Introducing Kay Starr TV
On 11th November 2022 at 11.11 am, Kay Starr TV was born.
Having spent six months or so recovering from the passing of my beloved husband, Paddy, Autumn 2022 saw me dreaming into what was next for me.
To my surprise, it wasn’t writing my second book that was calling me, but a whole renewed vocational expression, picking up on momentum from 12 years before. I was ready to get in front of the camera again!
Back in 2010, I was thrilled by what was then new media opportunities – to create our own blogs and videos. I bought myself a video camera, had a make over, and started filming interviews, talks and workshops. I also contacted an agency matching expert presenters with TV programme makers.
A series of family, health and housing challenges quelled that trajectory, however. Then, after a couple of quieter working years while I attended to all that, in 2013 I was inspired to launch the Thrivecraft Academy, training accredited life coaches and meditation teachers
Five very fulfilling years followed, but by 2018 Paddy’s health was declining further. Days after completing a comprehensive rebrand and launching the online academy, I paused Thrivecraft altogether to become his very full time carer.
As you can see from my fresh new Kay Starr banner above and photo below, I’m looking a bit different from when the branding was created for this website in 2018!
(I had a really fun make over and photoshoot on 11th November last year, the day of the Kay Starr TV launch).
So hello new year – it is delightful to be getting back into business again.
I’m starting by creating and presenting a new talk show on my Scottish island’s radio station, Radio Millport, sharing the fascinating stories of island characters, projects and businesses. I’ll be out interviewing with my camera too, sharing videos on social media.
Being a business coach as well as a presenter, I’ll also be mentoring entrepreneurs, on air and behind the scenes. And I’ll be delivering my Money Making Mindset workshop to businesses in my locality and further afield.
This is all in preparation for Kay Starr TV, the creation of a media hub on the island offering film, audio, podcasting and social media services and broadcasting programmes from the new TV station – with a view to support enterprise, innovation and wealth creation.
I’m excited and inspired to say the least. Look out 2023 – I’m coming to get ya!
My beloved Paddy has passed…
Yes he has. He is away, away in another dimension…
And he did it magnificently, slipping away peacefully after six and a half weeks in hospital from early January. He’d been increasingly poorly since the autumn, but we had Christmas and New Year together at home, unaware of what was about to happen. In hospital after a fall like a felled tree and seizures, he was in another world, yet seemed to be working through the last of his soul mission before letting go. He waited until after my birthday and Valentines Day and passed on 21 February.
Paddy’s funeral mid March was fabulous. Despite storms and a covid resurgence, friends and family from Scotland, Devon and Cornwall, old and new, gathered to celebrate his life. Our dear friends Mark and Christina (who had also helped officiate at our wedding in 2003) hosted the service beautifully.
For the three weeks after he passed, I had poured all of my love into creating a service, life story, music, visual tribute and reception that did him proud. And Paddy contributed during the process – switching on motion sensor lights, and the CD player off, and changing the screensaver on my laptop – at various points to illustrate his favour or otherwise of my choices.
My niece Karen’s choir sang A Thousand Years outside the crematorium as we arrived – a song I’d just been learning at Rock Choir and I’d sung to Paddy in his last weeks. Knowing he was close, I asked the nurses to play it to him an hour before he passed. “One step closer. Don’t be afraid. I will love you, for a thousand years.”
Paddy has been showing up frequently as a single rook – the first time wheeling and squawking directly above my head, then following me along the seaside road, despite the wind being so strong it was almost blowing me over. A spirited rook appeared at the funeral too, seen hopping and flying around through the floor to ceiling window behind his coffin at the end of his life story then visual tribute. We were all amazed!
Immediately after I’d said farewell to my last funeral visitors, I contracted mild Covid. The next 10 days was a forced retreat of illness, isolation and grief. It was harsh, yet fast-tracked me through so much. For most of the time before the funeral I was in a kind of supernatural state of sublime love and connection with Paddy, but the more ordinary part of me was waiting to be felt, bereft. Most of the big heartbreak painful tears were shed in those days.
Paddy and I were somewhat prepared for his passing as his health has been poor for some years and we’d discussed the eventuality of it happening before me many times. (He was also 12 years older.) As the thoughts, feelings and reflections poured through me when he was in hospital and after he died, I saw with great clarity that our relationship was complete, our soul contracts to one and other totally fulfilled. (And Paddy’s personal purpose in this life also complete.) And so there feels to be a perfection that he has passed and that I continue, that it was meant to be. It’s a comforting realisation.
For the last couple of months I’ve been gradually recovering from fatigue – post viral, grief induced and chronic exhaustion from four years of intense caring for Paddy. However I have been hugely supported by my dear friends and family and by the fantastic Scottish island community I am now a part of. And by nature and beauty and freedom and the joy of being able to do things I haven’t been able to for many years. I would say my energy is 90% recovered now.
