Integrative\, experiential supervision groups with Michael Soth< /strong>
\nThese small supervision grou ps run on a regular monthly basis (Tuesdays) on Zoom. There are three grou ps with 4 participants each during each Tuesday (11.20-13.20\; 13.30-15.30 \; 15.45-17.45).
\nCurrently 2 places available (from 13 Sep 2022) in Grou p 3 - 15.45-17.45 - suits experienced therapist
\nFor further information\, see the dedicated page or download the lea flet
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This semi-closed group has been running for several years no w (since 2015)\, with new participants joining the 'pool' of members as pl aces become available. Led by one of the most experienced integrative trai ners in the UK\, this group will provide an ideal relational container for your ongoing development as a therapist. By immersing yourself in a diver se group of colleagues from different schools and orientations\, you will widen your perspective\, deepen your practice\, draw both inspiration and challenge from the co-created wide-ranging experiential work and have a re ference point as well as resources and teaching to support your further de velopment.
\nYou can find a detailed description of the format and o bjectives of this group on the dedicated page.
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\nmaximum 9 participants - currently 6 participants\, inviting up to 3 new members from January 2023
\nFor further information\, see the dedicated page
\nmeeting bi-monthly on Tuesdays on Zoom (11.00 – 17.30)
\nmaximum 8 participants - currently 6
\nFor further information\, see the dedicated page
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When we say th at therapy is working or not working\, what do we mean?
\nWhen clients praise therapy because they think it is working\, or when they complain that it is not working\, what are th ey talking about?
\nIn order to address this question more comprehensively\, and to get to the bottom of it\, we need to integrate the different meanings and purposes which humans - both clients and therapists - have given to the idea of therapy over th e last 100 years. We then recognise that there are different modes of chan ge which clients seek and which therapists offer\, and that there are diff erent kinds of relationship which clients and therapists co-create. Whethe r client and therapist have a good and productive working alliance and qua lity of relationship depends on their meeting across all these different p otentials and meanings of therapy.
\nTraditionally\, the different and conflicting modes of change as wel l as the modalities of relationship are split and fragmented into the diff erent disciplines of the psychological therapies (psychiatry\, psychology\ , counselling and psychotherapy) and across these different disciplines in to different approaches\, schools and traditions (psychodynamic and psycho analytic\, cognitive behavioural\, a vast spectrum of humanistic\, systemi c\, transpersonal and integrative psychotherapies). Historically\, each di scipline and approach tended to offer its own very limited and partial und erstanding in quite a dogmatic way\, as if this was the only and best way of providing ‘proper’ therapy.
\nBut from the perspective of clients and patients\, who just want help wi th their feelings\, their mental health\, and their psychological well-bei ng and potential\, the multitude of approaches and disciplines is unhelpfu l. They find the fragmented field of the psychological therapies confusing and are not interested in the finer differences between theories\, models \, techniques\, and approaches.
\nThey are looking for a practitioner who can offer them what they need and seek\, what will work for them individually. They want their t herapist to be broad-minded and inclusive\, and capable of selecting from the vast confusing spectrum of the psychological therapies what is best su ited to them as an individual and their particular suffering and psycholog ical development.
\nAlthough ov er the last 30 years we have experienced an innovative and productive move ment towards psychotherapy integration\, arguably from the client's perspe ctive\, this movement often does not reach far enough:
\nIn th is workshop Michael will propose a simple distinction between three differ ent modes of change\, corresponding to different depths of therapeutic wor k\, that will help us to differentiate how clients need and want their the rapy to work - how they construct the therapeutic space both consciously a nd unconsciously. Because the different disciplines are to some extent def ined by different therapeutic approaches\, beyond that\, we will begin to explore the paradigm clashes between the different traditions and approach es of the psychological therapies\, and how to integrate them\, on those l evels where integration is possible and desirable.
\nThis then enables us to provide a broad-spectrum int egrative and comprehensively pluralistic foundation from which to tailor t he therapeutic space to each particular client.
