Regular Events (Mornings and Evenings)

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Mondays:
4 week Introduction to meditation with Bill Petrie
21st, 28th May, 4th, 11th August

For more information please contact Bill Petrie on billpetrie95@gmail.com

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Tuesdays:
Open the Heart and Still the Mind: a journey of self-discovery with Sue Cooper
Tuesday mornings and evenings started: 17th April
May 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12 and 19
Times: 09:00 – 11:30 or 18:30 – 21:00

This 9-week group process, facilitated by clinical psychologist Sue Cooper, integrates psychotherapy and meditation, a powerful tool for deepening our awareness of ourselves.

In a nurturing and therapeutic atmosphere, we will explore different ways to develop understanding, clarity and inner balance, through a combination of meditation, self-reflection and group interaction. There will be an opportunity in each session for analytic discussion and reflection, as well as for contemplative silence, providing an experience of both the psychological and meditative approaches to inner work.

Sue Cooper is a Clinical Psychologist with 20 years of experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working in private practice in Cape Town. She has a long-standing interest in the interface between psychological and spiritual approaches to self-discovery and inner healing, and has attended Buddhist meditation retreats for over 25 years, both in South Africa and the UK.

In acknowledgement of the Buddhist tradition of dana, a proportion of the payments received are donated to Dharmagiri, a Buddhist hermitage run by Kittisaro and Thanissara in the Southern Drakensberg (www.dharmagiri.org), out of appreciation and respect for their teachings and outreach work.

For further details, please email Sue at sue@pinchuck.com or call 021-7623561.

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Wednesday:
Power of Soul with Lenore
2nd , 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th May

Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Experience the Power of Soul and discover how you can heal and transform all aspects of life including health, relationships and finances through meditation, chanting, soul song and soul dance. Master Sha teaches:  “I have the power to heal myself. You have the power to heal yourself.

Together we have the power to heal the world.” The group is led by Lenore Cairncross. She is a Divine Healing Hands practitioner and has studied with Dr & Master Zhi Gang Sha for the last four years. She is also a Certified Reiki Master.

For more information contact Lenore on Lenore.rc@gmail.com

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Weekend Workshops / Block Seminars

Integrated NLP Practitioners Training – with Noha
05th and 6th May
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm


The World of Noshe will be delivering its final weekend module for Integrated NLP Practitioners Training. We run both full time intensive practitioner’s training over 9 days and part time over 4 months.

We integrate Universal principles, spirituality, The Demartini Method ™ and other mind blowing methodologies with the original NLP developers’ curriculum to give future Practitioners the a full spectrum of tools to apply.

Please call Noha on 0833 085 987 or email: noha@noshe.co.za for special offers on May and June courses.
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Living from the Core – 1 day Workshop with Dai Heyne and Annika Nicol
Saturday 12th May
Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Exploring psycho-spiritual (transpersonal) practices as related to Core Process Psychotherapy. This is a depth Mindfulness approach that works deeply with present moment experience and uses the body as a way of anchoring in the here and now.

For more information or booking please contact Dai on 0727881959 or daiheyne@yahoo.com Or Annika Nicol on 0714583199 or annika.nicol.ct@gmail.com

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Open the Heart and Still the Mind: a journey of self-discovery with Sue Cooper
Mother’s Day at Constellation House with Petra Becker
Sunday 13 May 2012
11h00-14h00

PAMPER YOURSELF-the perfect opportunity to spoil someone special on Mother’s Day. Why not yourself or someone dear to you!

This workshop will ease you into the change of seasons. Nurture body and mind – take a couple of hours to pamper yourself with a bit of yoga, meditation and a wholesome lunch including an Ayurvedic cooking demonstration.

You will leave feeling rejuvenated and energised!

