Facilitators in Residence (FIRs) at Kalikalos Holistic Centre

2012 Kalikalos FIRs

Tai Chi, QiGong or Yoga Before Breakfast

1 - 15 June Haniel Sofia Astrology, Kabbalah, & Colour Healing

Haniel works with Astrology, Kabbalah, the Chacra system, and Aura-Soma, a therapy using the energies of colours, crystals and plants. She runs workshops on these subjects along with a counselling practise in the UK.

Haniel will be offering workshops and individual consultations on: Inner journeys through the 12 energies of the Zodiac with meditations and visualisations, the Tree of Life and Angel connections; Aura-Soma and the message of Colours in soul journeys; Nourishment, mindful and sacred eating; the creation of Mandala or Wheel of Life and the four elements of Nature.

Part of her inspiration comes from her own varied cultural heritage from France, Greece, Armenia, Egypt and Britain.

8 - 22 June: Susan De Muynck Massage & Healing Touch massage

Susan has combined careers as mother, professional networker, organiser, project manager and researcher with an active involvement in charities in different parts of the world. She currently offers Sacral-Abdominal Massage and other therapies and retreats in Africa, USA and Europe. She also runs retreats with her partner in Lanzarote throughout the year, and enjoys sharing the healing power of touch which, through massage, she will be offering at Kalikalos.

29 June – 4 July Lisan Bremmers Yoga and Meditation Yoga

From a very young age on Lisan was puzzling about the nature of existence, it led her to foreign countries, to meetings with Eastern and Western teachers and to Yoga. She is influenced by the teachings of Gurdjieff and Advaita Vedanta but it was through the practise of yoga that her heart softened enough to led her to the stillness within. She completed a 200 hr teaching training in Mexico at the Yandara Yoga Institute under the guidance of Allison Eaton and Graig Perkins and continues to be inspired by wonderful teachers like Angela Farmer and Leah Calahan. Aside from her early morning gentle yogaflow sessions Lisan will be offering holistic massage and 1-1 private yoga sessions. Welcome!

20 July - forward: Laura Valenti Movement, Voice and Sound Therapy movement voice and sound

Laura Valenti is a performing artist, ecstatic dancer and community sound therapist. Her passion is to discover the connection between performing arts, healing and spirituality and to create a safe space where people feel valued and included. She loves exploring the power of voice, sound and movement as tools for self-transformation, creative expression, well-being and growth. She will be offering 1 to 1 sessions and group classes on request.

3 - 17 Aug: Lucy Fredman Life Coaching communication coaching

Lucy is a psychotherapist with over 15 years experience in private practice. She also runs a training consultancy specialising in interpersonal and communication skills training and coaching to organisations throughout the UK. She lives with her family within the wider Findhorn community and will be bringing her 2 boys to share the Kalikalos adventure. She is passionate about singing and dancing and has sung with a local band performing Balkan and Roma music for sacred dance at Findhorn for many years.

Lucy will be offering 1:1 therapeutic work and coaching to support people who want to bring about awareness, insight and change in their lives. She will also offer group sessions on how we can develop the skills of empathy and deep listening to create more intimacy and connectedness in our relationships.

10 - 24 Aug: Myriam Michalski Artist in Residence

Myriam will be working on her own paintings inspired by the serounding nature. She will also help decorate the center with spontaneous works of art and will be offering 1-1 and group art classes during her stay. She finds her inspiration in nature and will be inviting Kalikalos guests to paint and draw the energy they feel and sense in plants, flowers, rocks and trees. In this way the whole creative process becomes a holistic and self healing experience guided by mother earth.

Myriam will also run a family mandala art workshop once a week to those wanting to connect as a family around the creation of an ancient circle of unity and harmony. And as she is also trained as a crystal healer she'll offer 1-1 healing sessions too.

31 Aug - 7 Sept: Barbara Swetina Music, Song & Dance music, song and dance with Barbara Swetina

music, song and dance with Barbara Swetina

Barbara is a musician who has lived in the Findhorn Community since 1984. She plays many instruments (piano, accordion, flute, recorders, guitar and harp) and has collected a wide repertoire of songs and dances from many cultures in her traveling. Barbara will be sharing these in her own workshop this week which is about building community through music. Community guests are weclome to join the workshop on an ad hoc basis at the cost of €30/day.

