Who We Are and What We Do

Juliana Brown & Richard Mowbray

We do group and individual work in Primal Integration and Bodywork. Primal Integration involves an exploration of our deeper levels of experience with a view to being more alive and living more authentically. This process fosters ‘growth forces’ which can help splits in our being to heal and blocks to our doing to resolve.
Traumatic and other experiences in early life may interrupt the wholeness of our development. Such experiences may have occurred during childhood, birth or before. Integrating these experiences into consciousness – acknowledging them as memories – reduces the confusion between what was then and what is now and releases more of our energy and qualities for life in the present. Primal Integration is concerned with both the recovery of the self one has apparently lost and the discovery of the self one has yet to become.
In our groups and individual sessions we endeavour to create an environment conducive to this process of connection, expression and integration and one which allows both the freedom to stretch our wings and the security to explore our most vulnerable and fearful states of being.
We also facilitate the process in a variety of ways including Primal Bodywork, and work with feelings, dreams, fantasies, thoughts, and words. Self-direction and self-responsibility are particularly emphasised.
The work we currently offer is a synthesis that we have evolved over the last 42 years since our training with Bill Swartley, the original developer of Primal Integration. Other major influences include work and further training with Frank Lake, a pioneering explorer of pre- and peri-natal experiences and the configurational psychology of Francis Mott. Richard has also trained in bodywork with Jack Painter (Postural Integration) and Curtis Turchin (Pulsing and Postural Integration).
Our comprehensive programme of Primal Integration – monthly weekend groups, weekly ongoing groups, periodic residential group intensives and regular individual sessions – has been running at the Open Centre and elsewhere since 1979.
We are co-authors of “Primal Integration” for Innovative Therapy – A Handbook (OUP, 1994) and “Visionary Deep Personal Growth” for What’s the Good of Counselling & Psychotherapy? (Sage, 2002). Richard is also author of The Case Against Psychotherapy Registration – A Conservation Issue for the Human Potential Movement (Trans Marginal Press, 1995) and various other publications in that area including for Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Sage, 1999).

Primal Integration & Bodywork

ONGOING GROUPS
Start
2021: 7 Jan Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 18 Feb Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 22 Apr Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 10 Jun
WEEKEND GROUPS
2021: 15-17 Jan Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 12-14 Feb Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 12-14 Mar Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 14-16 May Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 18-20 Jun Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis

EASTER INTENSIVE 1-4 Apr 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis

SUMMER RESIDENTIAL 2021 25-30 Jul 2021 Open for bookings

More info: www.primalintegration.com
Tel: 020 8341 7226 (Mon-Fri 9am-9pm)

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Guy Gladstone

My work is about restoring the capacity for pleasurable self-regulation. Bodily experienced feeling connects present behaviour with childhood and the past while opening a space for change in the future. I aim to integrate the catharsis of emotional energy, the inner space of phantasy, and the awareness of family patterns.
The work I offer is a passage, a transition, not a way of life. Along with an opening of the bodymind through Bioenergetics, I encourage openness to relationships with others in the here and now, using the action methods of Psychodrama. More recently I have trained to facilitate The Work that Reconnects and Carbon Conversations. I have also qualified as a personal performance coach with a view to supporting environmental and community activists.
Over the last 40 years I have acquired a wide background in groupwork, with experience of Encounter, Gestalt and Co-Counselling; and have trained in many forms of hands-on bodywork, including Pulsing, Postural Integration and Biodynamic Massage. In 1971 I was weaned from meditation and the esoteric by reading The Primal Scream, I participated in self-help groups like ‘People not Psychiatry’ and lived in communes with a therapeutic dynamic. I slipped into the emerging Human Potential movement without knowing it as such. Nine years as an international household removals contractor was my first training in helping people through crisis.
Previous jobs included teaching English as a foreign language, digging the Victoria Line and disc jockey on a pirate radio station. I hold the IDHP Diploma in Humanistic Psychology, am an accredited member of the UKAHPP, and a graduate of a three year training, the IPSS and a five year training in Analytical Body Psychotherapy with BAABP. The subject of my degree was Reich’s politics and the theory of bodyreading. I am indebted to Glyn Seaborn Jones from whom I learnt at the outset to trust my emotional body, to David Boadella who taught me how to be with other bodies, and to a psychoanalysis from which I have learnt respect for the unconscious.
After 37 years at The Open Centre, this will be my final programme of events.

Bioenergetics & Psychodrama

INTRODUCTORY EVENTS
Bioenergetics
Wed 13 Jan Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 17 Feb Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 21 Apr Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 9 Jun 2021
Psychodrama
Wed 19 May 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
WEEKLY ONGOING GROUPS
Bioenergetics restarts
(5.20-7.20pm) Thurs 7 Jan Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 22 Apr 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
(8-10.30pm) Thurs 7 Jan Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 22 Apr 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
WEEKEND & DAY GROUPS
Bioenergetics
6 Feb Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis, 12 June 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
Psychodrama
13 June 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
More info: www.bodyspace.co.uk
Tel: 0800 313 4844

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Silke Ziehl

I see my work as exploring with people how to achieve a more balanced and joyful way of living in their bodies and in the world.
Rather than ‘breaking through armour’ I believe in following the small movements, sensations, feelings, thoughts or intuitions which are accessible. By paying attention to them and allowing them to develop further we can unravel the knot, and move closer to a deeper, fuller, more alive energy and reconnect with parts of the body-mind-spirit with which we had lost contact.
To facilitate this process in others I use my amalgamation of Reichian Energetic Integration, Postural Integration, Pulsing and Huna Bodywork. But most importantly, I bring myself, my awareness, perceptions and feelings which I share with you.
Over the years I trained extensively in a wide range of systems of working with the body/mind/emotions/spirit. I am a qualified Bodypsychotherapist and Acupuncturist as well as a trainer in Postural Integration, Energetic Integration and Pulsing. I have run bodywork groups since 1978 in Britain, Germany and Greece, and bodywork trainings since 1982.

Deep Bodywork & Pulsing

INTRODUCTORY EVENINGS
Deep Bodywork - Sexuality and the Heart Connection Wed 20 Jan 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
Pulsing Wed 17 Feb 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
WEEKEND GROUPS
Sexuality and the Heart Connection 6/7 Mar 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
Pulsing Intensive - the back (training) 3-5 April 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
Pulsing Weekend - the front (training) 1-3 May 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis

TRAININGS & CPD
Deep Bodywork 1-year Foundation Training starts 28-31 May 2021 Postponed
Pulsing Intensive - the back 3-5 April 2021 Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis
Pulsing Weekend - the front 1-3 May 2021Cancelled due to coronavirus crisis

More Info: www.entelia.com
Tel: 07764 200 113 (Mon-Fri 9am-9pm)
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