How can we stay whole when the world is so fractured?
Wholeness in a Fragmented World is an immersion into The Work that Reconnects and how it can bring us back into connection with ourselves, each other, the earth and the cosmos - even when the world seems to be falling apart around us.
“The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature”— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, in Joanna Macy, Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects
Wholeness isn’t about staying happy, thriving, or spiritual bypassing… it’s about embracing all of our parts. Our grief, our fear, our sacred rage, our ancestry, our connection to the wider web of life - everything we are.
Your guides, Gwyneth Jones (me) and Shayontoni Rhea Ghosh, together are Banduri - a collaborative project; a practice space; an offering for a beloved world. We are inspired by the Work that Reconnects, earth-based spirituality, decolonisation work, and many other avenues of experiential exploration and meaning-making.
What will the workshop involve?
We’ll be meeting online twice - part 1 is from 3-6pm UK on Friday, the 26th of September, part 2 from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, the 27th of September, with a dream-based task to do between sessions (we know it can be very difficult to recall dreams, but it’s there as an optional extra!). The ticket includes both parts, and we recommend attending both to get the most out of the workshops.
There will be tasks for self-reflection and nature connection along the way. We will also structure the workshop to include times where you can join us from outside, using only your headphones, if you prefer.
THE WORKSHOP WILL NOT BE RECORDED - this is to protect the sensitive nature of the sharing, and because this is not a “listen and learn” workshop, but an experiential, immersive session.
We will follow the spiral of the Work that Reconnects, and take the opportunity to learn about its theories and basic principles. However, we will also weave in elements of somatic work, deep adaptation, emotional intelligence, soul work and creative work.
The focus is - how do I stay whole, as everything I am (and may not even realise that I am), in a world that’s trying to fragment us?
There are two options for joining this workshop:
1) Just the workshop ticket - £120
2) The workshop + my 30-day self-paced course Wholeness in a F*cked up World, delivered in the form of an e-book. I recently released this course via email, but have since put all the material into a pretty hefty e-book (turns out it’s 70 pages!). I will be selling this course separately in future at £50-80 sliding scale. However, you can get the 30-day course AND the workshop for £145.
“I can’t recommend Gwyneth’s 30 day programme highly enough. Her daily notes and suggestions including reflective and creative activities really helped me in understanding my reactive feelings to what is unfolding in the world together with wise guidance for how to stay grounded and connected.
Gwyneth has a real skill in holding space for complex emotions whilst helping us to identifying ways we can be resourced in these troubling times.” Lynn, recent participant in the 30-day course
All of our offerings are offered on a sliding scale. Feel free to ask us for discounted or scholarship spaces. We aim to hold space for anybody, irrespective of their financial contribution to the space. We will never ask for proof of your income status or financial situation.
Additionally, feel free to pay us above and beyond our asking rates, as your generosity/abundance allows us to pay it forward - just get in touch at connect@gwynethjones.coach
About Banduri:
Banduri is a collaborative project; a practice space; an offering for a beloved world; a shout into the void. Co-created by Gwyneth Jones and Shayontoni Rhea Ghosh.
Gwyneth Jones is a facilitator and coach navigating the place where Deep Adaptation, climate change, psychology and earth-based spirituality meet. She has recently returned to her homeland of North Wales after heeding the call of the land. Gwyneth teaches, writes, and works in climate communications.
Shayontoni Rhea Ghosh is a multi-disciplinary artiste and a facilitator of healing space. She lives and works in Hyderabad, India; and is inspired by water, light, clouds and dogs. She approaches gnosis as a dedicated and earnest student, and is driven by the wish to build an accessible infrastructure for community care.
We are inspired by the Work that Reconnects, earth-based spirituality, decolonisation work, and many other avenues of experiential exploration and meaning-making.
Shayontoni and Gwyneth met on the Spiral Journey - a Facilitator Development Program for the Work That Reconnects, where they were both learning to facilitate spaces for people to process their grief and rage for our world. After a happy year of co-facilitating, they found out that they share a birthday. Despite having never met in person, the two have developed a strong bond and have been honoured to hold space for several beautiful groups of humans from across the globe.