4 April - 9 April 2008. Tauhara Center, Taupo.
(Arrivals Friday 4 April, departures Wednesday 9 April after lunch)

Saturday
Our Environment and the effect it has on Spiritual Development
by guest speaker Jan Lawson

Sunday
How can we free ourselves of limiting and negative factors in our Environment
by guest speaker Jan Lawson

Monday and Tuesday
Our relationship and partnership with Earth, and Shift in consciousness and the moving from fear to love
by guest speaker Nicky Hamid

There will be sessions that include coaching on facilitation, and an introduction to the practice of compassionate communication by the national vice-president of the TSNZ Murray Stentiford

The programme will allow substantial time with each of the guest speakers, and sessions on raising group work skill levels.

Cost: $350 per person for full weeks accommodation and meals plus $20 non-refundable registration fee. (Note that this cost is subsidised by the NZ Section for NZ members). You are required to supply your own bedding, linen and towels). If you would like Tauhara to provide linen towels etc. then there is an extra charge of $75

Financial Assistance. There is a travel subsidy available for one member of each Branch or Study Group upon application. Please contact your Branch President or Study Group coordinator for more information or contact the Section Headquarters. Application must reach Section Headquarters no later than 1 March 2008.

Registration: Registration forms are below. Please send in your form promptly as numbers are limited.

ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION: If you wish to stay outside the Tauhara Centre and come to the session daily with meals provided (except breakfast) then the cost is $250

TRANSPORT: When you send in your Registration form and fee, please complete the details of your flight and time of arrival and departure if you are travelling by air, so that we can arrange for you to be met and returned to Taupo airport.

REGISTRATION: Non-refundable fee of $20:00
All persons attending the school are required to complete the Registration Form.

SCHOOL OF THEOSOPHY REGISTRATION FORM

Print out and post this registration form (click here)

Jan Lawson BA, MSE (Psych), ND, Cert Psychosynthesis, Dip Advanced Yoga Studies, Dip Teach

Jan's 45 years of spiritual training embrace Christian, yogic and trans-Himalayan traditions. She has taught yoga philosophy, written nine training manuals for students of the Ageless Wisdom, and been deeply involved with the International School for Transformation and Synthesis.  She is writing a book which traces the notion of the Kingdom of God through 4000 years, examines the current political and religious climate, and lays out the individual and collective challenges during the next phase of Kingdom outworking.

Dr Nicky Hamid , has taught psychology, self awareness, and spiritual growth for over thirty years and has conducted spiritual retreats and self-awareness workshops in many countries.

Growing up in NZ he was inspired and exposed to comparative religion from an early age by his Theosophist mother. He completed his Ph.D in psychology in record time and has taught at universities for over 30 years, especially in the areas of personality and social psychology, self-awareness, and the psychology in religion, endeavouring to integrate the rigid confines of the discipline with the teachings of the mystic schools. Nicky has been an invited speaker and workshop teacher in many countries including UK, US, Australia, India and China.

He recently left his long time position as a Professor of Psychology at the City University of Hong Kong in order to write, lecture, hold workshops and help self-exploration and spiritual groups get started or move through blocks in their progress.

Nicky Hamid's message has always been one of Love and finding ones own connectedness to Creation and the Source of All That Is.

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