Eric Cassirer

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Underlying our approach is the creative influence of Eric Cassirer, who died in 2004.

Eric was a truly inspirational figure as all who worked with him attest. He was involved in the earliest days of the Human Potential movement and trained at Esalen in his fifties, when he changed career from businessman to healer and workshop leader.

Eric worked out of a personal integration of all the influences he had experienced and put out a call to all those who connected to him to be themselves. His workshops were a combination of movement, fun, seriousness and always surprise.

He never ‘taught’, but he had plenty to say and gave unstintingly of his own experience of having created an organisation in the 1960s in the USA.

His visits twice a year were a highlight of the Oasis calendar. He is deeply missed but his spirit lives on in all kinds of ways.