The Foundation Course

Introductory Cooking Series

JumpStart Seminar Series

Emotional Energy Experience

The Foundation Course

The Leadership Training Programme

JumpStart Seminar Series

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JumpStart

Integrated Bodywork Series

Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson is the executive director of the Community Health Foundation (CHF), the parent organisation of Concord Institute. In 1970, he began studying macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, the foremost educator and authority on macrobiotics. Macrobiotics, the ancient art and science of health and longevity, was reintroduced in the West with a distinct Oriental flavour by Nyoichi Sakurazawa in the 1950s and by several of his disciples, Herman Aihara and Michio Kushi, in the 1960s. In 1973, Greg encountered the transformational work of Werner Erhard, who had developed a group process intended to bring contextual awareness to our life situation.

In subsequent years, including 10 years in Japan, he sought the opportunity to integrate these two bodies of work into a single cohesive educational curriculum. Seeing these as expressions of a major reconciliation of mind and body and East and West, his search came to fruition in 1994, when he received word of the potential closing of a leading macrobiotic educational organisation in London, the Community Health Foundation, due to the loss of their director and a dire financial situation. After reviewing his proposal, the trustees of the organisation hired him as their director, opening the way for a major reinvention of the educational curriculum that has guided the organisation for the past 13 years.

i Evolve

Power, Intent and Evolution

JumpStart

HeartSpace

Tom Monte

Tom Monte has written more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles on virtually every area of health and well-being. His latest book, Unexpected Recoveries: Seven Steps to Healing Body, Mind, and Soul When Serious Illness Strikes (St. Martins Press) reports the common characteristics among people who have overcome life-threatening and even so-called "terminal" diseases. Unexpected Recoveries includes many remarkable case histories of people who recovered their health after doctors told them that such a recovery was impossible. The book provides a wealth of practical and inspirational guidance. It is a comprehensive guide to body, mind, and spiritual transformation.

For the past twenty years, Tom has lectured and provided in-depth transformational workshops throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Among the many places where Tom has lectured are Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst. In May 2005, he was the keynote speaker for the American Cancer Society's Living with Cancer Conference in Augusta, Maine.

www.tommonte.com

Healing the Heart

David Norris

Dr. David Norris began his professional life as an academic in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. After spending two years in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship to research his doctoral dissertation, which he completed in 1971, he became an Assistant Professor at City College of New York. In that same year, he participated in a 2-weekend programme called the EST Training (which later became the Landmark Forum). Three years later he resigned his professorship, shifted his life direction and began a 20-year period on the EST staff as a manager and then as an EST Trainer (later Landmark Forum Leader). During those 20 years he immersed himself in the principles and practices of individual transformation as well as learning the craft of leading courses for small and large groups of people. He led EST and Landmark programmes world-wide, including in India, Australia, most of Western Europe, the Middle East and throughout the USA and Canada. This gave him the opportunity to explore deeply the nature of human being in many different cultures and thereby to discover the differences between what is essentially human and what is primarily on the surface, that is, the cultural identity. After leaving Landmark, he changed life direction again and began working with corporations as a management and organisational consultant, exploring the dynamics of transformation in complex non-linear systems. He also began a course of study in the human emotional body. In his words: “I’ve had two major educations in my life: one was Columbia University, where my intellect was formed; the other was EST/Landmark, where my understanding of transformation was developed. And now I’m in the middle of my third education, where I’m learning to trust and be led by life.”

JumpStart

Being in Business

Idols and Addictions

Sheila Parmar

Sheila Parmar is Managing Director of Concord Institute. For the first ten years of her professional life Sheila was working as a support worker and manager in the field of community development. During that time she participated in a transformational programme called Being-in-Action which began a process of opening a whole new and very unplanned future. In 1998 four years after that experience she went on staff with the Community Health Foundation and hasn’t looked back since. The last 10years have been the most challenging and yet the most rewarding in her eyes. Sheila is married with two children.

The Foundation Course

The Leadership Training Programme

Michael Rossoff

Michael has been involved in macrobiotic and natural healing for 35 years. After studies with Michio Kushi in the ’60s and ’70s, he directed various macrobiotic centers in the Washington, D.C. area for 20 years. In addition to teaching and counseling, he published a macrobiotic magazine, MacroMuse, for 7 years in the 1980s. Further, Michael has taught in many cities in America, Canada, Europe and in Israel. He continues to travel for teaching and counseling in the U.S. (most frequently to the Washington, DC area) and Europe.

