Where inner and outer worlds meet with campaigner Polly Higgins
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Polly Higgins, © Rupert Pessl
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Author and barrister Polly Higgins gave up a lucrative legal career to campaign on behalf of the Earth. In 2010 she presented her proposal to the United Nations to criminalise
ecocide
–
causing serious loss, damage or destruction of ecosystems, including climate or cultural damage as well as direct ecological damage
. Polly is a published author, charity CEO and a Hoffman graduate.
'I was very struck when I heard that Bob Hoffman’s vision was to spread peace in the world one person at a time. I really got that; when we seek inner peace it becomes untenable to go to war, internally and externally, personally and globally.
With each one of us that takes up the challenge, like drops in an ocean, the tide can change...
It’s a commitment, undertaking the Hoffman Process, and it’s a commitment to ourselves to gift time for our own self-development. That takes courage, and I’m proud to have done it.'
Read Polly's full article and watch her TEDx talk, 'Dare to be great' on our website
here
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Polly's charity,
Earth Community Trust
is Hoffman's partner in delivering the
Hoffman Scholarship Fund
. The Fund provides subsidised Process places to applicants who can demonstrate how doing the Process will allow them to make a positive contribution to the community around them and to the wider world.
You can donate to the fund as an individual, an organisation or a group.
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Embrace
Jeopardy
, says Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
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Hoffman graduate Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones may be known best as the firebrand entrepreneur behind food brand
The Black Farmer, but success definitely wasn't handed to him on a plate. In his newly-released book,
Jeopardy, Wilfred draws on his huge range of life experience, from 'poor, dyslexic, black youngster' in the Midlands, via the Army, the BBC and an untold number of 'kitchen nightmare' catering jobs, to award-winning farmer in Devon. He argues that in order to reach our dreams, we must abandon our our natural instinct for caution.
'Having a dream is one thing, but the courage to actually pursue it is something else entirely... We have a very strange culture around failure, which is seen as shameful and something to be avoided at all costs. In fact, there is a great deal of learning to be gained when you try things that don't work.'
'Jeopardy: the danger of playing it safe on the path to success', is available to order online
here.
You can read an article by Wilfred on our website,
here
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This Can Happen: mental health in the workplace conference
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Mental health affects all companies regardless of industry.
This Can Happen is a new event exploring corporate mental health, aimed at corporates from every sector. Its founders are Neil Laybourn, Zoe Sinclair and Hoffman graduate
Jonny Benjamin (pictured).
Jonny and Neil’s story began a decade ago on Waterloo Bridge when Jonny was contemplating taking his life, and Neil, a stranger passing by, talked him down. The pair became a formidable team of mental health awareness advocates, and their journey has been chronicled in both a documentary and in Jonny's book '
Stranger on the Bridge'
The aim of the new one-day conference is to get colleagues working together and give each attendee practical strategies to tackle the impact that a poor approach to mental health understanding can have on a workplace. Free childcare is available and the event is accredited for CPD.
To read more about Jonny's extraordinary story,
click here
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Do you have a Process Story you'd like to share, either on our website or in our 2019 magazine?
We'd love to hear from you!
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Are you an Amorevore
?
Visit Ibiza's new food and arts festival
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The aim of
The Symposium is to uncover critical food issues and recognise innovative, solution-based initiatives. There will be solo talks, conversations, panel discussions, and debates based around a proposed motion that all visitors can join in with. Free to all Amorevore Festival ticket holders, The Symposium will be held from Friday to Sunday, 26-28th October from 10am to 7pm.
Amorevore Partnership Manager and Hoffman graduate Jo Brooks-Nevin says, ‘Amorevore Food Festival is a dream project and the type I've been looking for post my Hoffman Process - it's super authentic with an incredible global facing cast and crew who are fully on board with the festival and everything it represents. There's a whole lot of love for Amorevore and we welcome all Hoffies to become Amorevore Family too, for this year’s festival and future years to come!'
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Spa for the soul: the Hoffman winter retreat
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Come and join our fabulous rejuvenating retreat at
Broughton Hall
in the stunning
Yorkshire Dales
.
This five-day experience runs
from
15-19 December and
marries the intensity of the three-day Q2 with some vital body and soul relaxation.
Led by Hoffman facilitators Mairi Russell and Emma Ferguson, you'll be guided through Hoffman tools and techniques each morning and evening.