\nMichael has been offering CPD workshops in Greece for m any years now\, both in person and more recently online\, usually with tra nslation between Greek and English. Although there is a significant theore tical element through slides and hand-outs\, even in the online workshops Michael's emphasis is on experiential work\, often in small groups\, somet imes in the middle of the group\, often through role-plays of client-thera pist situations.
\nLear ning Objectives:
\nFor this workshop we have formulated a long and detailed list of possible learning objectives which some participants may want to pursue. Depending on your own previous experience and understanding\, you may feel you want to aim for many of these\, or you may want to focus on just a few of them which are most relevant to your practice.
\nπροσεγγίσεις της ψυχοθεραπείας
\nμε τον Michael Soth\,
\nΔιεθνώς Αναγνωρισμένο Συνθετικό-Σχεσιακό Σωματικό Ψυχοθεραπε υτή\,
\nΕκπαιδευτ ή\, Επόπτη με 30 χρόνια εμπειρίας
\n—Το σεμινάριο διεξάγεται στα αγγλικά με ταυτόχρονη μετάφρα ση—
\nΠεριεχόμενα
\nΤι ακριβώς εννοούμε όταν λέμ ε ότι η θεραπεία πάει καλά\; \n
Τι εννοούν οι θεραπευόμενοι όταν επαινούν τη θεραπεία\, επειδή πιστ εύουν ότι τους βοηθάει ή όταν παραπονιούνται επειδή πιστεύουν ότι δεν γίνε ται τίποτα\;
\nΓια να μπορέσουμε να δώσουμε μια πλήρη και ξεκάθαρη α πάντηση χρειάζεται να ενοποιήσουμε τις διαφορετικές αντιλήψεις των τελευτα ίων 100 ετών ως προς το τι είναι θεραπεία και ποιοι είναι οι στόχοι της\, τόσο από την πλευρά των ψυχοθεραπευτών όσο και από των θεραπευόμενων.
\nΤότε θα συνειδητοποιήσουμε ότι δεν υπάρχει μόνο ένας τρόπος αλλαγής/θεραπείας που αναζητούν οι θεραπ ευόμενοι και προσφέρουν οι θεραπευτές όπως και ότι υπάρχουν διαφορετικά εί δη σχέσης που συνδημιουργούν θεραπευτές και θεραπευόμενοι. Το αν ο θεραπευ όμενος και ο θεραπευτής θα έχουν μια καλή και παραγωγική θεραπευτική συμμα χία και ποιότητα σχέσης εξαρτάται από τη συνάντησή τους\, η οποία διαμορφώ νεται και νοηματοδοτείται από το πλαίσιο δυνατοτήτων που προσφέρει κάθε δι αφορετικό μοντέλο θεραπείας.
\nΣτο παρελθόν\, οι διαφορετικοί τρόποι αλλαγής και σχέσης έχουν υπάρξει σε σύγκρουση και είναι διαχωρισμένοι στι ς διαφορετικές επιστήμες ψυχικής υγείας (ψυχιατρική\, ψυχολογία\, ψυχοθερα πεία και συμβουλευτική) και στις διαφορετικές προσεγγίσεις\, σχολές και πα ραδόσεις μέσα στις διαφορετικές επιστήμες (ψυχαναλυτική και ψυχοδυναμική\, γνωσιακή-συμπεριφορική\, ένα μεγάλο εύρος ανθρωπιστικών\, συστημικών\, υπ ερπροσωπικών και συνθετικών ψυχοθεραπειών). Ιστορικά\, κάθε επιστήμη και π ροσέγγιση είχε την τάση να προσφέρει τη δική της περιορισμένη και μονομερή αντίληψη με ένα σχεδόν δογματικό τρόπο σαν να ήταν αυτός ο μοναδικός και ο καλύτερος για να παρέχεται η “σωστή” θεραπεία.
