Board of Administrators: Vitor Rodrigues; President, Ovidiu Brazdau, Vladimir Maykov, Bernadette Blin and Jason Wright
Newsletter Editor: John Drew
EUROTAS NEWSLETTER 27
1. The Moscow EUROTAS Conference – a report
2. The EUROTAS Board of Administrators and EUROTAS Delegates Meeting in Moscow
3. Revealing the Divine Feminine: EUROTAS/ GRETT Meeting in
4. Ways through the Wall: Approaches to Citizenship in an Interconnecting World -The book of the EUROTAS and CTP London Conference
5. Congratulations to Les Lancaster and Harald Walach
6. The EUROTAS website: our Webmaster explains the EUROTAS Forum
7. Christian is looking for a European Job opportunity
8. Psychotherapy, Yoga and Spirituality Second Conference of the Yoga and Psychotherapy
Association of
9. A last thought
1. The Moscow EUROTAS Conference – a report
Human Consciousness, Human Values in an Interconnected World;
A Transpersonal Approach - Moscow 23-26 June
The Seventh EUROTAS Conference was
held from 23-26 June 2005 at the Moscow Academy of Public Service at
the Presidency of the
The Conference brought together over 200
like minded participants from over twenty different
countries. The Russian experience - the opportunities for meeting old friends
and making new ones and the wide range of workshops available - all went
together to make the Conference a very worthwhile event for those interested in transpersonal psychology across national
boundaries. It was very special for the Europeans to welcome so many friends
and colleagues from the
The sun shone throughout the conference and there were opportunities for visits to historic sites in Moscow and elsewhere. The hospitality and kindness of our Russian hosts was exceptional and there were many little acts of thoughtfulness and of support experienced by many as they came to terms with the complexities of traveling so far to the conference from all over Europe and elsewhere. Vladimir Maykov and Gennade Brevde and their devoted team worked very hard to make the Conference come alive. The Soul of Europe Concert on the last evening again showed the undoubted talents aside from their transpersonal expertise of many would be singers, actors and dancers!
“Ways through the Wall” - a book of essays based around the 2004 London Conference was launched and GRETT with Bernadette Blin and her associates agreed to host the 2006 EUROTAS Conference from 5-8 October in France with the theme: “Revealing the Divine Feminine.” Vitor Rodriquez was confirmed as President of EUROTAS and Bernadette Blin and Jason Wright joined the EUROTAS Board
Further information about the Conference will be posted along with a number of papers presented on the EUROTAS website www. eurotas.org shortly
Vitor Rodrigues, the President of EUROTAS writes: I was very happy to see the way participants were involved and sharing their views in a spirit of cooperation and mutual learning instead of competition. This can be said to be a nice evidence of maturity and development in the transpersonal field which was, in turn, very well represented by participants from quite different areas around the world. This was a nice, warm and creative Conference and, along with the previous one held in London last year, I know it will produce very important future developments stemming out of new contacts, new ideas and new friendships among participants. It looks like we are gathering our strength so that in the future we will be able to contribute in a more visible and powerful way to this world of ours. Events like this one really invite us to dream of a new society that will be a unified field of body and soul – because we have seen, here and there, this utopian Garden of Eden already planted and growing in the hearts of actual human beings already behaving like citizens of that new society. I believe that the best way to a happy Utopia is just as easy as this: we start behaving as if we were already inhabitants of that far away, symbolic island and then, when enough of us are doing so, suddenly it is not far away but here, it is not utopia but physical reality. In events like this great Moscow Conference we get a taste, a glimpse and some training for a society of love and light. My personal thanks to the organizers and to the participants!
Love,
Vitor
Vladimir Maykov writes and it is quoted here as he wrote it
Dear John,
We are together with you and other London’s citizens in this tragic day of the terrorist attack in London. Let the innocent victims of terrorists be in peace in their last journey.
It’s not easy to say good words about conference at this time, but I also know that you are releasing the new bulletin and want to give some feedback.
The Moscow Conference started a new era in the history of EUROTAS.
Four days of the Conference was in great coincidence with the “death-rebirth” process described by four perennial matrixes by Stan Grof. First day “womb unity”, second day “despair”, “no-exit” situation, third day – breakthrough, and fourth day “rebirth”.
I continue to receive a feedback from many colleagues and friends. The conference was a challenge for the Russian organizing committee and I would like to express my deep gratitude for all the conference team which worked very hard to make it happen.
Love
Vladimir
2. The EUROTAS Board of Administrators and EUROTAS Delegates Meeting in Moscow
Vitor Rodrigues was confirmed as
President of Eurotas by the Delegates who also voted for Bernadette Blin (GRETT
France) and Jason Wright (CTP
3. Revealing
the Divine Feminine - the EUROTAS/GRETT Conference in
Bernadette Blin and her colleagues from GRETT have kindly agreed to host the 8th EUROTAS Conference from Thursday 5 – Sunday 8 October 2006. It will take place in the lovely Loire Valley two hours from Paris at the beautiful Chateau de Fondjouan which is situated in a large park in the countryside. More details later but please put the dates in your diary now.
