Comments from workshop participants:
This was a mind/body expanding, perspective
altering and heart opening
event. In the course of a few hours we were able to have an experience
of wisdom and connection not normally available to us in our day to day
lives. If you have ever pondered the deeper questions of life then you
will LOVE this workshop! My partner and I both had some life altering
insights and shifts after participating in this simple and easy
process…in fact everyone who attended spoke very highly of their
experience and of Phil’s skills as a caring facilitator for this
journey. - Karen
Participating in the Big Mind Big Heart process has totally changed my
life. I love the process so much I have participated in it more then 10
times, each time gaining new insights into different aspects of myself
and a deepening of my experience of our true nature. This has improved
the quality of my life and my relationships immeasurably. I have found
Phil to be a gifted facilitator. He is utterly supportive, respectful,
sensitive, and loving every step of the way. His passion for this work
and his genuine care for all participants creates a safe and supportive
context in which to deeply explore the different aspects of the human
psyche. Amazing, mind blowing, life changing work. I cannot recommend
this process, and Phil's facilitation of it, highly enough. - Sasha
Big
Mind
mediation has
given me a glimpse of the place where I can acknowledge all parts of my
being. After over a decade of meditation and other awareness
practices, I found that the gentle walk through all our interior voices
has enabled me to connect and hold them. Sharing this experience with
others continues to open new perspectives and deepen a profound sense
of connectedness. I was suddenly able to see where compassion is born
and where wisdom cuts through, and this has made me get up to change
the way I live. Phil facilitates the Big Mind Big Heart sessions in a
lovely humorous and integrative way. - Barbara
I have participated in the Big Mind Big Heart exercise on a number of
occasions. My first time was with Genpo Roshi in Colorado and
subsequent times with Phil. The first time was quite outstanding,
particularly because it seemed not only myself, but a group of over
fifty people had direct experience of the transcendent. It was hard to
imagine that experience being bettered. However, subsequent sessions
with Phil have significantly deepened and enriched the process of
peeling away barriers to clarity of my psyche. Phil is an accomplished
practitioner of this zen like method and enables individuals and groups
to feel safe and encourages everyone to explore and have fun. Done
repeatedly, with appropriate periods of reflection, this practice has
enormous potential to shine a light on the shadowy forces that hold us
all back from thinking and behaving at our best. Phil also empowers
others to find their own truth and live it. It’s now Big Mind, Big
Heart and Big Phil! - Paul
Big
Mind
is the most
motivating process for my meditation practice I have found to date.
Always busy and preoccupied I needed a really strong focus to speed up
my appreciation of the benefits of my contemplation. Big Mind has
sharpened my attention, determination and wakefulness. My daily
demoralisation lifted. I now am keen to pratice alone and impatient to
get to the next available group session. I now trust that not only has
the process greatly benefitted my attention to my life and my
wakefulness but am sure that as I continue to do Big Mind in the future
I will continue to wake up and connect - me to myself and me to
my-world. Big Mind just gets bigger. Brendan
Big Mind Big Heart was an amazing and transformational experience for
me on many different levels. No answers were given; I was simply guided
to the unique and universal wisdom within. Having been gifted the
opportunity to take part in several Big Mind Big Heart sessions, I
found, each time, the experience went deeper than before, with each
session bringing new insights and greater clarity and ‘wholeness’. Phil
facilitating was in his element and was always fully present with all
of us. His wisdom carried it and allowed us to go to great depths,
always listening and embracing whatever came up, allowing us to sort
out our kinks, free our perspectives and own our truth. I recommend
this integrative and holistic approach to anyone who values
their own inherent truth and who wishes to strengthen their connection
to this whilst gaining greater freedom, power, wisdom and love in their
lives. I emerged from these experiences feeling deeply inspired and
profoundly shifted in my awareness, with a great drive and motivation
to live out my truth and be all that I can. - Matthew
For a long time I have been searching for ways to access my own wisdom,
and these ways, whether consciously or unconsciously have often taken
the form of looking outside myself. I am familiar with quotes like,
"know thyself" and, "the kingdom of heaven lies within", but I never
really 'got' it until I attended my first Big Mind Big Heart session in
late 2007. Since then, I have attended at least 6 Big Mind Big Heart
sessions with Philip as facilitator, and not once have I been told what
my truth is, who or what 'God' is, or how I need to be operating in the
world. I love that so much about this process! Through Phil's guiding
enquiry in his facilitation, not only was I able to access aspects of
myself I was previously unaware of, but I was able to experience first
hand, my own wisdom, and how this could be interpreted practically in
the context of my own life. For me, Big Mind Big Heart has been - and
continues to be - a truly empowering and liberating process that I now
employ in all areas of my life and work. Nothing 'out there' compares
to what I have experienced. And each session I have participated in has
only served to deepen my awareness and gift me with further insights
that have been absolutely invaluable to me. I would recommend Big Mind
Big Heart to anyone who is seeking to know more of who they truly are
and how to bring their gifts into the world. Thank you Phil, for your
unerring presence in your facilitation, for your honoring of each
participant's unique experience, for your creation of a space in which
to express freely, and for the fun. - Lucy
What a thoroughly beautiful afternoon doing 'Big Mind" with you leading
us on. It was Deep and Meaningful as ever a Spiritual afternoon could
be! I must say that I felt so peaceful and totally relaxed, but dymanic
at the same time. It certainly has done something at how I am looking
at things today. - Gil
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