When I wrote the book about Catherine Harding’s life and vision, The Freedom to Love, more than ten years ago, all our interviews took place at her kitchen table in the retirement flat in Montpellier. I’ve always loved kitchen tables. Important conversations take place in the kitchen. You sit together amidst the hustle and bustle – or, conversely, the tranquillity – over a coffee or tea, and suddenly something is said which, looking back, turns out to be a turning point in your life.
Around that time, I also moved into my current home, without many possessions or furniture. One of the first things I bought was a small kitchen table. There was room for myself and one other person. That spot would soon be taken by Ama, who is now my husband.
I was already running Headless workshops and wanted to do so in the spirit of kitchen-table conversations: informal, relaxed, intimate – and thus the ideal place to create space for the new, profound insights that The Headless Way is so rich in. I called it the Headless Café. The Café has served us well. I’ve met lots of people and I still meet them to share our shared passion for living from the Headless vision.
For the past few years, Ama and I have been running workshops and international gatherings together with Richard Lang. This was a natural progression, as we know each other from the Headless circles. Since then, everything has exploded exponentially in terms of creativity and activities. This called for a fresh start; the Café has evolved into a Lab.
A lab is a wonderful place. Many researchers work there to gain shared insight – in our case, into our First Identity, who we are to ourselves, our True Nature. And the results are immediately peer-reviewed through mutual exchanges. In the lab, everyone’s insight is equally valuable.
That is why the Headlesscafe website is now being incorporated into a new Labs website. Relaxed, informal and groundbreaking exchanges are still taking place within a growing circle of Headless friends.
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November 2026