Peter Young

Principal of the Beshara School from 1984 to 2015:
Peter studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, and Ottoman Turkish at Oxford. For a time, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and later ran his own building company. In the mid-seventies he joined the Beshara School as a student, undertaking two long and intensive retreat courses under the supervision of the late Bulent Rauf.
He became principal of the school in 1984, and since then has devoted his life to serving the school and its students. He has developed a number of new study and retreat courses in both self-enquiry and self-knowledge, based on the oneness of existence, and regularly lectures and supervises courses in Australia, the US, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Israel and Great Britain.
He is married and has four children and several grandchildren.

Talks and articles:
The Gift - a short paper for Christmas (2013)
Working Together Between God's Two Hands
Ibn 'Arabi: Towards a Universal Point of View
An Education for the Heart
Education and the Self
11 September 2001 – A Response from Love
Letter to a War Zone
At the Still Point...