An Occasionally-Facilitated Writing Block on Towerland Wilderness
Between 1st and 24th of May 2013
A Block of time for writers, to share, experience and explore their writing in the wild reaches of The Towerland Wilderness. A facilitated writers workshop of four and a half days duration took place between May 3rd and 8th which was optional for those at Towerland during this time. For the rest of the time, we were on hand to help with writing if and as required, and participants were also utterly free to pursue their writing without any facilitation at all – however they chose to work; we were at The Towerland Wilderness doing our own writing also throughout that time.
A first for The Proteus Initiative and The Towerland Wilderness, the overwhelming success of this programme has prompted us to offer it as an annual event. Should you wish to find out more about ‘An occasionally facilitated Writing Block on The Towerland Wilderness’ for the current year, please contact us.
A Block of time for writers, to share, experience and explore their writing in the wild reaches of The Towerland Wilderness. A facilitated writers workshop of four and a half days duration took place between May 3rd and 8th which was optional for those at Towerland during this time. For the rest of the time, we were on hand to help with writing if and as required, and participants were also utterly free to pursue their writing without any facilitation at all – however they chose to work; we were at The Towerland Wilderness doing our own writing also throughout that time.
A first for The Proteus Initiative and The Towerland Wilderness, the overwhelming success of this programme has prompted us to offer it as an annual event. Should you wish to find out more about ‘An occasionally facilitated Writing Block on The Towerland Wilderness’ for the current year, please contact us.
Catching Falling Leaves … An Encounter in the Nurturing of Wilderness
A four-day workshop for women.
This process took place at The Towerland Wilderness during the April full moon: 23rd – 27th April 2013. This four-day workshop invited women to encounter both the nurturance of the wild and the self, and to experience how moving between them connects us with the world in healing, restorative ways. Its aim was to open the space for us to stretch into the wild while focusing on the alignment of inner purpose in response to our individual and collective contexts. What is healing for us is also healing for the world. The programme was attended by women from Brazil, South Africa, Australia and Cambodia and nature offered a strong presence as we spent time in focused relationship with ourselves-in-our-world, with Nature and with each other.
This process took place at The Towerland Wilderness during the April full moon: 23rd – 27th April 2013. This four-day workshop invited women to encounter both the nurturance of the wild and the self, and to experience how moving between them connects us with the world in healing, restorative ways. Its aim was to open the space for us to stretch into the wild while focusing on the alignment of inner purpose in response to our individual and collective contexts. What is healing for us is also healing for the world. The programme was attended by women from Brazil, South Africa, Australia and Cambodia and nature offered a strong presence as we spent time in focused relationship with ourselves-in-our-world, with Nature and with each other.
The Masters Programme in Reflective Social Practice, Session One
This international Masters Programme, accredited by London Metropolitan University, began in August 2012, at Towerland Wilderness, South Africa, with 21 participants from New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, Mozambique and the United Kingdom. It offers the possibility to understand and work with more attuned, open and organic approaches to social understanding and practice, respectful of the complexity and true nature of the challenges we face in the social field. Recognising that the world we inhabit is socially and ecologically impoverished, we have chosen to design a programme that will open people’s horizons – both to themselves and to their responsibilities in terms of intervening creatively into such a world...
Artistas do Invisivel (Artists of the Invisible) – Practising a Social Sensibility by way of a Goethean Approach.
A programme of deep engagement with methods that help to reveal and encourage responsible participation in the unfolding of our living world, our social situations, and ourselves. (run in Brazil as a collaboration between The Proteus Initiative and Instituto Fonte: 2009 - 2011) This programme was a full-length, part-time, in-depth programme for those practitioners who were interested in pursuing – as well as collaboratively building – the art of social action and intervention from a more human, Goethean perspective. The next edition of this programme began in April 2013.
Leadership is Something Other: Leadership is Disciplined Intuition
A Two-year Leadership Programme
This programme engaged a group of 18 (mostly) NGO leaders for six periods of four days each from 2010 through 2012, and thanks to a generous response from our donor EED to a request by the participants to continue the work beyond its original frame, the programme will continue in 2013. It’s an innovative, challenging programme that works with an intimate and inner response to the conundrums of a facilitative leadership, focusing on a phenomenological response to social, organisational and environmental issues. The programme foregrounds the leaders’ attentive relationship with their worlds, and builds faculties for observation, paying attention, disciplined imagination, interpersonal sensibility, inner development and organisational nous. Participants have particularly appreciated the relationship between the programme and their ongoing dilemmas and challenges in the field of their leadership … and have chosen to continue the programme into an undetermined future.
This programme engaged a group of 18 (mostly) NGO leaders for six periods of four days each from 2010 through 2012, and thanks to a generous response from our donor EED to a request by the participants to continue the work beyond its original frame, the programme will continue in 2013. It’s an innovative, challenging programme that works with an intimate and inner response to the conundrums of a facilitative leadership, focusing on a phenomenological response to social, organisational and environmental issues. The programme foregrounds the leaders’ attentive relationship with their worlds, and builds faculties for observation, paying attention, disciplined imagination, interpersonal sensibility, inner development and organisational nous. Participants have particularly appreciated the relationship between the programme and their ongoing dilemmas and challenges in the field of their leadership … and have chosen to continue the programme into an undetermined future.