2008 Workshop and Retreat Schedule
Prices shown include accomodation and meals*
May 2008 Workcamp
9. May - 6. Jun: Natural Building Workcamp — Stephen O'Brien and Roger DoudnaThis year, in a new venue, we will be building a reciprocal framed workshop space. We'll also construct a yurt and a Geodesic dome hut for our sanctuary. Or, join the workcamp support team that will do housecleaning and maintenance, tend the organic vegie patch and cook the vegetarian meals. And the camp is not all about work—we get to the beach for a few hours every day! Sign up for 2, 3 or 4 weeks.
June/July 2008 Workshops & Retreats
Throughout June and July, space permitting Living-in-Community WeeksKalikalos is much more than a workshop centre. We are an international holistic education centre offering the opportunity of a beach holiday in the sun with a difference. As a living-in-community guest you mingle with us, sharing in our attunements, helping us once a week to cook our Greek vegetarian meals, swimming in the crystal clear Aegean sea, hiking the mountain trails, and above all making new friends who share the holistic perspective. This is truly “something deeper than a suntan”.
6. Jun - 13. Jun:
Vipassana Meditation — Gosh PosFormer Buddhist monk, Gosh, leads an unusual 6-day Vipassana retreat. For half the day we sit and walk in silence, for the second half of the day we practice engaging mindfully in everyday activities: socialising, swimming, talking—plus Qigong and Hatha Yoga.
13. Jun - 20. Jun: Building Authentic Community — Rob Dreaming & Ambre AurovilleThis is a workshop to discover the power of authentic community to bring us together in to live our individual truths, and to forge ourselves into an instrument for radical social change. Through native American Council Cirlces, consensus decision making and sharing from the heart we’ll build true community and create together a powerful vehicle for manifesting our holistic ideals.
20. Jun - 27. Jun: NVC Mediation Conference Gathering — Presenters: Maria Arpa, David Ellis, Cynthia King, Nada Igntatovic and others.Calling all involved or interested in mediation and restorative justice. You are invited to gather to network, explore recent developments in our field, and to brainstorm where we go from here to strengthen our desire to bring about social change through mediation and restorative justice using the basic concepts of Marshall Rosenberg, Thomas Gordon, Dominick Barter and other radical humanistic psychologists.
27. Jun - 4. Jul: Creative Bliss, Art Workshop — Lisa Shaw
Spend a week in the beauty of the Pelion Peninsula, discovering and savouring the wonder of Aegean waters, mountains and lush flora and creating art from what you see and experience. We’ll learn how to create a dialogue with our inner muse, nourishing the spring of our creativity, exploring both individual and collaborative art processes, rejuvenating our energy and connecting with the group.
4. Jul - 11. Jul: Power of Self Empathy — Fabiola Fuentes
Using the NVC concepts developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, this is a week to increase our ability to apply the skills and process within ourselves, to take care of our own needs and to connect compassionately with ourselves and others. We’ll employ Self-empathy as the basic tool to help us create a space within ourself where compassion can flourish as we practice translating our judgments into life-serving energy.
11. Jul - 18. Jul: Creative Words for Health & Wellbeing — Victoria Field
This week will look at how we can use reading, writing, poetry & story to deepen our connection with ourselves, each other and the world around us. Making poems or keeping a journal or notebook is a natural human impulse and many of us write spontaneously at times of sorrow or joy. The week will create a writing space where we can explore the ways in which our creative words can tell us ‘what we didn’t know we knew’.
18. Jul - 25. Jul Ordinary People, Extraordinary Respect — Mike Roth and Lorna Knowles
Existential therapist and social activist Mike Roth invites you to share a glorious and strange adventure—building true community with the complicated, out-of-shape and wonderful creatures that we really are. Through deep and authentic sharing circles, where we come to accept the rawness and awkwardness of our true selves, we make a space for the emergence of real people. What we learn here we hope to carry forward into the texture of our ongoing lives.
