Susie Self & Andrew Risner

Sat 24 - Tue 27 Dec 2011

Christmas Celebration

Susie Self, a singer/somgwriter, 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.

Andrew Risner is a coach who utilises comedy improvisation and magic skills to quantum leap people’s 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 times on BBC TV Heaven & Earth show as well as radio.

Helena Drysdale

Writing From Life

Fri 20- Sun 22 April 2012

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.
Her travel books include Alone through China and Tibet (1986), and Dancing with the Dead (1991). She also wrote and presented the TV documentary Dancing with the Dead for Granada/WNET. 

Alison Goldie & Jo Wood
Christmas Celebrtion with Alison Goldie & Jo Wood

Mon 24 - Thurs 27 December 2012

Alison Goldie is a lively, compassionate workshop leader with a CV that encompasses theatre, stand-up comedy, television presenting, writing, singing and travelling all over the world. She has regularly appeared on radio and television as a performer and commentator, and presented a series on BBC Radio London as one of The Advice Girls, a problem-solving duo dealing in relationship issues. She teaches drama, comedy and improvisation to people of all ages and abilities in London and elsewhere, and has been leading groups in impro and flirting for Skyros Holistic Holidays for 12 years, and for The Grange for 5. Alison is currently performing her show, Lady in Bed at various theatres around the UK and Europe. She has a great sense of fun on a foundation of wisdom, and always seeks to apply the lessons she learns from life and love to her artistic work and to her teaching.
Jo Wood is a singer and choral director, plays piano, sax and accordian. her Rock Choirs released a top 10 album in 2012. She runs harmony workshops at the Central School of Speech & Drama and in Kent.

Steven Berkoff

Writing Your Story

Fri 27 - Sun 29 Jan 2012

Stephen has published a variety of books on the theatre and his work has led him to traverse the globe. His love for travel is apparent in his book Shopping in the Santa Monica Mall: The Journals of a Strolling Player.

Annabelle Apsion

The Art of Touch

Fri 11 - Sun 13 Mar 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.

Kate Daniels

Walk Tall, Feel Fabulous

Fri 18 - Sun 20 May 2012

Kate combines a background in theatre and jazz singing with being a family therapist, consultant and teacher at the Tavistock Centre. She is the ideal person to help you find your authentic self and walk tall.

Michael Eales

The Path of Happiness

Fri 21 - Sun 23 Sep 2012

Michael has worked as a group facilitator for 22 years, and is one of the leading figures in Humanistic Psychology. He is co-author of The Personal Management Handbook, as well as a screenplay writer (with Anna Campion).

Ken Eyerman

Yoga with Awareness

Fri 25 - Sun 27 May 2012

An American based in London, Ken is the author of Massage and has been teaching Yoga, Bodywork and Movement for 30 years. He is an accredited teacher of The Feldenkrais Method which is the underlying link to all aspects of his work. He has directed his own training programme and now teaches 'Yoga with Awareness' internationally. He has taught at Skyros since 1989 and previously at Esalen in California and with the London Contemporary Dance School. The Ken Eyerman School of Bodywork & Movement is affiliated to The Institute of Complementary Medicine.

Alison Goldie
Valentine's Flirtshop
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Feb 2012

Christmas Celebration
Sat 24 - Tues 27 Dec 2012

Alison Goldie is a lively, compassionate workshop leader with a CV that encompasses theatre, stand-up comedy, television presenting, writing, singing and travelling all over the world. She has regularly appeared on radio and television as a performer and commentator, and presented a series on BBC Radio London as one of The Advice Girls, a problem-solving duo dealing in relationship issues. She teaches drama, comedy and improvisation to people of all ages and abilities in London and elsewhere, and has been leading groups in impro and flirting for Skyros Holistic Holidays for 12 years, and for The Grange for 5. Alison is currently performing her show, Lady in Bed at various theatres around the UK and Europe. She has a great sense of fun on a foundation of wisdom, and always seeks to apply the lessons she learns from life and love to her artistic work and to her teaching.

Alison Goldie & Andrew Risner

From Date to Mate

Fri 1 - Mon 4 Mar 2012

Alison Goldie’s CV that encompasses theatre, stand-up comedy, television presenting, writing and singing. She has regularly appeared on radio and television as a performer and commentator. She teaches drama, comedy and improvisation and she is currently performing her show, Lady in Bed at various theatres around the UK and Europe.

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.

