Open Centre Weekend & Day Groups

October 2011


Body Image, Discovery and Change

with Guy Gladstone

Sunday 2 October 2011
10am-6pm, £65
(Full fee required to book)

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Body Image is the inner mental picture you hold of your body and is closely linked to self esteem or its absence. Even if you manage to change your appearance through dieting, dedicated exercise or designer clothing, until you directly address your body image the roots of bad feeling about your body remain untouched. Whereas you might change your car or house for another one, you obviously cannot exchange the body you are born with. You can however change your present body image for a better one.

This theme workshop in the 'Sensation Series' will expand your choices of how you feel about your body. Through a range of imaginative and carefully structured exercises that follow a progressive route, you will research and isolate the causes of an unhappy body image; you will shift from over or under-awareness of your body towards feeling OK with it as it is; and you will generally attain a more positive and pleasurable relationship with your bodily self.


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Primal Integration Weekend

October
2011
with Juliana Brown & Richard Mowbray

14-16 October 2011
Friday evening 7-10pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-8pm, £120

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) or by email to to arrange an interview before booking.


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October
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Tender Toughness
Deep Bodywork Weekend


with Silke Ziehl

22/23 October 2011
Saturday & Sunday
10am - 6pm,
£110

We will explore in a playful and body-focused way how to make good boundaries that allow us to connect with integrity and joy. When we recognize and respect our own and other people’s boundaries, when we listen to our own and others’ choices, and when we differentiate and express what is negotiable and what is not, then we learn “tender toughness”- the toughness of fiercely standing for our important boundaries and the tenderness of making real connection across those boundaries.

When we clearly speak (with words and non-verbally) and really listen, our longing for contact will show itself afresh - with interest and curiosity and a sense of safety and excitement...


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