Open Centre Weekend & Day Groups

June 2011

Bioenergetics Day

with Guy Gladstone

Saturday 4 June 2011
10am-6pm, £55
(Full fee required to book)
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This group is suitable both as an introduction for newcomers to bodyoriented personal growth work and an opportunity to go further for those who already have some experience in this area. Anyone who has not previously been to a group with me is welcome
to phone beforehand to discuss coming.

Energizing exercises, massage, and work with posture and body image will be used in pairs and in small groups. Otherwise members' needs and their interactions will decide the specific emphases of this group. An overall aim for the weekend is embodiment of balanced functioning between head heart and gut.

Exercises will be given to deepen breathing, free the voice, release muscular tension and improve your contact both with others and your own inner process. There will be an overall concern with increasing your range of feelingful expression and opening to the experience of spontaneous feeling from the core of your body.

I will encourage participants to share issues from their daily lives and/or their experience within the more structured parts of the group as starting points for deeper exploration. There will be different phases to the day - the whole group working energetically together, occasions when I work with individuals and times when group members pair up to give each other support.
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Psychodrama Day

with Guy Gladstone

Sunday 5 June 2011
10am-6pm, £55
(Full fee required to book)
June

2011
Psychodrama differs from other approaches to groupwork in that the invitation is to ‘show us’ rather than ‘tell us’. Though action-based no acting skills are needed. Actual or imaginary scenes from your past, present or future are improvised by the director, yourself and the group. There is a focus on one person’s issue, ‘the protagonist’. Other group members take ‘auxiliary’ roles as family member, fellow employee or figure from a dream, through which you may get more in touch with your own concerns. These are then shared before moving to the next protagonist's psychodrama.

Besides being an enjoyable introduction to groupwork (of which you need not have any previous experience) the benefits include an increase of personal power and spontaneity and a deeper understanding of your own and others’ difficulties.

A day of exploring your inner world and acting it out.
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Primal Integration Weekend
June

2011
with Juliana Brown & Richard Mowbray
10-12 June 2011
Friday evening 7-10pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-8pm, £118
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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The Rainbow of Desire

with Guy Gladstone

Sunday 26 June 2011
10am-6pm, £65
(Full fee required to book)
June

2011
Are you interested in exploring what stops you doing what you want to do or being who you want to be? Are you willing to embody all manner of images in the course of a day? Subversive and fun your powers of observation and openness to change will be challenged.

This playshop in the "Sensations" series deals with internalised oppression or the cop in the head. Using image theatre techniques developed by Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director and social activist, desires are clarified and made dynamic, obstacles to their realization confronted and a variety of potential solutions generated by participants. It is assumed that everyone can and already does act and help, thus democratising both therapy and performance skills.
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June

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 Walking on Air
Feldenkrais Method Workshop

with Scott Clark
Saturday 25 June 2011
10.30am-4pm, £45
Walking is great exercise — when it's easy and comfortable. For many of us, the ease of walking is restricted by difficulties in the ankles or knees or lower back, or even higher, in the upper back or neck. What we need is a way of sorting out the various bits of ourselves, and unifying them into a larger pattern of grace and power. Most of this workshop will consist of gentle movements lying on the floor, but we will be aiming at coordinations that enable the more robust activities of walking and even running.

(Phone Scott on 020 8469 0245 for venue.)
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