25. Jul - 1. August Retreat in Not-knowing — Unmani Liza Hyde
Meeting in Not-Knowing with Unmani is meeting the true nature of who you are beyond who you think you are. Unmani radically challenges old beliefs and assumptions of a separate identity. No more spiritual practices or traditions which will take ‘you’ years to perfect. No more working through your issues and conditioning. Mind is so blown away that all that is left to recognise is the silence that you are and have always been, absolute presence.
August/September 2008 Workshops & Retreats
1. Aug - 8. Aug: (and other weeks, space permitting) Living-in-Community Week IKalikalos is much more than a workshop centre. We are an international holistic education centre offering the opportunity of a beach holiday in the sun with a difference. As a living-in-community guest you mingle with us, sharing in our attunements, helping us once a week to cook our Greek vegetarian meals, swimming in the crystal clear Aegean sea, hiking the mountain trails, and above all making new friends who share the holistic perspective. This is truly “something deeper than a suntan”.
8. Aug - 15. Aug: Living in Community Week II — Jock Millenson & teamExplore the gifts that come from living and working in a temporary yet fully authentic community. Today, we consciously need to reinvent cooperative and harmonious ways of living and relating together. Working, playing, learning and sharing together we discover and experience how we can come together as humans and live happily and sustainably into our future, helping to build a world where living our own truth counts
15. Aug - 22. Aug: The Challenge of Intimacy — Nada IgntatovicAn experiential workshop to learn and practice Marshall Rosenberg’s process of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and gain awareness of how we communicate with friends, partners, and colleagues. NVC is a language designed to facilitate intimacy and connectedness and to allow the life energy between people to flow.
22. Aug - 29. Aug: Tai Chi und Qi Cong — Francoise PoutaysTai Chi allows us to witness directly with our senses the active Chi process going on beyond the self, to enter into the the infinite river of Chi, the creative process under-lying life itself. Tai Chi is the art of opening up, leaving the ego behind and experiencing the process of creation within and outside ourselves. Mornings: Qigong and Yang style Tai Chi; afternoons: artistic work in the medium of your choice.
29. Aug - 4. Sept: Co-creating with Nature — Craig Gibsone & Beatriz GutierrezThis ecovillage experience week, led by members of the Findhorn eco-village, is an introduction to deep permaculture and a Spiritual Ecology for the 21st century. Learn how song, dance, deep democracy, wilderness restoration, meditation and healing all combine to create a holistic life style in which you can bring ecovillage concepts to your own home environment.
5. Sept - 12. Sept: Expressing the Inexpressible — Jeff FosterNonduality (Advaita) means Not Two. It points to the Oneness at the Heart of all things. This is not a “state” to be reached, not something that some individuals “have” and others don’t. It’s more like awakening from a dream, and realising, with crystal clarity, that it was only ever a dream.
12. Sept - 19. Sept: Aura Diagnosis — Dr. Helen FordAura diagnosis is a way of gathering information direct from the aura about the causes of blocks on the free flow of truth. Learning to do this will help you to truly understand others and also yourself, and will help you to have compassion for the ways that people behave when they are trying to defend themselves from things that they fear. Helen originally developed this as a method of under-standing illness but now uses it much more extensively to understand why people are not aligning with their own truth and creating the life of their own soul's dreams.
12. Sept - 19. Sept: Nature Yoga — Linda VincentWould you like to practise yoga in the open air, feel the natural warmth of the sun on your body, and enjoy relaxation in this extraordinarily beautiful area of Greece? Then come and share a week with like-minded souls. To enhance the traditional postures we will explore yoga in nature. We’ll also explore other avenues of yoga—meditation, relaxation, chanting, breathwork and chakras.
19. Sept - 26. Sept: Making Friends with Money — Jane RogersIs money really friendly with you? Would you like to improve your relationship with it? Explore your ideas and attitudes to financial freedom, wealth and money in a fun way this week, learning exciting financial concepts to take you forward in your life through creative play, mind tools, and imagery. Jane runs Rich Thinkers, coaching individuals and running seminars about the true source of wealth, which is of course, the mind.