In the afternoons, you'll be free to enjoy
Broughton’s state-of-the-art wellbeing centre
,
Avalon
which offers heated swimming and hydro-massage pools, sauna and steam rooms, yoga, meditation spaces and one of only a handful of SomaDomes in the UK. Additional treatments are also pre-bookable.
What better way to prepare yourself for the holiday season!!
Prices on the 5-day retreat start from £1,800 per person. Open to anyone who has done the Process including couples.
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Free your mind and the rest will follow...
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Dancing Lemurs: back by popular demand...
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Come and join our Hoffman
5Rhythms session and experience Gabrielle Roth's legendary dynamic practice in the comfortable company of other Hoffman grads.
Our session is run by our very own Hoffman grad and licensed 5Rhythms instructor,
Catherine Gaynor. Come on your own, with a Hoffman buddy, or bring a friend whether they've done the Process or not. No prior experience necessary.
Date: Saturday 20 October 2018 (7.00pm-9.00pm)
Cost: £15 per person or £10 for concessions/unwaged.
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Don't pass the baggage on to your kids
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Our one-day
Foundations in Parenting
workshop
is led by Supervising Hoffman facilitator Eliza Meredith and parenting coach Michelle Matthews.
Our workshop
f
ocuses on the emotional nurturing of children through the early years (from ages 0-12) and how our own behavioural patterns impact on our role as their caregivers. Its learning will resonate with parents and carers, childminders, teachers, parents-to-be and grandparents, whether they’ve done the Hoffman Process or not. Come on your own or as part of a parenting couple – either way, you’ll find yourself gaining insight in the supportive company of a group of others facing similar challenges.
Date:
Saturday 27 October, 9.00am-5.00pm
Cost:
£65 per person/£120 for two people.
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Hoffman Ireland: new events in Dublin and Donegal
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Did you know that we run the Hoffman Process in Ireland too? It's exactly the same Process - same facilitators, same learnings - just a different location. And it's a beautiful one; in January, the Irish Times rated Hoffman one of its top five retreat picks for 2018 (you can read more
here).
To coincide with our upcoming Process in County Donegal from
10-16 November
,
we're delighted to be offering a series of support and information events in Dublin and Letterkenny. Click the individual links below for further details, or if you'd like any further information, email Supervising Hoffman Facilitator Jeremy Kynaston:
hoffman@hoffmanireland.com
For more details about the Process in Ireland,
click here
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Hoffman-led regional support groups
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Click here
for a full list of Hoffman-led regional support group dates.
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These Hoffman facilitated evenings allow you to work on tools and connect with other graduates. 7.00pm-9.00pm
Led by:
Serena Gordon
Led by: Jeremy Kynaston
Led by: Serena Gordon
Bristol
:
HOURS, 10 Colston Yard, BS1 5BD
Led by: Eliza Meredith
Manchester
:
Save the date for a
VERY
special breakfast meet-up at
All Star Lanes
on Saturday 22 December, hosted by Emma Ferguson. Watch this space!
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Closure: Re-experience the ceremony of integration
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Closure
evenings are held on Thursdays from 5pm and are open to all Hoffman graduates, regardless of where and when you did your Process. Celebrate with new Hoffman graduates, share your Post-Process experience and recommit to your Vision. Dinner at Florence House (including the infamous 'pavlova of love') is on us.
We love to see Process groups returning on their anniversary and welcome graduates who did their Process overseas.
Please
email and let us know
if you're planning to come to Closure. Remember that you cannot attend the Closure of a spouse or child, though we would love to see you at their Welcome Home.
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Hoffman events for family and friends
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*When a Process is on a Wait List, a place may still become available.
Ring the office on 01903 88 99 90 for details.
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Information Evenings:
Information Phone-In:
Introduction Day:
Process Dates:
For a full calendar of Hoffman Process dates,
click here.
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October's Top Tip: Practise listening
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Really listening when somebody is speaking is an art well worth practising. It brings benefits in all areas of life; most notably in relationships.
Today, if somebody is talking to you, listen to them and don't interrupt. Maintain eye contact and really try to stay present to what they are saying.
It does take practice! So start today and make it your mission to hear others more fully.
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Hoffman Magazine
Request a copy for yourself or to pass on to friends and family
here
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The Post-Process Website
Events, Downloads and a Hoffman Toolkit
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The Hoffman Post-Process Journal
365 days of the year with Hoffman tools.
Find out more and order
here
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The Hoffman App
A Hoffman teacher in your pocket...
Click
here
to find out more
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