RETREATS - PLAYSHOPS - INTENSIVES

OVERVIEW

Raphael is a wonderful guide

on this journey within

and

Holds the space

with

Tenderness, Care and Good Humor.

You are in very safe hands

- Mel, Therapist, Australia

I have been designing and leading pioneering retreats, playshops and other intensives for many years.

These are both in-person and online.

Conducted in English, they are secular and open to people all around the world interested in cultivating their

• Contemplative Mediative Practice

• Creativty

• Connection with the natural world especaily the Ocean

• Authentic True Selves based on attending to their deepest universal needs, personal core values and sacred vocation: dharma.

Currently I am offering to organizations and individuals, anywhere in the world interested in hosting the following:-

• PSYCHOCREATIVITY 6-Day Workshop Playshop exploring Creativty as a philosophical practice

• SUBLIME MEDITATION 5-Day Partially Silent Retreat exploring meaningful Being

• MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION 5-Day Intensive: an internationally recognized program in personal transformation

• PINK MEDITATION: 1 day intensive for LGBTQ+ fostering self-care and self caring

• RADICAL SELF CARING 1 day intensive for Black People and People of Color cultivating life development

They are trauma-informed and accessible to diverse communities and groups, including LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Disabled, Refugees and Activists.

I am an Enabler

This is my skill

CONTACT ME FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST IN JOINING A PLAYSHOP OR RETREAT

ARRANGE AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATION FOR BESPOKE INTENSIVES, RETREATATS AND PLAYSHOPS I CAN DESIGN AND TEACH FOR YOU

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PSYCHOCREATIVITY

6-DAY WORKSHOP PLAYSHOP

Led by Raphael Jay Adjani with Creative Associates

Every Child is Born an Artist

The Problem arises when we grow up

- Artist Pablo Picasso

PSYCHOCREATIVITY is a celebration of the SUBLIME and of the THE DELICIOUS DELIGHT OF LIVING.

Founded in Zen Meditation and Creative Practice including Sado, The Way of Tea, known in the West as The Japanese Tea Ceremony.

PSYCHOCREATIVITY integrates philospshy, art, dance, and contemporary science that empahsize “relational being” and psychotherapy based on the Biopsuchocail Model.

PSYCHOCREATIVITY is a systematic program that trains you to live your most authentic self in an impermanent, transient and imperfect world.

Once you have learned the system and methodogolgy, PSYCHOCREATIVITY can support you better being your own teacher: creatively surfing waves of life.

Taking place in the Ocean and Studio, Taking place in the Ocean and Studio, it is an exquisite blend of:

• Dance

• Visual Art

• Therapeutic Yoga

• Zen Playfulness

• Play Therapy

• Meditations spanning breath, body, nature

• Embracing Japanese Shinto harmony with the natural world

• Engaging with Contemporary Science, especially Deep Ecology that emphasize our profound inter-connection with all things

• Space of Connection, Engagement, Belonging and Play

• Synthesis of creative development, healing, and meditative training.

• Cultivating connection with spirits of land, sea and air, wherever it is located.

• Symbiosis of movement, stillness, pleasure, pain, sound, silence, wonder, awe.

• Open to anyone ready to cultivate their inherent creativity

Open to All,

Especially open to Creatives such as Artists, Dancers, Actors, Photographers, Filmmakers, Writers, Musicians and Designers

I am not interested in how the dancer moves

but what moves the body

Rediscover and Enhance your Playful Child through

Meditation, Art, Dance and Connection to the Environment

- Raphael Jay Adjani, adapting words of the pioneering choreographer Pina Bausch

The artist Pablo Picasso believed that we are inherently creative but most of us lose it in the process of growing up and adjusting to the requirements of society and the economy

PSYCHOCREATIVITY enables adults to refine their creative child, enhance existing creativity, and bring creativty to daily life experience.

Raphael has a way of immediately making people

feel at ease with the present.

Feelings and thoughts are validated in that moment.

This made it possible for

communication and engagement to flow.

The students valued

Raphael's demystification of quite complex philosophical ideas.

They were able to examine their everyday experiences and

appreciate the art of simplicity and conviviality

in a present and authentic way.

Dr Daniel Somerville Senior Lecturer, University of Worcester,

commenting on Raphael’s playshops with his Masters students

I am an Enabler

This is my skill

CONTACT ME FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST IN JOINING A PLAYSHOP OR RETREAT

ARRANGE AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATION FOR BESPOKE INTENSIVES, RETREATATS AND PLAYSHOPS I CAN DESIGN AND TEACH FOR YOU

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SUBLIME MEDITATION

5-DAY PARTIALLY SILENT RETREAT

Led by Raphael Jay Adjani in collaboration with Thai Therapeutic Massage Exponent Wilaiwan Phimkhalee

Deepest gratitudes for Raphael

and the Sublime Meditation journey

he has so gently walked along side me on.

I’m taking so many things from our five days together.

One of which is

a rediscovery of a deep love for the ocean and it’s therapeutic qualities.

A core question that reverberates in my heart has been

‘what do I most deeply need?’

- something which I realised I rarely asked myself.