26. Sept - 3. Oct: Experiencing Spirit in Community — Johanna Aro-Louis & staff What we do in life is not nearly so important as how we do it. Spiritual practice is not just about sitting cross-legged or chanting mantras, and enlightenment is not reserved for Indian yogi's or Buddhist monks. Right here in our everyday life together, in how we live, work and play is all the basic material we need to live a spiritual life with meaning, joy and purpose, one which connects us to each other and to the greater whole.
October 2008 Workcamp
3. Oct - 16. Oct: Winding Down the Season — Focaliser to Be AnnouncedThe first two weeks of October, with the weather crisp and clear, and the sea at its warmest, we finish any building left from the May work camp, pack up and store our temporary structures and close up the Centre. Its a time for community building, sharing and going inward with a gentle work rhythm as the season comes to an end.
Centre Rhythms
Each workshop programme is different, but the general pattern is for an introductory community meeting on the first morning of the workshop after breakfast. Workshop sessions are generally held in the cooler morning hours, and participants often opt to go to the beach after lunch. A second, shorter workshop session may be held in the evening before supper. We usually have a party/sharing around the fireside the last evening of a workshop.In keeping with the community nature of the summer programmes participants and guests share in all aspects of maintaining the centre—in particular, helping to cook the main meal (5:45 - 8:30 pm), and joining the after dinner clean-up rota. In practice, you'll find that this works out to you being on the dinner cooking team (2 ¾ hr) once in the week, and helping with after dinner clean up (about 35-40 min) a couple of times in the week. These bits of Karma Yoga during the week make the Centre's holistic workshop programmes much more affordable, as well as helping us, through working together with you, make personal contact and meaningful connections with you. We are committed to demonstrating the principle made famous by the Findhorn Community that Work is Love in Action.
Most workshops are limited to 14 participants
Please click the links above on this page to obtain more detailed information about the facilitators and the content of each workshop, course or retreat.
*Workshop Prices
The basic cost of the different workshops vary from about £195/€280 to £400/€550 per week depending on the particular course, the type of accomodation (single, double, or tent) and the season (mid-July through August is high season). The prices shown include meals (buffet breakfast, picnic lunch box and six evening dinners (one evening/week we eat out at a local taverna, where a meal costs about £6.50/€9,00 ) and accomodation in a twin or triple room. (Some workshops may offer a £20/€30 reduction for tent accomodation, providing that you bring your own tent, sleeping bag and towel. Please enquire.) If you require a single room, this is usually possible for a £100-150/€150-225 supplement, although in some cases your room may be in a local guest house, about 5 minutes walk from the Centre. A £50/€75 supplement guarantees you a twin/double room and avoids the possiblity of being in a triple.There is a 10% reduction for booking two successive workshop/retreat weeks, and there is a 5% reduction if you travel overland thereby reducing our carbon footprint by avoiding jet aircraft pollution. Please visit site61.com for tips on how to make the trip from London to Volos for about £200 via train, ferry and bus.
Families and Living-in-Community (LCG) guests are also welcome during the workshop weeks, providing that accomodation is available. Please click here for further details. Please note that although the workshop prices include meals and accomodation, they do not include flights or mandatory travel insurance.
A £100 / €150 euro DEPOSIT (refundable, less an 8% service charge, up to 30 days prior to your workshop) reserves your place. If you wish to book paying the full price of the workshop please click on the
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For more information on our programmes, or for details about hosting your own workshop at Xenonas Martiou, please contact us at Kalikalos.
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Jock Millenson Xenonas Martiou Kissos (Tsangarada) 37012 Greece Tel. +30 697 550 2736 |
Johanna Aro-Louis 19 Blarmore Ave Inverness IV3 8QT Scotland Tel. +44 (0) 1463 231 913 |