Links
www.ridhwan.org
In order to balance my life as a teacher and facilitator, I have to make sure I continue to be a student somewhere. In the ridhwan school you become a member of an ongoing group that meets regularly for retreats under the guidance of excellent teachers. I have experienced many types of growth work, and in my experience the ridhwan school offers the most balanced and mature psychological/spiritual program for self development.
www.olamqatan.com
This is de website of the only spiritual bookshop in Jerusalem. They have everything about Jewish mysticism, but about other traditions as well. When I am in Israel I always make sure I have time to hang out here and see what is new. I always leave with a pile of books and CD’s.
The owner, Ya’qub, is a sufi, and has a wonderful collection of sufi CD’s.
http://delos-inc.com
Hal Stone’s and Sidra Winkelman’s Voice Dialogue is a wonderful method to explore and balance the dynamics of the many inner voices we all have inside of us. It is related to constellation work in many ways, but here the client represents all his/her own inner voices and energy patterns him/herself. This site provides basic information about the method, its founders and has links to facilitators worldwide.
www.aleph.org
Aleph, the alliance for Jewish Renewal, offers an egalitarian, creative and spiritual Judaism. On this site you’ll find many helpful resources.
My own rabbi, reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is one of the great inspirators of the renewal movement.
www.surya-music.com
Many people who have seen my drum in a seminar wanted to buy a similar one. This is the place to go! The site is in German, but Thomas and Carolina will respond to English or Dutch when you mail them. You can discuss with them what the size of the drum should be and what kind of skin you want on it. I recommend horse! They already have sold more than a hundred drums to people who ordered them after seeing my drum.
Their drums are plain and have no images on them: the drums that I use were painted by myself.
ISCA
The International system constellations asociation is a world wide network of people committed to developing constellation work in all its many forms in a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation. It is an active community with different branches. One of ISCA’s activities is a yearly international training week with well known senior constellation leaders that attracts people from over the whole globe. This particular program has its own site: www.constellations-intensive.de
http://www.familienaufstellung.org/
This is the German site of the DGfS, the German association for system constellations. They are the German sister organization of ISCA and promote systemic constellations in its many forms. They have organized conferences and do a lot of networking. I have contributed to the last three issues of their magazine Praxis der Systemaustellung. To go there, click on ‘zeitschrift’.
www.theknowingfield.co.uk
A magazine based in the UK with a truly international orientation that will keep you updated about recent developments in constellation work world wide. I am one of the many people who contribute regularly.
http://www.theparentscircle.com/
This site will take you to the parents circle, a group devoted to bringing peace in the Middle East. Their programs and activities are organized by and for Palestinian and Jewish parents and families who lost a child or loved one because of the ongoing violence. A courageous initiative.
www.whitebison.org
The wellbriety movement challenges American mainstream culture’s stereotypes and ideas about alcoholism and drug abuse of Native Americans. They educate and offer programs which include their own historical perspectives, tribal wisdom and respect.
www.wspa-international.org
I support the WSPA in their efforts to improve the sad life of dancing and fighting bears, and in their work in China. There, hunderds of bears are slowly dying in factories while the gall is being drained out of their gall bladders through tubes. The gall will then be used in traditional medicines.
Where the hell is Matt?
I can identify with the maker of this funny and touching brief film.
When I come home from a trip somewhere, after sharing wonderful experiences with people in the groups, immedeatly packing for another trip… And then another… If it plays jerkily, click the HD button once, it will get better.