Andry Anastasiou

Self-Coaching

AT12 Fri 21 Sep-Mon 1 Oct 2012

Andry is an experienced, qualified coach, coaching trainer, teacher and a Fierce Conversations Facilitator. She has a strong background in learning healing and self-healing techniques; Qi Gong, self-hypnosis, meditation and relaxation. She works with a diverse client base, from holistic to the more mainstream professional. Andry has published a range of research work on leadership, coaching and diversity. She has been teaching and training in personal and professional development for 20 years and coaching and mentoring for 12 years.
 

Annabelle Apsion

Charismatic Presence

AT1 Fri 1 Jun- Mon 11 Jul 2012

Annabelle is best known for her role in the hit television series, Shameless as well as Soldier, Soldier, The Lakes, Midsommer Murders and Coronation Street. She has taught theatre, self-presentation and vocal work over the last 10 years, and is also co-founder and practitioner of Rosen Method Bodywork in the UK.

David Babsky

Photography

AT3 Thurs 21 - Sun 1 July 2012

David Babsky, formerly Technical Editor of Practical Photography magazine, has taught photography and movie-making. Bring your own camera and a head full of creative ideas, and watch them come to life!

Jan Day

Inviting Intimacy

AT4 Sun 1 - Wed 11 July 2012

Jan has been leading workshops on intimacy, relationships, sexuality and life vision since 1999 in Europe and Hawaii. She is a certified coach and Art of Being teacher.

Beverley Drumm

Nia Dance

AT7  Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

AT8 Sat 11 - Tue 21 Aug 2012

Beverley is a Nia Brown Belt Instructor, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and bodyworker with a passion for healing, inspiring and empowering others to reach their highest potential. She has extensive experience teaching groups and individiuals in the UK and abroad, and has developed a speciality in adapting her work to therapeutic settings.

Helena Drysdale

Writing from Life

AT3 Thu 21 Jun - Sun 1 Jul 12

Helena Drysdale’s books include Looking for George, shortlisted for the Esquire/Apple/ Waterstone’s Non-Fiction Award, and the PEN/ J.R. Ackerley Award for Autobiography. Her latest book is Strangerland, A Family at War (Picador 2007), and she is currently writing children’s fiction. She is an editor for the Writer’s Workshop, and tutors at the Arvon Foundation.
 

Michael Eales

Mindful Living

AT1 Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 2012

The Path of Happiness

AT12 Fri 21 Sep-Mon 1 Oct 12

Michael Eales, a group facilitator for 25 years, is one of the leading figures in Humanistic Psychology. He is the co-author of The Personal Management Handbook and The Coaching Cube and a management consultant with major organisations.

Ken Eyerman

Yoga with Awareness

AT11 Tues 11 - Fri 21 Sep 2012

AT12 Fri 21 - Mon 1 Oct 2012

Ken Eyerman, author of Massage, has taught yoga and bodywork for 30 years and directs his own training programme. He was named as one of London’s Evening Standard’s top 3 masseurs.

Ailon Freedman

Yoga for All

AT9  Tue 21 Aug- Fri 31 Aug 12

AT10 Sat 1 - Tue 11 Sep 12

Ailon is a yoga teacher, artist and rhythm therapist who has featured as a yoga expert for The Times. Coined the ‘Master of Fun’, Ailon runs a corporate wellbeing business that incorporates his passion for music, comedy and yoga.
 

Michael Gahagan

Sketching & Painting

AT7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

Michael Gahagan's art and his artwork are exhibited in a number of galleries, books and magazines. As a qualified coach he encourages individuals to enjoy and develop art at their own pace.

Louise Gimson

Alison Goldie

Comedy Improvisation

AT7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

Flirtshop

AT8 Sat 11 - Tues 21 Aug 2012

Alison Goldie is a professional actor, theatre director, broadcaster and facilitator. She has a wealth of experience performing comedy and drama in London, the UK and all over the world. Alison has taught comedy, drama, flirting and creativity to professionals and non-professionals for over 20 years. She has worked as a stand-up comic, TV presenter and corporate trainer. She is currently touring her one-woman autobiographical show, Lady, in Bed, to great acclaim.

Mark Gunston

Windsurfing

AT4 & AT5
Sun 1 July - Sat 21 Jul 2012

AT8 - AT10
Sat 11 Aug - 11 Sep 2012

Mark Gunston has been teaching skiing and watersports for 30 years in Europe, Israel and the US. Mark is a qualified RYA Windsurfing Trainer, Dinghy Sailing Senior Instructor, Powerboat Instructor, an internationally licensed Ski Instructor, and a qualified life coach. He has been teaching in Atsitsa since 1996.

