Events List

Talk/Forum and Day Conference: Happiness, Health and Wellbeing:
Spiritual, Educational, Artistic and Cultural, and Psychotherapeutic Approaches

Friday 11 October - Saturday 12 October 2013

Sanctuary, Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL

The conference has the World Happiness Report (published in 2012 by the Earth Institute) and the Scottish Happiness Index as reference points throughout, with an intention to connect to contemporary Scotland. This follows from the UN General Assembly’s suggestion to its member states that they should in future give more attention to this subject of happiness in their public policy making.

Friday Evening: £5/£4 (Concession) / £3 (Student)
Saturday Day Conference: £50/£40 (Concession) / £20 (Student)
Full Weekend Rate: £55/£44 (Concession) / £23 (Student)

For a registration form contact:

Neill Walker
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0131 331 4469

On-line Booking

Jointly organised by the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996, and the Beshara Trust, Educational Charity, registered no’s 296769 England and Wales - SC039933 Scotland

EICSP Website: www.eicsp.org
Beshara Website: www.beshara.org

Friday 11: Registration: 6.30pm-7pm
Talk/Forum: 7pm-9pm: Happiness, Health and Wellbeing

The Friday evening Talk/Forum will have lead speaker Robin McAlpine, Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation and Editor of the Scottish Left Review, talk on 'Happiness is a Political Choice'.

Forum chair:

James Mooney, Philosophy lecturer, Open Studies, the University of Edinburgh

Forum panellists:

Simon Blackwood, artist and cook
Jo Clifford, one of Scotland’s leading playwrights and a performer
Mary Sharpe, Founder, Sharpe Thinking

Saturday 12: Registration: 9.15am-9.45am. Day Conference: 9.45am-6pm

Exploring How to Attain Happiness, Health and Wellbeing:
Spiritual, Educational, Artistic and Cultural, and Psychotherapeutic Approaches

The Saturday Day Conference Contributions

Spirituality:

Robin Thomson (Chair), translator and traveller
Rod Burstall, student of Shambhala Buddhism;
Emeritus Professor of Computing Science at Edinburgh University
Jane Clark, Teacher and Senior Research Fellow of the Ibn Arabi Society

Education:

Rory Macleod (Chair), Director of the Community Learning and Development Standards Council for Scotland
Don Ledingham, Director of Innovation Leadership, Drummond International; previously Director of Services for People, East Lothian and Director of Education, Midlothian Council
Charlotte Maberly, Chair of Slow Food Edinburgh, Lecturer in Gastronomy, Queen Margaret University
Philip Shinton, Chair of College of Teachers, Edinburgh Steiner School

Arts and Culture:

Sylvain Ayite, musician
Jo Bluett, laughter facilitator and laughter yoga leader
Paul Finegan, poet
Tom Fynn, musician
Trevor Lock, comedian

Psychotherapy:

Janet Bowers and Patricia Price, Core Process Psychotherapists (mindfulness-based)