“Gifts that emerge out of our darkness’ #EmergingProud day celebrations reverberated the world over on Sunday thanks to YOU, the fabulous #EP community! On our online event, we had folks join us virtually from far and wide including Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, the UK, the US, Australia, and South America!

Click HERE to sign up and watch the recording of our global live event – we’re almost at capacity, so if you miss out don’t worry, the video will be available on this website very soon too! Those of you who were with us on our live call – keep your eye out for an email winging its way to you …

Some countries also hosted live in-person celebration events. Here’s what happened in;

BRAZIL

Thank you to Organisers Ligia Splendore and Sean Blackwell and team for gathering a huge crowd in the biggest Psychiatric hospital in Sao Paolo! ❤

Here are the recordings from 2 of their talks;

CLICK HERE to find out more from their dedicated website!

HUNGARY

In Budapest, the main topic of the event was “Crisis as an opportunity to change”

Big thanks to the performers, all helpers, and organizing team! ❤️

If it’s worth doing, time, energy, then this is the topic!

ITALY

#EmergingProud #crisipsicospirituali #emergenzespirituali#spiritualemergency #emergingproud #psicologiatranspersonale#psicoterapiatranspersonale #biotransenergetica #psicosintesi#InternationalEmergingProud #EmergingProudItaly

Grazie! to team Italy; Elena Toscan psychologist and psychotherapist transpersonal;
Anita Godi Psychologist and psychotherapist, psychosynthesis imaginative and hypnosis;
Loretta Illuminati Psychologist and psychotherapist transpersonal.

They say;

Thanks to all the magnificent audience who compared with us openly and actively with questions and reflections. Thanks to the super Valeria Galletti, a psychotherapist exponent of the psychosynthesis and the approach approach, who hosted us in the headquarters of the association “il calicanto” and also seat of the centre om

What an incredible #Emerging Tribe we have evolved … Cheers to us all! ❤

So, all that leaves is the question; What shall we do next year? 🙂

A HUGE thank you to those of you who were online with us for our launch event yesterday – we had a blast and raised some funds for free books to be distributed – we’ll update you on that as we confirm the amount soon…

You may remember that unfortunately we didn’t get time to hear Nessi’s amazing song All Related … here’s a snippet from that song from her album “Diamonds and Demons”

You may recall I mentioned that she has a unique opportunity for you…

“Nessi Gomes is not going to transform you into a pop star.

In fact, instead of telling people how to sing she helps them to tap into the essence of self through voice, allowing participants to let go of stuff that is buried in their basement – trauma, pain or anger they never managed to release elsewhere”

Sunday Times

Nessi says;

I am hosting my only Vocal Odyssey residential retreat alongside my husband in 2019 on the beautiful island of Amorgos in Greece from the 14th – 21st September. We normally facilitate many more workshops, retreats and concerts but my husband and I are expecting our first baby in a matter of days so I am now taking the time these months to prepare for her arrival and to adjust to the new life of motherhood.

The Vocal Odyssey process embarked on with a focused intention and sincere longing for liberation, is a wonderful opportunity to have a significant and lasting breakthrough shift in your creative and intuitive expression.

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE 

About Nessi;

Born on the tiny island of Guernsey (Channel Islands, UK), singing and music became Nessi’s way of dealing with challenging life circumstances. From a young age, she discovered for herself the ability to transform painful limiting beliefs and unspoken emotions by exploring sound and providing sufficient room for her voice to be heard. Today Nessi continues to root herself more in the therapeutic value of vocal expression with her music and voice retreats that she has shared internationally in the last 4 years in over 30 countries.

Nessi’s work has been carefully crafted and is an invitation to dive deeply yet playfully into a journey of self-discovery and self-inquiry, where the mystery and healing forces of our most intimate musical instrument unfold – our voice.

The content of her work aims to pierce through the voices in our head and to open a door safely for a new relationship between us and the transformative quality of our vocal expression. 

Nessi believes that the voice is our bridge to something bigger than ourselves, it is our connection to the prayer we carry. Therefore the workshops and retreats are not a traditional singing group as her work aims to look at how we can use our voice not only as a form of creative expression but also as a tool for improvisation, prayer, healing, self-enquiry, positive transformation and spiritual evolution. 

Through her work we collectively discover how singing is not only about ‘singing’ – it is in fact about ‘listening’ and expressing all that is inside of us moment to moment. It may not always sound ‘beautiful’ and that is warmly invited and embraced, for the voice is a bridge to our soul –  yet our soul may be invisible it is not inaudible.  

