The 2010 Middle East Festival Retreat/Workshop Events
1. Event: Day Workshop: The History and Themes of Egyptian Cinema.
Facilitator: Dr Walter Armbrust, Albert Hourani Fellow, St. Antony's College;
University Lecturer, University of Oxford.
Venue: Sanctuary, Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL.
Date: Saturday 20 February 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £10. (Free for students).
Venue: Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
2. Event: Two-Day Non-Residential Retreat: Always Coming Home:
Healing, Empowerment and Freedom Through the Christian and Sufi Spiritual Traditions.
Facilitators: Rev Prof Stephen G. Wright and Dr Neil Douglas-Klotz (Saadi Shakur Chishti).
Date: Friday 5 March – Saturday 6 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Retreat: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £40/£30 (Concessions) for both days, or £20/£15 for first day.
3. Event: Two Afternoon Workshops: Healing Words: Storytelling as a Pathway to Peace.
Two workshops, Sunday 7 March and Sunday 14 March 2010.
Facilitator: Michael Williams, Ph.D..
Date: Sunday 7 March and Sunday 14 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 3pm-3.15pm. Workshop: 3.15pm-5.45pm.
Cost: £10/£8 (Concessions) per workshop.
4. Event: Day Workshop: Céile Dé - The Spouses of God.
Facilitator: Fionntulach, Order of Céili Dé.
Date: Monday 8 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
5. Event: Day Workshop: Speak from the Heart –
How to Deepen Communication that Leads to Healing and Well-being.
Facilitator: Vérène Nicolas.
Date: Tuesday 9 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20. Places are limited to 15 participants. Please book early.
6. Event: Day Workshop: Contemplation and Social Action – finding balance in our lives.
Facilitator: Jane Ozanne.
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
7. Event: Day Workshop: Towards a Sustainable Culture of Peace –
Connecting to the Source in the midst of Conflict.
Facilitator: Lee Gershuny, Ph.D..
Date: Thursday 11 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
Follow-up workshop series of evening workshops,
6.30pm-9pm, 7, 14, 21, 28 April and 5 May 2010.
Cost: £8/£6 (Concessions) for each Evening Workshop.
£50/£40 (Concessions) for the whole series of workshops.
8. Event: Day Workshop: Chanting in Daily Life as a Pathway to Peace.
Facilitator: Madhuram, Yoga in Daily Life - Scotland.
Date: Friday 12 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
9. Event: Day Workshop: Health, Well-being and Healing Through Spiritual Dance and Movement.
Facilitators: Sarah Bonner-Morgan (Wu Chi to T’ai Chi and back again - Yin and Yang in everyday life);
Audicia Lynne Morley (The Planetary Dance, Earth Run. A community dance of planetary healing);
Jenny Williams (Is this how Jesus danced? Moving and singing with the Aramaic words of Jesus);
and Linda Wyman (An introduction to the Alexander Technique).
Date: Saturday 13 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
10. Event: Evening Workshop: Health and Happiness.
Facilitator: Dushyant Savadia.
Date: Saturday 13 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 5.30pm-6pm. Workshop: 6pm–9pm.
Cost: £8/£6 (Concessions).
11. Event: Day Workshop: A Beginner's Guide to Beginner's Mind and Heart:
Interspiritual Meditation in the Sufi, Christian and Buddhist Traditions.
Facilitator: Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti (Dr Neil Douglas-Klotz).
Date: Monday 15 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
12. Event: Day Workshop: The Path of Love.
Facilitator: Rabbi Shefa Gold.
Date: Tuesday 16 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
13. Event: Day Workshop: The Tao of Movement, Stillness, Breath and Sound.
Facilitator: Muriel Kirton, M.A., M. Ed..
Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
Follow-up workshop series of evening workshops,
6.30pm-9pm, 8, 15, 22, 29 April and 6 May 2010.
Cost: £8/£6 (Concessions) for each Evening Workshop.
£50/£40 (Concessions) for the whole series of workshop
14. Event: Day Workshop: The Colours of Grief:
Transformation and Healing in Times of Loss and Change.
Facilitators: Lilli Anathal Conradt and Susanne Olbrich.
Date: Thursday 18 March 2010.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).
For Registration Forms:
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Contact: Neill Walker, mesp2010@hotmail.co.uk, 0131 331 4469.
Middle East Festival Website for information on other events: www.mesp.org.uk
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