Llysfasi Spirituality Workshop
The team facilitating the 2009 Llysfasi Spirituality Workshop:
ISABEL GREGORY
Has been a member of the team for over 20 years and co-ordinator of this process in different countries since 1994. She has worked in many settings, including retreats and ongoing 1-1 work. Her background is in education. Isabel is interested in the arts and holistic journeys of soul making with a special interest in Jungian psychology. She lives in Oxfordshire. She has two daughters and two grandchildren.
MARY ROSE FITZSIMMONS HHS
Mary Rose’s work in spirituality began in Glasgow in the 1970s in the Helpers’ Langside retreat house. This work, mainly with women and young people, opened up her desire to earth the Ignatian Exercises in ordinary life. Mary Rose has accompanied people in many different contexts, including school chaplaincy and Weeks of Accompanied Prayer. She lives in London, where she is currently training with Re.Vision. Mary Rose has a great love of people, music and life.
ANGELA BROWN
Angela was a participant in Llysfasi in 2001, whch brought deep affirmation of a call to listen and be a listener. Since then she has been involved in offering soul companioning, as well as facilitating the development of others in this art in the Sheffield Diocese of the Church of England. Angela is married to an artist, has two grown-up children and loves to spend time by the sea.
RICHARD SLOAN
Richard found his experience of the 1994 Llysfasi a breakthrough in a time of breakdown, a non-dogmatic holding and listening which helped heal the splits in himself. Ordained in the Catholic tradition, he has years of pastoral experience both in the UK and Bolivia. Richard is trained in Integrative Psychosynthesis and works as a clinical supervisor for two counselling agencies as well as in private practice in North London.
JULIA WATERFIELD
Was a participant in 1990 and has been on the team a number of times since. She finds this Workshop a creative space in which to dream dreams, a place of nourishment and soul awakening for both participants and team. She has a background in dance, and is trained as an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist. She works in Dorset, where she lives with her husband and two lively dogs, as well as in London where she is involved in psychotherapy training and supervision.
MICHAEL WATERFIELD
Attended Llysfasi in 2006 and felt he had come home spiritually. In the unfolding process, he says his story and the story being told through him clicked. Bonding with others was a remarkable gift. He was one time co-ordinator in an ecumenical Benedictine lay community. Michael is a psychotherapist. With his wife Julia, he has a private practice in Dorset. He likes stories, pottery and dancing: anything which is soul-making.
BOB WHORTON
Bob is a Methodist minister working as a Hospice Chaplain in Oxford. He says that companioning patients and families on a mysterious journey to death-life is both a joy and a challenge. The first hospices in mediaeval times were shelters for pilgrims and the theme of journey is still central to the work. At Llysfasi 2007, he discovered an invitation to further integration and healing in his soul and a special sense of acceptance in the listening groups. He is married, with two children in their late twenties.
