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One Spirit Community Ceremony for Imbolc
7.30pm 1st February 2023

Greetings!

We do not need to be in the same physical space to share deeply with open hearts.

A nucleus group sometimes meet in Bandon Town Hall, West Cork, but I am continuing to send out an email version of the ceremony the day before each Celtic Festival,
so you can join me and many others,
in deep connection from your own home, or if you are in West Cork, do of course join us in Bandon, if restrictions allow,
for an hour of reflection and contemplation,
through readings, music and silence,
drawing on a diversity of material from the world's spiritual traditions.
Please message me if you would like to join us either by email or in Bandon .

' The Work That Reconnects '

Please contact me for details of upcoming workshops

These are usually experiential days based on the work of Joanna Macy moving with gratitude through the spiral, feeling our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes, and going forth with renewed love and connection in our hearts

Janekillingbeck1@hotmail.com 0857818137

“We were not meant to live shallow lives, pocked by meaningless routines and the secondary satisfactions of happy hour. We are the inheritors of an amazing lineage, rippling with memories of life lived intimately with bison and gazelle, raven and the night sky. We are designed to encounter this life with amazement and wonder, not resignation and endurance. This is at the very heart of our grief and sorrow. The dream of full-throated living, woven into our very being, has often been forgotten and neglected, replaced by a societal fiction of productivity and material gain. No wonder we seek distractions. Every sorrow we carry extends from the absence of what we require to stay engaged in this one wild and precious life". ~ Francis Welle

About Me .......

Hi and thanks for being curious enough about me to read this page!
I am from Devon in the UK originally, where I grew up in an evangelical Church of England family; and my life since has reflected a desire to relate to the Divine in an increasingly universal way, gradually shedding the limitations of those rigid forms of belief.
During my twenties , I explored simple living and sustainability, choosing to move out of the city and create a small country living, and eventually an informal community in an old farmhouse in Wiltshire.
In my thirties I moved with my husband and baby daughter to SW Ireland , where we lived at the end of a track amidst the magnificence of the Kerry mountains, and then when that life became too hard, moved into the village, where I explored community development , facilitating a womens group and running the Family Resource centre, as well as gaining a diploma in Women in the Community from UCC

During this time, while bringing up three small children, latterly on my own, my journey led me through a spiritual reawakening thanks to the principles of 12-step programme work , which still underpin my life, and which I revisit regularly in order to be vigilant in drawing back from my tendency to co-dependence.

In 2002 a restlessness came upon me, and I brought my family to live in Bandon West Cork, feeling a strong and eventually unignorable need to live somewhere bigger, to embrace mainstream society I suppose, instead of living right at the edge of civilization, comfortable though that was., I was thereby abandoning long-held ideals of country living, and it was a big leap for me and for my teenage kids..

So I have been living in the Bandon area for these last 18 years , though now that my children are living their own lives I have moved a few miles outside town. When I came back from the Mexico retreat, having left my children and bookshop in the care of my ex husband , I gave up the shop, and taught weekend Meditation workshops and retreats, while earning my living working as a Home Help for the HSE .

During those years I explored Anthroposophical Transformative art, through weekend workshops at Tobias School of Art and Therapy and I completed my Masters in Leadership and Pastoral Care at All Hallows in Dublin.

Since 2007 I have been an Aspirant with The Universal Order, a small yet world-wide organisation, which offers a system of philosophical teachings which demonstrate the underlying unity of Eastern and Western religions: the religion of the spirit .
I love its refusal to market itself and become another form of spirituality seduced by our capitalist society into commodification .
Now, in feeling the importance of offering workshops exploring our emotional response to the dreadful damage that is being done to our planet through humanity's distorted relationship to, and lack of connection with, our beautiful world I have become an accredited faciltator of The Work That Reconnects.
I have also been drawn to embark on a training in Druid teachings; finding their gentle and deep respect for, and connection, with the world around us is enabling me to delve into unexplored parts of myself.

Over the past few years as a One Spirit Interfaith Minister I have been able to draw from all this background experience, and ongoing explorations and practice , to work with people from many backgrounds and beliefs to create beautiful individual ceremonies that are meaningful and sacred; and rituals and ceremonies which celebrate the fullness of life and the surrender into transitions, sometimes joy filled, sometimes painful, but all so integral to life as a human being, here on this magical earth; and to offer opportunities for people to gather in community whether in the local One Spirit community gatherings which I hold monthly, or the meditation weekends and workshops which have their own perfect timing.

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