But after tuning into that question over the last five days more intimately

it has become a gateway to

a greater capacity for self care, compassion and love for myself

and subsequently to extend that to others.

Beginning each day on the ocean meditation, dancing and moving,

celebrating the elements and welcoming in the day

is a practice I will take with me on my journey.

I’m feeling connected to my heart in a soft gentle and open way,

i can feel my inner child smiling with me,

I’m feeling inspired creatively and also

how I hold space and ‘teach’ others on their journey.

Most of all I feel this new capacity inside of me to

truly savour each delicious moment as it arises and passes away.

Thank you Raphael:

you’ve truly opened me up to the delicious delight that is living.

🙏🏼

- Tim Milton-Hine, Photographer

SUBLIME MEDITATION focuses primarily on:

• Buddhist Philosophy and Practice:

  • Sati which is translate in the West as Mindfulness

  • Metta which is translated in the West as Befriending or Loving-Kindness

  • Pratitiyasamudpa which can be understood as the dynamic inter-connection of all things)

• Yogic Practice and Philosophy as outlined in the great Indian text The Bhagavad Gita, which emphasis

  living true to our “sacred vocation”, our Dharma, and focused action - Karma Yoga toward this.

• MIND FLOW YOGA

• Yoga Nidra

• Yin Yoga

• Massage as Meditation and Therapy: drawing on Indian Head and Facial Massage, Thai Therapeutic Massage
  

  Raphael is a great role model and a wonderful teacher.

  In their sessions they showed me that everything I need

  is already within me and

  how important it is to live out the quality of being a child in my adult life.

  In their meditations they inspired me to connect more with nature and

  to dance & play more with life.

  I hope that their messages will reach more people.

  It was an honor to learn from them

  💙
  - Isabelle, Life Coach, Yoga Teacher and Breathwork Teacher, Germany

I am an Enabler

This is my skill

CONTACT ME FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST IN JOINING A PLAYSHOP OR RETREAT

ARRANGE AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATION FOR BESPOKE INTENSIVES, RETREATATS AND PLAYSHOPS I CAN DESIGN AND TEACH FOR YOU

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE DETAILS OF SOME OF MY INTENSIVES, RETREATS AND PLAYSHOPS

MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION

5-DAY INTENSIVE

Led by Raphael Jay Adjani

Working with and attending Raphael’s Mindfulness lectures

have been more than deep and profound.

Their material and energy bring

an enlightened perspective on our human existence.

Their knowledge and personal practice on incorporating nature specifically the sea

has been nothing less than magic!

If you have a chance to work with them

I highly recommend you take this opportunity. Love and light’

- Jessi, Breathwork Teacher, Florida, USA

This is 5 day intensive version of the 10 week online course that as a Certified Teacher, I teach for the CMSC Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (USA)

MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION 5-Day Intensive is taught either in-person or online.

MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION 5-Day Intensive is a Life Development course that is based on around 40 meditative practices, reflective exercises and other actiivty.

This scienficially evidencesd tool kit:

• Resources you to achieving goals based on your deepest universals needs and your personal core values

• Enables you to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and an inner critic

• Helps you to live the most satisfying fulfilled life

MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION 5-Day Intensive is a secular course that 3 key component of Buddhist Philosophy and practice:-

• Sati: an ancient Indian practice which can be translated as “lucid awareness of present happenings”; and commonly as Mindfulness.

• Metta: ancient Indian practice of cultivating “Friendliness” to one self and all beings. Research shows many find such self-kindness hard. Metta cultivates healing & life-long warm self-parenting.

• Common Humanity practice: evolving understanding of the inter-relationship of human beings. It moves us beyond self-criticism and self-isolation in challenging situations. Raphael expands this to awakening to Deep Ecology, and the Buddhist concept of Inter-relational Origination: the inter-relationship of all phenomena. This moves us beyond a singular ego mind toward understanding of Relational Being: “the community and equity of all beings”.

Successful Completion of the Intensive provides you with a valid Certificate of Completion that is a prerequisite of Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training

I thank you for being a great guide for me and my Mindful Self-Compassion journey.

This is the first international class I have participated in in my life,

so mixed with excitement, there were also fears.

In addition to the inherent fears

- like fear of speaking, fear of being judged -

in this class I also have an additional fear of English hahaha.

I was afraid that with my basic English,

I would not understand what the teacher and classmates are saying, and vice versa,

“Will everyone understand what I say?”

And luckily I could still understand what I needed.

And you also understood the short sentences I shared.

The experience of studying with you made me feel supported,

because you did not laugh or judge, and

you gave everyone a turn to speak fairly.

You always leave positive comments after people speak.

And especially, you always find a way.

In advance of the retreat session, I asked to be off because my child was sick,

but you still happily told me I could attend late or leave class early,

staying as long as I could.

This showed me your dedication,

and your ability to create opportunities for me.

So, during the next week,

while there were times when I felt scared and didn't dare go to the upcoming class,

but thinking more about this,

I courageously went to class.

Although I haven't mastered self-compassion much yet,

I know how to start, remind myself,

and will definitely practice more in the future.