Please RSVP via email to info@constellationhouse.co.za or directly to pea.becker@gmail.com

Check out www.yogaweb.co.za for info on Petra’s background
Detailed program on request/yoga beginners are welcome
Cost: 300 Rand incl. light vegetarian lunch

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Breakfast at Constellation House to introduce newcomers to a Beautiful Venue for Workshops and Teambuilding
Wednesday 16th May
Time: 7:30 to 9:30

We would like to invite you to join us for a lovely autumn breakfast, to come and view our serene and tranquil spaces at Constellation House – 5 Oakdale Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town. This invitation is not only for the new but also for our existing facilitator and friends of Constellation House.
Suggested times from 7h30 for 8h00 until 9h00 to 9h30 depending on how long you want to spend time in our beautiful place – we will keep you entertained.

To attend please RSVP for catering purposes on 0216898107 or via email debbie@constellationhouse.co.za

We look forward to sharing our space with you.

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NLP Training with Jimmy
20 Day Programme – 1 weekend a month for 10 months
Second Weekend 19 – 20 May
Time: 09:00 -17:00

NLP is the study of human excellence. It seeks to understand the natural process of how great achievers use their minds to produce excellent results. Many managers and therapists, teachers and nurses, athletes and artists, and especially life coaches, all benefit from the technology NLP has to offer in their particular profession or passion.

For more information contact Jimmy on jimmy@inlp.co.za or phone on 082 5704483

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Family Constellations 1 – Day Workshop with Andrea Brand
Saturday 19th May
Time: 9:00 – 5:00 pm

Family Constellations looks at the hidden dynamic that often plays itself out within the family system that we inherited. What we do and experience in our life is deeply connected to what other people in our larger family system have done in their lives. This can lead back a few generations.

A constellation is a way of representing the pattern of relationships within a family system.

The course is full, but there is still space available for representatives at a cost of R300.00 per person.

For more information or booking please contact Andrea Brand on andrea@constellationhouse.co.za or Cell: 0828253011

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Creative Facilitators Toolkit Workshop – facilitated by Di Koch
and Eugenie Grobler
Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd May
Time: 09:00 – 17:00

This workshop focuses on the development of a facilitator’s toolkit and capacity for working with dynamic and creative methodologies.

Day 1: An opportunity to reflect on your own practice as a facilitator, while being introduced to a range of creative, interactive methodologies.

Day 2: Building capacity and confidence in learning how to use these methods in your own facilitation, adding to your toolkit and developing your own facilitation style.

For more information look at our website www.dikoch.wordpress.com or email Di at diza.k@telkomsa.net

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Learn the Art of Digital Storytelling with Pam Sykes
Thursday 24th to Saturday 26th May
Time: 9am – 5pm

Digital Storytelling: Create a short video based on a story from your own life. This profoundly transformative process will not only change the way you understand the story of your own life, it will equip you with new technical skills as you learn how to work with sound, images and video.

During the three days you will:
• Develop your story and create a script
• Record a voiceover narration
• Use video editing software to put your story together

You will leave with a completed 3-minute movie, recorded DVD and ready to share online.

For booking please contact Pam on storytelling@pamsykes.com

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Don’t forget to go and look at our Facebook and Twitter pages!

Regular Events (Evenings)

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Mondays:
Tension/Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) Pam and Maureen (Qualified Level 1)
Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Contact Maureen 0834281059 or Pam 0827741737 for more details.

You can also refer to wwww.traumaprevention.com and www.wonder-filled-life.com

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Mondays:Mondays:
Introductory Talk about Meditation with Bill Petrie
Monday 23 April
Time: 18:30 – 19:30

For more information please contact Bill Petrie on billpetrie95@gmail.com

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Wednesday:
Power of Soul with Lenore
4th April
Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Experience the Power of Soul and discover how you can heal and transform all aspects of life including health, relationships and finances through meditation, chanting, soul song and soul dance. Master Sha teaches:  “I have the power to heal myself. You have the power to heal yourself. Together we have the power to heal the world.” The group is led by Lenore Cairncross. She is a Divine Healing Hands practitioner and has studied with Dr & Master Zhi Gang Sha for the last four years. She is also a Certified Reiki Master.

