Open Centre Weekend & Day Groups

October 2009
October
2009
BodyTalk:
Deep Bodywork Weekend

with Silke Ziehl

10/11 October 2009
Saturday & Sunday
10am - 6pm, £110
This weekend is about improving your ability to communicate effectively through grounding your communication skills in an awareness of BodyTalk.

Rather than listening with your ears only and seeing with your eyes only, during this weekend you’ll practise paying attention to and using BodyTalk - the rich web of information that is going back and forth in any communication situation and can be brought into awareness and listened to.

Learning to listen to BodyTalk more attentively, in yourself and in others, you will pay more attention to the different levels of information and meaning that go on in the communication relationship and you will become a better communicator.

You will be astounded how much more is conveyed and received via BodyTalk from any communication! So this workshop is not only useful for improving everyday communications – it can be particularly helpful for people in professional interpersonal relationships.
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October
2009
Anger, All Angles

with Guy Gladstone

Sunday 18 October 2009
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
October
2009
with Juliana Brown & Richard Mowbray
23-25 October 2009
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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Freeing the Upper Back and Shoulders:
Feldenkrais Method Workshop

with Scott Clark
October
2009

Saturday 24 October 2009
10.30am-4.30pm, £45
In this workshop, we will explore several ways to reduce tension in the upper back and shoulders, and live more comfortably, with grace and power. We will look at ways that breathing can be a flexible and unifying key to the coordinations that give support and power to the arms and head.

(Phone Scott on 020 8469 0245 for venue.)
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