\nΑλλά από την οπτι κή των θεραπευόμενων\, οι οποίοι θέλουν βοήθεια με τα συναισθήματά τους\, την ψυχική τους υγεία και την προσωπική τους εξέλιξη\, η πληθώρα των επιστ ημών και των προσεγγίσεων δεν τους είναι βοηθητική. Ο διαιρεμένος χώρος τη ς ψυχοθεραπείας τους μπερδεύει. Δεν τους ενδιαφέρουν οι λεπτές διαφορές αν άμεσα σε θεωρίες\, μοντέλα\, τεχνικές και προσεγγίσεις. Αναζητούν απλώς έν αν επαγγελματία που να μπορεί να τους προσφέρει αυτό που εκείνοι έχ ουν ανάγκη και ψάχνουν\, αυτό που θα λειτουργήσει για αυτούς προσωπικά. Θέ λουν ο θεραπευτής τους να είναι ανοιχτόμυαλος και όχι άκαμπτος\, έτσι ώστε να έχει την ικανότητα να επιλέγει από ένα ευρύ φάσμα ψυχολογικών θεραπειώ ν για το συγκεκριμένο προσωπικό τους θέμα και για την ψυχολογική τους ανάπ τυξη.
\nΠαρόλο που τα τελευταία 30 χρόνια έχουμε βιώσει μια πρωτοπόρ α και παραγωγική κίνηση προς την ψυχοθεραπευτική σύνθεση\, από την πλευρά των θεραπευόμενων η κίνηση αυτή συχνά δεν φθάνει αρκετά σε βάθος:
\nΣε αυτό το σεμινάριο ο Michael Soth θα προτείνει μια απλή διάκριση ανάμεσα σε τρεις διαφορετικούς τρόπους αλλαγής/θεραπείας\, οι οποίοι αντισ τοιχούν σε διαφορετικά βάθη θεραπευτικής εργασίας\,. Αυτή η διάκριση θα μα ς βοηθήσει να διαφοροποιήσουμε πώς οι θεραπευόμενοι χρειάζονται και θέλουν να δουλέψει η θεραπεία τους —πώς κατασκευάζουν τον θεραπευτικό χώρο συνει δητά και ασυνείδητα. Επειδή οι διαφορετικές επιστήμες της ψυχικής υγείας ο ρίζονται σε κάποιον βαθμό από διαφορετικές θεραπευτικές προσεγγίσεις\, θα ξεκινήσουμε να εξερευνούμε τις διαμάχες των υποδειγμάτων μεταξύ των διαφορ ετικών παραδόσεων και προσεγγίσεων των ψυχολογικών θεραπειών και πώς να τι ς συνθέσουμε\, σε εκείνα τα επίπεδα όπου η σύνθεση είναι εφικτή και επιθυμ ητή.
\nΈτσι θα έχουμε τη δυνατότητα να παρέχουμε μια συνολικά πλουραλιστική σύνθεση που να έχει ως βάση ένα ευρύ φάσμα θεραπειών από το οποίο να μπορούμε να εξατομικεύσουμε τον θεραπευτικό χώρο για κάθε συγκεκριμένο θεραπευόμενο.
\nΟ Michae l Soth διδάσκει σεμινάρια Συνεχιζόμενης Εκπαίδευσης Επαγγελματιών (CPD) στ ην Ελλάδα για πολλά χρόνια\, δια ζώσης και διαδικτυακά. Στα σεμινάρια υπάρ χει ένα σημαντικό θεωρητικό στοιχείο μέσα από διαφάνειες και φυλλάδια\, ωσ τόσο ακόμα και στα διαδικτυακά σεμινάρια η έμφαση δίνεται στη βιωματική δο υλειά\, συχνά σε μικρές ομάδες\, κάποιες φορές στο κέντρο της ομάδας\, υπό τη μορφή role-play καταστάσεων ανάμεσα σε θεραπευτή-θεραπευόμενο.