For more information contact Lenore on Lenore.rc@gmail.com

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Weekend Workshops / Block Seminars

The Mercurial Fountain – Alchemy and the Language of the Dream

A Four day weekend seminar on alchemy, dream analysis and active imagination with Renee Ramsden, John Gosling, Fernand Schaub

5 – 9 April 2012
Time: Thursday: 19:30 – 21:00 and Friday – Monday: 09:00 – 15:00


These seminars are aimed at qualified therapists who have a serious interest in dream-analysis from the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology

Jung wished to illustrate how the psyche offers images through dreams over time, which eventually culminates in the mandala. For this purpose, he took a selection of 81 dreams from Wolfgang Pauli’s work (CWV12) and tracked the consistent appearance of the mandala, culminating in a final mandala image, the dream of the World Clock. He says: When I began drawing the mandalas, I saw that everything, all the paths I had been following, all the steps taken, were leading back to a single point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to individuation. (MDR, p.222) 

In examining the process that Pauli went through in his analysis of his dreams, we will be able to see how the Self synchronizes the dream material leading Pauli to a unifying vision, a vision that unifies his personal psyche with the cosmos. The spirit Mercurius corresponds to what Jung called, in his Red Book, the Spirit of the Deep, which synchronizes human events on both the collective and individual scale.

Individuation is the individual’s approach to their own wholeness, and all paths, however circuitous, leads to the centre. The process of individuation is the approach to the heart of the forest of the psyche and the mandala is the expression of holding the paradoxical realities of life in balance. We are offering our three approaches to this vast topic.

Renee will offer an in-depth look at the dream series of Wolfgang Pauli. John will offer two seminars on active imagination and mandalas in the Red Book. Fernand Schaub will offer two seminars on the light in the darkness of the nigredo through the medium of fairytales and legends.  
We look forward to sharing this enriching journey with you.

For more information, and the whole programme please contact Renee Ramsden 021 761 5781; or fax 021 761 2398 or on renee@netpoint.co.za.

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Open the Heart and Still the Mind: a journey of self-discovery with Sue Cooper
Tuesday mornings or evenings starting: 17th April
April 17, 24, May 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12 and 19
Times: 09:00 – 11:30 or 18:30 – 21:00

This 9-week group process, facilitated by clinical psychologist Sue Cooper, integrates psychotherapy and meditation, a powerful tool for deepening our awareness of ourselves.

In a nurturing and therapeutic atmosphere, we will explore different ways to develop understanding, clarity and inner balance, through a combination of meditation, self-reflection and group interaction. There will be an opportunity in each session for analytic discussion and reflection, as well as for contemplative silence, providing an experience of both the psychological and meditative approaches to inner work.

Sue Cooper is a Clinical Psychologist with 20 years of experience as a
psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working in private practice in Cape Town. She has a long-standing interest in the interface between psychological and spiritual approaches to self-discovery and inner healing, and has attended Buddhist meditation retreats for over 25 years, both in South Africa and the UK.

In acknowledgement of the Buddhist tradition of dana, a proportion of the payments received are donated to Dharmagiri, a Buddhist hermitage run by Kittisaro and Thanissara in the Southern Drakensberg (www.dharmagiri.org), out of appreciation and respect for their teachings and outreach work.

For further details, please email Sue at sue@pinchuck.com or call 021-7623561.

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NLP training with Jimmy
20 Day Programme – 1 weekend a month for 10 months
First Weekend 21 – 22 April
Time: 09:00 -17:00

NLP is the study of human excellence. It seeks to understand the natural process of how great achievers use their minds to produce excellent results. Many managers and therapists, teachers and nurses, athletes and artists, and especially life coaches, all benefit from the technology NLP has to offer in their particular profession or passion.

For more information contact Jimmy on jimmy@inlp.co.za or phone on 082 5704483

Don’t forget to go and look at our Facebook and Twitter pages!

Regular Events (Evenings)

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Mondays:
Tension/Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) Pam and Maureen (Qualified Level 1)
Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Contact Maureen 0834281059 or Pam 0827741737 for more details.

