Follow your Bliss on the Hero’s Journey Will Gethin (founder of Conscious Frontiers) and Alan Heeks (natural happiness writer) will be leading a Hero’s Journey workshop at Bristol’s Wild & Well Festival on Saturday 20 October. Joseph Campbell, creator of The Hero’s Journey (a template for storytelling applied to films like Star Wars and The Matrix)… Continue reading Hero’s Journey workshop at Wild & Well Festival, 20 October
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The Tree Conference 2018
Merlin Theatre, Frome, Sunday 21 October (10am-5pm) Conscious Frontiers is delighted to be supporting The Tree Conference again this year, which will take place at Merlin Theatre in Frome on Sunday 21 October. Now a project of the International Tree Foundation, the Conference will explore citizen-led reforestation, support for ancient forests and the wider re-greening our… Continue reading The Tree Conference 2018
Hero’s Journey interview – Bristol Community Radio
Here’s a radio interview with Will Gethin on BCFM’s Saturday morning show (13 October) talking about The Hero’s Journey. Tying in with a workshop Will be co-facilitating with natural happiness writer Alan Heeks for Bristol’s Wild & Well Festival on Saturday 20 October, the interview also talked about mythologist Joseph Campbell’s mantra “Follow your Bliss”… Continue reading Hero’s Journey interview – Bristol Community Radio
Wising Up to Super-resilience
New workshop at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, 15-16 October, supports individuals, communities and their frontline services to grow super-resilience and thrive in the 2020s and beyond A groundbreaking new workshop Enjoying the 2020s: Wising up to Super-resilience will take place at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, near Stroud, 15-16 October (Monday 10.30am – Tuesday 4.30pm).… Continue reading Wising Up to Super-resilience
Calling for a new form of Elderhood
Creative ageing expert Alan Heeks hosts a community conservation weekend, paying tribute to elders Hazel Hill Wood, near Salisbury, Wiltshire: Friday 5 October – Sunday 7 October Elders Circle to be held on Silver Sunday (7 October) The first week in October celebrates the role of older people in society, marked by the UN’s International Day… Continue reading Calling for a new form of Elderhood
Pathways to Bliss
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where before there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell
The Hero’s Journey in the Movies
“The Hero’s Journey has been used in numerous iconic films, from Easy Rider, Annie Hall, Dances with Wolves and Avatar, to the Harry Potter films, Lord of the Rings, Wild and Doctor Strange. It is also a map for our own lives and the challenges we face.”
Megalith takes the world by storm!
There was much excitement at Conscious Frontiers when our recent publicity campaign for the Stonehenge launch of Megalith: Studies in Stone – the iconic new book on stone circles – went viral, blazing a trail of media coverage across the globe. Featuring eight leading authors in the field, Megalith – the latest publication from the Wooden Books’… Continue reading Megalith takes the world by storm!
The Hero’s Journey – Men’s Woodland Retreat
With Will Gethin & Sam Bloomfield Cherry Wood, nr Marshfield, South Gloucestershire Friday 14- Sunday 16 September Is there a next step in life calling you? Or a desire to explore? This weekend is a chance to move through the stages of The Hero’s Journey, the mythical transformation process described by Joseph Campbell, in… Continue reading The Hero’s Journey – Men’s Woodland Retreat
MEGALITH SOLSTICE EVENTS AT AVEBURY AND STONEHENGE
Megalith: Studies in Stone, the first global study to fully reveal the remarkable complexity of stone circles and Neolithic art will be published on Thursday 21 June for summer solstice. Megalith will be launched at Avebury and Stonehenge on Wednesday 20 June, when Robin Heath, contributing author to Megalith (and author of eleven books on… Continue reading MEGALITH SOLSTICE EVENTS AT AVEBURY AND STONEHENGE