Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning Dynamic Courses, Books, Resources and Tours for Healthy Groups, People and Culture with Robin Clayfield
In July it will be a year since Robin was in Italy offering her ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ six day course and a Wise Women’s Weekend. This time last year she was in Germany with her sights on Switzerland.
Italy was a delightful adventure which saw Robin divinely hosted by Francesca Simonetti and John Button (of Nature Designs), up in the mountains behind Domodossola. She began her visit there, entranced by all the stone buildings, and also had some time off there at the end to relax after the courses. She was joined and supported by Kym Chi from Canada as her assistant for three weeks which gave more ease and grace to the trip.
A theme that emerged during the Dynamic Groups course, which was held at an old abbey, now a community, in Northern Italy, was supporting refugees and cross cultural communication. Ironically there were three Australians, one Canadian and one American in the course while five participants worked with refugees in Italy in some way, three of them as a teaching team.
The Women’s Weekend was organised by Francesca and hosted by Ellen at her beautiful family home named Edan Sangha. It’s 1000 meters up in the mountains was a flowing stream and rock pools tumbling wildly through the property. With Kym Chi’s help the pair made a beautiful ceremonial spiral labyrinth for the women to walk and use as a sacred space throughout the weekend. See the last eNewsletter for a photo.
After the two events Robin and Kim spent five days at Damanhur Community, famous for its magnificent and much visited underground temples and extraordinary art, glass, sculpture and mosaic work below and above ground. Another feature of Damanhur are it’s many above ground spiral labyrinths and the sacred forest which is considered an outdoor temple. This was a dream come true for Robin, to finally visit Damanhur. As a spiritual community, a ‘Federation of Communities’ and an EcoVillage it leads the way for anyone wanting to explore another way of living in harmony with the land, with each other and with new ideas and research. Here’s their website.
