Letter from Judy, 2025

Dear ConsciousCafe Friends,

2025 has been a tumultuous year on the planet. It has been an emotionally exhausting time as each of you, no matter where you live in the world, has had to adjust to sweeping new changes affecting both your daily lives and the bigger picture.

At ConsciousCafe we have endeavoured to introduce you to many new ideas, tools and ways of thinking to help raise your consciousness and widen your horizons as all of us do our best to manage our way through this remarkable time on the planet. We would like to thank all the amazing speakers who we have worked with this year for their kindness and generosity.

In January Nick Haines revealed the major themes that were in store this year in his fascinating event, The Year of the Wood Snake. This was followed by Robert Holden giving you tools for greater self-awareness in his event titled Being More of Your True Self with the Wisdom of the Enneagram. Colin Smith in March taught us how to communicate and connect better using The Art of Listening.
Jane Gunn introduced new concepts of resilience in her April event, Barefoot Survival 101, while in May Steve Turner shared spiritual wisdom in Transformation through Turmoil. In the summer David Hamilton gave us wonderful insights about our health and our mindbody connection In How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body and expert global astrologer Jessica Adams revealed aspects of your future in Your Big Astrology Reset.
July introduced seers Carolin Rathbun and Trudy Marie Williams who shared powerful guidance on How to Access Your Soul Wisdom. In September spiritual teacher and astrologer Pam Gregory gave us up-to-date news in her event A Major Time of Transformation. Fiona Robertson took us back to the ancient past in October, enabling us to Explore the Magic and Mystery of the Stones while our final event of the year with Kirsty Allen demonstrated that Sensitivity is our Greatest Strength.
Huge, grateful thanks to Gina Lazenby who has hosted all of our inspiring speakers and presented all our online events. Huge thanks also to Tess Wilderspin and Karen Persad who support our admin activities with great competence and generosity.

Most of our past videos are available to view and enjoy and share on our website here so you don’t need to miss anything!

We want to thank all of you who have supported our ConsciousCafe Global Online events this year and it has been a great treat to meet some of you in person in breakout rooms.
Aside from our global events on Zoom, 2025 has also been an exciting year for new local community launches. We have been delighted to welcome John Hill leading his group in Great Yarmouth, Karen Blakeley whose existing group joined ConsciousCafe in Basingstoke and Davinder Chauhan who has launched a friendly new group in Milton Keynes. We were very sad to say goodbye to dynamic Jackie White who has stepped away from leading her local group in Totton but Jackie will stay connected with ConsciousCafe and we may offer occasional events together in the future.

We send our condolences to our lovely friend, Anne Jones in Burley, New Forest, as her very loving and supportive husband Tony passed this year. We hope to hear more from Anne in 2026.

We are very excited to be launching a new local group in North London in January 2026, and we hope to give you more news of other local groups launching early next year.

Meanwhile our popular UK existing groups have been flourishing. All our groups are run by volunteers who put huge time and effort and immense creativity into bringing people together to raise consciousness. We offer huge heartfelt thanks for Cora Kemball-Cook in Canterbury, Emma Loveheart in Newbury, Violet Dalton in Perth in Scotland, Gina Lazenby in Skipton in Yorkshire and Ruth Seodi, Dave Everett and Theresa Wassif in St Albans. We also enjoyed bringing people together for lunches and dinners in Central London this year.

Our local groups abroad have also flourished during 2025 and we offer huge thanks to Marianne Hartley in Basel who offers both online and live groups, Debbie King in Geneva, Katrina Evans in Johannesburg, Nurazida Daud in Kuala Lumpur and Sucheta Kohli Khanna in Singapore.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and we try to keep our prices as low as possible so that everyone can come to our events. With costs going up in the UK, it has recently become quite a challenge. We hope that our ConsciousCafe events have brought you great pleasure this year and we would be so grateful if you could support us via the donations page on our website because even the smallest amounts help contribute to our costs. The link is here and please do send us a note if any of our groups or our events have given you particular pleasure (or even changed your life!) this year as we always love to hear from you at info@consciouscafe.org.

Finally we would like to thank all of you who are reading this for contributing to our shared ConsciousCafe communities both online and in person. Your passion and energy fuel our mission to create a supportive and enriching environment so that we can continue with our mission which is ‘raising consciousness one conversation at a time’. In these remarkable times of growth and transformation, raising consciousness has become more important than ever for each one of us.

Please share details of ConsciousCafe with friends and family who you think would love to know about what we offer. Most of our recommendations come through word-of-mouth as we don’t have a marketing budget. Every recommendation is very much appreciated and we love it when people tell us how they heard about ConsciousCafe.

We wish you a joyful holiday season and a happy new year filled with love, growth, and connection.

With love,
Judy and all the ConsciousCafe leaders
www.consciouscafe.org