\nΕκπαιδευτικοί Στόχοι
\nΓια αυτό το σεμινάριο έχουμε διατυπώσ ει μια μακριά και λεπτομερή λίστα από πιθανούς εκπαιδευτικούς στόχους\, κά ποιους από τους οποίους οι συμμετέχοντες μπορεί να θέλουν να ακολουθήσουν. Σε συνάρτηση με τη δική σας προηγούμενη εμπειρία και κατανόηση\, μπορείτε να βάλετε ως στόχους πολλούς από τους παρακάτω ή μπορεί να θέλετε να εστι άσετε σε λίγους που να σχετίζονται περισσότερο με τη δική σας εργασία:
\nΑπευθύνεται σε
\n(ψυχολόγους\, συμβούλους ψυχικής υγείας\, ψυχοθεραπευτές κλπ.)
\nΗμερομηνία & Ώρες Σεμιναρίου
\nΣάββατο 5 — Κυριακή 6 Νοεμβρίου 2022\, 15.00 - 21.00
\nΚόστος Συμμετοχής
\n1 65€ Κανονική εγγραφή
\n150€ Έγκαιρη εγγραφή μέχρι 28 Οκτωβρίου
\n50€ Υποτροφίες (Θα δοθούν 1-2 υποτροφίες ανάλογα με τα έσοδα του σεμινα ρίου. Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι χρειάζεται να επικοινωνήσουν στον οργανωτή τους λό γους που αιτούνται την υποτροφία).
\nΒιογραφικό Εκπαιδευτή
\nΟ Michael Soth είναι Συνθετικός-Σχεσιακός Σωματικός ψυχοθεραπευτής\, εκπαιδευτής και επόπτης . Έχει ως βάση την Οξφόρδη της Αγγλίας με 30 χρόν ια εμπειρίας εργασίας και διδασκαλίας συνθετικής προσέγγισης. Αρχικά εκπαι δεύτηκε στο Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy στο Λονδίνο\, όπου δούλεψ ε αργότερα ως Διευθυντής Εκπαίδευσης για 18 χρόνια.
\nΟ Michael Soth εργάζεται από τη δεκαετία του 80 στο να ενοποιήσει τη ραϊχική και την ψυχ αναλυτική παράδοση και είναι ένας διεθνώς αναγνωρισμένος εκπαιδευτής σε αυ τό τον τομέα. Αντλεί έννοιες\, αρχές και τρόπους εργασίας από ένα ευρύ φάσμα ψυχοθεραπευτικών προσεγγίσε ων και ψυχαναλυτικών και ανθρωπιστικών παραδόσεων\, και τον ενδιαφέρει η θ εραπευτική σχέση ως μια ψυχοσωματική διεργασία μεταξύ δυο ανθρώπων που είν αι εξίσου πληγωμένοι και ακέραιοι.
\nΈχει γράψει πολλά άρθρα και διά φορα κεφάλαια βιβλίων και είναι συχνά προσκεκλημένος ομιλητής σε συνέδρια. Ήταν ένας από τους επιμελητές του Handbook for Body Psychotherapy and Som atic Psychology που δημοσιεύτηκε το 2015.
\nΣύνθεση ευρέος φάσματος μιας μεγάλης ποικιλίας θεραπευτικών προσεγγίσεων
\nΠαρακάτω βρίσκετα ι μία λίστα από τις προσεγγίσεις του Michael Soth\, η οποία περιλαμβάνει τ ις εκπαιδεύσεις του με σχεδόν χρονολογική σειρά τα τελευταία 30 χρόνια:
\nΣτις μέρ ες μας πολλές από τις παραπάνω προσεγγίσεις έχουν συνδυαστεί σε καινούργιε ς υβριδικές μορφές και ο Michael στοχεύει να μένει ενημερωμένος για τις κα ινούργιες εξελίξεις.
\nΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ - ΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ
\nΚιν. 6974789554
\nEmail: info@gestaltsynthesis.gr
\nSite: gestaltsynthesis.gr
\nFB: Gestalt\, Σωματική\, Συνθετική Ψυχοθεραπεία & Εκπαίδευση
\nThere are some deep and profo und reasons why the practice of therapy may be considered hazardous for th e practitioner and their psycho-biological health. Most therapists intend and attempt to work in a way that deeply and profoundly affects their clie nts' suffering. However\, in order to do this\, therapists need to open wi de the door of empathy. That door does not just have one direction - throu gh it pass the mutual impacts that client and therapist have on each other . By engaging with their clients deeply\, therapists enter into and also a bsorb their clients’ inner world\, their conflicts\, trauma and emotional pain.
