KITCHEN TABLE WRITERS: 2016-06-19

Friday, 24 June 2016

Join me at the 10th UK Shamanic Gathering

BIRTHING A NEW DREAM -

The 10^th UK RESIDENTIAL SHAMANIC GATHERING

Thursday 8^th – Sunday 11^th September 2016

at at the EARTHSPIRIT CENTRE, DUNDON, nr GLASTONBURY, SOMERSET TA11 6PE

If you feel you have a leaning towards shamanism, as a spiritual path or as a spiritual tool within your own path, then why not join us at the biggest gathering of shamans in the UK? Each year the gathering acts as a meeting place for those interested in shamanism as a living path of spiritual wisdom. It is open to anyone – with any level of shamanic experience – and is held within a friendly sacred circle

Shaman Nicolas Breeze-Wood,
editor or Sacred Hoop and
Doris, our shamanic clown
at the 2015 gathering.

You don't have to have had any formal shamanic training to join the circle - just a willingness to be open-hearted to the spirit world which is all around us. A fine feast of ceremony, workshops, discussion groups, dance and teachings from many traditions with:

Maria Runningwater • Christiana Harle & Martin Wilford • Sika Rose • Amir Korvalian • Trisha Mulholland • Jonathan Weekes • Michelle Easton • Rosemary O’Toole • Annie Spencer & Howard Malpas • Supi • “Doris” The New Age Guru • Nina Milton • Derek Gane • Kate Merriwether • Catherine Brew & Angie McLachlan • Leo Rutherford • Sarah Howcroft • Moira Lake

check their website here

The Conference will take place at the green and peaceful venue of Earthspirit, just outside of Glastonbury in the tiny village of Compton Dundon. Lovely accommodation and delicious food are always part of the Gathering experience. I was there last year, when over 70 people gathered together for this event and found it one of the most happy, friendly and fulfilling experiences I've recently had. This year I'm back with a workshop for participants who also write (or want to) creatively; Writing over the Rainbow Bridge.

Watch a video of the 2015 UK Gathering

listen to a shamanic chant here

BIRTHING A NEW DREAM -

the 4 Day Programme includes…

Workshop for those new to Shamanic Journeying

or those wishing to Recap: Mari Runningwater

Lighting the Conference Fire and Opening the Gathering in a traditional

International therapist and profession gardener
Carrie Thomas

Mongolian/Tuvan way: Christiana Harle and Martin Wilford

Workshops include;

Shamanic Drum Birthing Ceremony: Jonathan Weeks

Gratitude and Sacred Plants as Offerings: Michelle Easton

Wand of Dreams: Rosemary O’Toole

Rites of Passage and Initiation: Annie Spencer and Howard Malpas

Free Me: Unbinding the Gender Binaries: Catherine Brew and Angie McLachlan

Choosing the Right dream: Supi

Dancing the Dream Body Awake: Trisha Mulholland Plant Spirits and the Sacred Dream: Moira Lake

Shamanigins: “Doris” The New Age Guru

Writing Over the Rainbow Bridge - Write Creatively with help from your Spirit World: Nina Milton
Discover the Magic of Ceremony: Derek Gane
The Heart Beat of our Ancestors: Kate Merriwether
Colours Without Names: Sarah Howcroft

Trance Dance: Leo Rutherford and Sika Rose

Ceremony of Gratitude and Connection: Annie Spencer, Trisha Mulholland

Regular Discussion Groups, meetings in Home Groups and Meditation and

Movement workshops

Make sure You are part of the 2016 Conference To book your place or ask a question please EMAIL

The yew tree in Compton Dundon Churchyard

Ronald Hutton

Nina Milton has created a unique fictional world in her Shaman Mystery Series, featuring Sabbie Dare as a young shaman. With Beneath the Tor she passed the ultimate test of a writer, that of causing me to put off useful jobs which I really should have been doing, in order to see what happens next. She has become a mistress of plot-weaving, and above all, she pulls off the trick of setting the totally fantastic amid the totally everyday and making the two fit together with pace and excitement. Ronald Hutton (Ronald Hutton is professor of history at Bristol University and an authority on the history of pagan beliefs. He’s the author many books including of’The Triumph of the Moon’, ‘Shamans’ and ‘Pagan Britain’)

ANOTHER GREAT REVIEW FOR IN THE MOORS

Another great review online for In the Moors, the first Shaman Mystery by Nina Milton.