September to be confirmed: Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD Art of Loving & Healing

Her specialties: The Arts of Conscious Loving and Healing, Polyamory, Ecosexuality, Bisexuality. Serena teaches workshops in Gaia Science, Compersion, Fluid Bonding, and The Pleasure of the Other. She also offers “Bonobo Coaching,” a style of personal coaching that emphasizes inclusive relationships. Serena is a specialist in the arts of loving and healing who lives on a Caribbean beach and teaches Gaia science worldwide. She has offered sessions in California, Puerto Rico, and Greece. She is an author and a professor at the University of Puerto Rico. She will offer individual and groups sessions in her specialties.

Over the years at Kalikalos we have had a number of summer workshop and retreat leaders from diverse disciplines who come to the Centre and offer ad hoc sessions to the living-in-community guests and staff members who happen to be here at the Centre.

This sometimes happens because prospective workshop leaders come to stay for a week or so to get to know us to see if they might like, at some later date, to offer a workshop/retreat here. During their visit, guests who are here often express interest in their work so the visitors feel drawn to offer taster sessions

It also can happen that the Centre or a scheduled workshop leader is unable to recruit enough participants to make up a viable group and a leader finds him or herself here without a group. Because facilitators enjoy their work and have come expecting to give sessions, they naturally find themselves offering their healing arts to the community. In 2009 and 2010, because of the recession, we had many weeks like this, and we found that these ad hoc weeks were often as vibrant and energetic as a fully scheduled week.
Songs and Sounds at workshop Centre in Greece

Songs and Sounds at workshop Centre in Greece

These spontaneous sessions given to interested staff and community guests have proven to be both very attractive and profitable, as the fee charged by a facilitator for a few one-off sessions (€15-€40 euros/per person/per session) is usually enough to defray travel expenses. Because the Centre earns a percentage for the use of the facility, the extra income from these "Facilitators in Residence" has helped to keep us afloat financially in the present difficult economic climate that began in 2008.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! Therefore, out of this experience, we created in 2010 a new category of workshop leader designated Facilitator in Residence (FIR) and we now work pro actively to invite more FIRs to come during the season.

In exchange for a registration fee of €150, we offer food and accommodation to a limited number of qualified facilitators to come for periods of 2-6 weeks to be here at the Centre as staff members and to offer their skills on an ad hoc basis to anyone who is here and not otherwise engaged in either Centre work or a workshop. Our FIRs typically charge €15-€40 euros/person/session (or sometimes work on a donation basis) and share their earnings with the centre 50/50. It’s a working holiday!
relationship science workshop in Greece

On weeks where there is no workshop scheduled, our FIRs offer ad hoc sessions in the morning workshop slot, 10:00 hr - 13:30 hr. Virtually any holistic skill or healing art is appropriate, but some that we had in recent years as examples were: art therapy, voice and singing, Feldenkreis, the dance of intimacy, the Game of Transformation, Yoga, creative writing and Astrology.

Game of Transformation in Greece

Additional possible FIRs for the upcoming season of 2012 that would complement our existing schedule of workshops would be painting/drawing, healing, shiatsu, poetry, tantra, flirtshop, stock trading for beginners, duplicate bridge, enneagram... . As you see, we are very open to expanding our repertoire!

Early Bird FIRs — Reduced Registration Fee

We normally have one “early bird” FIR in residence at all times who offers Tai chi, Qi Qong, or Yoga in the morning before breakfast. Because this is a regular commitment, the €150 registration fee for “early bird” FIRs is reduced by 25% to €100. If this sounds of interest please us with details of your experience and availability.

FIRs are Staff
Do note that Kalikalos FIRs are ordinary staff members as well as extra-schedule facilitators, although their weekly work load is half that of an ordinary staff member, i.e., about 15 hr/week with one full day off per week. In practice an FIR can expect to be working as a staff member three or four mornings in the week plus doing the five rota shifts that all community members do: one evening cooking shift, two after-dinner washing up shifts, one evening gardening shift, and joining the Centre cleanup on Friday morning. FIRs who do not know this Centre, or who haven’t had ecovillage experience receive a basic staff orientation during their first week with us.

We are an international group and part of our richness is the intermingling of people of all ages from many different countries, walks of life, spiritual paths, genders and backgrounds.

Click to see a 5 min video clip of an interview with the founder of the Centre. It might give you an idea of the vision that has inspired us here and whether you think you might like to join the team here.