Calling in the Great Peace

Women’s Gathering for International Day of Peace & Autumn Equinox   Facilitated by Clare Russell in White Lion Space, central Bristol BS6 http://sacreddestinations.org/womens-gathering-calling-great-peace.html We call in the Great Peace for ourselves, our families and friends We call in the Great Peace for our community and our communities community We call in the Great Peace for […]

Transformational breathing: tools for wellbeing & wholeness

Practise THREE simple breathing techniques – and explore their impact on your state of mind, your inner being and physicality: * 4-4-4 breath * Kundalini breath or ‘breath of fire’ * Accelerated breathing – or “conscious breathwork”   Conscious breathing will empower you to: * manage anxiety * energise a dream, intention or goal * […]

Brexit And The Leadership Vacuum: the challenge to co-create a new story for our time….

It was a simple instruction, fraught with tension: take the Jubilee Line three stops and alight at Westminster. Navigating escalators, long pedestrian tunnels, herded into carriages assault the senses at the best of times. Factor in an all-American group of 33 teenagers, 16 adults, most of whom had never set foot on the tube, and […]

Mirror article: waking up to life as mountain – did I really have to climb them?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/how-one-woman-gave-up-8107842 News Real Life Stories BBC How one woman gave up her high-powered career to climb mountains 12:01, 3 JUN 2016 UPDATED 12:13, 3 JUN 2016 BY MAGS MACKEAN Mags MacKean gave up her high-powered career to pursue her dream of climbing mountains – only to find she got just as burnt out following her […]

The nature of adventure: embracing risk

The nature of adventure: embracing risk. Mags MacKean (c) Many dream of the thrill of stripping life – and all its pressures – to the basics: heading off on a long distance hike. The rewards are in its promise: relying on strength, stamina and the vision to see a route through – to complete a […]

BBC RADIO 4 Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne

I was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne (tx: Friday 26th Feb 2016), with veteran columnist Katharine Whitehorn, Author Madeleine Bunting, and shepherdess and mother-of-eight, Amanda Owen. Inevitably we each had a unique take on “Me Time” – what is it and what makes us yearn it? How […]