the art of living

The art of living might easily be renamed the art of community. How do we make our community resilient? What keeps us apart and what brings us together?

Over the coming months we’ll be inviting those who have spent their lives working with community: psychologically, spiritually, politically. Some of these experts come from within the UK, others from Europe and North America. They are healers: healers of individuals, families, communities. This is  the big room as healing hall.

Some of events are suitable for everyone (ALL) and others are professional trainings (CPD).  Often they are a mix of both. If you have any questions let us know hello@thebigroom.org

​Some of events are suitable for everyone (ALL) and others are professional trainings (CPD).  Often they are a mix of both. If you are interested get in touch and lets have a chat! hello@thebigroom.org
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ongoing events

Starts
Nov 2020

Exploring & exploding male myths​

Specific themes may include:In this three-part workshop we will examine the largely unspoken cultural myths of the heroic warrior and how it emphasises male power over intimacy. We will explore how this myth blinds us and binds us to patterns of behaviour that result in disconnection, loneliness, anxiety, anger and depression. We will also explore how substituting power for awareness leads to a different understanding of relationships and our place in the world.

Who is this group for? anyone who identifies as male
Group Size: Limited to eight
Duration: (3 hour) sessions running fortnightly
When: 14th Nov, 28th Nov and 12th Dec 2020
Time: Saturday morning between 10am and 1.00pm
Where: the big room cic, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Facilitator: Owen Stevens
Cost: £25 per session per person to cover room hire and supporting future workshops in the big room cic The workshop is facilitated on a donation basis. 

Specific themes may include:

• anger & aggression
• emotional insecurity
• shame-based fear
• problems with intimacy & relationships
• addiction in all its forms

• isolation, loneliness & disconnection
• depression & anxiety
• male privilege and rank
• safety & vulnerability
• ghost roles

For more information owen@thebigroom.org

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Commenced January 2020

​Ongoing Women's Group with Hayley Stevens

​A supportive women’s space with the focus being to discover and develop our unique gifts, heal and harness the energy of old wounds and learn how to bring ourselves and our gifts more fully into the world. To find out about future groups  for more information>
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Postponed events
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26 - 28 March 

POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

Process Oriented Family Therapy with Gary Reiss: healing our personal and collective history... more>

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21 - 24 May

POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

Sacred Ecstatics with Bradford Keeney and Hillary Keeney: an introductory workshop on a radically different approach to the healing arts... more>

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Starts
​4 & 5 April 2020

POSTPONED
​Elemental Chi Kung 
with Thalbert Allen, Director & Co-Founder of The College of Elemental Chi Kung (London)

following the seasons

Register/Booking

The big room cic have invited Thalbert Allen, Director and Co-founder of The College of Elemental Chi Kung to teach a series of elemental chi kung workshops following the seasons and their corresponding element - Water/Winter, Wood/Spring, Fire/Summer, Metal/Autumn and Earth/Transitions.  Elemental Chi Kung draws on thousands of years of Traditional Chinese ways of perceiving the world.

more information about this event

The big room cic have invited Thalbert Allen, Director and Co-founder of The College of Elemental Chi Kung to teach this series of elemental chi kung workshop following the seasons and the corresponding element of water, wood, fire, earth and metal from a Traditional Chinese way of perceiving the world.

​Saturday, 4 & Sunday, 5 April 2020 will explore the Wood Element/Energy. This Element is represented by Spring, time of growth, sexual energy and new beginnings after the Winter thaw. Wood supports endurance and stamina, and stimulates the liver and gallbladder.

Dates for the full series are: 4 & 5 April 2020 (Wood Element); 27th & 28th June 2020 (Fire Element); 31st October & 1 November 2020 (Metal Element); 19 & 20 December 2020 (Water Element).  

The Earth Element will be present in each workshop as a way of creating balance and stability.  Earth represents the centre and neutrality.

Each weekend workshop starts/finishes: Saturday - 10am to 5pm; Sunday - 10am to 4pm.

Cost per workshop: £150.00  (20% discount for those registering for 2 or more workshops)

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future events
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Date TBA
​(ALL)

Working with the Inner Critic: ​​and transforming our relationship with criticism, guilt and shame with Hayley Stevens and Owen Stevens. Next workshop Spring 2020 more>

​"For... communities, and nations to succeed today and survive tomorrow, they must be deeply democratic – that is, everyone and every feeling must be represented. “

- Arnold Mindell
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