Hoffman Newsletter - UK
Positive Parenting October News 2011 |
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HOFFMAN LISTINGS
SOCIAL MEDIA
 
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October heralds the start of autumn, a moment to appreciate our harvest. It's also a good time to think about what you'd like to be harvesting next year, so that you can put a plan in place
to make that happen. Has this year brought you what you wanted? And if not, how can you ensure that you plant a bumper crop of wishes to be fulfilled over the next year?
If you haven't done the Process, that's a great way to let go of the past and create a new future. If you have, then there are a few places left on our Q2 3-day intensive this month which is designed to help you find out what's not working in your current life; using the Process techniques you'll leave with new insights on how to go forward.
If you don't have three days to spare you could try a Reconnection Day which will refresh the Process magic and send you home with a spring in your step and a new perspective - and maybe some new friends too.
This month's theme is parenting and one of the most common points to come up is the importance of presenting a good relationship model to your children. So whether you've done the Process or not, you may want to consider one of our upcoming workshops for both couples and singles. Our next Couples Workshop is on Saturday 10th December and the next Singles Workshop is on Saturday 21st January - both in Bloomsbury, London.
Remember if you'd like to put your toe in the water and get some practical experience of the Process then you can try our next Introduction Day on Saturday October 29th. We really enjoyed seeing so many of you at our Summer Party last month. Your Zumba dancing was a triumph as was the singing around the bonfire - we won't mention the singing in the rain during a very wet afternoon on the bouncy castle! It was all enhanced by the lovely affirmation boards from Katie Phillips, who features in Soul & Spirit magazine this month. More on that below, plus a wonderful description from actress Thandie Newton on what the Process meant to her. Wishing you a month of creative brilliance
New UK Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9.00am to 7.00pm
Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm
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Thandie Newton - Hoffman is about a NEW start Back to Top
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18 months after completing the Hoffman Process, Actor & Director Thandie Newton delivered a TED talk (The best website for Talks/Performances and conferences) and spoke about her experience of 'Otherness' especially as a child growing up in 2 distinct cultures.
She describes her journey towards embracing this 'Otherness' & in so doing finds acceptance & understanding for her True Self. This truly inspiring talk will particularly resonate with those of you who have done the Hoffman Process. Thandie feels passionately about the benefits of the Process & describes her experience as follows:
"Hoffman is about a NEW START. This beautifully researched, & ingenious process allows you to discover the painful baggage that has weighed you down & compromised your happiness. Hoffman guides you into finding that personal, unique pain & successfully, triumphantly supports you into letting it go. The closest thing I can compare it to is giving birth, it's as life changing as that. It's giving birth to your adult self & starting to live with consciousness, awareness & a joy that you never knew was possible."
Thank you Thandie for being willing to share your experience with others. By speaking out about Hoffman & letting people know of the many benefits, together we can help achieve Bob Hoffman's vision of creating peace in the world, one person at a time...
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Hoffman In The News - Katie Phillips is Daring & Mighty Back to Top
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Katie Phillips
is Daring & Mighty
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Creative Results. Artist Katie Philips features in October's copy of Soul and Spirit Magazine, where she talks about her transition from burned-out events organiser to fulfilled artist. Read her article...
Katie describes the Process as a 'life-altering personal journey' which helped her to find her new creative direction and find a much more intuitive way of working.
'Doing Hoffman completely changed my outlook on life; I walked away from the course feeling more certain than ever of who I was...'Some of you will have seen her beautiful 'mood boards' which she brought to Florence House for our Summer Party, showcasing some of her favourite positive affirmations. She has already expanded these to homeware, clothes, stationery and cards on her website: www.daringandmighty.com
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Hoffman Graduates - Nikki Wyatt interviews Coralie Rose Back to Top
| POSITIVE PARENTING: Parenthood can make many of us more aware of family patterns. Either because we're contemplating starting a family and are concerned about passing on negative patterns or because we've become parents, promising ourselves that we'll do it differently, then we notice the very same phrases tripping off our tongues that we heard from our own parents.