I thank you for being a great guide for me and my class's journey

- Uyen, Mother, VietnamI am an Enabler

This is my skill

CONTACT ME FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST IN JOINING A PLAYSHOP OR RETREAT

ARRANGE AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATION FOR BESPOKE INTENSIVES, RETREATATS AND PLAYSHOPS I CAN DESIGN AND TEACH FOR YOU

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE DETAILS OF SOME OF MY INTENSIVES, RETREATS AND PLAYSHOPS

PINK MEDITATION

1-Day Online Intensive Exclusively for LGBTQ+

with Raphael Jay Adjani

Working with Raphael

has been a huge joy and personal gift of

long-lasting profound transformation.

Their personal integrity, creative approach

and unique self-expression and authenticity

is a rare combination

that has refreshed my soul,

renew confidence

in my ability to trust myself

as well as restore faith

in the potential for

humankind-ness and compassion.

Raphael helped to save my own life

and take steady steps back out into the world

- Bindie, United Kingdom

PINK MEDITATION is a transformative one-day online retreat dedicated to supporting the mental well-being and inner exploration of LGBTQ+ individuals.

With mental health challenges disproportionately impacting LGBTQ+ people - rates of mental ill health can reach 3 times the level of the general population.

This retreat offers a healing space to explore identity, self-acceptance, and meaningful connection.

A SPACE FOR HEALING AND CONNECTION

PINK MEDITATION creates an inclusive environment where participants can deeply engage with themselves and one another around the intersecting identities of sexuality, gender, and race. This mini-retreat emphasizes Mindfulness and Compassion-Focused Practice, aiming to cultivate resilience and foster a sense of belonging within a world that can often feel isolating.

WHY MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION-FOCUSED PRACTICE

Mindfulness, the practice of non-judgmental awareness of our experiences, and Compassion-Focused Practice, which nurtures self-kindness and resilience, are powerful tools for mental health. Research has shown that self-compassion can lead to greater well-being, better relationships, and improved physical health, especially for those in marginalized communities like LGBTQ+ and POC.

INTERACTIVE NON-SILENT EXPERIENCE

Unlike silent retreats, PINK MEDITATION is dynamic, offering guided practices, group discussions, and breakout spaces for focused reflection and sharing. Through mindful inquiry and compassionate reflection, participants will explore patterns, confront biases, and deepen their connection with themselves and others.

EXPLORING THE ART OF BELONGING

At its heart, PINK MEDITATION addresses the universal desire for belonging, supporting participants in navigating isolation and embracing connection. Together, we’ll honor our shared histories, celebrate diverse narratives, and deepen our practices of presence, healing, and empowerment.

WHO IS PINK MEDITATION FOR

This retreat is open to LGBTQ+ individuals with at least a basic familiarity with mindfulness practice and resonates with those seeking a greater sense of belonging, community, and purpose. It’s a sanctuary for meaningful connection, inner growth, and shared exploration.

MY QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

For many years in Psychotherapy, Meditation and wider mental health, I have supported the wellness and well-being of LGBTQ+.  In particular I utilize Mindfulness and Compassion-based approaches. I specialized in this area during my training as an integrative psychotherapist. I support people in my private practice as well as for organizations:

• Rainbow Mind, LGBTQ+ Mental Health Organization, United Kingdom

  • One-to-One Psychotherapy, including exploring gender fluidity

  • Member of Team creating Radical Self-Care an evidenced based program supporting LGBT with internalized homophobia and wider well-being

  • Facilitating Radical Self-Care program for clients

  • Co-Development and Co-Facilitation of The Gatherings a monthly group exploration of Being and themes relevant to LGBTQ

  • Co-Facilitation of monthly sessions for LGBTQ+ young people.

  • Co-Facilitation of monthly support sessions for general LGBTQ+

• New Life Foundation Wellness and Recovery Center, Thailand

  • Co-Conception and facilitation of a weekly group exploration GSRD Gender Sex and Relationship Diversity

  • One-to-One Psychotherapy for GSRD clients

• Turning Point, supporting  for victims of sexual violence, United Kingdom

  • Radical Self-Care for clients

  • Radical Self-Care training for staff

• Center For Mindful Self-Compassion, USA

  • Co-Leading annual mini-retreat for LGBTQ+

  • Leading Circles of Practice for LGBTQ+

• MNPC Mindfulness Network for People of Color, United Kingdom

  • Designing Belonging LGBTQ+ Retreat

  • Facilitating one-off sessions supporting LGBTQ+

• University of Worcester, United Kingdom

  • Workshop for LGBTQ+ staff and students

• City and Hackney Recovery College, United Kingdom

  • Workshop for LGBTQ+ students

• MiSP Mindfulness in Schools Project, United Kingdom

  • Radical Self-Care training for staff and wider populations working with LGBTQ+

  • Conference paper on Radical Self-Care for LGBTQ+

• Holina Addiction and Trauma Recovery Clinic, Thailand

  • One-to-One Psychotherapy for transgender and bi-sexual clients

• Outright International

  • Workshop for Activists support LGBTQ in Asia