My favourite Group Work quote - about spilling ......

“We become fully conscious 

only of what we are able to express 

to someone else. 

We may already have had a certain inner intuition about it,

but it must remain vague 

so long as it is unformulated”

From 

‘The Meaning of Persons' by Paul Tournier.

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2017 Vacancies Nation-Wide to spread to catch those in need .......

VACANCIES

Current vacancies, YMCA Fairthorne Group Children’s Services Coordinator, YMCA East Surrey Human Resources Intern, YMCA London South West Child Contact Centre Practitioner, YMCA Bournemouth Child Contact Centre Coordinator, YMCA Bournemouth Support Broker, YMCA London South West Night Housing Support Assistant, YMCA Reading Bank Night Support Worker, YMCA Thames Gateway Night Support Worker, YMCA Thames Gateway Receptionist, YMCA East Surrey Marketing Officer, YMCA Mendip Youth Administrator, YMCA Bournemouth Youth Worker, YMCA Bournemouth Youth Work Coordinator, YMCA Bournemouth Finance Manager, YMCA Black Country Group Support Worker, YMCA Liverpool Service Manager, YMCA Liverpool Floating Support Practitioner, YMCA Liverpool Cleaner / Housekeeper, YMCA Liverpool Current vacancies, YMCA East London Chief Executive Officer, Cumbernauld YMCA-YWCA Horticulture & Catering Alternative Education Manager, YMCA White Rose Receptionist and Administrator (Housing), YMCA Fairthorne Group Retail Volunteer Recruitment and Development Manager, YMCA England *

REMEMBERING John O´Donohue, writer, philosopher - RIP

I was in Bloomingdales in Chicago this special morning when I picked up an email on my iPhone as MrsBeautiful shopped. 

It was from a stranger 

wanting to contact my friend Martin quickly about John O'Donohue.

I forwarded it to him.

I soon flew home from Chicago 

and received the message that our friend 

John O'Donohue has died.

John was on holiday in France with the family of Kristine, 

a wonderful woman he met at the Greenbelt Festival August 2008.

I was there when Kristine and him met.

I snapped a series of pictures 

and delighted in that first contact with both of them.

I was shocked.

Poet, priest and philosopher, 

John was a one-off, the warmest, 

funniest, wisest person you could hope to meet.

His most last book, 'Benedictus’, 

was published just before that Christmas.

It is a book of blessings 

and this is an extract from one.

'May there be some beautiful surprise

Waiting for you inside death

Something you never knew or felt,

Which with one simple touch

Absolves you of all loneliness and loss,

As you quicken within the embrace

For which your soul was eternally made.

'May your heart be speechless

At the sight of the truth

Of all your belief had hoped,

Your heart breathless

In the light and lightness

Where each and every thing

Is at last its true self

Within that serene belonging

That dwells beside us

On the other side

Of what we see.'

I feel a cheat saying he was a friend.

I guess everyone who met him now calls him 'friend'.

We met a number of times

smoked a cigar together

sipped a pint

talked until late night/early morning.

I drove him around some at the Greenbelt Festival,

I had his umbrella in my car for two years

until we collided again - at Greenbelt.

We laughed and shared

although - the last time we met

didn't go and sit with him

when I last had the chance.

I felt I needed to be with those I was with……

If anyone can be my rep

in that eternal place

I would count on him.

My heart is always with Kristine who he loved

two way love

working well

cut so so short.

We will remember him

and I will on this day forever.

Quote ::

"May you recognise in your life

the presence, power and light of your soul.

May you realise that you are never alone,

that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe.

May you have respect for your own individuality and difference.

May you realise that the shape of your soul is unique,

that you have a special destiny here that behind the facade of your life there is something beautiful, good and eternal happening.

May you learn to see your self with the same delight,

pride and expectation with which God sees you in every moment."

John O´Donohue,

writer, philosopher

in his book 'Anam Cara’

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Pip Wilson:: Trainer Facilitator - Introduction to way of working.

I am often asked how I work when I facilitate - nowadays that ranges between 300 participants at a conference or may 12 in a team.

I always work with the objectives agreed with my key person/organiser of the event.

Sometime they just want me to design alone but usually it is about development - awareness & skills.

Awareness always precedes a new or developing skill.

I work with people persons - we all are - even if our product is delivering machinery, software, education etc..

I always work experientially.

Getting beautiful humans to react to an experience which I facilitate and then, through reflecting with each other, we all learn.

A bit more about this below.

That's what 'experiential' is all about.

We learn from life experiences all the time.

Reflective practice digs deeper into the experience and therefore the learning is more intense and deeper.

AND the experiential cannot be explained in words, I am trying here!, because this kind of training / learning has to impact all our senses.

If you need some kind of refresher day for your team - check out my website - make contact - lets communicate.

I will be great to work with you.

It's what I do.

It's what I live for !

I knew what would happen ...........

      ↘

         you

              ↘

                  are

                       ↘

                       beautiful♥

But I knew what would happen: 

you let a cat in one time, 

give it a little milk, 

and then it stays forever.

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See beautiful - presume EVERYONE is doing their best .............

See beautiful in everyone - 

everyone we meet is 

fighting a battle 

we know nothing about - 

believe everyone is doing their best - 

risk being wrong for love -

the most unloveable PERSONS

are the ones most in need of LOVE 

  #YouAreBeautiful - 

  #SEEbeautiful

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Great radio by Kate Tempest - got two of her books as Christmas Presents.

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Emotional Pain

Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child - VIDEO

My last finger tip touch

into the holiday season.

Christmas.

This old footage of Billie Holiday singing::

God bless the child ...........

She was a wondrous singer

abused by many men

battered

Broken

Yet her music through pain

touches me deeply.

God Bless the Child

and you ..............

Vulnerability

"Vulnerability 

sounds like truth 

and 

looks like courage."

Brene Brown

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