\nIn a simple phrase which Michael has been using in his teach
ing for many years now: the client’s conflict becomes the therapist’s conf
lict (or in more psychoanalytic terms: bringing a holistic bodymind unders
tanding to the countertransference\, in order to access 'implicit relation
al knowing' and pre-reflexive intersubjectivity).
\nCompassion fatigu
e\, vicarious traumatisation\, therapist burnout and how to digest and pro
cess the psychosomatic load which is necessarily part of our practice - th
ese were the themes of a previous workshop (you can find the workshop desc
ription here) and a series of articles written by Michael which were publi
shed in the UK some years ago.
Michael brings an embodied-relation al perspective to these issues which are pervasive across the talking ther apies\, but cannot be understood or addressed comprehensively and effectiv ely within a mind-over-body paradigm. Building on the ideas of this previo us workshop\, and re-visiting them briefly for the benefit of new particip ants\, we will now apply them in some detail to your particular practice a nd way of working.
\nParagraph for previous participants:
\nThis workshop is an opportunity to deepen and experiment wit
h your understanding as you apply your learning to your own practice and t
hat of others. Participants from the previous workshop on the topic and th
ose who are familiar with some of the material and ideas\, will be invited
to take the roles of observers and supervisors in relation to new group m
embers who are joining for the first time. By challenging yourself to conv
ey your learning to others\, you will find yourself deepening your applica
tion of theory to practice.
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In what ways can we think of 'being relational’ as essential to ma king therapy work? But we also hear from dissatisfied clients as well as m ore medically oriented colleagues that apparently it can also ‘destroy’ th erapy … how do we make sense of this?
\nHow and why is the client-th erapist relationship claimed as crucial to the outcome of therapy? In what ways can this be considered to be fundamentally valid\, and in which ways can it become unhelpful or idealising?
\nWhen pressed\, mostly ‘bei ng relational’ tends to get equated with the therapist - rather than opera ting purely objectively just through the role of a doctor or clinician - g etting more involved as a person\, becoming more immediate\, more subjecti ve and more ‘authentic’ in their presence. But\, again\, the question is: what kind of authenticity and - in practice: self-disclosure - are we impl ying\, and isn’t it self-evident that if it is powerful enough to ‘make' t herapy\, it can also ‘break' therapy?
\nThere is no getting away from the underlying paradox that embracin g the therapist's subjectivity as a valid and necessary ingredient in a ‘t wo-person psychology' therapeutic process is a double-edged sword: if it c an heal\, then it also must have the capacity to wound\, mustn't it?
\nIn this workshop\, we will open up the diversity of meanings that have been given to the idea of 'being relational’ throughout the 100-odd year h istory of modern psychotherapy\, and attempt an integration that doesn’t b rush over the deep paradigm clashes and contradictions across the field\, but uses these towards a deeper understanding of the client’s conflicted p syche.
