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 2010/2011 Bioenergetics Wed 8 Sep 10 Wed 3 Nov 10 Wed 5 Jan 11 Wed 23 Feb 11 Wed 27 April 11 Wed 25 May 11 Psychodrama Wed 17 Nov 10 Wed 18 May 11 WEEKLY ONGOING GROUPS 2010/2011 Bioenergetics restarts Wed 8 Sep 10, 5 Jan 11, 27 Apr 11 Bioenergetics restarts Thurs 9 Sep 10, 6 Jan 11, 28 Apr 11 WEEKEND & DAY GROUPS 2010/2011 Bioenergetics 6/7 Nov 10 6 Mar 11 4 Jun 11 16/17 Jul 11 Psychodrama 5 Dec 10 5 Jun 11 THEME WORKSHOPS 2010/2011 Anger All Angles 26 Sep 10 Anger All Angles 30 Jan 11 Facing up to Shame 3 Apr 11 The Rainbow of Desire 26 Jun 11 |
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