Alison Goldie & Kate Daniels

Celebrate Spring

Fri 6 - Sun 9 Mar 2012

Alison Goldie’s CV that encompasses theatre, stand-up comedy, television presenting, writing and singing. She has regularly appeared on radio and television as a performer and commentator. She teaches drama, comedy and improvisation and she is currently performing her show, Lady in Bed at various theatres around the UK and Europe.

Kate divides her life happily between her career as a consultant systemic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London and as a jazz singer. She has worked as an organisational consultant and trainer in the corporate field, and has a background in theatre. As a jazz singer Kate writes and performs her own material and has sung and recorded with distinguished musicians such as John Etheridge, Tony Coe and Alec Dankworth.

Alice Jolly

Kitchen Table Writer

Fri 9 - Sun 11 Mar 2012

Alice Jolly believes that writing is like cooking. ‘Anyone, anywhere, can’, she says. She has published two novels - What the Eye Doesn't See (2003, Simon and Schuster) and If Only You Knew (2006, Simon and Schuster). Her prize-winning short stories and poems have been published in a wide range of anthologies and magazines. She has broadcast for Radio 4 and has written a prize-winning play. Alice teaches creative writing at Oxford University, leads writing workshops in schools and is currently working on a new novel.

John Harris

Cuban Salsa

Fri 23 - Sun 25 Mar 2012

Fri 26 - Sun 28 Oct 2012

Sarah Livingstone

Art: Print Making

Fri 16 - Sun 18 Nov 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 artistic experimentation as a basic form of play, drawing and design as basic forms of literacy, and visual enjoyment as a doorway to stillness, clarity and creativity.

Cate Mackenzie

A Heart-Centred Life

Fri 2 - Sun 4 Nov 2012

Cate is a Life Coach, Presenter and workshop leader. She has a private coaching practice in Chelsea, London and teaches for Alternatives, The College of Psychic Studies, Alchemy, The Mind Body Spirit Festival and Cortijo Romero. She has her own radio show http://www.myspiritradio.com/3-catemackenzie.html, writes articles for www.mevolution.co.uk and has been featured in magazines such as Psychologies, Harpers Bazaar and Prediction Magazine. Cate is passionate about love and truth and the heart and how to support people to come into their own authenticity and way of living from the heart.

Kevan Manwaring

Writing Life

Fri 23 - Sun 25 Nov 2012

Kevan Manwaring is a writer, teacher and storyteller who lives in Stroud. Holder of an MA in the Teaching and Practice in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, he teaches creative writing for the Open University and Skyros Writers Lab. He also runs freelance courses in storytelling and various aspects of the writing process to a wide variety of students. As a professional storyteller he has appeared in numerous shows both solo and with Fire Springs, both in Britain and abroad (USA, Italy and Malta). He is the author of The Bardic Handbook, Lost Islands, the ongoing Windsmith books and his poems and articles have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. In 1998 he won the Bardic Chair in his adopted city. He runs the Stroud Writers' Workshop, having relaunched the Bath Writers' Workshop, & is the founder of Awen Publications. In 2010 he was a Writer-in-Residence at El Gouna, a resort on the Red Sea, Egypt, where he worked upon his most recent novel, The Burning Path. He is currently working on commissions for The History Press and O Books.

Crysse Morrison

Your Writer's Voice

Fri 4 - Mon 7 Apr 2012

Crysse Morrison is a published author and freelance writer based in Frome, England. She was hailed by The Times as a ‘superb storyteller’ for her debut novel Frozen Summer (Hodder & Stoughton) in 2000, followed the next year by Sleeping in Sand. She has published over forty short stories, contributes a regular column to Writing magazine, and is involved in the ‘spoken word’ scene of the southwest through both poetry and prose performances. Crysse runs workshops & residential courses in the UK and is currently Spoken Word Coordinator for the Merlin Theatre in Frome.

Sam North

The Art of Fiction Writing

Fri 19 - Sun 21 Oct 2012

Sam North, long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2004, has won a Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Old Country (2007), The Velvet Rooms (2006), The Unnumbered (2004), The Lie of the Land (2000) and many others. Working with World Wide Pictures, he has been writing proposals and scripts for corporate films, for Arena and Equinox documentaries, and developing drama series for C4, BBC, ITV, and writing ‘Chapel Street’, ‘The Gifting Programme’ and ‘By Desire’. Being formerly a director of the world\'s oldest literary agency AP Watt, he has a thorough understanding of both the publishing world and the film industry. He is currently a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.

Stoney Parsons

Stained Glass

Fri 28 - Sun 30 Sep 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 & Jo Wood

Welcoming in the New Year

Sat 29 Dec - Tue 1 Jan 2013

Andrew Risner is a coach who utilises comedy improvisation and magic skills to quantum leap people’s 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 times on BBC TV Heaven & Earth show as well as radio.