And my grieving has become softer, gentler. Tears and chats with Paddy are quite frequent, but flow easily and beautifully without pain. My new friends and activities have poured into my life and I am recapturing so much that has been abeyance – not only through 20 years of intense focus and devotion to Paddy and our life together – bringing up my son Jamie and creating Thrivecraft – but also during the 18 years before that when I was involved in a semi-monastic Buddhist lifestyle, being a devotee of another sort.
So I am singing (with Rock Choir), dancing, sea swimming, cycling, walking (lots!), gardening, resting, meditating, writing, taking trips off island, having a stream of visitors stay over (including my dear friend Angie from Senegal for the summer), friends around for dinner or joining them at theirs, lunching out, exploring my incredibly beautiful locality and neighbouring islands. And continue to make amazing new friends and deepen relationships with existing friends and family. I am feeling so much joy, appreciation and love and am sooooo expanded and energtic – a whole new lease of life.
Inspiration for relaunching Thrivecraft (paused these last years while caring for Paddy) bubbles up frequently and I am delighting in those delicious creative impulses quietely gathering power beneath the surface. I am giving myself until the autumn to recover and restore and simply enjoy my new life, friends, family and places, and then I’ll be back with some wonderful Thrivecraft offerings. I can’t wait to see you then!
New home. New name. New book!
It’s been a while – and I write to you now feeling like a whole new person!
In March 2021, husband Paddy and I moved to Scotland, to the beautiful Isle of Cumbrae where my mum lived for 20 years with my stepdad. We’ve had many, many holidays and visits over the years and have wondered about moving here before. But now the time is right.
We are absolutely loving it here – so close to stunningly beautiful nature and the people are so warm and friendly. I have been amazed at how powerful it’s been to move back to my homeland after 36 years in London, Devon and Cornwall. I feel like my bones are made of the same stuff as the rocks and that the salty Firth of the Clyde waters are flowing through my veins.
The relocation followed an intense few years which saw three other house moves, Paddy recovering from a stroke and the diagnosis, illness and passing of my dear sister then beloved mum. These three were / are the closest loved ones in my world (along with my son Jamie who is still very much alive and well!) For the last couple of years, I’ve paused Thrivecraft to attend to all that – and to my own recouperation.
Then this September, I suddenly realised I’d completed the arduous, years long trek through the mountains and arrived in a bountiful valley of peace, ease and light heartedness once again. And after a year of honouring my health, fitness and wellbeing as a priority, am feeling more vibrant than I have in a long time.
But there’s more – I have a new name! Since coming back to Scotland I have taken up my middle name, Kay, again. It’s what my Scottish family know me as and it feels right. Since changing, it dawned on me that Maggie Kay was just a transitional label – a professional brand and pen name – after 20 years of being Srimati (my ordained Buddhist name). But Kay is coming home to the ‘real’ me, much like coming home to Scotland – the return of the prodigal daughter after all those years adventuring! So please do call me Kay if you remember!
And speaking of pen names, I also have a new book project! I’ve been feeling like my next book – True Love Cuts Deep: The Strong Woman’s Guide to Letting Go (working title) – is prompting me to start writing. It follows on from my first book, Diving for Pearls: The Wise Woman’s Guide to Finding Love which was published in 2017.
Then, last week, I noticed Nicola Humber of Unbound Press was offering a 5 day writing challenge. And as it happened, I had a clear diary for the first time in months. I took it as a nudge from the Universe, so I signed up. Our first assignment is to announce our book intentions publicly – so here you are!
It’s good to be back!
Meditate with Maggie-Kay – free new four week supported learning experience starts Saturday
How are you doing? Fancy some input into meditation over the next four weeks?
I’ve had an inspiration to host a supported 4 week meditation practice experience on Facebook from this Saturday 7th November.
It’s some extra support while you follow my four week Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation course…
…which teaches four wonderful and powerful meditations – one a week.
See link below for details and to sign up for the Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation course if you haven’t already – it’s free.
Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation course
I’m keeping the course free (was £199) to offer meditation nourishment to as many people as possible during this challenging year. (!!!)
Maybe you’ve already done the course or would like to recap? Or have some support while you finally finish it off? Or maybe you are new to it…
Whichever it is, you are welcome!
We have a private Facebook group for Thrivecraft meditators which you can join here –
Facebook Meditation Support Group
The idea is that we connect on Facebook live video on Saturdays and Wednesdays at 12 noon GMT over the four weeks. (or watch later if you can’t make it live.)
Sat 7 Nov – 12 noon
Wed 11 Nov – 12 noon
Sat 14 Nov – 12 noon
Wed 18 Nov – 12 noon
Sat 21 Nov – 12 noon
Wed 25 Nov – 12 noon
Sat 28 Nov – 12 noon
Wed 2 Dec – 12 noon
Sat 5 Dec – 12 noon
I’ll guide some meditation – whichever one we are doing that week – share some tips and answer some questions.
And in between, you’ll be following the course in your own time – watching the videos and practicing daily – so that it’s all complete within the four weeks Sat 7 Nov – Sat 5 Dec.
