10 dogmas debunked

Interesting talk from Rupert Sheldrake on The Science Delusion, freeing the Spirit of Enquiry. He claims 10 dogmas of the scientific creed and I was applying it very much to the ethos and values of A Quiet Place based on 'first do no harm' and second does it work?

The ten are:

  1.   The universe is mechanical, everything is a machine and brains are like computers. This is a useful metaphor but loses the wonder and richness of humans

  2.   All matter is unconscious, human consciousness is an illusion created by electrical/chemical activity in the brain. Can't remotely find this useful, inner life of humans and who knows what animals and plants remains a mystery but is demonstrated everywhere

3.   The total amount of energy and matter is always the same (except the Big Bang of course!) - that is a theory and as we move on in time other theories come out from our new knowledge base, organic development surely must be reflected in everything..'as above..so below'

4.   Laws of nature are fixed, a constant. Who says?

5.   There is no purpose to nature, no goal or direction, everything has evolved by accident. How can anyone still believe that when we see so many connections, spiralling coincidences, numbers and sacred geometry all around?

6.   All biological inheritance is carried in the DNA. That has been disproved since the discovery of the genome didn't let us into every secret of mankind...hands up in amazement!

7.   Minds are inside our brains and everything is inside your head. Maybe our interpretation is in our head but we don't really know that we are purely an invention of our own figments!

8.   Memories are stored in the brain as material traces, absolutely unproven and they have tried hard to find memory banks..they are wiped out at death. One of the latest theories I heard was that memory is stored in the water within our body and that is estimated between 70-85% of our makeup depending on the scientist you listen to. Sounds good to me! Think of heart transplants and memories transferring in the blood, why is it anathema in some belief systems not to have other people's blood?

9.   Unexplained phenomena are all illusory or trickery. There is so much anecdotal information as well as scientific if any sceptics want to really look

10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that really works. Tell that to different cultures and people who have used complimentary medicine successfully. Even the medics are now beginning to use placebo effect, remembering that they are supposed to be 'healing' practitioners, and indeed I know some very good ones but... interestingly enough the net is helping open minds rather than be purely influenced by big pharmaceutical companies and find days out to hear the latest pill without connecting it to the side effects on the rest of the body

So open minds, a little humility and basic common sense should be the rule knowing the only real constant is change and new information comes on through time, I just mention that there still is a flat earth society, probably according to some, a CIA conspiracy that the earth is round!

Anyway good for Rupert for challenging these laws even when it is uncomfortable, my teacher, years ago said, ‘if you hold your hands out for truth some b..... will knock nails into them'.

Ouch!

A Quiet Place reminder that according to Carl Jung “Liverpool means The Pool of Life”.

Carl Jung dreamed he came to Liverpool and flying over the city, he saw a huge magnolia tree growing from a pool of light in the centre. The branches stretched across the city with fragrant flowers dropping petals onto the ground and its roots spread deep underneath bringing creative energy from the earth for the people of Liverpool. Looking at this beautiful sight he realised that,

In celebration of Jung’s vision of Liverpool A Quiet Place^® invited all Liverpool Primary Schools to think about what The Pool of Life means to the children of Liverpool and then create a piece of art that best represents Liverpool as The Pool of Life. 

                                         

The awards were presented by Roger Phillips of BBC Radio Merseyside at St Anthony of Padua the winner of the 1st Prize a £20 book token for the individual plus £1,000 of A Quiet Place^® Self Management programme including resources and training for their school. The second prize went to St. Paschal Baylon and 3^rd Prize to Lister Drive Infants. Well done to all the children who entered in Liverpool and their teachers who organised the art work in a busy timetable.

A  Quiet Place^® - What is it?

We are a small not for profit company that supports well being programmes for individuals, groups of children and young people, their families and communities in schools and other organisations. 

               

A Quiet Place Ltd

26 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX     Tel: 0151 708 6910  Fax: 0151 703 9207

karen@aquietplace.co.uk

Well Being In The Workplace

About 500,000 people are believed to be suffering from work-related stress or depression in the UK and they take 6.5 million days off sick every year.  

According to new research by the Health and Safety Executive, nearly 150,000 workers have taken at least a month off sick because of stress-related illness, costing British industry an estimated £370m a year.

The HSE believe that "work-related stress is a huge occupational health problem, inflicting a heavy toll both in terms both of financial cost and human suffering."

Penelope is an experienced teacher and trainer who has delivered workshops in Europe, Australia, India and USA. She has had over 30 years  experience in business as well as the public sector.

She developed  ‘A Quiet Place®’ as a concept, initially for mainstream education in schools, Family Centres and supporting children, families and staff across the U.K. This is now a nationally recognised programme with a very rigorous academic and qualitative evidence base.

Well being in the Workplace programmes developed from this original work in schools and is designed to be educational as well as therapeutic emphasising the rights and responsibilities of  both the employer and the employee in a partnership approach.

The environment both physical and personal is key to A Quiet Place’s programmes. The approach and ethos encourages employees to work to their full potential within the community of work. Staff who are confident and positive think more clearly. A workforce who feel valued and supported by an emotionally intelligent management will work positively and more efficiently thus benefitting the employer at every level.

