CONNECTIONS
Group training events
at Sutton Courtenay Abbey, near Oxford
Programme Spring 2000
All events run from 1030 to 1700
(with coffee and tea from 1000)
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Never mind the Millenium, Who am I?
with Tom Greaves Sunday 16 January
The new millenium came in with a great deal of spiritual hype, much of which turns out to be an extension of postmodernism's obsession with glittering images and surfaces. This psychospiritual workshop cuts through the hype and explores the primary question 'Who am I'? in search of depth, mystery and well-being.
This workshop will look at what a Buddhist principles can do to inform us in our everyday life, both personal and working. We will explore a self discovery process where developmental and psychodynamic models link with the basic ideas of Buddhism. From a Buddhist perspective well-being is a state unconditioned awareness, a concept usefully understood as consciousness empty of forms. To reach this condition Buddhism recommends the practice of Mindfulness, a meditative process that cultivates tranquility and provides form and structure in thephenomenological landscape of the psyche.
Buddhists tell us that no-self, 'anatta', is the goal of supreme well-being. Psychotherapists are all too aware that it is often a lack of self that creates pathology, and we spend a good deal of time trying to build egos rather than let them go. The middle ground between these positions will be experientially explored in the group.
Tom is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, trained at the Karuna Institute where western psychotherapy and Buddhist ideas are integrated into Core Process psychotherapy. He is a meditation teacher and specialises in the relationship between Eastern models of well-being and western approaches to mental health.
Facilitating for change
with Paul Barber Sunday 6 February
Many claims are made for different understandings of groups and their facilitation but rarely is an attempt made to integrate them into a coherent approach.
In this experiential workshop concepts of change will be explored by sub-groups and the community, and notions of facilitation applied to the workshop group, acting as a virtual organisation/community. Within the model, physical, cultural, emotional, transferential, transpersonal and othe levels of both individual and group experience will be investigated. The the whole expereience should be looked upon as a day's collaborative inquiry into real-life, as it is perceived, constructed and unconsciously influenced. Gestalt, as the primary orientator, will emphasise engagement rather than theorising, current influence rather than that of the past, and the fermentation of an authentic I-Thou level of relating. Come to the workshop expecting to explore through engagement, your own - and the intimate world of others - and how this in turn manifests itself within the larger group or community.
Paul is Director of the MSc in Management Consultancy and a commercially based MSc in Change, at Surrey University. His doctorate researched group facilitation and personal growth; his approach combines analytic and humanistic influences, and he runs a private practice as a therapist and organisational consultant.
Being through Focusing
with Kate Brightwell Sunday 12 March
Our common language is littered with implicit awareness of how important our physical body is in our experiencing life:- Œlost your head¹; Œno backbone¹; Œface up to it¹; ŒI feel it in my bones¹; Œwarm hearted¹; Œbursting with pride¹; Œsure-footed¹, Œtouched¹ and many more idioms of speech link thoughts and feelings to the body.
Focusing is more than thinking or feeling; it is 'felt sensing' the knowledge held in one¹s own body and learning to listen as it unfolds through a unique interaction of symbol and sensation. This frees the energy of the Focuser's life to tell its story and move on. Focusing is a simple yet profound way in which human beings can connect with that which is 'more' than themselves, be it nature, the group or the spiritual forces beyond our normal ken.
In this workshop we shall get a taste of this way of listening to our bodies, and explore how being with each other in this Focusing way, changes our sense of being in the group.
Kate is in the process of researching for her M.Sc. dissertation on a particular aspect of Focusing and has been using it in her life for many years. She trained as a teacher of BioSpiritual Focusing 3 years ago, and teaches it one:one as well as in workshops. She is also a consultant in management and change processes, with a particular interest in how these link with spirituality. Email: [log in to unmask]
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The fee for each event is £40 (waged), £20 (unwaged) when paid on the day BUT only £30 and £15 if payment is received at least 10 days before any event. You can book for all three events for an inclusive price of £60.
Email bookings must be confirmed by post and the fee paid in advance.
Contact:
David Jaques,
7 Stanley Road,
Oxford, OX4 1QY
Phone 01865 724141 or 203255
Fax 01865 203255
email: [log in to unmask]
Website http://www.treda.co.uk/connections
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David Jaques
Educational and Organisational Consultant
7 Stanley Road
Oxford
OX4 1QY
Phone/Fax: (0)1865 203255
emmail: [log in to unmask]
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