Making a Fresh, Positive Start
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Coralie Rose
Doing Parenting Differently
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Actress Coralie Rose did the Process in May 2010 when she was 5 months pregnant with her first child. Coralie had suffered with depression since she was a teenager and decided that she wanted to understand the root cause without doing years of therapy or managing it with anti-depressants. She was also concerned that the pregnancy might adversely affect her moods. The baby felt like a blank canvas and she wanted a fresh start for both of them. She says: 'As soon as I started filling out the pre course work I knew I'd found what I was looking for. The Process helped me understand why I react the way I do to certain situations and gave me the awareness to notice when this was happening - that was exactly what I wanted. I learned that even the really challenging parts of the Process made me grow stronger - like life - it was a fantastic lesson as I've stepped into parenthood. The Process also allowed me to forgive myself for my mistakes. As a result I'm much more tolerant and compassionate with myself, my husband and my mother, who often looks after our son. Indeed my relationship with my mother has become so much closer that I love to work with her in her jewellery business between acting projects.'
How Process Techniques Can Keep You On Track
On the Process you learn techniques to sustain a high level of self-awareness and to support you on a daily basis through the ups and downs of life.... Read More...
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3 Day Graduate Intensive - 7th - 9th October - Friday to Sunday Back to Top
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Are you feeling a bit jaded and missing that special Hoffman connection?
Here at Hoffman, we've been busy revamping and improving the much loved 3-day Q2 and are very excited to offer you a new and enhanced experience. So come along to Florence House this October 7th - 9th, 2011 and polish up your diamond essence!
The Q2 allows you to build upon your Process work, providing an opportunity to explore some of the areas that you wish to investigate further. It enables you to focus on a particular relationship or challenge what is relevant to your life right now, as well as deepening your Process experience. Unlike the Process, where you have so much past to deal with, the Q2 gives you the gift of focusing on the present and how patterns are affecting you now.
'I was expecting the Q2 to be a refresher course but I also found it very beneficial for working on specific issues. It enabled me to gain much greater insight into my patterns in the context of my current relationships.' Shawn, Psychologist & Trauma Specialist, Brighton
Learn to integrate your spiritual self into everyday life
Tips for ongoing maintenance of your Quadrinity
Focus on how to heal unmet childhood needs
Create more connection and intimacy in all of your relationships
Remember that you can do the Q2 with partners, friends or siblings and the preparatory work can be done in your lunch break! Just a few places left, so book soon if you'd like to join us.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it" Goethe
Click to book online and for future dates
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Hoffman Introduction Day - Saturday 29th October Back to Top
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A Chance to Experience the Process Perspective. If you'd like to find out more about the Process and get a flavour of the tools and techniques, then this one day event is for you.
More extensive than the monthly Information Evenings, this day offers an opportunity to experience the Hoffman approach and gain some insights into the positive and negative aspects of your life. You will also leave with an awareness about areas of your life that you may wish to change. There will be a presentation about the Process and the opportunity to experience, on a practical level, many of the techniques that are used during the Process.
Cost: �85.00 - (This fee is refundable if you go on to do the Process within 12 months)
Date: Saturday 29th October
Venue: Artworkers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London. WC1N 3AT
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| Hoffman Reconnection Day - 3rd December Back to Top |
What are the benefits and what will I gain from a Reconnection Day?
Some of the aims of this event are to help you:
- Check in and rebalance your Quadrinity
- Reconnect you to your Spirit
- Refresh your use of the Process Tools
- Remind you of your Process insights and reinforce your positive changes
- Rekindle a sense of community
- Refresh your vision and clarify your direction
- Laugh, smile and have fun!
- Connect with other local Hoffman Graduates old and new, doing group work as well as continuing your own journey. Wend your way home full of insights, inspiring visions, joy and light.
