Have you All Your Adult Teeth or were you Chased by a Hippo?
Not the obvious chat up line but it would have been perfectly acceptable at the School of Awareness (SofA) Launch Party which was held in central London on 20 April 2010. It attracted a good crowd, some new, some familiar faces and everyone was soon mixing enthusiastically partly in thanks to the icebreaker which challenged you to identify people in the room who had 'achieved' one of 15 unusual things. Could you honestly sign for 'juggling 3 balls for 10 seconds'?SofA has been founded by former bank manager Ankur to support and expand individual and collective Self-Awareness, Consciousness and search for Truth by delivering high quality Empowering, Experiential and Transformational workshops, active meditations and events that are affordable and open to all.
This is badly needed at this time, especially in London where there is a tendancy to get dragged into leading a very superficial life and not making time for our deeper self.
To ensure these events are open to as many people as possible, all chargeable events are ‘Income Based’ so participants choose what they pay based on what they can afford. For example, the upcoming workshop 'Inner Personal Power' on Sunday 23 May ranges from £25 for students and those on benefits, and then in £10 increments all the way up to £95 for the highest earners. Other events are free, such as the innovative ‘Social, Picnic and Meditation in the Forest’ events held deep in London's Epping Forest during the summer months where as well as connecting with each other, we connect with the forest and so with ourselves. Most Londoners don't even know that there are over 6,000 acres of real forest on their doorstep, let alone that it is all accessible by Tube! The next event in the forest is on Sunday 13 June. See www.SchoolofAwareness.co.uk for details of this and other events.
So just how do you spot someone who has been 'chased by a hippo' across a crowded bar? And should you check if they have all their adult teeth before you ask? As each participant could only sign for one 'achievement' and it transpired that only one person in the room had ever been chased by a hippo, but several claimed to have all their adult teeth (and keeping them in a box didn't count!), what you asked someone to sign for was important. The winning strategy required you to be more successful than the hippo and corner the lone escapee for her signature before moving on to check other people's teeth!
By the end of the evening it emerged that the quietest person in the room had jumped out of a plane, it was the Swedish girl who 'had a Snowmobile License', whilst the whitest person in the room was 'from Brazil'! Participants who had 'swum with sharks' or could 'hold a conversation in 3 languages' were also discovered. And what about the guy who said he could 'juggle 3 balls for 10 seconds'? Yes he could and he proved it.
And congratulations to the two winners Vishal and Ossie who each win a SofA workshop of their choice. All in all it was a great start to a new chapter on the SofA.
To ensure these events are open to as many people as possible, all chargeable events are ‘Income Based’ so participants choose what they pay based on what they can afford. For example, the upcoming workshop 'Inner Personal Power' on Sunday 23 May ranges from £25 for students and those on benefits, and then in £10 increments all the way up to £95 for the highest earners. Other events are free, such as the innovative ‘Social, Picnic and Meditation in the Forest’ events held deep in London's Epping Forest during the summer months where as well as connecting with each other, we connect with the forest and so with ourselves. Most Londoners don't even know that there are over 6,000 acres of real forest on their doorstep, let alone that it is all accessible by Tube! The next event in the forest is on Sunday 13 June. See www.SchoolofAwareness.co.uk
So just how do you spot someone who has been 'chased by a hippo' across a crowded bar? And should you check if they have all their adult teeth before you ask? As each participant could only sign for one 'achievement' and it transpired that only one person in the room had ever been chased by a hippo, but several claimed to have all their adult teeth (and keeping them in a box didn't count!), what you asked someone to sign for was important. The winning strategy required you to be more successful than the hippo and corner the lone escapee for her signature before moving on to check other people's teeth!
By the end of the evening it emerged that the quietest person in the room had jumped out of a plane, it was the Swedish girl who 'had a Snowmobile License', whilst the whitest person in the room was 'from Brazil'! Participants who had 'swum with sharks' or could 'hold a conversation in 3 languages' were also discovered. And what about the guy who said he could 'juggle 3 balls for 10 seconds'? Yes he could and he proved it.
And congratulations to the two winners Vishal and Ossie who each win a SofA workshop of their choice. All in all it was a great start to a new chapter on the SofA.
