John and Nicola Kurk
John Kurk is an experienced group facilitator. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Physics with Humanities, and spent 5 years at the Center for Alternative Technology in Wales during its developmental period. John, together with his wife Nicola, has 20 years experience as a leader in intentional community. He has created men's groups and men's events, and currently staffs New Warrior Weekends. As a certified Shadow Work® facilitator, John also facilitates symbolic archetypal process experiences, offers individual and relationship counseling and makes cabinets in his spare time.
Nicola Kurk has extensive experience as a group facilitator. Her background includes the coordination of "New Strategies for Peace," a conference on United Nations Reform. After 20 years as a leader in intentional community, Nicola was selected for a position on the Board of Trustees for the International Emissaries, where she helped bring that organization through world-wide transition. As a certified Shadow Work® facilitator, Nicola also designs and facilitates women's events on motherhood, sexuality, spirituality and rites of passage.
Nicola and John have worked together for 14 years offering personal development seminars in France, Russia, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Canada, the USA and throughout the UK. Together with their two boys, they live in Worcestershire. Visit their website at www.goldenopportunities.org.uk.
Shadow Work® has been developed over the last 20 years by Cliff Barry and Mary Ellen Whalen (née Blandford). They have integrated and correlated their work with other disciplines such as Gestalt, Voice Dialogue, Accelerated Learning, Grovian Metaphor Work, Bio-Energetics, family systems theory, addiction recovery and personality typing systems such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and the Enneagram. They are indebted to the pioneering work of Robert Bly, Robert Moore and Doug Gillette, David Grove, Ron Hering, Hal and Sidra Stone, and John Bradshaw.
Shadow Work® is available both in group seminars and in coaching for individuals and couples and is currently offered in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. Shadow Work® Seminars trains and certifies facilitators and coaches in the Shadow Work® methodology and has developed some of its tenets to be applied in larger corporate and organizational systems.
For more information, please contact Shadow Work® Seminars at (303) 530-2840, or by email at shadowwk@frii.com.