And we can all keep in touch here in the group – report in and share experiences and ask questions alongside everyone else.
I’ve been enjoying some supported online meditation experiences myself over the last few months and really appreciate how helpful it is to be practicing alongside others.
If you’d like to join, just let me know.
And look forward to getting underway with you on Saturday!!
Join Free Meditation Course Now
During this unprecedented time of global ‘retreat’, I am giving FREE access to my 30 day Thrivecraft meditation foundation online course (usual price £199).
Thoroughly learn and practice four wonderful meditations which help you feel good – bringing you calm, happiness, empowerment and wisdom.
I’ll be with you step by step via video – describing and guiding the meditations and sharing information and tips on how to be comfortable, relaxed and get the most from your practice.
Join now and get into your groove with meditation, whether you are brand new to meditation or wanting to refresh your practice.
Just click the link below, sign up and away you go!
With love, Maggie x
Solstice Greetings and a new home for Thrivecraft
I was inspired to post today when one of our awesome Thrivecraft Meditation Teachers inquired about taking our accredited Thrivecraft Coach training next year.
Like most of our Thrivecraft Coach trainees, she is already an impressive practitioner of many years standing, qualified and experienced in several healing and spiritual modalities, and deeply in tune with her intuition and vocation to guide people into well-being, fulfillment and happiness.
But she wants to add coaching skills to her portfolio so she can help people more systematically and comprehensively with ‘their stuff’!
With Thrivecraft Coach Landa Ananda Love last week on the drive of our new riverside home.
And that’s exactly what our one year professional Coach training does – provides detailed coaching skills and methods as well as Thrivecraft’s unique approach using guided meditation to cut straight to the heart and soul of those we are coaching.
The second module gives business mentoring alongside abundance and manifestation know-how – including defining our pricing, working style and branding as well as attracting ideal clients with telepathic marketing.
And the third module is practical – completing case studies and supervision before graduation.
Solstice Special Offer
And as it is solstice today, I am guided to offer the same special prices that I did in August when applications were last opened.
If booked and paid by Imbolc 1st Feb 2020:
Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation: Half Price £210 £99
Thrivecraft Meditation Teacher Training: £1650 £1245
Thrivecraft Coach Training: £3595 £2995
Click here for all course details
Note
Course prices are quoted on the Thrivecraft Academy website at full price and in dollars
Ask me for discount codes and solstice offer payment details.
New Home for Thrivecraft
I’ve been somewhat quiet for the last few months as we’ve moved home.
We are now located on the edge of the town of Saltash, Cornwall, overlooking the river.
Sunset view of the river by our new home.
You can ‘visit’ me here from all over the world by skype
and take the Thrivecraft Coach training from anywhere as it’s fully accessible online.
Consulting room
Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation and Coach Training Applications Now Open – With August Special Offers
Welcome to August!
In the northern hemisphere, today is traditionally the day to celebrate the bounty of Lammas – the half way point between mid summer and autumn equinox.
And this year, the 1st August is also a favorably aspected by Jupiter and a new moon in Leo – the new moon being the best time to plant seeds of intention and manifestation.
So what better day to open applications to three wonderful Thrivecraft training courses…
The newly updated Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation in 30 days.
Which qualifies you to progress to the Thrivecraft Meditation Teacher training, if desired.
And the one year accredited Thrivecraft Coach training programme.
To celebrate Lammas, the new moon and opening applications today,
here are some awesome offers for you if booked and paid by 31st August:
Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation: Half Price £210 £99
Thrivecraft Meditation Teacher Training: £1650 £1245
Thrivecraft Coach Training: £3595 £2995
Click here for all course details
(Note course prices are quoted at full price and in dollars
– ask Maggie for discount codes and August offer payment details.)
To arrange a chat or an
in-depth Discovery Session with Maggie
email (click below)
maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
Inner Wisdom & Book Love Bundle
I was just finding some resources to contribute to my amazing friend Caroline Palmy‘s new book – Loving Conversations With Me – ‘love bundle’ (more on that below) and came across these videos from a workhop I gave.
I’m not sure I ever published them on my website – so here they are!
And if you haven’t done so already, make sure you download your free MP3 audio of my specially created guided meditation, Ask Your Inner Wisdom.
You can get it right here – Click for Maggie’s inner wisdom meditation
Loving Conversations with Me
Caroline has just opened orders for her new book, Loving Conversations With Me.
To launch her book, she is making available a delightful package of bonuses, including a ‘love bundle’ contributed by eight of her closest soul sister colleagues.
And I’m honoured that I am one of them!
Click here to order Caroline’s new book and apply for the Love Bundle
Mastering the Art of Manifestation
Any of you who have trained or had coaching or come to a workshop with me will know that we have a secret formula for successful manifestation here at Thrivecraft.
100% intention + 100% surrender = manifestation
Here’s my latest Facebook Live video revealing the subtle but powerful secret to mastering the art of manifestation.
When you have understood and practiced this, you can create the life, love and business of your dreams – over and over again for the rest of your life!
