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	UK Tour Spring 2010 FINDING FREEDOM FINDING FREEDOM is the theme of this tour in England. If you are on any path of personal development freedom is your goal, your ultimate outcome. Freedom is the ability to let go of all you have been, in order to wake up or resurrect to a new you. The London programs deal with finding freedom directly. In York, I will be sharing with my audience the ground we must stand on before we seek freedom. We must know how to integrate the earthly soothing and stimulating experiences and master the art of self regulation before we can die and become with equanimity. DIE and BECOME "Die and Become!"(Stirb und werde!) was GoetheÕs great admonition 250 years ago. Both verbs take us to an inner abyss so we resist both. Yet both call out to us with a promise of inner freedom and personal initiation. This inner paradox and dilemma is a cause of our modern sufferings: insomnia, anxiety, depression, mania, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Combining anthroposophy, neuroscience and her experience of many years as a psychospiritual counselor, Lynn Jericho will delve into the feelings of the abyss and offer a new and creative perspective on how to die and become.	Friday,14 May 7:30PM - 9:00PM Rudolf Steiner House London contact : http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk

	FREE YOUR THINKING WORKSHOP Pure thinking is spiritual activity. Spiritual activity is freedom. Ordinary thinking, even if it is independent and highly developed, is encumbered and seduced by bodily sensation. Many, many sources, profound and trivial, stimulate myriad sensations in each of us. We juggle complex perceptions, endless distractions, overwhelming activities and dominating memories while striving for pure thought and seeking freedom. This interactive workshop explores sensation and considers how to both embrace and release our ordinary sensation-based thoughts and open up the possibility of pure thought. This is not a course on meditation, it is a course on knowing yourself in creative, compassionate ways. This is a workshop for all of us to courageously experience the creative space of "negative capability." All of us will be approaching the challenge of spiritual development as eternal beginners. No matter how naive or sophisticated you relationship is to thinking, whether you meditate or not, come for a Saturday afternoon of compassionate and good-humored spiritual striving. Bring a notebook and a curious heart.	Sunday, 16 May 2 - 5:30PM Rudolf Steiner House London contact : Paul Malkin email paulmalkin@gmx.com

	SOOTHING AND STIMULATING THE WISE ART OF SELF-MANAGEMENT Explore and imagine the essential art of balance between soothing and stimulating in the development of the child and the creativity of the adult. A healthy and productive life is dependent on our ability to soothe ourselves and stimulate ourselves in the right way at the right time. Each of us has unique needs for soothing and stimulating in our thinking, our feeling and our willing. We develop patterns and styles of soothing and stimulating ourselves in our childhood. As parents and teachers how do we soothe and stimulate children in ways that help them become appropriately self-soothing and self-stimulating? How do we evaluate what will soothe and stimulate based on the childÕs temperament and the sensitivity of their senses? As adults our lives flourish when we know how to manage the complex relationship between our needs for soothing and for stimulation. The workshop is a soothing and stimulating mix of presentation and activities. The presentation offers basic truths and general knowledge and the activities offer personal awareness and self-knowledge. Teachers and parents will find new ways of supporting their children and themselves. In the morning we will work within the framework of the four temperaments and in the afternoon we will work with the twelve senses.	Sunday, 23 May 10 AM- 4:30PM York Steiner School York contact : Paul Malkin email: paulmalkin@gmx.com