Kalikalos Living-Learning Summer School
2009 Workshop and Retreat Schedule
Prices shown include accommodation and meals*
May 2009 Workcamp
8. May - 5. Jun: Natural Building Workcamp — Mark Taplin, Roger Doudna and Itamar AtiaThis year we'll build an 8.5m reciprocal framed workshop space and construct a Geodesic dome out of bamboo for the sanctuary. We'll also build a composting toilet, renovate our kitchen building and see what we can do about beautifying the ground floor rooms. 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 every afternoon! Sign up for 2, 3 or 4 weeks.
Throughout the Summer Season, June — September
| 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”.
June/July 2009 Seminars, Courses & Retreats
5. Jun - 12. Jun Joy of Greek Vegetarian Cooking — Gordon Ackroyd $400Chef Gordon Ackroyd looks forward to welcoming you to the Joy of Greek Vegetarian Cooking course. Using the produce of the region - fresh, natural and organic where possible - we will gain our inspiration from the classic and local dishes of the country. On this short course, we will learn to link our food into a holistic pattern of mind and body-wellbeing and to enjoy the making and the eating of these things as part of the rhythms of our day and our lives.
12. Jun - 19. Jun:
Vipassana Meditation — Gosh Pos $250Former 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 Qi Gong and Hatha Yoga. Please note: course fee includes food and accomodation. There is no instructor fee included. Donations are accepted.
12. Jun - 19. Jun : NVC and Social Change — Maria Arpa and David Ellis : $450Calling all involved or interested in nonviolent communication and radical social change. 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.
19. June - 26. June: Permaculture — Craig Gibsone & Beatriz Gutierrez : $500Introduction to permaculture by two members of the Findhorn ecovillage. Learn how a permaculture design that balances all elements of nature can allow any piece of land to produce enough food for a sustainable community.
3. Jul - 10. Jul: Experiencing Pilion — Mark Taplin : $500Discover the hidden delights of Pelion with your guide and mentor who has immersed himself in the exploration of this unique region for the past 10 years. An energetic, but none-too-arduous week of walking, talking, looking, learning, meeting, sharing, swimming, & dreaming—as we seek out the footpaths and mule tracks, sights and sounds, people and history of this magical and mythical mountain beside the Aegean Sea.
3. Jul - 10. Jul: Art from Within — Annabel Aguirre $450Explore your inner landscape of thoughts, feelings and dreams with pencils and paint. The creative activity offered is expressive art: art which explores the unconscious mind, where so much of our real self resides. We will paint and draw what comes from within and explore our internal world. Giving expression to the non-verbal, creative aspect of the self helps us to understand ourselves better and to communicate with others. It is life-affirming, useful and fun! No artistic skill is required, just a willingness to experiment and play with art materials.
10. Jul - 17. Jul: Creative Words for Health & Wellbeing — Victoria Field : $500This 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’.
24. Jul - 31. Jul: The "Work" of Byron Katie — Tamara Alferoff : $500Using simple guided exercises, watch as stressful, limiting beliefs begin to fall away revealing what is true for you. Thousands worldwide are discovering, through the Byron Katie Work, the intense beauty and love at the heart of all that is. Doing The Work can bring lots of laughter and maybe tears of joy as you begin to unfold into clarity and presence and change your world.
August/September 2009 Seminars & Courses
31. Jul - 14. Aug: Family Fortnight & Living in Community Weeks I & II : $600Dorota Owen has been an educator in a variety of settings for over 20 years and has three young children of her own. She facilitated last years' family experience week which included circle group sessions, meditation, song, dance, painting, walks, script writing and culminated in a cabaret performance. Each group is different and the activities are based on the group preferences. Come for a nourishing, inspiring family fortnight. Families, couples and singles all welcome!
14. Aug - 21. Aug: Living in Community Week III $300Explore the gifts that come from living, working, playing and sharing 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.
14. Aug - 21. Aug Voice Week — Silke Volkmann : $600A workshop for exploring your voice and its connection with the body, the breath and movement. Using the artistry of the voice as well as its natural sounds (in tonings, improvisations and sound meditations) we create community while singing together as one big “mouth”. We shall enjoy singing as a source of joy and great pleasure, and the musical instrument is you!
21. Aug - 28. Aug: Tai Chi and Qi Gong — Francoise Poutays : $600 (Anilio Campus)Tai Chi allows us to witness directly with our senses the active Chi process going on beyond the self, to enter into 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.
21. Aug - 28. Aug: Self-Help Homeopathy for the Home : — Marie Woodward : $500This workshop will introduce you to homoeopathic medicine, and teach you how to use homeopathic remedies to treat simple complaints like colds, coughs, bronchitis, flu and fever, sting bites, colics, constipation, traumas, burns and scalds, nausea, diarrhoea etc. We'll learn how to put together and use a basic homoeopathic first aid kit. The aim of the workshop is to educate you in the selection and use of homeopathic remedies safely and effectively in your own home for acute and first-aid situations.
28. Aug - 4. Sept: The Game of Transformation — Judith Bone : $500Just as life is filled with a rich variety of experience, so is the Transformation Game®, a fun and complex board game which offers a playful yet substantial way of understanding and transforming key issues in your life and assisting you toward discovering your life purpose. This week offers the original version of the Transformation Game played on a board with guidance from skilled Game facilitators from the Findhorn Community.
4. Sept - 11. Sept Circle Dance — Paul Boizot : $600 (Anilio Campus)A week to both relax and dance, sharing circle dance together in a beautiful, peaceful environment, but with time to enjoy the beach, and wooded mountain walks. Some dance experience is needed, either of Circle Dance, or of World Dance or International Folk Dance, if you are happy to fit in with the different approach taken in Circle Dance. Apart from dancing we may include some singing, for instance, of Circle/Folk dance songs.
11. Sept - 18. Sept: Painting and Drawing Week— Hedley Sugar-Wells : $650Learn to look, draw, compose and paint and at the same time indulge your creativity and develop a personal style. I'll be encouraging you to discover and develop your own distinctive style, whether abstract or figurative, using elements of the environment as a starting point. The week is suitable for the beginner and more experienced artist alike.
18. Sept - 25. Sept and 25. Sept - 2 Oct: Expressing the Inexpressible — Jeff Foster : $900Nonduality (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.
October 2009 Workcamp
2. Oct - 16. Oct: Winding Down the Season — Instructor 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. The beaches are still warm and virtually deserted.
*Buffet breakfast, snack picnic lunch and vegetarian dinner.