Progoff Journal Workshop in Sydney

One of the things that has really inspired me over the years and encouraged me in my quest to become a writer is the Progoff Journal method. I have done the workshop several times, and have found the results to be incredibly inspiring and profoundly moving. Unfortunately this year I cannot make the workshop, conducted by the extraordinary Kate Scholl, but if you are interested in self-development and deepening your awareness, I don't think there is a better way you could spend your weekend:

Intensive Journal Workshops (Sydney) return

Intensive Journal® Life Context Workshop
4-5 June, 2011 Sat 9:30am - 5pm; Sun 9:30am - 4pm

Venue: The Centre for Ministry ‘Garden Room’, 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta

Begin the winter months by treating yourself to a weekend of engaging with your life in its many dimensions: personal relationships, career decisions, spiritual longings and social concerns. In a quiet and relaxed setting overlooking the bush, you will be introduced to a process of writing that enables greater awareness of inner strengths and resources and offers a dynamic method for dealing with issues and concerns.

In the Life Context workshop you work through carefully designed exercises of the Intensive Journal workbook, which becomes a means of drawing forth your potential and deepening your spirituality.

Kate Scholl has been leading Intensive Journal® workshops for 30 years and is passionate about their potential for enabling one to live more creatively and genuinely.

For more information about the Intensive Journal®, visit their website: www.intensivejournal.org

Cost $140 or $120 for Eremos members; $20 less for concession. All workshop materials and morning and afternoon tea provided. Please bring your own lunch and a 3 ring binder. Full details are on the attached PDF (link at bottom of page).

Places are limited, so please register by 30th May to avoid disappointment. To register please use the online booking form. If you would like to know more about the workshop, please contact Kate Scholl at the email address below or tel 0425 211 065.

Email: kscholl@optusnet.com.au

Saigon in the 1930s

From Osbert Sitwell's 1939 travelogue Escape With Me! An Oriental Sketchbook, describing his arrival in Saigon harbour:

"There were, even, little crocodiles of piously-dressed, slant-eyed, yellow-faced pupils to greet the nuns, and of lay-workers to greet the monks...Only the two French-Canadians, genial but suspect as ever, were left to themselves, wildly photographing gendarmes, customs-house officials and departing passengers alike.
But as we drove into the town, it became plain that Saigon was, in fact, an achievement, unique, a French city flowering alone out of a tropical swamp in the farthest corner of Asia. Once there, within its narrow confines, it is as though, in the manner of the polite fiction adopted by embassies the world over, you stood upon the actual soil of France."