13 to 15 April 2012 Festival Weekend: A Journey In Sound

The Australian Sound Institute is a recently-formed collaboration of musicians promoting deep inner work through music. I attended their workshop, "Singing The Soul Back Home" earlier this year and I was inspired to invite them to offer a workshop at this festival. Two members of the group, Kerrie and Purdie will present at our Imagery Festival. When I first enquired of Kerrie Ferguson about their work, she wrote:

Australian Sound InstituteThe Australian Sound Institute has been formed nine months ago by Chad Beckett, Purdie Wood, Cindy Wessling and myself. Here is a brief bio of the four of us: Chad and Cindy completed a two year Sound Healing training in Melbourne in 2009. Chad is also an experienced group facilitator running mens groups and acting workshops. Purdie has gained her experience in South America where she has trained in indigenous healing using intuitive sound medicine. She ahs also recently returned form the U.S.A. where she trained in soul retrieval with Sandra Ingerman. I have previously run Singing The Soul Back Home workshops in Sydney for three years before moving up here. I received my training and inspiration from attending the inaugural International Sound Healing Conference in Santa Fe in 2007 working with such sound healing pioneers as Jill Purce, Jonathan Goldman and Don Campbell.
What the four of us bring to our workshops, along with our training, is our passionate knowing and experience of sound as a profound medium for healing. (Kerrie Ferguson)

I have long been interested in the idea of inner work through music. Attending this workshop was the first time I had an opportunity to work in this way. This work will definitely appeal to anyone at the Highly Sensitive Person end of the human spectrum.

Feedback from an earlier workshop included this comment (coincidently by a fellow Deep Imagery enthusiast!):

"I loved Singing the Soul Back Home. The workshop was beautifully crafted and presented with real respect for the participants - it was an honour to be there. Using the voice in such an intuitive way was for me a very intimate and powerful experience. I felt that it went straight into my body - bypassing thought and I sensed healing at a deep level .......  There was a deep sense of connection to self and my experience was profound powerful and delightful!   Thank You" 

2012 Festival Weekend After Easter

This year's Imagery Festival will be held at the usual venue from Friday evening 13th to Sunday lunchtime 15th April.

As well as some familiar workshops, we welcome back Debra Bennett to present a workshop on aboriginal spirituality. Debra now works as Director of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Programs at Relationships Australia. Formerly, she worked as Manager, QCAN's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program at Queensland Community Arts Network (QCAN). Much of her aboriginal spiritual learning came through her grandmother. In the past, Debra has presented engaging workshops here at the Imagery Festival and at the C. G. Jung Society in Brisbane which were enthusiastically.

28 October 2011 Bonus Mini Festival

Trevor's Outdoor YogaPeople enjoyed our festival earlier in the year so much that we got a request for another one this year. So we will be back in Numinbah Valley enjoying balmier evenings this time.

In October, we intend to vary the format a little so that attenders who wish can present a workshop on their own topic, providing it is still within the broad guidelines for our festivals. so, if you have an idea for a workshop, let us hear about it. Workshops can be as short as one hour or up to two hours.

The booking form is available here.

October 2011 Booking Form

2011 Festival of Imagery at Numinbah Valley

Yes, this year's festival is once again at our favourite venue: Camp Bornhoffen (Camp Two). We start on Friday 13 May and go to 1pm on Sunday, 15 May.

On the Friday, please arrive for registration from 5pm onwards. If anyone can come at 4pm to help with setting up, that would be appreciated.

We look forward to another great range of workshops with a common theme of imagery. The festivals are based on Deep Imagery, a healing and therapeutic process discovered by american psychologist, E. S. Gallegos. The process, discovered in the early eighties, facilitates access to healing and wise energies within each individual for personal growth and development.

The process occurs through imagery, specifically by inviting animals to come into our awareness with whom we then dialogue. We allow these animals or other images to become our inner guides taking us safely on a journey of discovery or development within ourselves. The dialogue is facilitated by a trained guide either in groups as in this festival  or in individual journeys.

Deep Imagery is a genre of personal growth mediated through imagery (obviously), the body, feelings, spirituality and energy. Consequently, we invite other facilitators using related growth work processes to join us in our festivals.

This year we are happy to welcome back Yildiz and Satish who work with Family Constellations.

New workshops this year include Djangawu who will facilitate a workshop on aboriginal spirituality through imagery.

We hope to have a workshop on Soul Collage but I am waiting for confirmation on that. Details of all workshops soon on this website.

I hope many of you will be able to attend. As usual, we expect to have a relaxed, friendly and growthful weekend not to mention healthy and tasty food by Jamie Baird and volunteers.

2010 Australian Festival of Imagery

This year's festival is on the weekend of 9-11 April 2010. That is the weekend following Easter Weekend. We hope to see many old and many new faces there.

The workshop list is not yet finalised. More details here soon.

It will be the usual range of experiential workshops with the common theme of imagery as a process: art workshop, deep imagery, dreams, aboriginal spirituality.

James Baird is back providing us with tasty, healthy and nourishing food.

A pdf version of the booking form can be downloaded from this website.