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ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΟ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΟ ΒΙΩΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟ
\nΤι σημαίνει σχε σιακή ψυχοθεραπεία\;
\nΠώς να καταλάβω τη σχεσιακή θέση που θ εραπεύει
\nμε τον Michael Soth\,
\nΔιεθνώς Αναγνωρισμένο Συνθετικό-Σχεσιακό Σω ματικό Ψυχοθεραπευτή\,
\nΕκπαιδευτή\, Επόπτη με 30 χρόνια εμπειρίας
\nΔιαδικτυακή Εισαγωγική Ομιλία με Ελεύθ ερη Είσοδο
\nΤρίτη 9 Μαΐου\, 20.30
\n—Το σεμινάριο και η ομιλία διεξάγονται στα αγγλικά με ταυτόχρονη μετάφραση—
\nΤα τ ελευταία περίπου 20 χρόνια\, το να είσαι “σχεσιακός” θεραπευτής δεν είναι πλέον μόνο αποδεκτό\, αλλά και της μόδας. Η σχεσιακή οπτική έχει επηρεάσει σημαντικά όλον τον χώρο της ψυχοθεραπείας. Παρόλα αυτά\, όσο περισσότερο επεκτείνεται η επιρροή της\, τόσο λιγότερο ξεκάθαρο γίνεται το νόημα του “ σχεσιακού”. Ο βασικός κοινός παρονομαστής είναι η αναγνώριση ότι αυτό που έχει σημασία στη θεραπεία είναι η σχέση ανάμεσα σε θεραπευόμενο και θεραπε υτή και ότι η αποτελεσματικότητα της θεραπείας εξαρτάται από την ποιότητα αυτής της σχέσης.
\nΠαρόλα αυτά\, ενώ η πλειοψηφία συμφωνεί ότι η θε ραπευτική σχέση και η “ποιότητά” της έχει σημασία\, αυτή η φαινομενική ομο φωνία καταρρέει με την πρώτη δυσκολία: δεν υπάρχει συμφωνία για το τι πραγ ματικά εννοούμε με “ποιότητα σχέσης”. Αντιθέτως\, οι παραδοσιακές προσεγγί σεις έχουν την τάση να ορίζουν το “θεραπευτικό σχετίζεθαι” κυρίως μέσα από το δικό τους πλαίσιο αναφοράς\, παίρνοντας ως δεδομένο το δικό τους υπόδε ιγμα για το “σχετίζεσθαι”.
\nΣε αυτό το σεμινάριο θα διερευνήσουμε τ α ποικίλα και αντικρουόμενα νοήματα του “σχετίζεσθαι” και θα ξεδιαλύνουμε κάποια θεμελιώδη ερωτήματα:
\nΜε ποιους τρόπους είναι απαραίτητο να είμαστε “σχεσιακοί” για να λειτουργήσει η θεραπεία\; Ακούμε από δυσαρεστημ ένους θεραπευόμενους\, όπως και από συναδέλφους με έναν πιο ιατρικό προσαν ατολισμό\, ότι το να είμαστε σχεσιακοί μπορεί εξίσου να “καταστρέψει” τη θ εραπεία… Πώς μπορούμε να κατανοήσουμε αυτή την αντίθεση\;
\nΠώς και γιατί ισχυριζόμαστε ότι η σχέση θεραπευτή-θεραπευόμενου είναι καθοριστική για το αποτέλεσμα της θεραπείας\; Με ποιους τρόπους μπορεί αυτός ο ισχυρισ μός να θεωρηθεί ότι είναι ουσιαστικά σωστός\, με ποιους τρόπους μπορεί να γίνει προβληματικός ή να αποτελέσει προϊόν εξιδανίκευσης\;
\nΑν επιμείνουμε στη διερεύνησή μας\, τ ότε συνειδητοποιούμε ότι ένα μεγάλο μέρος του να “είμαστε σχεσιακοί” τείνε ι να εξισώνεται με τον θεραπευτή να συμμετέχει περισσότερο ως άνθρωπος\, μ ε το να έχει μια πιο άμεση\, υποκειμενική και “αυθεντική” παρουσία στη συν εδρία (αντί να λειτουργεί καθαρά αντικειμενικά μόνο μέσα από τον ρόλο του γιατρού ή του ειδικού). Αλλά παραμένει το ερώτημα: τι είδος αυθεντικότητας -και πρακτικά αυτοαποκάλυψης- εννοούμε\; Επίσης\, δεν είναι προφανές ότι αν αυτή η στάση είναι αρκετά αποτελεσματική για να “κάνει” θεραπεία\, τότε μπορεί επίσης και να “χαλάσει” τη θεραπεία\;
