Meeting with Chaos and Paradox – Making Friends with Zen and the Fertile Void

Please see details below for an invitation to a 3 hour Transpersonal Facilitation Workshop to be held online via Zoom on Monday 20th May, starting at 10am UK time and led by AoF Board Member, Professor Paul Barber. This will be of particularly interest to leaders and facilitators who are interested in working with individuals and groups from a different, deeper perspective.

This will be a hands-on virtual workshop where you experience and appraise the usefulness of meeting with chaos and unstructured potential in a facilitative relationship, be it as a manager, coach or as a professional facilitator. You will be led through exercises where you will meet with paradox and confusion, learning to shape and work with the same for the good of both yourselves and your clients. This will help bring mindfulness into your management or facilitation practice.

By way of introduction, Paul writes:

“I encourage my clients to always strive after a ‘Don’t Know Mind’, for paradoxically, when ‘The Don’t Know Mind’ becomes clear & with rumination left far behind we begin to understand that much is really interpretation & cultural conditioning – by beliefs masquerading as ‘fact’. At this point, with possibilities opening up & socialization in question, we are freed to rethink the ‘musts’ & ‘shoulds’ & ‘oughts’ we impose upon our life! To see afresh & welcome in the fertile void to stay with ‘What is’.

Transpersonal facilitation & coaching won’t always lead to enlightenment, but at least it will make sufficient psychic space to provide opportunity to re-write a more current & realistic life-plan & to see through the folly of our habitual ways! But why bother to work in this way? Well, many people’s minds are like overfull glasses that need emptying out before they can receive more – & that’s a facilitator’s job!”

Numbers will be purposefully small to encourage dialogue and case discussion so book your place soon.

Those enrolling in the workshop will receive an introductory paper in preparation for the workshop.

The cost of the workshop is £80 for AoF members and £100 for non-members.