Sabbie Dare, the zany, feisty heroine of Nina Milton’s In The Moors, is a city girl of mixed race and lost parentage; as a child she went into the care system and by the time she was twelve was a little fighting machine.

When we meet her, she’s 28 and clear about her path in life; she’s an eco-friendly pagan living in Somerset where she works as a therapeutic shaman. Her clients come to her for last-resort help, and such is Cliff Houghton...

If you'd like to read all the review, just click the link below.

http://www.skylightrain.com/book-review-in-the-moors-by-nina-milton/

Sky Light Rain is a great blogsite for readers and writers alike, with writing tips, reviews and general literary based chat and information. I'm making it one of my must-visit sites.

What do Pagan Readers think of the Shaman Mysteries?

In The Moors is the latest offering from Nina Milton, author and OBOD member, introducing the seemingly-unlikely detective Sabbie Dare. Sabbie, like all the best heroes of the crime thriller genre, is impulsive, courageous, a bit odd, and less than lucky in love. Sabbie is a shamanic counsellor, and when not tending to her chickens or chasing bargains at car boot sales, spend her days helping her clients. It is one such encounter that plunges Sabbie into a dark world of murder and horror past and present.For me, this holds its head up with the best of its genre and so comes highly recommended – and for those of you, like me, who are already hooked, the next Sabbie Dare novel is already in the pipeline. Can’t wait!

Review in Touchstone (magazine of OBOD-Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids)

A real page-turner, In the Moors cost me several hours of sleep because it was so un-put-downable! An engaging heroine, a landscape at once so real and so menacing, and an intriguing mystery had me enthralled into the wee hours! Mara Freeman

(Mara Freeman is a respected teacher of Western esoteric tradition and the author of ‘Kindling the Celtic Spirit’ & ‘Grail Alchemy’’)

I could not put down Unraveled Visions by Nina Milton. I congratulate her on a real page turner. I loved the sinister Fergus Quigg’s story of the Blarney Stone; I’ll look forward now, to reports that American Tourists will attempt to sanitize it with wetwipes before leaning in for a kiss, which could be amusing to the locals! I held on to my belief in Fergus’ innocence until the last; no man who writes in a notebook with pen could possibly be all bad, could he? But as the concluding tensions burst, and the final secrets were revealed, Unraveled Visions kept me up long past my bedtime (as promised by Mara Freeman), especially when Sabbie’s shamanic experiences with snakes became the great finishing twist. Nina Milton makes the unbelievable credible and persuasive. Ana Adnan

(Ana Adnan is a Wiccan High Priestess and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids)

Creative Writing with the OPEN COLLEGE of the ARTS

I've worked happily with the OCA for several years, tutoring, assessing, workshoping and writing course materials.
They offer the very best courses in Creative Writing and have a dedicated commitment to art at all levels. Each course is self-contained and adds to a writer's understanding of their subject, but can also build into a BA hons in Creative Writing.
I teach the following OCA courses:

WRITING SKILLS

WRITING SHORT FICTION

WRITING FOR CHILDREN

LIFE WRITING

ADVANCED WRITING at Level 3

Go to: http://www.oca-uk.com/
freephone 0800 7312116

KITCHEN TABLE WRITERS Mentoring and Notepad Programme NINA MILTON's friendly mentoring service

Friday, 24 June 2016

Join me at the 10th UK Shamanic Gathering