O.K. folks, here is what you are getting into. This workshop is less than half the usual price because it is really a week in Greece with a little radical honesty training thrown in.
Although the curriculum is concentrated, it is in the context of fairly easy going leasurely activity along with some community work in maintaining ourselves and developing and maintaining the center where it is held.
We will have some focused work in the mornings from 7:30 AM up until about 2pm and after that we go to the beach and hike and swim and talk amongst ourselves and in the late afternoon and early evening we cook some supper together and do maintenance on the Center for a couple of hours.
On most of the evenings we will try to shortchange the agreement for work and go drink and dance and play backgammon and hang out with each other in the village and have conversations about how we can live our lives in love and contribution to others and have a good time doing it.
View this uTube video where you can see and hear me talk about radical honesty in case you haven't to date experienced it or read one of my books.
Contact Information
Contact Brad Blanton at
646 Sparrowhawk Lane
Stanley, VA 22851
USA
Telephone: +1 1-800-EL-TRUTH or 540-778-1336
Email:
Web Site: www.radicalhonesty.com |
Daily Agenda
The agenda for each day goes something like this: we all start with yoga from 7:30 to 8:30, meditate together until 8:50, then run a couple miles or do alternate aerobic activity for 20 minutes or so.
We do this because yoga and meditation and exercise put you in touch with experiential reality.
Breakfast is available from 9:00 to 10:00 and there is time for a shower. Then the entire group meets from 10:00 to 2:00 with occasional 15-minute breaks.
Radical honesty is about authenticity (sharing what you notice).
The content of the meetings varies, but generally includes Gestalt hot seat work, lectures, directed conversations, paired exercises, small group exercises, and other training in addition to yoga and meditation and just being in sunny Greece.
All this is geared toward having you learn and practice the distinction between noticing and thinking, and be willing to share what you notice with each other as the basis for intimacy—loving being, and loving other beings.
From 6 to 8:30 is community time, when about 3 or 4 of our group will be on the cooking team, a couple of others will be working in the garden, watering, weeding, planting, harvesting and maybe another 1 or 2 helping out in admin or maintenance.
So the more than three and a half hours between 6 and about 9:45 is taken cooking, eating and cleaning up and working for the fellow who runs the center who is slow as hell, and kind of an old maid and stickler for routine.
Call up and give us some money! And hurry up! This thing ought to fill up quick!
About Brad Blanton
Born September 4, 1940, Brad is an author, seminar leader, and 2004 and 2006 candidate for United States House of Representatives. He was trained in Gestalt Therapy by Fritz Perls, M.D., Ph.D., the founder of Gestalt Therapy. He was trained in hypnosis by Milton Erickson, M.D., the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Psychological Association.
His first book,
Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth, became a nation-wide bestseller in 1996 and has been translated into nine languages. That success was followed by books that applied the principles of Radical Honesty to personal growth, social transformation and parenting. Dr. Blanton earned his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966 when he was 25 years old.
He spent 25 years in the private practice of psychotherapy, becoming the Director of The
Center for Well Being in Washington, D.C., where he worked with individuals, couples, and groups. He also served as a consultant to corporations, government and the media.
In 1990 he moved to central Virginia and founded Radical Honesty Enterprises, a private corporation dedicated to promoting honesty in the world and The
Center for Radical Honesty, a non-profit corporation dedicated to the same cause. Politically active from his days in the civil rights movement to the present, Dr. Blanton now lives in Stanley, Virginia, where he spends his time writing, farming, community organizing and conducting seminars in Radical Honesty.