Jo Hardy

5 Rhythms

AT9 Tues 21 - Fri 31 Aug 2012

Jo is an accredited 5 Rhythms teacher, psychotherapist and supervisor with 18 years experience. She has been a trainer at the Karuna Institute for many years in Contemplative Psychotherapy, a psycho-spiritual, body orientated approach. She is known to teach with a grounded and gentle clarity, with good humour and great music.

Shannon Harris

Music & Singing

AT12 Fri 21 Sep - Mon 1 Oct 12

Shannon has worked most recently with Lily Allen and Amy MacDonald and, in between tours, with other artists including Rod Stewart, Ricky Martin and Beverly Knight. As well as producing folk records, he performs with his own Brazilian jazz band.

Laura Heininger

Flow Yoga

AT1 Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 2012

AT2 Mon 11 - Thurs 21 Jun 2012

Laura's own teaching style has developed through an appreciation for the diversity of yoga styles, having studied Scaravelli, Vinyasa Flow, Kundalini and Restorative yoga.

Gaie Houston

Being Ourselves

AT11 Tue 11- Fri 21 Sep 2012

A psychotherapist and playwright, Gaie Houston has written eight books on group and organisational behaviour including The Red Book on Groups and Being & Belonging - topics she has also presented in three TV series.

Mia Hasser Hozhona

Prana Flow Yoga

AT5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 2012

AT6 Sat 21 - Tue 31 Jul 2012

Mia is a devoted jnana yogini, dancer, writer and photographer. Trained in Prana Flow Yoga by Shivea Rea, she loves to share the power of organic rhythm, the flow of breath with movement, and the exquisite freedom of sinking into ones inner experience of yoga.

Richard Layzell

T'ai Chi, Outdoor Art

AT4 Sun 1 - Wed 11 Jul 2012

Performance Art

AT5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 2012

Richard Layzell is a ResCen Research Associate Artist. He is internationally recognised for his work in performance, video and installation and for pioneering a series of innovative residencies in industry, defining the role of the 'visionaire'. The Manifestation, a major work for galleries, in collaboration with Tania Koswycz, is currently on tour. He is the author of The Artist’s Directory, Enhanced Performance and Cream Pages.

Richard Lewis

Music & Creativity

AT5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 July 2012

AT6 Sat 21 - Tues 31 July 2012

Richard Lewis is a musician, film maker and writer who has worked for many companies including Microsoft, Skype and Oxford University Press. He believes everyone is creative through music, words and images.

Robert Lewis

The Nature of Happiness 

AT3
Thu 21 Jun - Sun 1 Jul 2012

Robert is a psychologist and hypnotherapist and has worked alongside Paul McKenna. He founded the renowned Lewis Clinic in London.

Sarah Livingstone

Painting & Drawing

AT9 Tues 21 - Fri 31 Aug 2012

Sarah Livingstone is an established painter and printmaker, and for the last 30 years has taught and exhibited extensively in the UK and France. In addition she is a trained psychotherapist with a particular interest in mindfulness-based psychotherapies, and has published in the field. As an art teacher, she has a passion for enabling beginners to discover drawing as a basic form of literacy and as a doorway to stillness, clarity and creativity.

Tom Morley

Singing, Songwriting

AT10 Sat 1 - Tues 11 Sep 2012

AT11 Tues 11 - Fri 21 Sep 2012

From playing drums with the band Scritti Politti in his 20's through studying songwriting in his 30's, to studying psychology in his 40's, Tom is now an expert at applying his knowledge to community needs.

Crysse Morrison

Your Writer's Voice

AT11 Tue 11 - Fri 21 Sep 2012

Crysse was inspired by a Skyros Writers’ Lab session to make a career change, and is now a full-time free-lance writer.  Her two novels were published by Hodder & Stoughton and she also writes short fiction, drama, and performance poetry, with a regular style column in Writing Magazine.  Crysse is an experienced creative writing tutor and has led courses throughout the world.

Logan Murray

Sketch Writing

AT1 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Jun 2012

Stand-Up Comedy

AT2 Sat 11 - Thurs 21 Jun 2012

Logan Murray has been in the comedy industry for over 25 years. He is an accomplished stand-up comedian (performing at every major comedy club and festival in Great Britain), television and radio writer, presenter and actor, as well as stage-director, author and tutor. His London-based comedy courses are considered one of the best in the country and his book 'Be a Great Stand Up', currently tops the Amazon best selling list. He has taught over 1,600 people how to be funny. Many have gone on to become award-winning comedians.

