A Midlife Invitation
Neena Sims is a coach and facilitator, poet and mother. She's a co-owner of thirdspace coaching and Park Sims Associates, both places where she finds herself surrounded a community of people who welcome her explorer's heart. She's drawn to learning and teaching through the body, using play and sensory experience. She recently trained as a practitioner of Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises.
"As I track back over the past 40 years, I can clearly see my good intentions, my efforts to excel, be special or liked or simply good enough to make a living. I still feel the pull of it. But I now also feel the pull of something else - older and wilder and unknown, which has nothing to do with playing nice and everything to do with contribution. I catch the scent of it sometimes and then it's moving again. This journey might just be the music I need to meet it, move with it and dance."
Sophie Howarth is a teacher and writer, maker and mother, lover of trees and poetry. Best-known as the co-founder of The School of Life and founder of Department Store for the Mind, she is also faculty lead at Year Here, and author of a number of photography books. Currently training as a Spiritual Director, influenced by both Christian and Buddhist traditions, Sophie supports social leaders to act wisely in a time of crisis and confusion.
"I lived the first half of my life at quite a frantic pace, achieving plenty but feeling little. Midlife has put me through the wringer, unravelling much of what once propped me up. It has been a summons to surrender and an opening to grace. With this invitation, I am honouring my own calling to step into a slower, more contemplative and connected way of life."
Joining Neena and Sophie are Emma Wallace (artist-in-residence for the pilgrimage), Justin Wise, Vanessa Chamberlin, Iain Christie, Ann-Mari Freebairn, Frances Armes, Philip Robbins, Annie Goulden, Hillary Wigston, Jacqueline Bradley, Andy Rogers, Jenni Isaac and Jennifer Pirtle.
The group for 2019 is now complete and applications are closed.
If you are interested in hearing about future offerings please feel free to get in touch by emailing janeena@thirdspacecoaching.com.