TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE
IN THE 21ST CENTURY
A DuVersity Programme
What is transformation?
To be more what you are and lessen the pretence of being something or someone else.
Transformation is not magically reaching an ideal state but more the opening of doors to new challenges that will continue to come to you.
What is our purpose in offering this programme?
Our aim is to help people derive practices they can bring into their daily lives.
And not be sucked into the midless activities of the modern world.
The course is about assimilating material within
yourself that has been neglected or is even largely unknown to you even though most
truly yours. The practices and work with
other people can help you renew, rejuventate and
reconnect with your purpose and deepest sense of values
As children we may have played in mysteries, now a faint memory. In this
workshop you are invited to bring together sophisticated thought with
child-like innocence and learn how they may be closer together than most people
imagine; and bring all stages of life together.
What is transformation? To be more what and who you
are and lessen the pretence of being something or someone else. There
are levels within levels within us and some of the deeper ones can connect with
forces that can ‘wake us up’ from entrapping delusions, help sustain us and be
of more benefit to our neighbours. Transformation is not
magically reaching an ideal state but more the opening of doors to other
perceptions of new challenges. This is not just a private affair. Perhaps more
people are needed who can avoid being sucked into the mindless activities of
the modern world and can keep on discovering new 
‘facts’ about themselves and
humanity. Because transformation is needed it can work!
How does it work in our event? We enter into being with ourselves and coming
to know ourselves while engaging in various practices. These include methods of
moving, talking, creating, stillness and thinking that have evolved
particularly from the ‘fourth way’ canon of Gurdjieff but include new insights
from group psychology and neurophysiology. These we have developed from our
previous workshops on ‘psyche integration’ conducted in many cultures from
Who is in charge? Really, you are. The facilitators serve you in
your explorations. Their authority is only to enable the methods to be applied
in safety and transparency. For the duration of the workshop, we aim for the
condition known as koinonia or
‘impersonal fellowship’. We operate as far as possible on the level. We
do not consider it right to tell other people ‘how to find God’.
How is it structured? There will be a series of explorations over the
three days, taking us through different ways of working designed to activate
specific areas of our brains, minds and hearts. The three main axes are: to
Know, to Be and to Act. We do not practice anything blindly but enquire into and question what we are doing. Though theoretical explanation is kept to a mimimum a dialogue of meaning is maintained. One of our aims is to enable people to derive
practices they can bring into their lives.
What do you have to bring? Essentially this is a
question, an aim, or a puzzle or quest. However elusive and hard to express
this may be, it is the necessary condition of making progress. A major part of
the process of the workshop is helping each other tune into our inherent purpose
and we do not expect you to have your aim clearly defined – maybe it will be
more like a story or image or even just ‘felt-sense’ than any concept.
We are two facilitators with long experience of
transformative methods in various domains and, sometimes, many years of working
with key figures in such methods. We participate in the event with you.
Anthony
Blake studied physics and philosophy of science at
