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WELCOME
TO
AMRITA'S 'YOUTH DREAMING'
Wh o
is Amrita Hobbs
AMRITA HOBBS B.Ed(Hons)
AMRITA moved to Australia
in 1978 after qualifying as a high school teacher in England. Amrita
founded Harmony Holiday residential camps for teenagers in 1986
and currently offers ten day Rites of Passage camps. She has facilitated
groups for over twenty years.
In 1991 she self published
IT COULD BE DIFFERENT - A self help book for teenagers, and SISTERWEB
STORIES in1998.
For the last six years
her main focus has been on programmes for women and girls. She offers
Girls Growing Up! which prepares girls their changes at puberty,
and Growing up Great! these one dayworkshops are for mothers and
daughters. Reclaiming First Rites is to assist women reclaim lost
puberty Rites. Wise Woman Healing is an intensive training programe
which includes a one month spiritual retreat. Amrita works with
father of daughters and also with men and boys.
Her work has been
well received in four different countries.
Thankyou
John!
I'd like to thank
John. After attending a couple of RITES OF PASSAGE camps, he offered
todesign this site. This I am grateful for.
Hi,
IÕm John, I want to
introduce you to AMRITA HOBBS. She founded Harmony Holidays in 1986
and has worked with hundreds, maybe thousands of young people before
and since then.
I have designed this
site to tell you about what this special, amazing, out of this world
woman does and to raise community awareness as well as to gather
financial support for her much needed work.
Amrita works with
young people to make their lives easier. She encourages them to
talk and open up, and to come into themselves.
I have worked with
Amrita on several occasions. She is an amazing person, she always
helps me when I am feeling down and encourages me to be myself.
I think that her work is of great value to the community as a whole
and we should do everything we can to support her.
For more information
on what Amrita does, follow the link to the left.
WE
ARE THE WORLD
As
a young person there is always other threats that seem much greater
than growing up itself. Nuclear war, poverty, crime, drugs, political
prisoners and our over-all lack of compassion for every living thing.
Closer to home each of us has our own struggles with growing up.
There
is a lot packed into our teen-aged years. We go from childhood into
a time when hormones start to take control. It all seems to happen
so fast. We are changing physically and emotionally. We are taking
on much more responsibility at home and dealing with the heavy load
of school work, peer group pressure and the continual question,
What are you going to do with your life? We are trying to
set a good example for younger brothers and sisters, choosing a
career and the millions of other things on our minds that really
has nothing to do with our relationship with Mother Earth.
With
so much going on it is quite a relief to think that our elected
officials are going to take care of all of those minor and major
planetary concerns while we concentrate on growing-up. ItÕs obvious
now that not only are those people not supervising the care of our
home as we trusted, but we, the peoples of the world, have and still
are perpetuating this planetary destruction.
Now,
as I look ahead at my so-called future IÕm amazed at how
the Earth is letting us know in so many ways that there has been
a gross injustice by mankind. The many recent devastating floods,
landslides and dramatic weather changes shows the EarthÕs pain and
how out of balance our eco-system has become. By polluting the water
we drink and swim in, the air we breathe, we have altered the earthÕs
atmosphere itself. We are now in a time of global emergency.
There
are solutions to these problems, but all of them still will take
conscious effort by every human being to eliminate the things that
are leading us to impending disaster.
This
article was written by Leigh Walmsley (13) and Angie Nolan (14)
and appeared in their local newspaper in Nimbin, Australia.
This
web site is in progress. This is it for now AND it will constantly
change..... like life. I invite you to call again.
Thank you for visiting
the site, enjoy your stay.
If you are interested
in Amrita's work and you would like to either help out, receive
some brochures or maybe even attend one of Amrita's camps then please
either click here for more information or
contact us.
If you would like
to financially support Amrita's vision for a Youth Centre - click
here.
I would like to thank
Adam Washington of Pheonix Design for his gifts, time and support
in preparing the Amrita Hobbs online network for worldwide launch.
Should you require any
web design needs or technical support in the fields of graphic design,
logo design or html coding, click here.
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