What We Do
Agapé Workplace Initiative: Rehumanizing the workplace in the UK since 1978 through:Habits of the Heart and other courses
Habits of the Heart
What is it?: A course designed to help you embrace new skills and rediscover a sense of balance, purpose and spiritual energy in your busy working life. Participants develop a series of effective habits over the duration of the course.
How long is it?: The course kicks off with a 30-minute personal inventory and then comprises of five 90 minute group sessions on alternate months, six hours of personal coaching sessions and imaginative individual assignments.
Who is the course for? The course is for individuals or as part of company training and may include the 'Relationships' course, which is also a stand alone course offered by AWI.
What impact does the course really have? Over the years we've run the course, we've collected personal stories as well as some data. 80% felt the course helped them draw more energy from culture and nature, 78% said it helped them build more effective relationships, 97% felt it had helped them grow in self-awareness, 66% said they had become clearer on their life purpose and 69% said they had developed new life skills.
Who leads it? Habits of the Heart is led by a team of facilitators from AWI with decades of experience in spiritual and relational coaching.
When does it start? There is currently a course being run in Birmingham, but we’re open to starting new courses in Birmingham and London.
For prices and more information please contact phil@awi.org.uk
The Relationships Course
Relationships are crucial to business, and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is often used to cultivate them. However EQ is often used to manipulate others rather than benefit them, creating tension, dysfunctional teams and genuine hurt.
What is it?: This course is designed to significantly improve the quality of workplace relationships and to increase effectiveness and energy at work. The Relationships Course goes beyond most courses by setting communication skills in a moral framework, which is others-centred. Participants learn that forgiveness, far from being the soft option, often requires real courage and reaps life-changing rewards.
How long is it?: The course comprises of eight 1 hour sessions, Whether these take place in quick succession or not is up to the participants.
Who is the course for? The course is best suited as part of company training, but is also available outside of this context.
Who leads it? The Relationships course is led by a team of experienced AWI usually in consultation with the Human Resources Dept. of companies and organizations.
When does it start? This course has been run primarily in and around London, but we’re open to starting new courses in Birmingham and London.
For prices and more information please contact jon@awi.org.uk
Yoga
Kathy Horne of AWI London is a fully qualified Yoga instructor and leads a weekly class in central London.
Vinyasa yoga challenges an individual’s endurance, balance, flexibility and cardio-vascular strength. It links postures with conscious movement, breath and concentration.
In some parts of society, developing mind, body and spirit has meant developing each in a different context – the body in fitness clubs, the mind in educational institutions, and the spirit in church. But Kathy discovered that yoga cultivates awareness of mind, body and spirit. Yoga disciplines the physical body, stills the mind, and can sit spiritually within the life of the trinitarian God. So we’re able to acknowledge the source of our becoming “other-centred” – a quality that can transform people’s lives.
Kathy was introduced to yoga in 1998, but took yoga more seriously in 2005 to pursue a more purposeful and intentional lifestyle. She is a registered Yoga Alliance teacher and received her certification in London. Her background consists of hatha, ashtanga, and sivananda yoga, combining them into a dynamic, technically-based flow. She practiced under both Gerry Kielty and Amy Caldwell.
http://www.pavitrayoga.org.uk/home/page.html
What is it?: A course designed to help you embrace new skills and rediscover a sense of balance, purpose and spiritual energy in your busy working life. Participants develop a series of effective habits over the duration of the course.
How long is it?: The course kicks off with a 30-minute personal inventory and then comprises of five 90 minute group sessions on alternate months, six hours of personal coaching sessions and imaginative individual assignments.
Who is the course for? The course is for individuals or as part of company training and may include the 'Relationships' course, which is also a stand alone course offered by AWI.
What impact does the course really have? Over the years we've run the course, we've collected personal stories as well as some data. 80% felt the course helped them draw more energy from culture and nature, 78% said it helped them build more effective relationships, 97% felt it had helped them grow in self-awareness, 66% said they had become clearer on their life purpose and 69% said they had developed new life skills.
Who leads it? Habits of the Heart is led by a team of facilitators from AWI with decades of experience in spiritual and relational coaching.
When does it start? There is currently a course being run in Birmingham, but we’re open to starting new courses in Birmingham and London.
For prices and more information please contact phil@awi.org.uk
The Relationships Course
Relationships are crucial to business, and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is often used to cultivate them. However EQ is often used to manipulate others rather than benefit them, creating tension, dysfunctional teams and genuine hurt.
What is it?: This course is designed to significantly improve the quality of workplace relationships and to increase effectiveness and energy at work. The Relationships Course goes beyond most courses by setting communication skills in a moral framework, which is others-centred. Participants learn that forgiveness, far from being the soft option, often requires real courage and reaps life-changing rewards.
How long is it?: The course comprises of eight 1 hour sessions, Whether these take place in quick succession or not is up to the participants.
Who is the course for? The course is best suited as part of company training, but is also available outside of this context.
Who leads it? The Relationships course is led by a team of experienced AWI usually in consultation with the Human Resources Dept. of companies and organizations.
When does it start? This course has been run primarily in and around London, but we’re open to starting new courses in Birmingham and London.
For prices and more information please contact jon@awi.org.uk
Yoga
Kathy Horne of AWI London is a fully qualified Yoga instructor and leads a weekly class in central London.
Vinyasa yoga challenges an individual’s endurance, balance, flexibility and cardio-vascular strength. It links postures with conscious movement, breath and concentration.
In some parts of society, developing mind, body and spirit has meant developing each in a different context – the body in fitness clubs, the mind in educational institutions, and the spirit in church. But Kathy discovered that yoga cultivates awareness of mind, body and spirit. Yoga disciplines the physical body, stills the mind, and can sit spiritually within the life of the trinitarian God. So we’re able to acknowledge the source of our becoming “other-centred” – a quality that can transform people’s lives.
Kathy was introduced to yoga in 1998, but took yoga more seriously in 2005 to pursue a more purposeful and intentional lifestyle. She is a registered Yoga Alliance teacher and received her certification in London. Her background consists of hatha, ashtanga, and sivananda yoga, combining them into a dynamic, technically-based flow. She practiced under both Gerry Kielty and Amy Caldwell.
http://www.pavitrayoga.org.uk/home/page.html
Momentum Events
AWI events in the past have focused on helping people link their work life and their spirituality, raising money for disaster relief in Burma, celebrating womanhood and giving people confidence to share their stories at work.
Our most recent event was aimed at encouraging people of faith to invest in life-changing enterprises both in the UK or overseas, which compliment or help fuel existing work commitments. http://www.kingdomcommercecalling.org
Check our events page for info on upcoming gatherings.
Our most recent event was aimed at encouraging people of faith to invest in life-changing enterprises both in the UK or overseas, which compliment or help fuel existing work commitments. http://www.kingdomcommercecalling.org
Check our events page for info on upcoming gatherings.
Rehumanizing Action
AWI are dedicated to opposing dehumanizing forces we see in the workplace and throughout the city. The three main areas of action we are involved in are rather diverse:
- offering help & counsel to people caught in the sex industry
- subversive creative performances in public spaces http://abhjournal.wordpress.com
- devising and distributing material for business people to identify underlying negative power structures in their workplace and begin to address them
By helping create an awareness of the forces, which control people’s lives we want to see people join in the battle against those forces with a spirit of hope, forgiveness and courage.
Emergency Aid Partnership
We have developed strong ties with international aid agency GAIN http://www.gain-germany.org/gain/content/startseite.php and after spearheading a Birmingham-to-Burma relief campaign are working to grow our activities in this area.