Orbit

To provide a backdrop, here’s some of what I’ve been doing in this context

Supporting

Civil Mediation Council - member

International Mediation Institute - member

College of Mediators - member

Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation - member

London School of Mediation - member

Centre for Nonviolent Communication - member

Volunteering

The Listening Place

The Solent Restorative Partnership

Learning

Mediation Qualification: civil, commercial, workplace

Nonviolent Communication - Level 1 Training

Transformative Mediation training - Simon Mediation

Restorative Practices Training - Portsmouth Mediation Service

Experiencing

Bohm Dialogue

Krishnamurti Centre - Dialogue Enquiry

Embercombe - The Journey

The Sharpham Trust

Participating

2025 Spirit of Humanity Forum, Reykjavik

2025 Shiv Shakti Leadership Retreat, Brahma Kumaris Oxfordshire

Wider Reading/Listening

Joseph Folger and Baruch Bush - “The Promise of Mediation”; “Memoir of a Misfit Mediator”

Dan Simon and Tara West - “Self Determination in Mediation”

David Bohm - “On Dialogue”

William Isaacs - “Dialogue - the Art of Thinking Together”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Marion Woodman

Rilke

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Rumi

David Whyte

John O’Donoghue

James Hollis

Doing

The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron

Weekly NVC Listening Hour

It’s Not Your Money - Tosha Silver

Three Sundays series - David Whyte