As from January 2007 Palden is retiring as webmaster, handing over to Jason Porthouse, who will present himself in due course. Thank you to everyone who, over recent years, has helped make this site successful - helpers, contributors and you, our visitors. The site now enters a new chapter, and I wish it well in the future. I shall remain a friend, supporter and adviser to the site. My own involvements are now increasingly in the Middle East than here in Britain. One example is the Hope Flowers School in Bethlehem, West Bank. If you wish to keep track of what I'm up to, visit my website at www.palden.co.uk.

I'm
Palden
Jenkins

Former webmaster
of
IsleofAvalon
until January 2007

Palden Jenkins

Over time I have worked as a webmaster, author and editor, teacher and speaker, adviser and project organiser. I now work mainly as a humanitarian worker in the Middle East.

I live in Glastonbury in southwest England – the ancient Isle of Avalon, and still a pilgrimage place today.
Blessed with four children (three of them grown-up): some family pictures are below.

Born a left-handed Virgo in 1950, I'm a 1960s veteran (Liverpool and LSE), with a rather long track-record.  Best valued for positive and original insights and understanding of historical, geopolitical and spiritual issues.

I have run bookstores, crafted lots of words, books and websites; campaigned for home-birth, peace and community issues; created three innovative social-educational projects; taught endless classes and workshops; spoken from many stages and counselled thousands of people. Learned lots from people and life too.

I have written Healing the Hurts of Nations (2003), The Kingfisher Encyclopedia of World History (1999), Essays on Geopolitics, History and the Future (1996), Living in Time (1987), An Illustrated Guide to the New Millennium (1997), The Only Planet of Choice (1993), The Historical Ephemeris (1993) and lots of articles. I've also edited many notable books in the mind-body-spirit and historical genres.

I originate ideas and perspectives with a rather unique, global and profound slant on things.
Perhaps a 'perceptual healer'. Sid Rawle, the 'King of the Convoy' in the 1980s, once called me a 'teacher of teachers and healer of healers'.

Online book-publishing: check out the Glastonbury Archive!

Major wearing-out of keyboards happens here at mission control
upstairs in our little 380 year-old cottage in Glastonbury!
Our cottage garden round the back is lovely – a blaze of colour in spring and summer.






I've created empowerment-oriented educational projects such as the Glastonbury Gatherings (1984), the OakDragon Project (1987) and the Hundredth Monkey inner aid project (1995). I ran innovative conferences and educational events indoors and outdoors for 100-400 people each time, in effect setting off a small movement, the 'camps movement', now perhaps twenty organisations with multiple offshoots, which over twenty years has touched many thousands of people in quite a few countries.

I'm actively committed to realistic personal, social and global change. Nowadays I'm applying it mainly in the Arab world - I'm specifically dedicated to Bethlehem or Beit Lahem in Palestine and nowadays work with Jerusalem Peacemakers and the Hope Flowers School in Bethlehem.


This life

I was born five years after WW2, at Hartfield House near Forest Row, Sussex, England - south of London, in the Ashdown Forest. (It had been the WW2 American Generals' HQ in England, from which the American aspect of D-Day was planned - an ominous start!) I grew up in Cardiff, South Wales in the 1950s and Liverpool in the 1960s.

Went to university at the London School of Economics (1968-71 - yes, a 'troublemaker'). Then I lived in the mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales in the early 1970s, and then Stockholm and the forests of Uppland in Sweden in the later 1970s. For the last 25 years, I have lived and been a community figure in the rather interesting small town of Glastonbury in SW England.


Here's my family


Ruth, my mother, born 1917Julian, my father, born 1917Sheila Martin, my partner, born 1957
Maya, born in Sweden, 1977Gwen (Gwynedd), born in Sweden 1979Marieka, born in England, 1989Tulki, born in England, 1996




Palden Jenkins

01458-834576 (*44-1458-834576)
16 Chilkwell St, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DB, UK

www.palden.co.uk

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