The Book of Soulful Musings – now published
You can read more about manifestation in Chrisoula Sirigou’s new book – The Book of Soulful Musings – where I contribute a chapter on the Thrivecraft manifestation formula.
And enjoy all the other inspiring interviews too.
Ah Om Manifestation Meditation Workshop
Learn all about our favourite manifestation meditation at Thrivecraft – the Ah Om Manifestation Meditation – right here, where I’m teaching and guiding the practice at a live workshop:
Click to watch Ah Om Manifestation Meditation workshop
Telepathic Marketing and Inspiration versus Motivation
To celebrate opening applications for the new accredited Thrivecraft Coach training programme, Maggie is giving a series of Thrivecraft ‘Business Alchemy’ Top Tips on Facebook this month.
Here are this week’s videos…
Telepathic marketing – guided client magnetising meditation
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Why Inspiration is better than motivation for you and your clients
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Click for – Thrivecraft with Maggie Kay – Facebook page
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Click for – Thrivecraft Clan – Facebook group
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For more info about the
Accredited Thrivecaft Coach Training Programme, see
www.thrivecraft.com
To apply for a Discovery Session, email
maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
Thrivecraft Coach Training Now Open
Wow, this has been a few months in the making, but today is the day I open applications for the – new look, much improved, learn from anywhere – accredited Thrivecraft Coach training programme!
A comprehensive one year professional training programme with Thrivecraft Founder, Maggie Kay.
This pragmatic, soulful and inspiring programme provides the knowledge, skills, practical experience and business support to enable you to become an insurable, accredited Thrivecraft Coach…
…galvanised with the confidence and know-how to launch or uplevel your own thriving coaching practice.
Join me on Facebook Live video at Maggie on Facebook :
Thu 1 Nov 4pm GMT – the surprising best way to set your prices as a coach and attract a flow of abundance.
Tue 6 Nov 4pm GMT – guided telepathic marketing meditation to magnetise ideal clients soulfully.
Thu 8 Nov 1pm GMT – why inspiration is better than motivation to create results that last for you and your clients.
Fri 9 Nov 1pm GMT – the hidden crux of the art of manifestation and how to make it work for you and your business.
If you can’t wait to find out more – pop over to the brand new Thrivecraft Academy website at www.thrivecraft.com and it’s all there for you to have a look at.
For more info or to apply for your free Discovery Session with Maggie
drop her an email at maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
New Look Thrivecraft Revealed
Today is the day!
After four months of soulful deep diving and creativity – wrapped in ceremony on the June and October full moons – I am ready to reveal the new look Thrivecraft Maggie Kay and announce the launch of the new format Thrivecraft Academy!
So this is just a brief post to let you see the new branding – so skilfully discovered and expressed by my awesome Essence Unveiled Coach and designer Lynda Mangoro (supported by fab new photos taken by our lovely photographer Tony Cobley).
The website has a way to go yet before all the content and text layout is updated and in keeping with the new colours, fonts and layouts – but I couldn’t wait any longer to show you! (Bit of a lesson in being okay with imperfection!)
I couldn’t wait any longer because today is a special day – it would have been my darling sister Katy’s (in spirit) birthday and I chose the 25 October for the big reveal in her honour.
Next Thursday – on 1 November – I’ll be officially launching the gorgeous new Thrivecraft Academy site and opening applications for this year’s accredited Thrivecraft Coach training programme, but if you can’t wait to see that either, here it is…
Click here for Thrivecraft Academy website
Essence Unveiled Diaries
Thought I’d share with you the ‘behind the scenes’ story of what I’m going through as I ‘re-brand’ and prepare to re-launch Thrivecraft with Maggie Kay this autumn.
Here are my Facebook posts, videos and photos, sharing how it’s been working with Lynda Mangoro who I commissioned to create my new visual designs.
As you can see – it’s all been rather magical!
Thu 21 Jun – summer solstice
Today, summer solstice 12 noon, I ceremonially begin my Essence Unveiled process with artist and designer, Lynda Mangoro.
I’ve commissioned Lynda to support me in birthing the next phase of Thrivecraft with Maggie Kay with ‘branding and design’, but we much prefer to call it unveiling essence!
Lynda sent me a declaration to read aloud and sign whilst burning the candle and incense and wearing a unicorn pendant she chose and provided.
It was simple but surprisingly powerful! Essence Unveiled has begun!
Thu 28 Jun – full moon
Set all my crystals out for a full moon bathe last night (after a salt water rinse).
Was called to stay awake until 3am with the moon along with my love Patrick.
Only got the inspiration to wash and set out the crystals out at 2am!
Here’s how I found them this morning…
The next instalment of Essence Unveiled process with Lynda is dreaming into some questions she poses sitting in the sun this afternoon after a magical full moon night.
And opening up to owning the power of my spiritual and magical nature.
Thanks to Carly Hope and Kimberley Jones who have been inspiring me as they more fully own and express their unique gifts.