On the Thursday 5th there will be an all day EUROTAS meeting for friends and delegates followed by a day of sightseeing of the Chateaux of the Loire and then a joint conference with the GRETT Forum on the Friday evening until the Sunday evening.
More details soon on the GRETT website www.grett.org and the EUROTAS website www.eurotas.org or www.citizenshipconference.com
4. Ways through the Wall: Approaches to Citizenship in an interconnecting world– the book of the London EUROTAS and CTP Conference
Our book has been published. We hope EUROTAS supporters will purchase copies because of the intrinsic interest of the book and also to help EUROTAS finances!
Special price
for orders before 14 July for EUROTAS Newsletter readers is £10 and postage
will be £2
WAYS THROUGH THE WALL
First Stone Publishing
ISBN 1-904439-54-3
Softback 234 x 156mm
304pp
Publication: June 2005 Price: £15.99
Any order can be emailed, posted, phoned or faxed direct to the First Stone office - details below.
Cheques should be made payable to First Stone Publishing Ltd. Orders by post to:
Ways through the Wall
First Stone Publishing
PO Box 8
Lydney
Gloucs GL15 6YD
E-mail enquiries to: WTTH@firststonepub.co.uk
The office will reply to the e-mailer with details of how to order
By phone with credit or Switch card to 0044 (0) 1594 560600
Publisher’s Introduction
Many people from different backgrounds, cultures and faith traditions are beginning to review their concepts of consciousness and spirituality. All agree that more sense and meaning has to be made of our complex, interconnecting world society that is changing at an unprecedented rate
Ways through the Wall is a book of short essays that demonstrates how some concepts of transpersonal psychology are contributing in a practical way to our thinking about this fast-changing world
The twenty-eight contributors to Ways through the Wall are members of the international transpersonal community. They range from distinguished academics, writers, members of the faith traditions and leaders of spiritual traditions in their own countries to professional practitioners in hospitals, schools and other organisations. They are linked by their common concern for enabling the development of an interconnecting world and their practical experience of working to make things happen
This unique book is an invaluable source of hope and ideas to those who seek a way through the wall that prevents our deepest thoughts and spiritual longings from reaching their true expression in a modern, often unheeding, world. It will appeal to professionals interested in a wide variety of approaches as much as to the general reader searching for leads and ideas on their spiritual path
5. Congratulations to Les Lancaster and Harald Walach
Les Lancaster
has been appointed Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. This is
the first full Chair appointment in the
Professor
Harald Walach from Freibourg University has been
appointed Research Professor of Psychology at the School of Social Sciences, Northampton University College. He writes:
My objectives will be to: a) start and develop a postgraduate training program
MSc/PhD course in Transpersonal Psychology/Consciousness Studies b) start
a research program connected to it, mainly with an emphasis of spirituality
and health, mindfulness and meditation, and experimental studies on generalised
non-locality. Congratulations to him and a warm welcome to the
6. The EUROTAS website: our Webmaster explains the EUROTAS Forum
The EUROTAS website is getting recognized across the world as an independent and authoritative site on transpersonal matters in Europe
Increasingly important is the EUROTAS Forum
Chris Hall our webmaster writes:
The EUROTAS Forum is a very useful way to exchange transpersonal ideas and
thought and it can be accessed by everyone. We hope that the creation of this
new forum will help weave threads related to this important event. We hope
that you will visit the EUROTAS Forum which is accessed from the organisation's
web site at www.eurotas.org
or you may go directly to the Forum by putting the link http://www.eurotas.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
in your browser.
You will also find many other interesting topics on the Forum relating to
transpersonal affairs and we hope that you will take the time to visit and
wave your own threads into the tapestry as we very much want to hear from
you.
With warm wishes,
Chris Hall
Webmaster
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7. Christian Dombrowe is looking for a European Job opportunity
I am looking for employment
in the field of Transpersonal Psychology. I would love to teach
at university level, but I am open to other potential opportunities as well.
I have just completed my dissertation in one of the leading transpersonal-oriented
schools in the
If you do know of any job
openings in the field of transpersonal training/ education and research please
let me know. My contact information: Christian Dombrowe, PhD 746 38th Avenue San Francisco
8. Psychotherapy, Yoga and Spirituality
Second Conference of the Yoga and Psychotherapy
Association of
Dear Colleagues,
I invite you to participate in
the International Conference in
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Phone: 0091-7582265539, Fax: 0091-7582220916
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Email: gshankar_sgr@sancharnet.in and/or
9. A last thought:
The website needs active participation in the EUROTAS Forums. There are needs to contribute articles and information about Associations and yourself to the EUROTAS newsletter and we would you to buy a few copies of “Ways through the Wall” to support EUROTAS finances. All thoughts please to our President Vitor Rodrigues at psicosophos@mail.telepac.pt and copy to the Newsletter Editor profdrew@eurotas.org for passing on to those interested in your queries
As ever
Love
John Drew
Newsletter Editor