Spiritual Retreats in Scotland

• A retreat of four or seven days (or longer by arrangement) for one person (and if relevant their partner or friend.) You would never be on retreat with a stranger or a group.

Throughout the ages wise people have realised that we live in two worlds at the same time, a physical outer world and a deeper inner spiritual world. The problem is that we get so absorbed by the state of our physical outer world that we don't spend enough time on the spiritual world within us.

Giving priority to a spiritual retreat offers the time and place to re-connect with your inner self to develop a greater spiritual and mystical awareness of the world around you and your part in it.

A Practical Spirituality retreat provides an opportunity to find deeper meaning to life and can be wonderfully uplifting and lead to greater fulfilment and purpose. Taking time out on such a retreat and leaving behind the problems of a busy materialistic world can provide an opportunity to think more deeply about what is going on in your inner life and what your life is really all about.

Spiritual  Guidance

I offer

• E-mail spiritual guidance sessions

• Spiritual directing sessions by e-mail and telephone

Integrative Spiritual Coaching, Guiding, Directing and Counselling is a relatively new approach to the arts of true happiness, internal peace, joy, and intentional manifestation. It is based on the wisdom of nurturing what you want while starving what you don't want. Over many years as a counsellor, teacher and as a coach I have never been easy with the distinctions made between one form of approach and another; in my own life sometimes what I needed was clear direction, sometimes counselling to sort through a practical problem, and sometimes Spiritual Counselling and Coaching to help me manifest more of a spiritual, mystical lifestyle. Sometimes the issues and boundaries were blurred and inter-connected and I disliked having to see one person for one part of the problem, and another for another. And so I have developed a more integrative style which can, according to need, draw on approaches to counselling, coaching and directing but always from a spiritual, mystical perspective.

Teacher Training Master Class

I offer, on request

• A three day certificated Master Class called The Teacher Emerges

I have had the great pleasure of having been involved in the education, management and personal development training fields for many years and originally trained in training at the former Polytechnic of Central London. To witness the growth and development of people new to training and teaching, as they blossom and become more confident, is both an honour and a privilege.

However, I am aware that the quality of training by many therapists and other practitioners is very variable - some have no training at all, though are well intentioned. Others want to acquire the necessary skills, qualities and attitudes but don't always know where to find such training, especially training that has a spiritual focus.

To be an effective teacher requires a special balance of skills, qualities and attitudes and a willingness to honour the spirituality of the student.

As a teacher you need to have enough charisma and dynamism to make your subject interesting and compelling. And yet, on the other hand, you must be able to focus on your students' ability to learn and apply the subject matter. This is more important than the teacher's 'performance'.

The Contemplative's Way

Meditation group

From time to time Andrew offers meditation teaching evenings for those genuinely intended in the practice of meditation.  Each evening begins with a reflection on a topic or word by Andrew, an introduction to an approach to meditation,  followed by approximately one half hour of practising the approach.

Please understand this is not a discussion group - discussion of our meditation experiences tend to be at the level of ego (personality) and have the tendency to analyse and devalue the meditation experience.

Come, learn new ways to meditate, try them out, and let them be - without placing labels and judgements on them. neither is this for people who just want an evening out and do not intend to commit to reguilar meditation practice.

All people, whether they have a faith tradition or none, who are interiorly drawn to silent meditation as a way of experiencing the Divine presence in their lives are encouraged and welcome to attend.

This is a non-denominational group. The words God and Divine are not the prerogative of religion - Each of us has our own name for our Higher Power - we may call it God, Divine Love, Infinite intelligence, Universal Spirit, The Source of all, Nature among others. There are over 80 names for God and just as many concepts for the word. In the meditation sessions the words Beloved, Divine or God may be used; please in your mind change to a word with which you feel most comfortable.

Detail

Donations are welcome.

Time - We gather at 7.45pm - and start promptly at 8pm. Regrettably late comers cannot be admitted as this would disrupt the energy and meditation process.

Venue - will be advised

Dates:-  No future dates planned until I return to Scotland in 2011. Please enquire if interested.

Resources:- please go to the shop page for Meditation for Beginners CD

Under all speech that is good for anything there is a silence that is better.

 Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

Andrew Hunter

info@andrewhunter.eu

www.andrewhunter.eu

00 34 958 827 287  (until 23 November 2011)