He studied acupuncture in England in the 1970s and has practiced continuously since 1978. He did further studies for the entire year of 1999. Michael was the academic dean and a core teacher at Atlantic University of Chinese Medicine outside of Asheville, North Carolina for three years. He maintains a private counseling and acupuncture practice plus teaches occasionally in other cities. Further, he teaches Shiatsu Massage regularly at the N.C. School of Natural Healing in Asheville. He remains an inspiring teacher and healer.

www.michaelrossoff.com

Basic Alchemy

Woman & Man's Health

Maria Serrano-Garzon

Maria Serrano-Garzon IMSS MRSS(T) is a registered shiatsu practitioner and teacher. She has been in the healing profession for more than twenty-five years. As a Paediatric nurse in Spain, due to a personal illness, she began practicing and studying Macrobiotics, Yoga and herbs. To further her interest in natural healing Maria came to study Shiatsu and Macrobiotics at the East/West Centre in London in 1990. Here, she met Sensei Shizuko Yamamoto and Patrick McCarty and completed the Master course in Macrobiotic Barefoot Shiatsu in California in 1993. She subsequently studied Counselling, Food Energetics and Healing, Yoga, Chi Kung and Kanpo - Japanese herbal medicine - and in 2007 completed a Kundalini Yoga teacher certificate. Maria is now a senior teacher at the British School of Shiatsu and at the Genki School of Shiatsu (Bedford).

Maria’s Shiatsu and energy exercise teaching experience is extremely broad-based, ranging from “taster” courses at adult education centres to teaching students at all levels in Shiatsu schools throughout the UK and abroad, including  Portugal and Spain. Maria also organises her own residential post-graduate Barefoot Shiatsu courses besides running introductory Shiatsu and bodywork workshops at various yoga retreats and congresses and teaching courses on Moxa & Cupping for third year/post-graduate Shiatsu students. Maria is co-founder and Shiatsu and bodywork Director of the acclaimed Four Paths - One Way experiential workshop programme which takes in a blend of Chanting, Yoga, Shiatsu, Chi Kung and Macrobiotics.

In 2008 Maria started teaching bodywork and energy exercises at Concord Institute.

Maria runs a busy Integrated Oriental Therapies clinic in St. Albans, Herts.  Firmly based on Macrobiotic Barefoot Shiatsu principles, her primary aim is to support and empower her clients to develop a wider appreciation and embrace a more holistic awareness of their own health and well-being. Her pro-active, affirmative approach to the healing process centres on using natural methods - including changes in lifestyle, healing with food, understanding and exploring emotions, etc. - underpinned by Shiatsu, Moxa & Cupping and Kanpo Japanese herbal medicine and energy exercises.

Integrated Bodywork Series

Jean Torné

Chef Jean Torné, brings 26 years training & professional experience in both classical French & international wholefood cuisine to the Concord School of Culinary Arts.

Since 1997 Jean Torné has served as Principal cooking teacher at Concord Institute for Integral Studies and director of catering for all Concord's major events. Prior to this, Jean was Head Chef at Kientalerhoff (the international holistic health teaching centre in Switzerland) for ten years, during which time he co-founded and ran the Kientalerhoff Catering Training School, training students from all over Europe. Former students of Jean's can be found working full time in the catering industry internationally.

Seasonal Cooking Intensive Course

Melanie Waxman

Melanie is considered to be one of the finest macrobiotic chefs. She has lived in America and Europe and has trained cooks and worked with clients from all over the world. Melanie has taught at the Philadelphia Restaurant School and writes for numerous websites and magazines. Her published work includes: ‘Upbeat Macrobiotic Cooking for Family and Friends’, ‘Mr Hoppity’s Color Me Cookbook for Kids’, ‘Bless the Baby’, ‘Yummy Yummy in My Tummy’, and her new book; ‘Eat Me Now!’.

Melanie helps clients to balance their health through macrobiotic counselling, cooking classes, Feng Shui and bodywork. She is the mother of 7 children.

Spring into Spring - Seasonal Cooking Intensive Course