Activities at The Skyros Centre, Greece

Visioning Your New Life with Dina Glouberman

Sun 19 - Sat 1 Aug 2020

Visioning your New Life
Week One: The Joy of Burnout; Week Two: New Beginnings 

Are the winds of change blowing in your life? What are they whispering? Are you willing to listen? If so, this course is for you.

You may be feeling burnt out, stressed, or stuck. You may be confronting crisis or change.  Or you may be wanting change and not seeing what that might be, or finding that your head and your heart are at war. Such times demand that you step forward into a bigger picture of who you are and where you are going.

An interesting spiritual tradition says that when we are living our everyday lives in an everyday way, the soul just rests or even sleeps. But when we are in crisis, or looking for change, or wrestling with something that our ordinary mind doesn’t quite know how to deal with, the soul wakes up. And then life begins to move to a whole new level.
Is this what you’ve been yearning for? If so, you need to stop, listen to your soul’s whispers, look at what reality is telling you, find out where you want to go, and then get to a Yes.

This is also a crash course in working with your ‘genius imagination’ so that you can be your own consultant, therapist, and wise guide. It is suitable for complete beginners in imagery and visualisation as well as for those who are experienced in using this approach.

Prepare to be surprised. Your images by their very nature don’t always tell you what you expect; rather they will show you what you know deep down inside but haven’t yet told yourself, and they always point the way to transformation.
You will be able to emerge from this course with the clarity and confidence to take your next step in life. You will also have a magic box of tools, indeed a new way of thinking, that you can use to understand, protect, and guide yourself, not just during the workshop but for the rest of your life.

Since you are what you imagine, if where you are is not where you want to be, why not learn to imagine better?
This course is divided into two parts, but it is best if you can do the whole course.

Week One: The Joy of Burnout

In week one, we will map out the path from where you are back to your authentic self and forward into a new set of choices.  You don’t need to be burnt out to take this course, only to recognise that you are at a choice point, and you don’t want to fudge it.

This week will include learning how to:

• Find a metaphor that gives you a map of where you are in your life right now
• Discover whatever may have been blocking your way and find a way through
• Forgive life and yourself for whatever hasn’t gone as you dreamed
• Learn to listen to the voices of heart and soul and integrate them with your mind
• Consider what are your choices at this moment and find your best way forward

In other words, at the end of this week, you will have a deep sense of where your true joy lies.

Week Two: New Beginnings

Week Two is about moving through to saying Yes. Saying Yes is a commitment to take whatever is brewing within you and around you into a new behaviour, a new attitude, or a new way of life. An unqualified Yes sets the next stage into motion, opening you to the intuitions, research, actions, and persistence in the face of difficulties that make it possible to vision and create your new life. We will be working with imagery and visualisation to:

• Recognise the catalyst that can start you moving in a new direction
• Get a vision of the future that would be right for you
• Say Yes

Map out the steps to your new future, and take a leap of faith into a new reality.

At the end of this second week, you will have a vision, a plan, and a determination to make it work. More than that, you will have a knowledge of what really matters to you, and how to make sure your life reflects this understanding.

'You have changed my life and helped me to have a second chance at living and being happy.' Recent course participant

About Dina Glouberman

Dr Dina Glouberman is a world expert in the creative imagination. She is the visionary co-founder of Skyros Holidays, the author of the classic best-selling books Life Choices, Life Changes, The Joy of Burnout and You Are What You Imagine: Three Steps to a New Beginning Using Imagework and an international trainer, coach, speaker and psychotherapist.

For over thirty years, she has been a pioneer in creating, teaching, and practicing the use of Imagework, the groundbreaking process that harnesses the imagination to guide our lives and create positive life choices and profound life changes. She is launching her unmissable memoir, Into the Woods and Out Again: A memoir of love, madness and transformation (Sphinx, 2018) in June 2018. To find out more about Dina Glouberman's approach and her books and courses, and to get free downloads, visit her website, www.dinaglouberman.com

What people say about Dina Glouberman: 

Dina Glouberman is wise and witty and an inspirational teacher. Sue Townsend

Dina Glouberman is a home-maker of the spirit. Margaret Drabble

When I did your course in Skyros in 1994, I nicknamed you the Yehudi Menuhin of therapy, and your work reminded me of a fabulous painting with a lot of fine brushstrokes. Now I feel you are actually the art gallery itself. Vivienne