You can also refer to wwww.traumaprevention.com and www.wonder-filled-life.com

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Wednesday:
Power of Soul with Lenore
Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Experience the Power of Soul and discover how you can heal and transform all aspects of life including health, relationships and finances through meditation, chanting, soul song and soul dance.

Master Sha teaches:  “I have the power to heal myself. You have the power to heal yourself. Together we have the power to heal the world.” The group is led by Lenore Cairncross.

She is a Divine Healing Hands practitioner and has studied with Dr & Master Zhi Gang Sha for the last four years. She is also a Certified Reiki Master.

For more information contact Lenore on Lenore.rc@gmail.com

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Wednesday
What are you focusing on – with Alan Hughes
Time: 18:45 – 21:00 on the 14th March

What is your main Focus in Life? If you were to have one question, what do you consistently ask yourself, based on this focus?
 
Let Life Coach Alan Hughes guide you through a series of simple exercises, to discover your current Focus in life, your question. This can reveal great insights on how and why you have lived your life the way you have, up until now.
 
Alan can also assist you to Change Your Focus, if you so choose. Design a new, more empowering question, one which enables you to live a more fulfilling life, from here on…
 
“Jeez Alan, this is stuff everybody should know! I look forward to practicing what you discussed and learning a few more tricks.” – Andre Rademan

For information and bookings, please contact Alan on 076 2649127 or alan@lifecoachingcapetown.com

www.lifecoachingcapetown.com

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Weekend Workshops / Block Seminars

Managing Fear and Anxiety in your Child with Dr Sarah Jane Knight
Thursday 1 March
Time: 09:00 – 13:00


This workshop offers a basic grounding in the psychological theory on anxiety and provides a therapeutic space for parents to explore how best to help their children. It is an opportunity to share experiences with other parents in a non-critical and supportive environment.

Incorporating theory, group exercises, discussion and self-reflection; parents will go home with knowledge and practical suggestions on how to manage fear and anxiety. Use this day to add to your parenting toolkit and gain confidence.

For information and bookings, please contact Dr Sarah-Jane Knight on 079 4225118

Don’t forget to go and look at our Facebook and twitter page!

Trauma/Tension Release Exercises is a technique to reduce muscular tension, relieve chronic stress, anxiety and recover from trauma.

TRE is a body-centered methodology of trauma recovery that can be used with individuals or in groups. It is easily learned, immediately effective and self empowering.

Doing TRE in a group increases the individual participant’s sense of safety and support.

The group energy has a synergy, which enables individuals to make quicker shifts and recovery, and to achieve a renewed sense a balance and vitality.

Maureen Mulvihal | Telephone: +27 216852266 Mobile: +27 834281059 | TRE Practitioner Level 2 | Email: dna@wpbts.org.za

I am a registered Medical Technologist doing DNA typing for human identification. I have suffered with a chronic back problem for many years. This led to an interest in alternative medicine looking at different healing modalities.

I have had exceptional results with TRE for my own back problems and wish to share this form of healing with others.

Pam Stone | Telephone: +27 214658420 | Mobile: +27 827741737 | Email: pamstone1@mac.com | Web site www.wonder-filled-life.com

• Prof Nurse and Midwife and Nurse Educator

• TRE Practitioner Level 2

• Wellness Coach

• Inner Life Skills Coach- Access the Bars Practitioner.

As a retired nurse I am always searching and open to new ways of healing. Since my retirement 5 years ago I have found many helpful modalities. TRE for me is a personal favorite. Since practicing it regularly for 2 years now, my chronic back -ache is a thing of the past. I have released the years of stored tension also known as vicarious trauma from my years of nursing and feel so good my best years must surely be ahead of me.

Join us on a Monday evening at Constellation House’s beautiful Meditation Room 6.15 to 7.15 pm for group TRE sessions.

Activation Hub Presents:

Creative Disobedience and Innovation

“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices” - George Bernard Shaw.

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion” - Oscar Wilde.