Date: December 3rd
Time: 10.00 - 5.30pm (arrive from 9.30 am for refreshments)
Cost: �85 per person
Venue: The Mind Gym, 2 Kensington Square, London W8 5EP Book this event online
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| Next Process Dates - UK and Ireland Back to Top |
October 14th - 21st, Florence House, East Sussex. UK
November 4th - 11th, Florence House, East Sussex. UK
November 11th - 18th, Ardenode Hotel, Co. Kildare. Ireland
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Workshops for Everyone - Building Better Relationships Back to Top
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Christmas is coming...
Once again we are rapidly racing towards the festive season, can you believe it?! Although most of us look forward to this time of year, it can also bring with it many challenges as we spend more time with our loved ones, partners, children, siblings and parents...
As in the famous words of Rumi...
'Think you're enlightened..? Spend a week with your family!'
So if you'd like to have a more 'enlightened' festive experience, come and join Supervising Hoffman Teachers, Matthew Pruen and Donna Lancaster, (Imago Relationship Coach). Discover how the Hoffman Relationship Workshops offer couples and singles the opportunity to learn a range of tools and techniques for more effective communication, increased empathy and understanding. All of which are transferable skills that will support you in all of your relationships.
Couples Workshop: Saturday 10th December
The workshop is from 9.00 - 5.30pm at Artworkers Guild, Bloomsbury London
Cost: �150 per person
"The relationship workshop allowed my husband and I to take a quantum leap forward in our relationship; far more than conventional couples counseling. Five months on, this is still true!" Caroline, October 2010
Singles Workshop: Saturday 21st January - 2012
The workshop is from 9.00 - 5.30pm at Artworkers Guild, Bloomsbury London
Cost: �150 per person
I wanted to thank you again for the super Singles Workshop in April!! Since the workshop I have met the loveliest man. While I don't know how things will go in the long run, I am very hopeful that we might actually continue to have a marvelous long-term and loving relationship. Ann, April 2011
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| Information Evenings - Want to find out more? - London & Dublin Back to Top | 
A great opportunity to meet the Hoffman Teachers and Process participants, ask questions, hear people's experiences and decide if the Process is right for you now, or in the future. From 7.30pm - 9.30pm they're free and there's no need to book.
Next Information Evening Dates:
Tuesday Oct 4th Regents College, London
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Closure - UK & Ireland Dates - Hoffman Graduates only Back to Top
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Closure is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the Process and nurture yourself.
Teachers: Eliza, Tim and Robert
Teachers: Mairi, Tom and Lisa
Irish Closure Dates:
November 17th: Ardenode House, Co. Kildare, Ireland Teachers: Jeremy and Gabi
'I always love to go to Closure even though I teach the work regularly. There is something wonderfully healing about witnessing new people remembering who they really are. It's so inspiring that my compassion and love for myself and others deepens every time.' Donna Lancaster
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| Support Call - Living your Vision - Wednesday 12th October Back to Top |
Is the vision of your life clear to you and are you living it?
Of course for all of us fallable human beings, it will be true to some extent or another that we are not, at least in some way, living the life we truly want to.
Maybe we're close, maybe we're miles away and have lost track. Either way, the next Support call on October 12th is a great opportunity to take a compassionate and deep look at how we may have drifted into a life scripted by our childhoods rather than fulfilling our passionate potential. Maybe your intellect has ruled the roost a bit when it's come to planning the diary. Or maybe it's your emotional self that has dominated. Whatever the case, this call will be a perfect opportunity to find balance, revisit Hoffman tools and connect to the wonderful Hoffman community of fellow travellers. Take a bold step into living the life you truly want to... Come aboard..!
Click for more information and to book
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Information Phone-In - Tuesday 18th October Back to Top
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 Join our monthly Information Phone-In and find out whether the Process is right for you. They are always lively with callers' questions, Hoffman Teachers and previous Process participants. Call from anywhere in the world, (local rate). 7.30 - 8.30pm GMT. Can't make this date? Next call is Tuesday Sept 27th 7.30 - 8.30pm
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New Self Support Group - Stay connected in your area Back to Top
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'Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.' John Wilmot |
Warm Wishes
The Hoffman Team
Hoffman Institute UK |
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