Embodied-Relational Therapy
Workshops and Courses
Autumn 2010 - Spring 2011
EROTIC CHARGE IN THE THERAPY RELATIONSHIP
Nick and Allison
Stroud, September 25th-26th; £125
Strong
feelings of love or attraction in the therapy room are often
experienced as scary and disruptive. In training and supervision erotic
feelings are sometimes not explored, or else the emphasis is on
suppressing them. Yet they are a very frequent part of therapy, and, we
suggest, an inevitable effect of the intimacy and intensity of the
relationship and the encouragement it offers to surrender to
spontaneity.More than that, erotic charge can
be a powerful tool for therapeutic change. This workshop will focus on
learning to accept and explore erotic charge while still maintaining
appropriate boundaries, and on making creative use of the experience
and everything that it brings up. We will use client material and
here-and-now exercises.
WHAT CAN THERAPY HOPE TO ACHIEVE?
An investigative workshop with Michael Soth and Nick Totton
Oxford, October 9th-10th; £200/£160 early booking
Refusing to compromise on ideals, liberating disappointments, and the nature of human potential.
This
weekend workshop is a unique opportunity to explore some key questions
and assumptions of our work - through supervision, dialogue, and live
work with individuals and with the group,within an overall embodied and
relational perspective.
Open to practising counsellors and psychotherapists from all approaches and theoretical orientations.
Download flyer here
AN EXPERIENCE OF EMBODIED-RELATIONAL THERAPY
Alison and Nick
Hebden Bridge, December 4th-5th, or Stroud, February 5th-6th; £125
A
mix of work on personal issues with learning new, useable skills around
embodiment and relationship, based on trusting, following and
supporting the process which is already trying to unfold. This
non-residential weekend would be an excellent taster for the next one
year training in ERT
TALKING WITH THE ANCESTORS
Nick and Allison
A four night residential at Unstone Grange, near Chesterfield, October 22nd-26th; £400/£375 early bird
In
each person’s life, our ancestors are potentially crucial allies and
crucial opponents. Through the chain of birth and death, we are
positioned in family narratives, family patterns: inherited themes and
unsolved problems which our immediate or distant forebears have passed
on to us, with the instruction to resolve them.
Using a range of
methods we will first explore our known ancestors, from our parents or
carers as far back as we can go, and a little further -
constructing a ‘family tree' which illuminates their role in who we are
and who we could become. Then we will
be contacting our 'unknown'
ancestors, all the way back to the original roots of our being, our
First Nation – using imagination, intuition, dream, creativity.
And we will be choosing ‘adoptive’ ancestors, figures from myth or
history who inspire us, and using ceremony to identify ourselves with
their role.Download flyer here
ONE YEAR COURSE IN EMBODIED-RELATIONAL THERAPY Allison and Nick
Four residentials at Unstone Grange in Derbyshire, 2011-12. £2500
A post qualification training in using ERT with clients (which can be followed up with a one year Advanced Course).
ERT
is an holistic integrative approach focusing on two facts about human
beings: we are embodied and in relationship. To be alive we need to
be a body, to be alive we need to relate to others; our greatest
challenges and our greatest joys follow from this.
As human
beings, we are integrated body-mindspirit; on the whole, we find this
condition hard to manage. Our nature seeks to express itself
freely, while at the same time protecting itself in conditions
sometimes of great difficulty. This double task of expression and
protection makes us often subject to contradictory pulls, and offering
double messages about what we feel, want and need. Through a
relationship which is challenging but supportive and non-invasive, it
is possible to disentangle our doubleness and allow our process to
unfold.
The course consists of four five-night residential workshops
running from Thursday evening to Tues day lunchtime: April 14-19, June
23-28, September 22-27 and Feb 23-28 2012. These will take place
at Unstone Grange, near Chesterfield (www.unstonegrange.co.uk). The fee
is inclusive of teaching, accommodation, food, etc.
Ask for the separate leaflet or visit the Erthworks website, www.erthworks.co.uk, for full details.
VENUES
ALLISON
PRIESTMAN
I have a passion for supporting people on their
healing journey, acting as a compassionate witness to
someone's unfolding life story. I hold a diploma in ERT and
am accredited through the Independent Practitioners Network. I am
committed to ongoing professional and personal development. I live in
Stroud, where I enjoy gardening, nature and dance.
BOOKINGS
AND ENQUIRIES To book, or for any further information, contact Nick at nick@erthworks.co.uk,
01422 886 525, 31 Nest Estate Hebden Bridge HX7 5BH. Please
tell us a bit about yourself when you book. If we have not worked
together, an interview will be required for the One Year Course; a phone chat is a good place
to start.
Deposit for weekend workshops £50, for Ancestors £100 (cheques made out to
Nick Totton). Book for What Can Therapy Hope to Achieve through Michael - see flyer.
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