“Creative disobedience and innovation”developed through an interdisciplinary approach combining insights and applications from the fields of psychology, business and art. It views our individual lives and who we become as we journey through life as an artefact (product) of creativity. The quality of what we create through our work is strongly influenced by our ability to understand our purpose, by having the courage to be unique and think for ourselves, our ability to be present, our capacity to harness the power of our intent, and our ability for discernment as we co-create with others. Like any other venture, living a sustained and powerful creative life depends on a good discipline or practise. Inspiration and innovation are earned, not given.” For more information about this workshop and other Activation Hub products – please go to www.activationhub.yolasite.com

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Touching the Core offers opportunities to get more in touch with yourself, including your body, honouring it as one expression of who you are and supporting it as a source of wisdom in your life.

Through the body we connect with our loved ones, do our work, speak our truth, make love, become creative, live our spirituality, dance, move, and so much more. In turn everything that we experience also shows as a physical sensation in the body, yet most of the time we are much more in touch with our thinking than with our bodily experience in a situation. Mostly we pay attention to the body when we are ill or in pain. Then we may seek support from a doctor, a health practitioner or energy healer. We feel uncomfortable and we want to feel good. It seems like a loving attitude but if we look a little more deeply this way of relating to our body actually has an element of rejection. We experience pain and we want to get rid of it. We reject what is going on inside us and so in this moment we are rejecting ourselves. Once we feel better again we carry on. Many of the longer term, chronic debilitating diseases that affect the quality of our lives are rooted in this way of relating to our body and our experience.

Touching the Core recognises this way of being as a way of seeking a joyful, light and happy existence. It also recognises that it is a strategy that often creates the opposite of what we are looking for.

The bodywork sessions and coaching sessions at Touching the Core are an opportunity for you to reconnect with yourself and your body, to feel what is going on inside and to be with it. As a practitioner I bring an open listening space and supportive presence to the session. In the bodywork sessions such as Shiatsu and Intuitive Massage listening happens mainly through touch. The practitioner then brings awareness to areas of muscle tension or energy patterns through gentle touch, firm pressure and various body movements. In a coaching session the listening happens in form of a coaching conversation. This may start with the exploration of a body experience or of any other aspect of your life.

To benefit from any of the offerings you do not need to have any physical symptoms or specific issues. Whilst Touching the Core sessions often have a strong healing effect and open up new possibilities the primary intention is to allow you to get in touch with yourself and your body, to bring awareness to physical sensations and experiences. From here, pain and tension often change and release by themselves leaving us more connected and free to move forward.

And what about healing and feeling good?
Whilst we often assume that by working on ourselves and our symptoms we can alleviate our pain I have found that we often miss a step here. This step is bringing awareness and including our experience in the moment – both pleasant and unpleasant – in a friendly way. When we do this rejection stops and the experience can change and move. In this process healing often happens spontaneously and we may even find new insights into ourselves and our lives that can support us in acting in the world in an open, free and loving way.
Touching the Core offerings

Shiatsu literally means “finger pressure”. At its foundation is the healthy flow and balance of energy (Ki) within the body and in relation to the world around us. The Shiatsu practitioner utilises touch and gentle finger pressure to different parts of the body to support it in restoring this balance.

Intuitive Massage is a form of massage that combines various massage techniques and a strong intuitive connection with the receiver. This form of massage works with oils and the practitioner uses her hands and arms, constantly listening to the receiver’s body. This makes each massage session unique and responsive to what is alive in the body in the moment.

Reiki has also been described as the art of laying on of hands. It is the use of touch to channel life-energy or Ki through the palms of the hands to support a person’s own energy system in restoring its natural flow and balance. The Reiki practitioner places her hands in different positions on or above the body simply working as a conduit for the universally present essential energy.

Core Coaching is a form of Life-Coaching based on the teachings of Zen Coaching. In Zen Coaching we recognise that who we truly are does not need change or improvement. The Coaching process primarily supports us to connect more deeply with ourselves through our experience in the present moment. Naturally our choices and actions then become an expression of the joy, strength, love, peace, freedom and clarity that we are and that is always available right here right now. (For more information on Zen Coaching see www.zen-coaching.com). I am currently a student in this approach and am offering sessions at a reduced rate.

