of its heritage since.  This course will offer an accessible approach to Quaker history with plenty of time for questions and discussion.  No previous knowledge is assumed or required.

£150

 

Sunday 11 - Friday 16 November: Yoga to Beat Fatigue   Led by Fiona Agombar

Using gentle yoga postures, breath work, mantra (sound), and relaxation techniques, Fiona shows us how yoga can bring us to a deep state of healing by connecting witht he real stillness that is within and that is always present.  This course, which includes some philosophy as well as therapeutic asanas, is suitable for anyone who wishes to increase stamina and energy, including those with ME (chronic fatigue syndrome) or other health challenges.

NB: DINNER IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE SUNDAY EVENING. PACKED LUNCHES ARE AVAILABLE AT AN ADDITIONAL COST OF £5.00 ON THE FRIDAY. (Please pre order)

 £360