Guy Gladstone
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Bioenergetics & Psychodrama
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| 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 work to integrate the catharsis of emotional energy, the inner space of phantasy, and the awareness of family patterns. For me, therapy 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. Over the last 36 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 a member of the AHPP, 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 Reichs 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. |
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| INTRODUCTORY EVENTS 2008/2009 Bioenergetics Wed 3 Sep 08 Wed 5 Nov 08 Wed 7 Jan 09 Wed 25 Feb 09 Wed 22 April 09 Wed 3 Jun 09 Psychodrama Wed 19 Nov 08 Wed 20 May 09 WEEKLY ONGOING GROUPS 2008/2009 Bioenergetic therapy restarts Wed 3 Sep 08, 7 Jan 09, 22 Apr 09 Bioenergetic therapy restarts Thurs 4 Sep 08, 8 Jan 09, 23 Apr 09 WEEKEND & DAY GROUPS 2008/2009 Bioenergetics 8/9 Nov 08 8 Mar 09 6 Jun 09 18/19 Jul 09 Psychodrama 7 Dec 08 7 Jun 09 THEME WORKSHOPS 2008/2009 Facing up to Shame 5 Apr 09 The Rainbow of Desire 21 Jun 09 |
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