For more information & bookings please contact:

Regina Lindau
Phone: 073 9692267
Email: regina.lindau@gmail.com
Web: www.hadazawari.weebly.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TouchingTheCore

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast

The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

Alan Hughes presenting

As we move into this new year of 2012, I hear lots of people voicing hopes, goals, dreams and desires, for making this year, a better, more successful one than 2011. I would like to share with you some understanding and advice on setting your Goals, in ways that make them easier to Achieve. I hope also to point out a couple of common pitfalls, which you can choose to avoid when setting your goals.

Those of you who attended my talks will recall how we discussed at length the difference between your “Conscious Mind” and your “Conditioned Mind” (or Unconscious/Subconscious mind). Using your Conscious Mind more intelligently to give clear instructions to the Conditioned Mind, makes it easier for your Conditioned Mind to create the results you desire. This applies more than ever when setting goals:

• Your Conscious Mind is the Goal Setter – you reason, think and plan what we want in your life, and judge the results, using your Conscious intellect.

• However, your Conditioned Mind is the Goal Getter – it is in this domain that most of the work is done to achieve your goals.

Understanding this, you can see how important it is for you to set clear instructions, in a way which is easy for your Conditioned Mind to follow, making it easier for it to create what you want in your life.

Achieving goals is about CHANGE! Keep doing what you are doing, and you will keep getting what you are getting. You don’t need any goal for that, as you are already doing it. However, if you want different results in your life, then you need to change what you do. This can be challenging. Many of us like to stay within our comfort zone. It feels safer to keep walking the same old path, than to venture out onto a new one. But if you want to get to somewhere new, you need to alter your route. The only way to achieve any new goal is to Change.

There are two vital elements you need in order to achieve ANY goal. Almost ever goal you have not achieved comes down to one of these being absent:

• A real desire to achieve the goal. If you really, really, really want something, then you will move Heaven and Earth to get it. The more you want it, the more likely you are to get it.

• Belief that you can achieve the goal. If you doubt your ability to get what you want, you will most likely manifest that doubt.

As a Life Coach, I can’t help you with the first element. Only you can decide what you want, and how badly you want it. I do however have techniques, which can easily help you to release any limiting beliefs in your ability to achieve your goals.

There are many different models on how to set goals, in order to word them in a way which your Conditioned Mind can work with easily. I prefer to keep things simple, so I will share with you the basic technique of setting a “SMART” goal. First get clear on what result it is you really want to achieve. Write it down, and then check if it is SMART using the guide below.

Is your goal:

• S – Specific and Simple

• M – Measurable and Meaningful to you

• A – As if now, Achievable, and relevant to All areas of your life

• R – Realistic and Responsible (Ecological)

• T – Timed and Towards what you want

You will probably find yourself rewriting your goal several times as you refine it, to get it to fulfil all of these criteria. It can also help to work with someone on to get your goal just right. Fresh eyes, or experienced ones, can often see things that you overlook. Here is a format for starting off your goals which I recommend: “It is now 2pm on the 3rd of May 2012 (timed) and I have just completed/achieved(as if now)…. fill in your goal here

Some common mistakes to steer clear of:

• Setting too many goals. What you FOCUS on is what you get! It is much easier to focus on your goals if you work on only one, or two, or at most three goals at a time. Having twenty goals make look great on paper, but you are unlikely to be properly focussed on any of them.

• Make sure your goal is one individual goal. Clients often come to me with complex goals, which are actually several goals rolled into one. Again this detracts from the focus, and makes it harder to achieve.

• Setting goals for things you don’t really want. This may sound obvious, but if you don’t really want something, you are less likely to make the effort to achieve it. This would include goals you set to try and keep others happy.

• Not acting on your goals. Just setting the goal is not enough, you also need to act on it. Ideally you should take the first step as soon as you have set the goal. Make an action plan on how you will get to your goal.

