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A school for consciousness: how an educational retreat is helping leaders transform their communities

For most of us schools are considered a place of learning, where we acquire the skills and knowledge that prepare us for working life. But while this may be true, it also misses the more fundamental role that school(change to education or learning) can play in encouraging self-actualisation – both for children and for adults too. (think we should make it clear here that some education may not support humanity and the point is that we need to learn how to manage ourselves, our emotions not just learn traditionally) Based in Mallorca, the Zulma Reyo School of Consciousness is an educational retreat which seeks to provide just that. Namely, a dedicated space for adults to achieve self-transformation through contemplation of the most fundamental questions of life and existence itself.

After the pandemic: how we can rebuild ourselves – and the world

For many, 2020 will be remembered as a year of momentous change. But what will become of its successor? Rather than the quiet return to normality, could it be that 2021 actually registers as something altogether more profound? That’s the hope of Zulma Reyo, an educator and the writer of the book Inner Alchemy: The Path of Mastery. Her work focuses on fundamental questions of purpose, consciousness and self-transformation. Questions which, for many people, will take on a new resonance after the pandemic. Born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, Zulma has spent 40 years living, studying and teaching across Europe, Asia and South America. During this time, she has immersed herself in diverse philosophical traditions, from western, eastern and esoteric schools.

Jersey’s Value to Africa

Behind Asia, sub-Saharan Africa has become one of the world’s fastest growing regions. With growth rates of 5.1 per cent in Ghana and 6.2 per cent in Nigeria in the third quarter of last year, some countries on the continent are eclipsing the opportunities on offer in other emerging markets. Despite this, Africa has only been a minor recipient of foreign investment. A recent report commissioned by Jersey Finance, ‘Jersey’s Value to Africa’, showed that the stock of inward foreign direct investment in Africa was US$687 billion in 2013, almost a quarter less than in Latin America and the Caribbean, and only 2.7 per cent of the world‘s total. However, there are signs that this could be changing. Over the past decade, Africa’s economy has grown by an average of 5.

175 years of watchmaking expertise

A watch isn’t necessarily something that you think of as being a feat of engineering. But there is far more to a watch than meets the eye. Underneath its face, a vastly complicated machine is silently chugging away. In that way, Patek Philippe are very similar to their products; a simple Swiss brand on the surface, but with a rather more complicated back-story. The watchmakers appear, on initial inspection, to be a resolutely Swiss brand. They certainly sound it. But there is far more to the watchmaker’s origins. Antoni PatekIn the early 1830s a Polish soldier named Antoni Patek arrived in Geneva, two years after leading an evacuation from Poland following a failed uprising against the Russian forces who, at that time, were occupying the country.

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