Bespoke service:

An initial consultation to identify the unique needs of an employer takes place. A plan is made and delivered according to the needs audit and budget of the organisation.  They include such options as:

• Stress awareness training

• Communication skills including N.L.P. and basic counselling

• Self Management bio feedback programmes including HeartMath

• Staff audit with personal prescriptions

• Training for in house staff to deliver some programmes and resources

• Mindfulness meditation

• U-Yoga– gentle stretching and  breathing exercises for everyone

Penelope Moon

CertEd, PGDHP, FNHPC, NRHP (H)
UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, BRCP Senior Therapist

For further information  please contact: karen@aquietplace.co.uk


A Quiet Place Ltd 
26 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX
Tel 0151 708 6910, Fax 0151 703 9207
www.aquietplace.co.uk

What Is Your Class’s Vision Of Liverpool – ‘The Pool Of Life’?

Merseyside children compete to paint their own Jungian dream vision

He felt himself flying over the city, in the centre of which appeared a bright and shimmering pool of light. From the island in the centre of the pool grew a huge magnolia tree. The branches of the tree stretched across the city, with fragrant flowers dropping petals onto the ground and the roots spread deep underneath, drawing creative energy from the earth for the people of Liverpool.

Looking at this sight “of unearthly beauty,” he realised at once that “Liverpool was The Pool of Life.”

In 1927, the Swiss psychologist and explorer of the unconscious Carl Jung, dreamt he went to Liverpool - an experience he summed up in his dream-diary as revealing to him that the great port was no less than “the pool of life; it makes to live”.

Now we, not-for-profit organisation A Quiet Place, an organisation that provides well-being programmes for individuals, groups and communities, has launched a competition to celebrate Jung’s vision of Liverpool – and we want your school to take part!

We are inviting primary schools across Merseyside to enter a free artcompetition to create a piece of art inspired by Jung’s striking night vision of the city. Children are being asked to think about what ‘Liverpool is The Pool of Life’ means to them, and then create a collage, drawing, or painting, to best represent this. Each school can submit up to three individual or class entries. 

Winning schools will have the chance to win some valuable well-being resources and training, plus book tokens, plus attend an awards ceremony on Saturday 30th March; prizes will be presented by Roger Phillips (BBC Radio Merseyside).

A selection of 30 pieces of pupils’ work will be short-listed and displayed at a public gallery space.

The art competition is, we feel, very appropriate as a way both of responding to Jung’s dream and as expressive of the group’s aims of developing individuals’ sense of personal well being. (It’s worth remembering that Jung himself founded the whole idea that Art can be used as therapy.)

To enter, schools must first register their interest by sending their details to A Quiet Place by Friday 9th March 2012; please send your school’s name, name of Headteacher, telephone number, a direct email address and postal address. You can also contact us by post (26 Hope Street, L1 9BX), fax us on (0151) 703 9207 or email us at karen@aquietplace.co.uk.

The competition prizes are:

1st Prize A Quiet Place® Self Management Programme for your school worth £1,000, including resources and training plus a £20 book token for the individual (or class if preferred)

2nd Prize: An AQP Creative Class Workshop. plus a £15 book token

3rd Prize: An AQP relaxation kit of oils & music, plus a £10 book token

Remember completed pieces of artwork must be received no later than Friday 16th March, 2012. Good luck –  and be inspired!

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Behaviour?

Attainment?

Motivation?

Increased Well-Being

Increased Resilience

Improvement in attainment, attendance and relationships

A Quiet Place^® Self Management Programme is a value added service that supports children, young people and adults of all ages and abilities with learning and behaviour techniques. The programme can run alongside and within the general curriculum to support learning by the management of the arousal system.

What is it?

The Self Management Programme techniques consist of:

Bio feedback programmes (including HeartMath em-wave) that recognises and helps manage the arousal systems.

Quoting Robert Aickman

'I believe that at the time of the Industrial and French revolutions mankind took a wrong turning. The beliefs that one day by the application of reason and the scientific method everything will be known and every problem and unhappiness solved seems to me to have led to a situation where we are either in imminent danger of destroying the whole  world either with a loud report or by insatiable consumption. Spirit is undefinable as everything that matters is undefinable but one can tell the person who has it from the person who has it not' 

A Quiet Place - developing the potential

Opportunity 

An opportunity has arisen to become involved with an SME that is a pioneer in the field of the well being agenda. The Founder, Penelope Moon, is looking for a partner/partners to develop the programmes she has created over the last 20 years both nationally and internationally.  With social impact being a priority for the government this is a chance to become involved with a well reputed ethical company that has integrity and mutuality at its heart. 

Timing

AQP is a private limited company wholly owned and run by Penelope Moon. Mainly based in the North West it is ripe for rolling out nationally and internationally through the development of social interest franchises or associates who would be able to take advantage of their existing local networks.

There are many people at the moment who are looking to develop businesses who have been made redundant from the public sector. Government policy is encouraging business loans for franchises because statistical reviews indicate a lower risk to the investor.

Application

The product has been deliberately designed to be applicable to all ages and abilities and is therefore equally applicable to:

1. Education
2. Social care, children and adults, older and disabled people
3. Business well being and health in the workplace programme

Some of these areas have not been touched as yet. They could, therefore, be developed as separate products or as part of the whole

Contact:  penny@aquietplace.co.uk