Welcome to our Inner Transition group, also known as Heart and Soul group. Established January 2012.

Purpose:

Provide avenues to seek inner peace and to increase happiness and inner resilience within our community.

Objectives:

- Promote community support through listening and compassion
- Increase emotional resilience
- Support personal transition through experience
- Provide an opportunity for members to develop an inner reference that supports there personal journeys.

Activities:

The following examples indicate how we might meet our purpose. We recognise that different activities will appeal to different people.

Singing, dancing, meditation, chanting, partying, reflecting, exercise, yoga, Tai chi, writing, men's groups, women's groups. Suggestions are welcome.

Principles:

- Everyone has different beliefs and these change with time.
- We do not impose our beliefs on others.
- We are tolerant and supportive of diversity, recognising that there are many paths.
- We seek to live simply and with integrity.
- We seek to care for the environment and other people.
- We agree with the research that suggests that happiness is increased through connection, keeping learning, being active, taking notice, caring for others.
- We acknowledge that spirituality can be found with or without religion.

Membership:

Everyone who is open to our aims, objectives and principles.

Action:

- Establish a timetable of relevant events we are each involved in, to which others are welcome.
- Seek opportunities to deepen and strengthen our Inner Transition.
- Help understand the needs & concerns of TTK members.
- Establish a group listserver.
- Input to TTK newsletter.
- Promote interfaith dialogs on environmental issues.
- Hold Think and Listen sessions.

Regular Events & Contacts

 

Day	What	Where	When	Who
Sunday	Quaker meditation	Kingston Meeting House	10-11	Martin
	Regular Christian worship?
Monday	-	-		-
Tuesday	-	-		-
Wednesday	Buddhist meditation (Thich Nhat Hanh)	Ham convent  Ham	1930-2200	Martin
	Seroc dancing
Thursday	-	-		-
Friday	5 Rhythms dance	Kew community centre, The Avenue, Kew	1930-2200	Martin
	Prayers at mosque?
Saturday	Prayers at synagogue?	-		-

The months ahead

Month	What	Contact
March
April, 2012	An interesting day is offered on  A spiritual basis for sustainable living  April 14, 2012, Wandsworth Friends Meeting House, led by Alex Wildwood, £20   Alex Wildwood has been offering workshops and retreats for the last twenty years, encouraging participants to engage with heart and mind as their embodied selves. Having trained in counselling, body-based psychotherapy, and in explorations of 'our deep ecology' with Buddhist social activist Joanna Macy, in the 1990s he founded the Everyman programme of men's events, combining therapy, ritual and time in nature. He is now a writer, educator and facilitator giving talks and running workshops which encourage people to rediscover our place in the wider community of life on Earth.	Martin
May
June
July

 

Irregular Events:

Delia, Ham, singing and chanting such as Taize deliarosenboom.co.uk

Visit of Thich Nhat Hanh to London: 29 Mar Festival Hall Public Talk; 31 March Peace walk richmondmeditation.org.uks

Fresh Expressions

Sacred Space

Writing a letter to the future, 2033.

Invite Sophy of Transition Networks to talk to us.

Get Involved

For more information or to get involved with the Inner Transition group please contact Martin.

Links

Marilyn Mason has written a very interesting and thought-provoking piece on the similarities between religious believers and non-believers: http://h4bw.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Serious-unbelievers.pdf

The national Inner Transition/Heart of Transition/Ecopsychology website is: http://ecopsychologyuk.ning.com/