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Francoise has lived in North London for 16 years and has worked in the City for most of that time. She encountered the work of the Community Health Foundation in 1998 and participated in the transformational programmes available, enriching her life in ways she had not known were possible. She has trained with various wholefood cooking teachers over the years and this has enabled her to develop her own cooking style, including her French heritage, and foods and styles from various cultures. She finds cooking at Concord Institute a special opportunity to prepare food with and for others, which generates deep joys and challenges that nourish her so much more than just the ingredients in the food. In her experience the various aspects of Concord’s work merge into each other - being in the kitchen includes: self-expression, bodywork and cooking. Her commitment to practice cooking as a discipline would not be possible without all the training that has been available to her at Concord. In the last few years, she has found herself occasionally teaching on the JumpStart Seminar Series and The Foundation Course. Her main focus is to inspire people to cook simple wholesome foods that they can share wholeheartedly with their family and friends. |
The Foundation Course Introductory Cooking Series JumpStart Seminar Series |
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Amanda first realized she wanted to be yoga teacher in August 2001 whilst participating on JumpStart, one of Concord’s most powerful transformational programmes. |
JumpStart Integrated Bodywork Series |
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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 The Meaning of Money |
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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 On Leadership |
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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 |
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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. |
Basic Alchemy Woman & Man's Health |
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Chef Jean Torné has been involved in Classical and Natural Food cooking for 35 years. He directed two Natural Food restaurants in Paris, France (1979) and Antwerp, Belgium (1981). He founded his first natural food cooking school in 1990 at the 'Centre for Well Being and Creativity' In Kiental, Switzerland, and was Head Chef from 1986 to 1996. In 2003 he opened a new cooking school as a branch of the Concord Institute of Integral Studies in London, which he directed until 2008. Jean Torné has taught and catered in many cities in France, Belgium, Austria, England and Switzerland. He has had the opportunity to cook in several prestigious restaurants in Paris and Lyon. He continues to travel throughout Europe to cook and teach. |
Seasonal Cooking Intensive Course |
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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. |
Seasonal Cooking Intensive Course |
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