Malcolm allows people to reveal themselves with a balance of compassion and insistence. There was a flow in our group thanks to him.
Loved the use of music and movement to unlock bodies and energies. Unusual for me to open up deep seated insecurities to anyone.
Malcolm made me realise that the anger inside me was not needed. His book ‘Falling in Love, Staying in Love, helped me with the doing of that.
Malcolm has an air of calm and peace which means he can support without rescuing and listen without advising. He works collaboratively and with great sensitivity…
Malcolm Stern has worked as a group and individual psychotherapist for more than 30 years. He is Co-Founder of Alternatives at St James’ Church in London and runs groups internationally.
His approach involves finding where the heart is and helping individuals access their truth. His London One Year Group is the centrepiece of his work and has been successfully operating since 1990. In it he creates an environment of trust, integrity and community, where participants can become skilled in relationships, communication and managing difficult conversations. The ultimate learning is to Slay your dragons with compassion.
Malcolm also offers executive coaching and organisational training programmes. Clients include the European Investment Bank, BMW, the NHS, Ordnance Survey, Triyoga, Bristol Cancer Help Centre, Guildford District Council and Cisco Systems. He is a coach for Inspeyer. He specialises in Conflict as a Force for Change and Authentic Leadership.
Malcolm’s new book Slay Your Dragons with Compassion (published October 2020 by Watkins) describes 10 practices for thriving in an unstable world, all distilled from his thirty years of intense group work. The book is filled with practical exercises, which are combined with real and compelling stories from the therapy room.
His book on relationships Falling in Love, Staying In Love, published in 2004, is available through Little, Brown Book Group and, as an e-book, through Amazon. Together with Vanessa Lloyd Platt, Malcolm co-presented the Channel 4 series on relationships Made for Each Other in 2003 and 2004.
He runs courses annually at Skyros (Greece), Cortijo Romero (Spain) and Finca Argayall (La Gomera). He also teaches occasionally at Esalen (Big Sur, California) and Findhorn (Scotland).
Between 2014 and 2017, he was involved in a project with Sarah Warwick and Peter Coyte – Seal’s former writing partner in setting Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet to music. To date the ten piece band that has been formed around this work have performed five sell out concerts, – Findhorn’s EarthSings , “Alternatives” @ St James’s Church Piccadilly and Triyoga.
Below the ‘Love’ track from the Prophet performed at St James’s Piccadilly in 2012:
Slay your Dragons with Compassion
A one year transformational therapy group beginning January 2025
We are at a crossroads as human beings on planet earth and life is now demanding that we transform ourselves in order that we may be able to transform our society and ultimately our human existence.
This group is an opportunity to dive deep into the heart of yourself over an extended period in order to make evolutionary rather than revolutionary changes. The process of change is a complex and challenging exploration and this one year journey will offer some extraordinary tools so that by the end of the year you will see yourself in a very different light and fresh possibilities will have been born in you. The course will use psychotherapy, bodywork, deep sharing, ritual and healing.
Skill Set
During the course of the year you will have the opportunity to refine and practise the following:
- Accessing and exploring honest authentic and heartful communication
- Practising honourable feedback in a group committed to truth and integrity
- Managing difficult conversations & honouring your own perspective as well as another’s
- To be comfortable with our anger, grief, sexuality and fear
- Liberate our potential to be extraordinary human beings
- Learn to love ourselves and in the process love others
- Recognise the power of living our lives in service to the greater whole
Malcolm Stern has worked as a group and individual psychotherapist for more than 30 years. He is Co-Founder of Alternatives at St James’ Church in London and runs groups internationally. His latest book “ Slay your Dragons with Compassion” was published by Watkins in 2020.
His approach involves finding where the heart is and helping individuals access their truth. His London One Year Group is the centrepiece of his work and has been successfully operating since 1990. In it he creates an environment of trust, integrity and community, where participants can become skilled in relationships, communication and managing difficult conversations. The ultimate learning is to Slay your dragons with compassion.
Cost & Venue
The Group will take place at the Jewish Vegetarian Society 855 Finchley Road, London, NW11 8LX and runs from 10 -5 on both the Saturdays and Sundays
The cost of the year is £2,400 (payable by instalments) plus the residential fee of £600 for shared room and full board at the “Earth Spirit Centre ” in Glastonbury (single rooms available for a supplement). The number of participants will be strictly limited to 16.
You can secure your place on this group by paying a non-refundable deposit of £400 -please contact me for bank details.
2025 Dates
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Month |
Weekend |
Location |
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January |
18 & 19 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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February |
15 & 16 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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March |
15 & 16 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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April |
12 & 13 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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May |
10& 11 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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June |
7 & 8 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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September |
13 & 14 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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October |
11 & 12 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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November |
8 &9 |
Jewish Vegetarian Society London NW11 |
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December |
8-12 (Monday to Friday) |
Earth Spirit Centre Glastonbury (residential) |
Podcast:
Malcolm Stern: Slay Your Dragons With Compassion
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Podcast: Gobsmacked! Episode 6: Malcolm Stern
Podcast: Slay Your Dragons with Compassion: Ten Ways to Thrive Even When It Feels Impossible
Healing the Wounds of Trauma with Malcolm Stern
Malcolm Stern’s 10 Best Spiritual Books
10 Ways to Thrive Even When it Feels Impossible with Malcolm Stern
Slay Your Dragons With Compassion: 10 Ways To Thrive In An Unstable World | Malcolm Stern
Extracts from “Courage to Change” – lecture at Alternatives St. James’s Church. London October 2015
Filmed by conscious2. Go to conscious2.com for full talk and many other inspiring wisdom explorations. Video editing by Matthew Ford and Tomas Sterner.
For more videos please go to malcolmstern.com/videos
For Malcolm’s YouTube channel go to youtube.com/channel/UCWRgkgqxgFYIENGv3qaHr2w
How to thrive even when life feels impossible with psychotherapist Malcolm Stern