Jo Wood is a singer and choral director, plays piano, sax and accordian. her Rock Choirs released a top 10 album in 2012. She runs harmony workshops at the Central School of Speech & Drama and in Kent.

Andrew Risner

Passion, Power & Presence

Fri 13  - Sun 15 Mar 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.

Malcolm Stern

Passionate Living

Fri 12 - Sun 14 Oct 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.

Claire Schrader

The Creative Spark

Fri 17 - Sun 19 Feb 2012

Claire is a specialist in self expression and releasing creativity and has been offering workshops internationally as well as in the UK She developed myth-a-drama, inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell bringing together the healing power of mythology, drama and creativity which liberates participants to new levels of self-expression, freeing the creative spirit that lives within. She used these tools to transition from creatively blocked introvert to award winning playwright, performance artist, drama therapist and trainer of actors. She is editor of Ritual Theatre the power of dramatic ritual in personal development groups and clinical practice which was published by Jessica Kingsley in 2011.

Katrina Senn

Love Your Body & Life

Fri 16 - Sun 18 Mar 2012

Katrina has lost over 60 pounds and has kept it off for over 10 years. She has also radically transformed every aspect of her life and is now a picture of vibrant health, energy and vitality. Yogini, teacher, author, and lover of food, travel & style today she spends all her time inspiring others to love their bodies so that they too can create a life that they love.

Amanda Smyth

A Life Full of Stories

Fri 5 - Sun 7 Oct 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. Her first novel, Black Rock, was chosen for the Waterstones New Voices 2009, and short-listed for McKitterick Prize 2010. The book was also selected for the Oprah Summer Read 2009 – one of 25 Books You Can’t Put Down and short-listed for NAACP Award 2010, Outstanding Literary work, debut author. Amanda, currently long-listed for Prix Femina in France, has just won the prestigious French award for first novel.

Marina Sossi

Hatha Yoga

Fri 27 - Sun 29 Mar 2012

Marina, 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.

Theresa Sundt

Playing with Colour

Fri 30 Mar - Sun 1 Apr 2012

Theresa Sundt is a professional artist and art teacher focusing her work on the therapeutic qualities of colour. Her newly published book The Art of Colour Therapy has been translated in four languages.

Sarah Warwick

The Power of Your Voice

Fri 2 - Sun 4 Mar 2012

An internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, performer, and recording artist, Sarah has had 3 number one dance hits in the UK, Europe and USA. An inspiring and innovative voice coach Sarah draws inspiration from Chris James and Chloe Goodchild. She creates a safe space to explore the power and beauty of the natural voice.

Roz Wates

Mosaics

Fri 9 - Sun 11 Nov 2012

Roz Wates is an artist who specialises in mosaic working in a variety of styles, materials and techniques. She works mainly on commission for private clients, public bodies, arts organisations and schools.

Shelley Weiner

The First Novel

Fri 14 - Sun 16 Sep 2012

Shelley is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist who has, over the years, established a reputation as an inspirational creative writing tutor and nurturer of new talent. South African-born, she worked as a journalist, PR writer and editor in a publishing house before turning to fiction. Among her published novels is A Sisters' Tale and The Joker. Shelley is a Special Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and has lectured on the writing programme at Birkbeck College and Anglia Ruskin University. She has also taught for the Open University, the Taliesin Trust and Durham University Summer School. Scores of new fiction writers, several of them now published, have emerged from her.

Sarah Warwick & Malcolm Stern

Welcome in the New Year

Fri 30 Dec 2011 - Mon 2 Jan 2012

An internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, performer, and recording artist, Sarah has had 3 number one dance hits in the UK, Europe and USA. An inspiring and innovative voice coach, she draws inspiration from Chris James and Chloe Goodchild. She creates a safe space to explore the power and beauty of the natural voice.

Malcolm Stern is a group and individual psychotherapist with twenty years of experience. Before training in Humanistic Psychology, his career ranged from estate agency to sailing on the Rainbow Warrior with Greenpeace. He was a co-founder of Alternatives, the highly acclaimed lecture series at St James’ Church, Piccadilly, and runs groups internationally, as well as ongoing facilitation skills trainings in the UK. His book on relationships Falling in Love/Staying in Love was published in 2004. He is also the co-presenter of Channel 4\'s reality TV series Made for Each Other.

Sara Withers

Making Jewellery

Fri 24 - Sun 26 Feb 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.