The Open Centre:
Trainings & CPD Workshops
(CPD workshop)
2010
13/14 November 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5.30pm, £120
The waves and cycles of our energy interweave inseparably with our feelings, thoughts, our actions and intentions, and also directly with those of the other person. These powerful non-verbal processes within and between us are at the heart of any therapeutic relationship – they are the web we weave together.
Recent research in neuroscience has revealed fascinating evidence about how these energetic processes in the relationship are closely linked to brain processes – the 'brain in the head' and also the 'brain in the body'.
In this workshop we shall explore how the therapeutic relationship directly influences brain functioning and brain structuring; and also the reverse processes: how the structure and functioning of the brain influences the energetic flow in the relationship. We'll draw some surprising lessons from this research on how to work effectively as a therapist.
with Silke Ziehl
Year 2 starts 19-24 November 2010
2010
The Advanced Training is for people who want to become more skilful at working deeply with bodymind, both their own and their clients'.
If you have extensive previous experience with bodywork, it may be possible to join the second year of this training.
Training brochure on request or download details from www.entelia.com
2010
with Silke Ziehl
27/28 November 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm, £120
Pulsing is playing with the rhythms of the body and allowing us to reconnect to them and it reverberates through all the body rhythms, harmonising them.
This Pulsing Intensive allows time for getting to know the basis of this kind of massage as it applies to either the back or the front, while focusing on expansion and contraction of the energetic wave and on following the natural pulses of the bodymind to reach deeper levels of integration.
The intensive can count towards a training leading to certification.
(CPD workshop)
2011
5/6 March 2011
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5.30pm, £130
In this workshop we'll explore how, as therapists, we can become more skillful at working with the somatic brain processes to achieve better therapeutic relationships and therapeutic outcomes.
We will explore how to:
• Become more attuned to the right-brain-to-right-brain connection that is the bedrock of any therapeutic relationship
• Become more mindful of our own bodily felt resonance with our client
• Bring our heart and empathy safely to our therapeutic work
• Clarify therapeutic patterns of holding, being authentic and being transparent in the light of resonance and intersubjectivity.
2011
A 2 year multimodal Facilitator Course 2010-13
Co-directed by Guy Gladstone & Amadis Cammell
HA is 21 weekend workshops, all with a preliminary evening and a follow-up morning meeting, culminating in a weeklong residential in Spain. While allowing for diverse intentions and an only minimally preconceived process, HA will provide an extended forum for psychological and social healing, an authentic spirituality, an encounter with creativity, and a reconnection with our bodies and the natural world. This is a post-modern interpretation of the traditional alchemical project, based on current transmutational paradigms and grounded in humanistic activities. We depart September 2011. Applications from individuals able to stay the course are respectfully invited. For details of a series of introductory evenings and one day workshops during 2010/11 please contact Guy.
2011
24 days in six four-day training blocks
Starts November 25-28, 2011
This one year course is an introduction to modern Reichian bodywork, combining intensive personal experience with theoretical and practical training. It is this continuous combination and interrelation of experiential and theoretical and practical material that makes this course so valuable – knowledge is gained from inside and outside and thus integrated much deeper.
The course is for both practitioners and non-practitioners alike. It can be a powerful supplementary training in Deep Bodywork for practitioners to enhance their current practice, and can equally be taken as an intensive one year course for personal development.
The course will take place in London.
Life is above all movement and change and being with ourselves and others. Animals remind us of that marvellous ability of moving with ease and commitment. Physical tightness, restricting beliefs, controlling emotions strangle our sense of self and our connection to others. Deep bodywork is a process of exploring these “blocks” and transforming them into available energy.
When more connected to ourselves and our inner rhythms and responsive to the changing realities around us, we feel more alive, can make better decisions, and gain more control over our life and relate better to others.
Course content:
• Working with body energetic processes:
the energetic cycle, working with breath, charging and discharging; phases in the energetic cycle, counterpulsations in the body’s energy flow, blocks in cycle.
• Energetic Integration: energy, movements and emotion; energetics in relationships; Gestalt techniques, enactment and bodywork.
• Segments of the Energetic Body: The formation and nature of armour in the bodymind; segmentation in body tissues, structures and functioning; trauma and healing.
• The development of Character: pre and peri-natal influences, stages in child development; character structures and character patterns; fragmented, oral, inflated, compressed, rigid patterns.
• The body as the basis of projection (of ideas onto others): working with projection, body transference and body countertransference.
Please contact Silke for more details.
Upon successful completion of the course a Certificate in Deep Bodywork will be issued.
There will be Deep Bodywork weekends on Oct 30/31 ’10, March 12/13 ’11 and Oct 8/9 ’11 at the Open Centre.
The course is for both practitioners and non-practitioners alike. It can be a powerful supplementary training in Deep Bodywork for practitioners to enhance their current practice, and can equally be taken as an intensive one year course for personal development.
The course will take place in London.
Life is above all movement and change and being with ourselves and others. Animals remind us of that marvellous ability of moving with ease and commitment. Physical tightness, restricting beliefs, controlling emotions strangle our sense of self and our connection to others. Deep bodywork is a process of exploring these “blocks” and transforming them into available energy.
When more connected to ourselves and our inner rhythms and responsive to the changing realities around us, we feel more alive, can make better decisions, and gain more control over our life and relate better to others.
Course content:
• Working with body energetic processes:
the energetic cycle, working with breath, charging and discharging; phases in the energetic cycle, counterpulsations in the body’s energy flow, blocks in cycle.
• Energetic Integration: energy, movements and emotion; energetics in relationships; Gestalt techniques, enactment and bodywork.
• Segments of the Energetic Body: The formation and nature of armour in the bodymind; segmentation in body tissues, structures and functioning; trauma and healing.
• The development of Character: pre and peri-natal influences, stages in child development; character structures and character patterns; fragmented, oral, inflated, compressed, rigid patterns.
• The body as the basis of projection (of ideas onto others): working with projection, body transference and body countertransference.
Please contact Silke for more details.
Upon successful completion of the course a Certificate in Deep Bodywork will be issued.
There will be Deep Bodywork weekends on Oct 30/31 ’10, March 12/13 ’11 and Oct 8/9 ’11 at the Open Centre.
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