Essence Unveiled Full Moon Video (gets a bit glitchy a couple of times but be patient, it’ll come back on) click this link –
Tue 3 Jul – Deep Dive
Wow such a magical day spent with Lynda at the beginning of our Essence Unveiled process (aka brand design in muggle-speak) that Lynda is creating for Thrivecraft with Maggie Kay.
Chatting with tea, flowers, candles, incense, opening the ceremonial space in the Cider House annex, a beautiful view over the garden, guided meditation, sharing my history and vision for the future, seeing around Thrivecraft Home Hub and meeting Patrick, eating delicious lunch, walking to the river, asking the river for a message, exploring meaningful words (and messages from them), a spontaneous blessing / prayer to close, a letting go ritual to complete in the coming days…
That’s how we roll… 
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So rich and resonant and inspiring – full of promise! Just knew Lynda was the one to help me articulate Thrivecraft for the relaunch this autumn.
And her husband Mike drove her all the way from Sussex and back today, because she felt it was important to tune into my home and energy. Such amazing service. Thank you! 
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Fri 13 Jul – new moon
Today, Friday 13 on the new moon and eclipse, I’ll be completing my Essence Unveiled explorations with a letting go ceremony.
Lynda spent the day with me 10 days ago to deeply tune in to me so she can create and design the brand images and visual identity that truly communicates who I am and what I offer for my relaunch in September.
Our last exercise was generating a list of things to let go of, as directed by ‘Freedom’ who was speaking through me. Lynda suggested I make a fire and ceremonially burn the list. I didn’t feel ready on the day – knowing some more was to come.
And oh boy did it come!
Part of the list was about needing to be a good girl, to always get it ‘right’ and not upset people – being attached to being approved of and to people pleasing.
Yet the very next day, I inadvertently displeased a close friend and a huge wave of feeling awful about myself tossed me around for a week.
I dreamt about other friends who I’d also inadvertently upset in the past, including an estranged friend I bumped into and spoke to a couple of weeks ago (which is probably what sparked the whole thing off.)
Fortunately, on Wednesday I had a session booked with my excellent coaching buddy and dear friend Terry Brightwater
He helped me see that I’ve been suppressing feelings of being rejected, criticised, judged and disapproved of my whole life as a ‘survival strategy’.
His advice was to just let myself feel all the hurt and pain I’ve been resisting – and that’s exactly what I did – I felt ghastly, but the world did not fall apart and by yesterday it had all washed through me and gone.
What freedom not to have to work so hard to avoid judgement and disapproval!
I’m not sure why my survival strategy is to avoid being judged as I had a very happy, affirming and loving upbringing, but I do know I am super sensitive to criticism and I’ve been saying for a while I’d like to heal and release that.
Perhaps it belongs to a past life. I relate to what Kimberley Jones calls the Witch Wound – fear of persecution for being magical.
Which is interesting because the Essence Unveiled process has revealed that I want to embrace and communicate my magical and spiritual nature and inspiration more explicitly and publicly in my life and work.
I began my Essence Unveiled ceremony on summer solstice, continued the day after charging all my crystals up under the full moon and am completing today.
Friday 13 new moon eclipse seems like the perfect day to ceremonially burn my list of things to let go of.
For me to truly show up and be seen by the global new audience I’m now aiming to reach and serve, I pledge to courageously stand in the truth of who I really am and shine brightly, no matter what people think of me!
Photo taken just after the ceremony – only ashes left in the crucible and wearing my Essence Unveiled unicorn pendant.
Tue 17 July – taking shape
So much magic in my continuing Essence Unveiled (branding and design) process with Lynda.
As she shares images, colours, energetic connections, symbols and ideas from her work with me so far, I’m electrified with inspiration!
Recently we’ve been talking about my Scottishness – nature, ancestors, landscapes – so I sent her this blog with videos of me in Scotland five years ago reclaiming my original name (click link below to view).
And then realised I was wearing the same cardi as in the videos, though I’ve rarely worn it since!
Also noticed we have Scottish thistles growing right by our gate here in Cornwall!
Plus I woke with a powerful dream about reclaiming a large community house I’d allowed to become squatted.
Feel there’s a lot of reclaiming Scottishness going on! Sense my ancestors cheering me on!
Can’t wait to reveal the results of Essence Unveiled to you in a few weeks time – I’ll keep you posted!
Exciting new developments
You may wonder why it’s been a bit quiet on here of late, well, it’s because we have been working intensively behind the scenes creating our fabulous new Thrivecraft Academy!
In September, we’ll be opening applications for our brand new Thrivecraft Take the Leap coaching programme – a fully supported 90 day transformation experience for you and your business that you can join from anywhere in the world.
Also in the autumn, our accredited Thrivecraft Coach training programme will be relaunched having moved onto it’s new platform, specially designed to make your home learning even more streamlined and straightforward.
From early 2019, Thrivecraft Meditation Foundation and accredited Meditation Teacher training courses will follow, with further new programmes to come after that.
