Beauty in one's surroundings from micro....to macro

Pure Adventure Weekend

Plans are coming together for the Spirit of Adventure Foundation's Pure Adventure weekend. This will be held in and around Brantwood in Coniston, Cumbria, UK the weekend 9th -10th March 2013. From Brantwood on the shores of lake Coniston there are fine views towards the Lakeland Fells

The view from Brantwood House

Brantwood is the former home of John Ruskin. Ruskin (1819 - 1900) was a Victorian writer, thinker, artist, art critic, socialist and philanthropist.

Ruskin as a young man

The venue is well chosen because Ruskin and The Spirit of Adventure Foundation share common ground in terms of their beliefs about wilderness and wild places.

'Every increased possession loads us with new weariness'

Booking essential - Places are limited and will be on a first come first serve basis

Click here for Booking Form

PRICES:
Saturday 9th March - £20 pp incl. simple evening meal
Sunday 10th March - £20 adults. £10 child (16yr and under). Family (Up to 2 Adult & 3 Child) = £50

Saturday 9th March:
10.30am            Introduction - Connecting with Nature - Outdoor practical
                          (activity optional)
PROGRAMME
1.30pm             Registration. Tea and coffee
2.00pm             Introduction to Brantwood - Howard Hull Director of Brantwood Trust
2.10pm            The Spirit of Adventure Foundation & Concept of Pure Adventure - Colin Mortlock
2.40pm            Pure Adventure - taking theory into practice - Richard Little / Andy Ligema
3.10pm            Tea and coffee break
3.25pm            Examples of Pure Adventure
3.35pm            Workshops -
                        e.g.      Technology in wild Nature - friend or menace?
                                    The Search for Truth -‘Truth is a Pathless Land’ (Krishnamurti)
                                    Family Expeditions - ideas and inspiration
                                    Environmental Awareness
                                    The Journey Inwards
                                    Virtues, Vices and Wisdoms
4.20pm            Report back from workshops
5.00pm            Tea and coffee break
5.15pm            Solo Experiences and self reliant journeys for young people - Colin Mortlock
6.00pm            AGM - The Spirit of Adventure Foundation
6.30pm            Dinner
8pm                 Steve Scott - Kendal Mountain Festival Director's selection of best films

Sunday:
10am               Meet
10.30               Pure Adventure Courses - practical experience in the outdoors
                        in partnership with Impact International and Real Adventure
4pm                 Final Remarks ‘Uniting the Fragments.’      
4.30pm            End

Happy New Year

Do you have any intentions for 2013?  W. H. Murray, the Scottish mountaineer and writer, once said  'Find beauty; be still.' This is a wonderful piece of advice and intention to hold at the start of a new year .

From my walking in the mountains I know that there is beauty to be found there. There is obvious beauty in the overview - the grand panorama from a summit or a distant view of a chain of mountains. Less obvious is the beauty to be found in the detail -  a mountain flower, an animal print in the snow.

Beauty in the detail....

As Colin Mortlock, the adventurer, outdoor education pioneer and writer says in 'The Spirit of Adventure', beauty can be found all around us and within us. We only have to look closer......

'Beauty in one's surroundings - from micro to macro,
Beauty in terms of human contact and relationships,
Beauty in terms of one's thoughts and actions.'

Good luck in your search for beauty during 2013.