Often the intentions shared amongst participants are initially focussed on what one can do for their voice. This is understandable, however, together we quickly recognise through the essence of this work what our voice can actually do for us as we all hold the power to this unique and powerful medicine. 

Nessi Gomes is an international musician, and group facilitator with a BA (Hons) in Creative Expressive Therapies in Music (2007), and a certified Holistic Voice Practitioner with The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST). She is also the co-founder of Vocal Odyssey alongside her husband Lino Hermesh.

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE 

What does Phil Borges, Producer of the CRAZYWISE film have to say about our KindaProud book series? 

CLICK HERE TO BUY OUR 1st BOOK #EmergingProud through NOTEs 

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR FREE ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT  – in 3 days!

Did you know it’s our 3rd International #EmergingProud day on Sunday 12th May?!

We’ll be launching our first pocket book of HOPE in the KindaProud series;

Pre-order your copy HERE! 

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO BUY BOOKS TO DISTRIBUTE MESSAGES OF HOPE TO MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES ACROSS THE UK AND WORLDWIDE

Sign up to join our launch event HERE

What are people saying about this book?

Hungarian Artists Eva Gal and Clara Teleki have produced this stunning digital art display in advance of the Budapest event for #EmergingProud day 2019; köszönöm Clara and all of the team doing an incredible job to spread the #EmergingProud message of hope in Hungary…

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE HUNGARIAN EVENT 

A week today we will gather around the globe again to spread the love to those who may be struggling alone ❤

 Sunday 12th May 2 – 4pm UK

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE ONLINE EVENT FROM ANY GLOBAL LOCATION

You may remember Sue who shared her ‘Blooming Warrior’ journey with us for our #Emerging Proud through Trauma and Abuse KindaProud book?

Read it again here;

Sue bravely shares her ‘blooming’ inspirational journey through trauma and abuse to spreading seeds of Warrior hope to others.

A few weeks ago Sue shared an incredibly powerful poem that came to her in the middle of the night. It cut straight to my heart and speaks to everything that is wrong with how people are often treated in the current mental health system. I don’t think anyone could read Sue’s words and not be moved; (*trigger warning*)

Look into my Eyes

When you’re done with noting down the colour of my skin, the style of my hair, my gender, the clothes I’m wearing, the way I sit,

When you’re done with judging the way I express myself, the way I behave,

When you’re done with calculating the risk I pose to you,

When you’re done with depriving me of my freedom,

When you’re done with stripping away my dignity, my humanity, my self-agency,

When you’re done with labelling me and placing me in one of your cluster groups,

When you’re done with plotting out your pathway for me,

When you’re done with subtly insisting on my compliance to your world,

When you’re done with inflicting upon me your evidence-based practices and lecturing me about your NICE guidelines,

When you’re done with questioning the very core of me,

When you’re done with blaming me and shaming me,

When you’re done with crushing my hopes and my dreams,

When you’re done with raping my soul and breaking my spirit,

When you’re done with killing me softly.

When you’re done with all this,

I would ask you,

To show me your humility, your willingness to learn,

To put down your textbooks, your manuals and your formularies,

To set aside your prescription pads,

To peel off the electrodes you’ve placed on my forehead,

To remove your clouded spectacles,

And to step down from your thrones of power,

And when you are ready,

I invite you to be with me in my world,

To walk alongside me as I stumble along my fragile pathway,

To share with me your vulnerability as I have shared with you mine,

To sit with me and bear witness to my hopelessness, my alienation, my pain, my sense of betrayal, my grief and my humiliation,

To look into my eyes,

Where you will see the child within me who holds the agony, the scars, the terror, the silent screams,

And when you have sat for a while with all that you have witnessed,

And are able and willing to hold this space and explore with me my story,

Then my self-loathing, my despair, my loneliness, my shame, my fear begins to fade and wither,

My spirit begins to awaken, and my soul begins to heal.

Only then might you begin to understand who I am.

Andy Farr depicted Sue’s poem in this beautiful painting named ‘Little Sue’ – the details of the whole collection is called ‘The Twisted Rose and other Lives’ – and explores the emotions and experience of post traumatic stress and recovery. You can see the background info on Andy’s website here: https://www.andyfarr.com/twistedrose.

Why are we KindaProud about what is evolving? 

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