There is obviously a lot more to be said about Setting Goals, and there is much I can do with Clients to ensure they achieve their goals once they have set them. I have great techniques to enhance and intensify goals, and to help plant them deeper into the Conditioned Mind. These really need to be done individually and transmitted in person.

I hope you chose to take value from what I have shared here. My January talk at Constellation House (15^th February, at 6.45 for 7pm) will expand on this same topic of Goal Setting.

So if you would like to explore this further, please ring or email me to book your seat. You are welcome to bring a goal or two with you, in case we have time to work on them in more detail.

Alan Hughes is an Evolved Life Coach, working from Constellation House, by appointment. You can reach him by phone 076 2649127, or by email alan@lifecoachingcapetown.com Website www.lifecoachingcapetown.com Facebook www.facebook.com/UltimateCoaching

Elizma is an integrative psychotherapist with 9 years experience in the mental health field. Over the years she has worked in outpatient as well as inpatient settings with children, adolescents, adults, families, couples and groups. She completed her Masters degree in Somatic Counselling Psychology from one of the worlds leading universities in Contemplative Education, Naropa University (www.naropa.edu) in the USA. There she specialised in Somatic Psychology, a field in psychology that looks at the interconnection between the body and the mind in psychological processes, development and healing. She believes that for healing and growth to occur multiple levels of the self and experience need to be addressed, incorporated and integrated into therapy such as the body, mind and spirit.

Elizma runs a private practice in Rondebosch and Stellenbosch where she works with children (play therapy, Stellenbosch only), adolescents, adults and couples. She also facilitates ceremonial group work with her life partner, Carlos Hernandez.

Elizma works from the belief that every person contains within him or herself the ability to heal, make wise choices and live a happy fulfilled life.  As a therapist she sees herself as a guide or co-traveler with her clients on the road of their journeys of inner healing, empowerment and transformation. If you would like to schedule an appointment or make an inquiry please contact her at:

Elizma Bellingan, MA

BA; HONS (Psych) Stell; MA (Somatic Couns. Psych) Naropa University

Elizma.Bellingan@gmail.com

Phone: 078.209.2879

www.a-place-of-healing.com

By Andrea Brand
Article from the Constellation House Newsletter November 2011

Cape is so full of creative hubs it’s no wonder it was recently voted World Design Capital for 2014. One of those hubs is the Montebello Design Centre in Newlands. On a recent visit I was drawn to the courtyard at the bottom left of the property, where the work of Right Sculptures adorns every corner. The business is named after the owner, but it is Right in more ways than one. Although I came looking only for a small bench for the front garden at Constellation House, once I entered that wonderland of figures, animals and hearts I ended up with a little more: A life-size pig (one can comfortably sit on it), a laughing African Buddha with a well-shaped belly and two heart bowls. Right was so happy that he generously gave me a big wooden heart as well. One can’t go wrong in buying Right sculptures!

Since this newsletter is about stories, I thought to attempt a little mini story about Right Sculptures, which is actually a partnership between Right, the businessman, and his brother Tarasai, the artist. It looks like an ideal partnership to me. They started six years ago when they arrived in Cape Town from Zimbabwe and now their courtyard at Montebello has three sculptors at work, carving away amid freshly-shaven wood pieces that smell of camphor, pine and other woods I am not so familiar with, all from local tree fellers. The smell of fresh wood awakens my senses and curiosity.

I asked Tarasai what his approach to starting a sculpture was. He said sometimes he follows the shape of the wood and lets it emerge organically (an artist after my own heart!); at other times he gets an idea of a figure or animal that he wants to create and then he plans more before starting. If he really likes a piece he finds it hard to sell, but it also makes him happy if buyers love the sculptures that are close to his heart.

The carvers of Right Sculptures are there to work and carve every day, no matter what the weather. When it rains, they take shelter in a wendy house where they can work on smaller pieces.

They are looking to expand to other places they can sell from; I wish them much luck!