Sam North

The Art of Writing Fiction

AT2 Mon 11 - Thu 21 Jun 2012

Sam North has written eight novels: The Old Country (2007), The Velvet Rooms (2006), The Unnumbered (2004) that was long-listed for the Man Booker prize, The Lie Of The Land 2000), The Automatic Man (1990) that won a Somerset Maugham Award and several others. He has also written a screenplay commissioned by Samuelson Productions - a supernatural thriller - and was the third writer on a thriller set in Australia for Working Title. He works as a lecturer in the English department at the University of Exeter, and lives on the edge of Dartmoor.

Lani O'Hanlon

Dancing the Rainbow

AT11 Tues 11 - Fri 21 Sep 2012

AT12 Fri 21 Sep- 1 Oct 12

Lani O’Hanlon, co-creator and author of Dancing the Rainbow, is a voice and movement artist, writer and holistic therapist with over 15 years experience as a director, teacher/trainer and creative mentor.

Stoney Parsons

Stained Glass

AT4 Sun 1 - Wed 11 Jul 2012

Stoney Parsons is a professional stained glass artist of very long standing. She is also a painter. Her glass work and paintings are all about colour. She enjoys teaching and her courses are practical, creative and fun!

Andrew Risner

Your Best Year Ever

AT9 Tues 21 - Fri 31 Aug 2012

The Art of Magic

AT10 Sat 1 - Tues 11 Sept 2012

Andrew Risner is a leading trainer, facilitator and coach who utilises comedy improvisation and magic skills to quantum leap peoples confidence, creativity and sense of fun. He spent several years as a stand up comedian and improviser and brings a wealth of fun and insight to his workshops. Andrew has appeared several time on BBC TV Heaven & Earth show as well as radio.

Philip Sargent

Sailing

AT1 - AT12
Fri 1 Jun - Mon 1 Oct 2012

Philip is a qualified RYA Yachtmaster Offshore and also an RYA Instructor. An experienced teacher and trainer, he also enjoys snorkelling, scubadiving, windsurfing and snowboarding.

Ilene Sawka

Free your Creativity

AT6 Sat 21 - Tues 31 July 2012

Ilene Sawka facilitates creativity workshops for top Swedish managers and politicians using an array of original forms and techniques. She is also a Qi Gong teacher.

Susie Self

Singing with Ease

AT1 Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 2012

AT2 Mon 11 - Thurs 21 Jun 2012

Susie, a singer/songwriter, performs at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and co-starred with Jasper Carrot in the West End. She leads voice and sound healing retreats. Her latest album is Seachanges.

Arthur Smith

Creating Comedy

AT12 Fri 21 Sep - Mon 1 Oct 12

Arthur Smith is a comedian, writer and broadcaster; He has performed comedy all over the world and has written every form of comedy from stand up to one-liners to full-length plays and screenplays. His comedy is based on observation tinged with a strong flavour of the absurd, although he is an expert at telling one-liner jokes. He also ventures into extreme comedy, sometimes stripping off during his performances and, during his Edinburgh shows, taking the entire audience out of the theatre for a guided tour of the city. His play An Evening with Gary Lineker ran for several years in the West End. He appears regularly on Radio 4 but finds that he is best known for BBC’s Grumpy Old Men. His acclaimed autobiography My Name is Daphne Fairfax was published in 2009.

Amanda Smyth

A Life Full of Stories

AT10  Sat 1 - Tue 11 Sep 2012

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and was educated in England. Her short stories  and poetry have been published in New Writing, London Magazine, the TLS and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Amanda was awarded an Arts Council grant for her first novel, Black Rock, published by Serpent’s Tail. She was chosen for the Waterstones New Voices 2009, and short-listed for McKitterick Prize 2010. Black Rock, published as Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange in the USA, was selected for the Oprah Summer Read 2009 – one of 25 Books You Can’t Put Down. It was also short-listed for NAACP Award 2010, Outstanding Literary work, debut author. Foreign rights sold in France, Germany, Portugal, Holland and Russia. Amanda, currently long-listed for Prix Femina in France, has just won the the prestigious French award for first novel.