\nΉ μήπως θεωρείται ότ ι το να “είμαστε σχεσιακοί” είναι ισοδύναμο με το να δρούμε επιδιορθωτικά με ενσυναίσθηση\, να παρέχουμε ακριβή συντονισμό (ή διαδραστική ρύθμιση τη ς τραυματισμένης ψυχονευροβιολογίας του θεραπευόμενου)\, κάτι που έλειπε α πό το παρελθόν του. Αλλά πώς μπορεί ένας θεραπευτής να ισχυριστεί ότι επιδ ιορθώνει κάτι παρέχοντας ολοκληρωτική αποδοχή\, ολοκληρωτική περίθαλψη αν δεν έχει πρωτύτερα προσδιορίσει και διαγνώσει σωστά μια παθολογία ή σφάλμα ή ελάττωμα\;
\nΤι είδος ιδέες για τη σχέση έχουν οι διαφορετικές θε ραπευτικές παραδόσεις\; Πώς αυτές οι ιδέες συγκρούονται και πώς αλληλοσυμπ ληρώνονται\; Υπάρχει ένα συνεκτικό πλαίσιο κάτω από τις αντιθέσεις\, ειδικ ά όταν προσπαθούμε να γίνουμε συνθετικοί\;
\nΔεν υπάρχει τρόπος να γ λιτώσουμε από το υποκείμενο παράδοξο\, δηλαδή ότι το να αγκαλιάσουμε την υ ποκειμενικότητα του θεραπευτή ως ένα πολύτιμο και απαραίτητο συστατικό στη θεραπευτική διαδικασία είναι δίκοπο μαχαίρι: αν μπορεί να θεραπεύσει\, τό τε δεν πρέπει επίσης να έχει και την ικανότητα να πληγώσει\;
\nΣε αυ τό το σεμινάριο\, θα εξετάσουμε την ποικιλία των νοημάτων που έχουν δοθεί στην ιδέα του να “είμαστε σχεσιακοί” κατά τη διάρκεια της ιστορίας των 100 χρόνων της σύγχρονης ψυχοθεραπείας και θα προτείνουμε μια σύνθεση που δεν προσπερνάει στα γρήγορα τις βαθιές συγκρούσεις και αντιθέσεις ανάμεσα στι ς ψυχοθεραπευτικές προσεγγίσεις και υποδείγματα\, αλλά τις χρησιμοποιεί γι α να φέρει μια βαθύτερη κατανόηση του ψυχισμού του θεραπευόμενου που βρίσκ εται σε σύγκρουση.
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\nΣάββατο 27 — Κυριακή 28 Μαΐου 2023\, 15.00 - 21.00
\nΚόστος Συμμετοχής
\n165 € Κανονική εγγραφή
\n150€ Έγκαιρη εγγραφή μέχρι 19 Μαΐου
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\nΔιαδικτυακή Εισαγωγική Ομιλία με Ε λεύθερη Είσοδο
\nΤρίτη 9 Μαΐου\, 20.30
\nΒιογραφικό Εκπαιδευτή
\nΟ Michael Soth είναι Συνθετικός-Σχεσιακό ς Σωματικός ψυχοθεραπευτής\, εκπαιδευτής και επόπτης . Έχει ως βάση την Οξ φόρδη της Αγγλίας με 30 χρόνια εμπειρίας εργασίας και διδασκαλίας συνθετικ ής προσέγγισης. Αρχικά εκπαιδεύτηκε στο Chiron Centre for Body Psychothera py στο Λονδίνο\, όπου δούλεψε αργότερα ως Διευθυντής Εκπαίδευσης για 18 χρ όνια.
\nΟ Michael Soth εργάζεται από τη δεκαετία του 80 στο να ενοπο ιήσει τη ραϊχική και την ψυχαναλυτική παράδοση και είναι ένας διεθνώς αναγ νωρισμένος εκπαιδευτής σε αυτό τον τομέα. Αντλεί έννοιες\, αρχές και τρόπους εργασίας από ένα ευρύ φάσμα ψυχοθεραπευτικών προσεγγίσεων και ψυχαναλυτικών και ανθρωπιστικών παραδόσ εων\, και τον ενδιαφέρει η θεραπευτική σχέση ως μια ψυχοσωματική διεργασία μεταξύ δυο ανθρώπων που είναι εξίσου πληγωμένοι και ακέραιοι.
