Thomas Moore: Connect on the road

Winter is hitting early and hard in New Hampshire this year. It's beautiful but challenging. I'm thinking about traveling to let people know that my new book is out, A RELIGION OF ONE'S OWN. It's one thing to write a book but another to find ways to let people know it exists. The publicists at Gotham/Penguin are working long days, and I enjoy working with them as we plan travel and events and online courses and interviews and radio and television appearances. I do hope to see you, my regular readers and friends, at these occasions. The writer's life is solitary but comes alive at this stage of a book's life. As you know, bookstores have been disappearing and the Internet has affected publishing and reading profoundly. A writer has to adapt. My neighbor and friend Katrina Kenison will be joining me at some events in New England as we help each other get the word out about our writing, which is different in style but similar in content. Please look at the schedule that follows and keep in touch on Facebook and the careofthesoul.net website, consult Deborah Jessop on barque.blogspot.com and don't hesitate to email me (thomasmoore4@mac.com) about the possibility of seeing each other. I feel strongly about this new book. I think it's an important expression for our particular time and could be useful to many people as they try to find a deeper and more satisfying way of life in a world so full of conflict, polarization and mechanistic thinking. I'm going to be working on ways to create a movement, a community of people who want more out of life for themselves and their children.   A Religion of One's Own Book Tour Jan. 13 @ A Great Good Place for Books, Montclair Presbytarian Church, 5701 Thornhill, Dr, Oakland, CA 94611, 7 PM Jan. 14 @ The Sophia Center, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA, 3 PM Jan. 14 @ Community Church of Sebastopol, 1000 Gravenstein Highway N., Sebastopol, CA 95472, 7 PM Jan. 15 @ Kepler's, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025, 7:30 PM Jan. 16 @ Copperfield's Books, 850 4th Street (at Cijos St), San Rafael, CA 94901, 7 PM Jan. 17 @ Lincoln Theater, 100 California Drive, Yountville, CA 94599, 7 PM Jan. 21 @ Bookworks, Center for Spiritual Living, 2801 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, 7 PM Jan. 22 @ Changing Hands, 6428 McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ 85283, 7 PM Jan. 28 @ Water Street Bookstore, Exeter, NH, 7PM Feb. 1 @ Toadstool Bookstore, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough, NH 03458, 11AM *Please check www.careofthesoul.net for an updated tour schedule. Or Join Me in New York or Ireland March 31, 2014 @ Garrison Institute, Rt. 9D at Glenclyffe, Garrison, NY 10524 "The Orange Box: A Conversation with Thomas Moore" I will host a retreat for artists and explorers, therapists and ministers, interior designers and urban developers and producers of festivals and conferences. From One to Many: The Healing Power of Being in Good Company is a soul salon celebrating the holy fool and the importance of neighborhoods, festivals, carnivals, conferences and gatherings around fireplaces and long kitchen tables. Topics of conversation will include: examples from antiquity of the healing power and benefits to the imagination of being in community, the art of designing soulful space, the integrity of listening, how to organize gatherings that inspire creativity that matters and ways conversation deepen pleasure in life. The retreat will include periods of time for contemplation, walks in nature, music, poetry, performances and case studies of festivals and conferences that have inspired transformation. Anyone who facilitates retreats, workshops, family gatherings, ministry councils, board meetings, camps, classes, performance art pieces, laboratories and community centers will benefit from this retreat. A special emphasis will be placed on the art of creating sacred space. We will discuss wabi-sabi (the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature). A certificate signed by Thomas Moore will be awarded to people participating in this pilot program. The Early Bird program fee is $217.00 if registers by midnight of New Year's Eve - 2013. The program fee increases to $297.00 beginning January 1, 2014. May 19, 2014 @ New England Educational Institute, Galway Ireland Psychotherapy, Spirituality and the Soul  In this symposium, Thomas Moore will offer a way to practice soul-based psychotherapy, an approach that has ancient roots and has been developed by C. G. Jung, James Hillman and Thomas Moore. It is primarily for psychotherapists of all kinds, but since psycho-therapy here means caring for the soul in distress, which can include physical and social symptoms, the course is also designed for anyone looking for meaning and a release from suffering. In this symposium, Thomas Moore will discuss ancient's myths related to therapy: Artemis, Daphne, Chiron, Acteon, Hermes, Aphrodite, Asklepios. A presentation on Jung will focus on his own methods of self-therapy, including play, active imagination, personification and artistic expression. Participants will learn James Hillman's work on images, his ideas on therapy, anima mundi (soul in the world), the polytheistic psyche, and the role of beauty. Participants will also learn how to use dreams and the arts in therapy and how to employ deep intuition and other traditional, mysterious ways of knowing. This is a spiritual, intuitive, artistic and truly depth approach to therapy that requires personal work on the part of the therapist. Therefore, the accent will be on becoming a person of soul and spirit while helping others deal with their own mysteries, challenges and initiations. Please click on the title to learn more or to register. $140 Register here www.careofthesoul.net