Marina Sossi

Hatha Yoga

AT3 Thu 21 Jun-Sun 1 Jul 2012

AT4 Sun 1 - Wed 11 Jun 2012

Marina, as well as being a yoga teacher, is an accomplished theatre director, writer and performer who has worked internationally with theatres, galleries, festivals, prisons, health and mental health groups.

Malcolm Stern

Passionate Living

AT7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

AT8 Sat 11 - Tues 21 Aug 2012

Malcolm Stern is a group and individual psychotherapist, co-founder of Alternatives at St James Church, London. He has recently co-presented Channel 4’s relationships series.

Theresa Sundt

The Art of Colour

AT1 Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 2012

AT2 Mon 11 - Thur 21 Jun 2012

AT8 Sat 11 - Tues 21 Aug 2012

Theresa Sundt is a professional artist and art teacher focusing her work on the therapeutic qualities of colour. She gives colour workshops all over the world that vibrate with enthusiasm and life changing creativity. Her newly published book The Art of Colour Therapy, has been translated in four languages.

Andreas Vetsch

Vinyasa Yoga

AT7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

AT8 Sat 11 - Tues 21 Aug 2012
    
Andreas is a practising Yogi. He trained with masters in India and the US. He runs his own Yoga Centre on the shores of Lake Konstanz in Switzerland and leads workshops and retreats all over Europe. A former film and TV director he combines worldly and spiritual experiences in his very unique way of teaching. Presently, he is involved with theatre work as a producer/actor and is interested in exploring the opportunities which both theatre and yoga provide for being completely present in the here and now.

Sarah Warwick

Singing, Songwriting

AT7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

AT8 Sat 11 - Tues 21 Aug 2012

AT9 Tues 21 - Fri 31 Aug 2012

Sarah Warwick is an internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, performer and recording artist with 3 number one dance hits in the UK and the US. She also runs voice workshops.

Roz Wates

Mosaics

AT5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 2012

AT6 Sat 21 - Tues 31 Jul 2012

Rosalind Wates is an experienced mosaicist, renowned for her public art projects up and down the UK. She works in a variety of styles and materials, mainly by commission: her clients range from film stars and billionaires to public bodies and local communities. Although versed in traditional mosaic techniques, she constantly explores the creative possibilities of the medium to produce new work. As well as producing mosaics, Rosalind also teaches and has carried out TV and radio work. Her book, The Mosaic Decorator’s Sourcebook, has been translated into several languages and is sold worldwide.

John Wigham

Windsurfing

AT6 Sat 21 - Tues 31 Jul 2012

AT7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

A Skyros windsurfing instructor since 1994, John Wigham went on to introduce music, street theatre and general silliness into his repertoire. While not doing this, he is a landscape architect based in Dubai.

Sara Withers

Jewellery Making

AT11 Tue 11 - Fri 21 Sep 2012

AT12 Fri 21 - Mon 1 Oct 2012

Sara has been designing and making jewellery for many years. Her work concentrates on the use of beads, selling her work at events such as Art in Action and the Country Living Show, and a selection of shops and galleries throughout Britain. She is the author of seven and a half books of bead jewellery projects! The most recent being ‘The Encyclopedia of Wire Jewellery Techniques’.

She teaches bead making and jewellery making in several arts centres amongst them West Dean College and the Oxford Summer School, and also at Skyros holidays. Another of her bead related interests is the Arkell bead collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. In 2007 she was one of the speakers at the International Bead and Beadwork Conference in Istanbul.

Johanna Wood

Music & Singing

AT3 Thu 21 Jun-Sun 1 Jul 2012

AT4 Sun 1 - Wed 11 Jul 2012

Jo Wood is a singer and choral director, who plays piano and sax. Her Rock Choirs released a top 10 album in 2010.  She has taught harmony workshops at the Central School of Speech & Drama and in Kent.

Berny Woodward

Abseiling

AT5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 2012

AT6 Sat 21 - Tues 31 Jul 2012

Berny holds the UK Mountain Instructors Certificate and has extensive experience having worked in the RAF as an Outdoor Adventure Instructor for over 20 years. He is also a self taught artist and poet.

Silke Ziehl

Bodywork

AT3 Thu 21 Jun-Sun 1 Jul 2012

Silke Ziehl is a body psychotherapist specialising in training professionals. She is the founder of the Entelia Institute for Creative Bodywork in Munich and London, and a member of the Open Centre, London.

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Additional Activities will be available in Atsitsa hosted by the facilitators. For more details, please see the individual sessions under the programme section of the website.