This group began in 2010. All participants attending week long courses are eligible to participate. More details will follow on the next stage of the project, in the autumn of 2011.

To be a fool is a radical and simple surrendering to life, just as it is. One deepens trust, sensitivity, compassion, authenticity and a profound awakeness to the unfolding of creation moment by moment

Fool workshops teach how:

to be honest

to meet life playfully

that so called ‘failure’ is a doorway to compassion and original ideas

that your own body is a superb teacher

that astonishing creativity and beauty are in everyone

to find clarity and balance

to laugh very, very often

to notice new possibilities presenting themselves continually

to break free of past limitations

to experience peace

to be friends with the present moment

Teaching is created organically in the present with continuous feedback of the group using:

pure clown exercises and improvised theatre

creative writing and drawing

movement and improvised dance

yoga- based warm up exercises

vocal and breath exercises and improvisation

non-visualization forms of meditation

pair, small group discussion

stillness-awareness-presence work

self-inquiry from Zen and The Work of Byron Katie

poetry, story, film

Between workshops:

Fortnightly exercises sent by email/mail.  An extension of the workshops, some of which will be tailor made for individuals.

Fortnightly check in by phone with a partner in the group.

Private phone sessions with Angela to help fulfill personal aims within the project AND learn to use a process of self inquiry to releases old and limiting patterns of thinking.

Angela Halvorsen Bogo (nee Knowles) discovered improvised theatre 35 years ago. She trained in movement, voice, clown and storytelling. As a storyteller, she has led educational, healing and reconciliation projects in 18 countries and taught adults clown and fool for 20 years. In 2003, she found ‘The Work’ of Byron Katie’, a profound method to dissolve negative patterns of thinking. She is now a facilitator in training in this process.

She has many years experience of living in communities whose emphasese have been personal and spiritual development.

Angela writes,

‘Fool workshops release fabulous creativity, friendliness and joy because a very supportive community is quickly generated. People are safe to stretch into previously unknown landscapes of emotion and experience in their own hearts and in relation to the outer world. For the first time a group will work together over 9 months to build on the special possibilities of a workshop environment while they are back in normal life. The specific outcomes of the project are unknown, in the spirit of all previous fool workshops.  I am certain however that there will be even more creativity, spontaneity, generosity and friendship and I anticipate that the group will be supportive and  a lot of fun. It will help people to live more freely and bring more positive energy to their work, family and friends but to also be a joyful, calm presence despite these times of transition and challenge.

Dates, venues, booking details of future Community of Fools Project Workshops will be displayed on this site.

The fool’s wisdom:

It is truth that sets us free.