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Thelki ... a space of stillness where you come home to find your Self: a place for re-discovering who you are; a sanctuary in which to find peace; a place to find wisdom and insight; and a space to reconnect to your purpose.  I serve people in the community, in the communities around the Lake District, throughout the UK and in other countries - people of all faiths and none.  

My own path is towards contemplative mysticism. This is a conscious balance of stilled contemplative practice and active service towards others in the community. Our spirituality, consciousness, energy, emotions, minds and sexuality are inter-connected.  Sign-up now for your free Thelki personal alert with advance information about feature articles and future events.  My main services currently include:

Spiritual Direction, Mentoring and Counselling
Confidential one-to-one support, mentoring and encouragement for your emotional and spiritual growth and healing.

Professional supervision
Individual and group supervision for practitioners working with clients in various therapeutic, ministry, health and social care settings

Retreats, courses and retreat leadership
Facilitating and leading retreats. courses and workshops for men and women seeking to deepen their spiritual connection and awareness. 

Civil partnerships, Weddings, Funerals, Rites-of-Passage and other Ceremonies
Services, ceremonies and rituals conducted in a highly-tailored, meaningful and spiritual (rather than religious) context.

Healing, Touch and Massage
Tutoring on a range of ancient, remedial healing practices including touch, Thai, Balinese, Shiatsu, Hot Stones and Tao and all designed to promote holistic well-being at many different levels.  

Gay Spirit
A programme of events and workshops for gay men.

My approach and my training

I am ordained as an Interfaith (or Inter-Spiritual) Minister, and I have been initiated as a Male Elder.

I am supported in this work by the community of Interfaith Ministers, by my Quaker meeting, by my own spiritual directors and supervisors, and by various conscious men's networks in the UK and in Asia.

I am professionally qualified as a holistic spiritual and physical healer to practice and teach several touch therapies. Similarly, I am trained and experienced in counselling, spiritual direction and supervision with others.

I work with gay men and others around spirituality, faith and identity, and creating conscious 'spirit warriors'.  I am particularly interested in evoking and rediscovering the earlier knowledge of sacred masculinity which has been lost for so many uninitiated men today.    

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inSOUL is a weekly opt-in email alert offering meditations and reflections for people of all faiths, and none.


You are welcome to sign-up for our free email alerts about forthcoming events and offers on all these themes.

The name 'Thelki' was created by Andrew Ramer in his book Two Flutes Playing.  You can also view an online archive of articles on all aspects of spiritual work.

 
Return to Bangkok PDF Print E-mail

 

In a return visit to Thailand during April and May, the main focus was on reconnecting with friends in Bangkok and developing relationships with men attending the AsianFaeries gathering.  The weather was much hotter and the high humidity made day-time conditions more uncomfortable.  As usual Bangkok kept throwing up surprises.

 

A two-day trip to Pattaya enabled four of us to enjoy getting very wet in their delayed Song Kran (new year) festivities - although the rest of Pattaya is not particularly appealing.

 

The three-day trip to Kanchanaburi was particularly thought-provoking.  The immaculate war graves cemetery contains the remains of 7,000 POWs who had died working on the Burma-Siam 'Death Railway' and visits to Hellfire Pass, the Bridge on the River Kwai and the associated monuments was a testimony to the 45% death rate amongst POWs press-ganged into working on the railway and the estimated 100,000 South-East Asian population who also died during the 18 months of the railway's construction.

 

 

 
The Kite Runner PDF Print E-mail

 

Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner is the most powerful fiction that I've read in many years.  The story of two boys growing up in Kabul in the 1970s, connected together yet unaware of the nature of that connection, until a single incident happens that has profound implications on both their lives.  This is a book about redemption.  The story-telling absolutely grabs you; the descriptions and word paintings that capture both the changing atmosphere of the country and the complex nature of human emotions.  The sharpest moments are the least expected, when Hosseini's writing is like a knife being twisted in the reader's body.  My own emotional reaction led to tears and sobs on several occasions when I just had to put the book down.  As one reviewer comments: "It is so powerful that for a long time after everything I read seemed bland."   

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