Open Centre Weekend & Day Groups

September 2008

September
2008
Anger, All Angles

with Guy Gladstone

Sunday 21 September 08
10am-6.30pm, £65
(Full fee required to book)

This theme workshop in the Sensations Series is designed to do justice to the complexity of anger. It is packed with tried and tested procedures for getting a handle on anger. A guiding assumption is that we need to be able to choose how we communicate it. To do this requires a first hand bodily knowledge of its workings.

There will be opportunities to practice the expression of anger in an assertive mode as an alternative to exploding in a damaging hurtful way or imploding into passive aggression. Cultivating expressive capacities will be balanced by a focus on anger management, both of your own and other's anger. Experiential learning during the workshop will be reinforced by copious handouts for your ongoing use.

Exercises will be both verbal and non-verbal, silent and noisy. Methods will include movement, writing, visualisation, drawing, expressive roleplay, somatic techniques, structured anger discharge and group discussion.


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Primal Integration Weekend

September
2008
with Juliana Brown & Richard Mowbray

26-28 September 08
Friday evening 7-10pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-8pm, £114

For a basic description of Primal Integration please see our ''Who we are and what we do' page. The format of the group will alternate between a structured phase and a free-form phase during which what takes place is determined by what you choose to explore and what you allow to happen. The physical and psychological safety of the group is provided for by a set of basic ground rules. If you have not worked with us before, please contact us on (020) 8341 7226 (M-F 9am-9pm) to arrange an interview before booking.


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October
2008
Tender Toughness

with Silke Ziehl

27/28 September 08
Saturday & Sunday
10am - 6pm,
£110

This weekend we shall explore the issue of boundaries and how they affect our relations with others and ourselves. When we learn to recognize and to respect our own and other people’s boundaries about space and time, about what we consider negotiable and what we really will not allow in our private space, then we learn tender toughness – the toughness of clearly standing for our important boundaries and the tenderness of making very real contact across the now clear boundaries.

When we trust ourselves and others, when we clearly speak of what we will or will not do, then our longing for contact and connection will show itself and we will again reach out to others with interest and curiosity and a sense of safety and excitement, and can be reached by others too.


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