To help us with all this, I’m being mentored intensively by coaching business expert, Kenny Goodman. I have learned from experience how much easier it is to have the right coach or mentor in place to help make the leap.
Plus we have commissioned brand designer Lynda Mangora to create Thrivecraft’s new visual identity over the summer, ready for the big autumn launch.
And I am delighted to announce that Thrivecraft has recruited a fantastic new VA – online business manager, Amy Kneale. Amy will be handling much of the implementation and technical side of Thriveraft so that I can focus on coaching, course creation and delivery.
Although benefiting from our amazing new online learning platform, Thrivecraft programmes will continue to be led by 1-1 and group coaching – a powerful mix that ensures flexible learning with deep support at every step.
More on all of this coming soon! Look out for prelaunch news over the summer. And if you have any ideas of things you’d like to train in or have specific issues you’d love help with, let us know. We are creating the future Thrivecraft together.
Diving for Pearls chapter by chapter
I’m thrilled to now be a weekly contributor to Inspired World Magazine
Every Thursday, you can read a chapter from my book, Diving for Pearls: The Wise Woman’s Guide to Finding Love.
And every Thursday lunchtime (GMT), I’ll be reading the same chapter aloud on Facebook Live Video.
Here is the first chapter – Dipping a Toe – about my first taste of meditation and my father’s near death experience.
Get into Your Meditation Groove
Get Into Your Meditation Groove
A Month of
Step-by-Step Supported Learning
with Maggie Kay
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Certified home study course
with group coaching and support
1 Feb – 1 Mar 2018
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Be
Calm
Happy
Empowered
&
Wise
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Maggie Kay is one of the UK’s foremost meditation teachers and guides.
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Psychology graduate and former ordained Buddhist,
Maggie has been meditating since she was 19
and teaching, guiding and creating meditation for over 20 years.
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She draws meditations from traditional and modern sources
as well as her own inner and channelled wisdom.
Upon successful completion, you receive your
IICT accredited
Thrivecraft Meditation Practitioner Certificate
Maggie Kay is an IICT member and approved training provider.
She is founder of Thrivecraft, a registered modality
www.iict.co.uk
Qualify to continue to Accredited Thrivecraft Meditation Teacher training
Get into Your Meditation Groove is a pre-requisite (the first module) for
Maggie Kay’s meditation teacher training course
Click for details of accredited Meditation Teachers course
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Course Contents
Calm
Week 1. Mindfulness
What is meditation, introduction to practitioner course, posture for meditation, what is mindfulness, mindfulness of breathing meditation explained, guided mindfulness of breathing practice.
Happy
Week 2. Loving Kindness
Q&A on mindfulness, higher consciousness with meditation, loving kindness meditation explained, guided loving kindness practice.
Empowered
Week 3. Manifestation
Q&A on loving kindness, hinderances to meditation, antidotes to hinderances, principles of manifestation, Ah/Om manifestation meditation explained, guided Ah/Om manifestation practice.
Wise
Week 4. Inner Wisdom
Q&A on Ah/Om manifestation, what is inner wisdom, Ask Your Inner Wisdom meditation explained, guided Ask Your Inner Wisdom practice, where to go from here.
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In this video extract from Meditation Practitioners course, below,
Maggie Kay describes the benefits of meditation.
(And also goes on to talk about the inner wisdom meditation)
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For more info email Maggie at
maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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New Meditation Teacher Training
Thrivecraft Meditation Teacher
Accredited Training Course
With Maggie Kay
For health, well-being & care professionals,
therapists, coaches and trainers.
Course Info
1. Mindfulness of Breathing
2. Development of Loving Kindness
3. Ask Your Inner Wisdom
4. Ah/Om Manifestation
Professional insurable qualification – IICT accredited – graduation certificate
Maggie Kay is an IICT member and approved training provider www.iict.co.uk
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Any questions or want to talk it through?
email Maggie at
maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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Thorough and practical supervision and training
in meditation teaching
includes homework and teaching practice,
group support,
supervision and mentoring.
Principles * Technique * Preparation * Practice
Maggie Kay introduces the teacher training course.
Programme (12 weeks)
Module One
Thrivecraft Meditation Practitioner Certificate – personal practice
Module Two:
Accredited Thrivecraft Meditation Teacher Training – teaching practice
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Any questions or want to talk it through?
email Maggie at
maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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Diving for Pearls Now Available
My new book Diving for Pearls: The Wise Woman’s Guide to Finding Love
is now published!
Book and e-book available from Amazon, click here:
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Dive For Your Pearls
This book is part true love story and part how-to guide. In these pages, I take you with me on the spiritual adventure of my life and share how I eventually found what I was longing for – deep trust in my own inner wisdom and a true love, soul mate and life partner that can meet me on all levels. Along with the story, I share the insights and learning that lit the way for me with the hope that this will also help illuminate your path of love and wisdom.
My quest for wisdom began when I was a child, trying to figure out if church had the answers to life’s big questions. Continuing by studying psychology at university, I was profoundly affected by the death of my father and discovered the practice of meditation. For nearly two decades thereafter, I trained for and became an ordained Buddhist.
But wisdom wasn’t enough. Although denying it for many years, deep down I also ached to be properly partnered by a soul mate – a true love that shared every aspect of my life. A series of experiences finally brought me to fulfill that destiny and the ensuing spiritual renaissance resulted in the resigning of my ordination and the founding of Thrivecraft – an inspirational coaching practice providing a universal path of love and wisdom for all.
Echoing my own journey, the first half of Pearls is about inner wisdom. Along with this part of my story, I share tips and teachings on meditation, mindfulness and intuition so that you too can tune in to your own natural inner wisdom.
The second half focuses on finding true love and includes my ‘Get Ready For Love’ step-by-step guide. I also describe how inner wisdom continues to serve a deepening relationship once you’ve met a partner (or, indeed, reveals when it is time to move on).
It is my dear wish that you will be inspired by my story and tips, transported by a special ‘Ask Your Inner Wisdom’ meditation I have created and recapture your natural entitlement to be completely guided and supported in all that you do. Go ahead and find the kind of love and wisdom that you so desire and so deserve. Dive for your pearls – they are right here and they are all yours.
Maggie Kay
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Diving for Pearls Book Launch Party
Maggie Kay invites you to
come and celebrate the
publication of her first book
Diving for Pearls:
The Wise Woman’s Guide to Finding Love
At
Totnes Natural Health Centre
the Plains, Totnes, Devon
On
Friday 29 September
publication day
From 6pm
For an evening of
celebration and refreshments
Plus
Guided meditation
Reading from Diving for Pearls
Q&A with Maggie
And an opportunity to have
your book personally signed by Maggie Kay
Train as a Thrivecraft Coach
Applications are now open to train with me as an accredited Thrivecraft Coach.
Full training in how to make a great living helping others attain the life of their dreams.
Email me at maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
to arrange your free Discovery Session to explore if this is the course for you.
Full details here Thrivecraft Coach training with Maggie Kay
Say Yes to Abundance Workshop
Say Yes to Abundance
Opening the flow of money and prosperity
Sat 17 / Sun 18 June 2017
An inspiring and powerful weekend workshop to
* Discover your unique soul-path to money and prosperity
* Clear away habitual worries, doubts and feelings of lack
* Fully appreciate your true worth, natural gifts and attractiveness
* Create inspiring, soulful ideas and plans and easy-going action
* Learn and practice potent magnetising and manifestation techniques
* Share wisdom & support with the soul-centered Thrivecraft tribe
This workshop has been specially created to help you
make a shift in consciousness and allow
an abundance of money and prosperity to flow into your life,
to generate enthusiasm, ideas and plans to take action
with an authentic heart and fulfilled soul!
Magnetise Love. Boost your prosperity.
Attract good fortune. Create synchronicity.
Feel free and joyful.
Thrivecraft Coach Training – applications now open
Accredited Thrivecraft
Coach Training
with Maggie Kay
Become an IICT accredited
Thrivecraft Life Coach
New training programme
October 2017 – June 2018
Is Thrivecraft Coach training for you?
* Train and qualify as an accredited Thrivecraft Coach
* Acquire powerful tools to make a difference in the world
* Receive business training to succeed in your coaching practice
Thrivecraft is Maggie Kay’s unique blend
of life, business and spiritual coaching.
Thrivecraft is a registered modality
and approved as a training provider by the
International Institute of Complimentary Therapists (IICT).
The IICT accredits Thrivecraft coach training and
meditation teacher courses, allowing graduates to become
members of the IICT and acquire professional insurance.
Click Accredited by the IICT to find out more
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Apply Now
For more info and / or application
email maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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Message from Maggie Kay
“I am thrilled to have been running the Thrivecraft Coach training programme since 2013 – the tenth anniversary of my Coaching Practice, Thrivecraft.
The vision to foster a community of Thrivecraft Associates and train a team of accredited Thrivecraft Coaches has been been there right from the beginning. And here we are, all these years later, passing on our special formula of Thrivecraft skills and resources.
During our programme, I’ll be sharing over thirty years worth of training, skills and experience and teaching you everything I have.”
Calling inspired change makers
Coaches. Therapists. Practitioners. Trainers. Consultants.
Educators. Care professionals. Community & charity workers.
Social entrepreneurs. Ethical business people. Eco entrepreneurs.
Media creators. Artists. Musicians. Performers.
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Apply Now
For more info and/or application pack,
email: maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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Thrivecraft Coach Training Programme
October 2017 – June 2018
Oct / Nov / Dec Module 1: Life Coaching Essentials – Skills, Tools and Guidelines
Oct 14-15: Set Your Life Free – complete life coaching process – workshop (& video)
Nov 12: Training and tutorial day – life coaching skills and coaching practice
Dec 10: Training and tutorial day – life coaching skills and coaching practice
Home study (videos) of workshop – Essential Life Coaching Skills including EFT and NLP
Home study of Maggie Kay’s Newcastle College Life Coaching certified course
Home study of 10+ video extracts featuring Maggie’s teachings at previous tutorials
Personal mentoring session 1 (on personal study) with Maggie Kay
Jan / Feb / Mar Module 2: Putting Thrivecraft into Practice – Case studies
Jan 21: Training and tutorial day – preparing for case studies and coaching practice
Feb 18: Training and tutorial day – case studies and coaching practice
Mar 17-18: Soulful Marketing – branding, marketing and pricing workshop
Home study of Maggie Kay’s Do-Be-Do (ILM) Business Coaching certified course
Home study of 10+ video extracts featuring Maggie’s teachings at previous tutorials
Case studies: 3 x case studies consisting of 6 x 1.5 hour sessions. Keep records.
Personal mentoring session 2 (on business plans) with Maggie Kay
Apr / May / Jun Module 3: Becoming a Thrivecraft Coach – Completion and graduation
Apr 15: Training and tutorial day – coaching supervision and assessment
May 20: Training and tutorial day – coaching supervision and assessment
Jun 16-17: Say Yes to Abundance workshop with graduation ceremony
Complete study, case studies & business planning.
Submit written assignment and completion statement.
Personal mentoring session 3 (on training completion) with Maggie Kay
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Apply Now
For more info and / or application pack
email maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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The accredited Thrivecraft Coach training includes the following workshops:
Set Your Life Free
Complete Life Coaching Process
An inspiring, powerful and warm-hearted workshop
to refresh your life and set it in a new direction.
REVIEW your current life situations and relationships
CONNECT with your true purpose and ideal life
MELT AWAY doubts and obstacles
CREATE a do-able onward plan
ACTIVATE your magic
A complete Life Coaching programme in weekend format.
As well as standard Life Coaching processes, this uplifting and inspiring weekend will be laced with powerful teachings and meditations that bring magic into your everyday life.
With a mixture of interactive practical exercises, talks and guided contemplation, there will be opportunities to ask questions and give your comments along the way.
And there will be plenty of time to connect with other participants – typically a high quality group of open minded, friendly people.
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Soulful Marketing
Brand, Price and Market Your Coaching Practice
Attract Ideal Clients With Ease
* GAIN a stronger sense of who you are, your true purpose,
and the unique gifts you have to offer the world.
* LEARN the magical art of how to magnetise
your ideal clients, customers, investors and collaborators.
* CLAIM your true self and do what you love.
* CREATE prosperity with authenticity and grace.
* ATTRACT opportunities, synchronicity and flow.
Guided by Maggie & harnessing the visionary input of the group,
you will develop a clear sense of your next steps
towards greater creative expression, prosperity and fulfillment.
Thrivecraft combines spiritual intelligence with practical know-how
to activate a rewarding shift in your life and business.
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Say Yes to Abundance
Opening the Flow of Money and Prosperity
An inspiring, powerful and warm-hearted workshop to
* DISCOVER your unique soul-path to prosperity
* CLEAR AWAY habitual money worry and crippling doubts
*LIBERATE your natural gifts and appreciate your true worth
* CREATE inspiring, soulful money-making ideas and plans
* FIRE-UP your enthusiasm and set yourself into joyful action
This workshop has been specially created to help you make a shift in consciousness and allow abundance to flow into your life.
To generate enthusiasm, ideas and plans to take action with an authentic heart and fulfilled soul.
Boost your income. Grow your business. Up-level your prosprity.
Attract good fortune. Create synchronicity.
Feel free and joyful.
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Study video of workshop
Thrivecraft Coaching Skills
Including NLP and EFT
With Maggie Kay
and Thrivecraft Associates
Elisabeth Stirling (NLP)
and Bill Tucker (EFT)
Life and Business Coaching skills for professionals, teachers, educators, coaches, therapists, business people and for personal, relationships and home life.
Maggie Kay is founder of Maggie Kay Wisdom and Thrivecraft.
www.maggiekaywisdom.com
Elisabeth Stirling is a NLP Master Practitioner and voice coach
www.elisabethstirlingNLP.com
Bill Tucker is an expert Practitioner in EFT and German New Medicine
www.eftandmatrix.com
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Apply Now
For more info and / or application pack
email maggie@maggiekaywisdom.com
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How I Found My Soulmate
Extract from my new book
Diving for Pearls: The Wise Woman’s Guide to Finding Love.
How did I manage to find my true love and soul mate?
“Totnes is full of single mothers and hardly any single men” – my new friends in Devon were quite adamant. “I hope you’re not expecting to find a partner down here!” But I wasn’t moving to rural south west England to find a partner, not yet anyway.
After 16 years living in a Buddhist community in London, it was time to move on, and my longing for a rural lifestyle could no longer be ignored. But most importantly of all, my seven-year-old son, Jamie, deserved a more gentle upbringing than a city could afford.
Despite the good reasons, however, there was also an element of strange magnetism I couldn’t put my finger on. In many ways I was leaving a great situation…
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