\nΈχε ι γράψει πολλά άρθρα και διάφορα κεφάλαια βιβλίων και είναι συχνά προσκεκλ ημένος ομιλητής σε συνέδρια. Ήταν ένας από τους επιμελητές του Handbook fo r Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology που δημοσιεύτηκε το 2015.
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\nΠαρακάτω βρίσκεται μία λίστα από τις προσεγγίσεις του Michael Soth\, η οποία περιλαμβάνει τις εκπαιδεύσεις του με σχεδόν χρονολογική σει ρά τα τελευταία 30 χρόνια:
\nΣτις μέρες μας πολλές από τις παραπάνω προσεγγίσεις έ χουν συνδυαστεί σε καινούργιες υβριδικές μορφές και ο Michael στοχεύει να μένει ενημερωμένος για τις καινούργιες εξελίξεις.
\nΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ - ΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ
\nΚιν. 6974789554
\nEmail: info@gestaltsynthesis.gr
\nSite: < a href='http://gestaltsynthesis.gr'>gestaltsynthesis.gr
\nFB: Gestalt\, Σωματική\, Συνθετική Ψ υχοθεραπεία & Εκπαίδευση
\nIntegrative\, experiential supervision & professional developmen t group
\nwith Micha el Soth
\nThis medium-size gro up meets on a regular monthly basis (Friday evenings) on Zoom.
\nCurrently 4 places available (from 8 Mar 2024)
\nFor further information\, see the dedicated page
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in English (with expert simultaneous Greek translation)
\nOrganisation & Booking for therapists from Gree ce: Dimitris Tzachanis - info@gestaltsynthesis.gr
\n\nBooking & Payment for therapists from UK\, US and elsewhere: Michael Soth - michael.soth@gmail.com
\n\n< h3 class='article-editor-content__heading'>The therapist’s position: “I'm not a doctor.”\nEven tho ugh counsellors and psychotherapists are traditionally expected to focus p redominantly on emotional\, mental and verbal communications\, many client s invariably do bring their physical and psychosomatic symptoms i nto the therapeutic space.
\nAfter all\, bein g ill and suffering symptoms and bodily pain very quickly goes beyond the physical and becomes an emotional issue\, too. Illness makes us regress an d we tend to feel helpless\, scared or out of control\, and most of us bec ome more needy of emotional support. As therapists\, we have\, of course\, no hesitation to offer that support\, and that in itself is fairly straig htforward.
\nHowever\, this workshop addre sses those situations where the work goes beyond pure emotional support\, and the therapist gets drawn into the tricky territory of the psycho-somat ic and body-mind connection. Often\, the recognition becomes unavoidable t hat the psychological and the somatic cannot remain neatly distinguished\, but are in a constant mutually co-creative reciprocal feedback loop\, in both illness and health. The psyche is embodied\, and illness is a bodymin d process: emotional conflict creates muscular tension and physiological s tress\; trauma creates intense neuro-biological activation affecting our h ormonal and immune systems down into the microbiology of every cell. Our m ental states are manifest and mapped into our bodies\, and the state of ou r body in turn shapes and conditions our capacity for feeling and thought. It is now well established that developmental trauma early in life can cr eate a life-long internal bodymind atmosphere that is detrimental to physi cal health and a predictor of chronic illness and psychosomatic symptoms l ater in life.
\nBecause emotional and men tal well-being are so interconnected with physical health\, maybe the clie nt has a point when they are bringing their illness\, physical symptoms an d bodily suffering to the therapist?
\nSo how can the field of therapy keep its task and focus only on the psychological processes as entirely separate from the body and its tendencies to manifest the emotio nal and mental subjective realities? How can the therapist turn a blind ey e to the element of emotional suffering inherent in psychosomatic symptoms and illness?
\nAs many practitioners kno w\, this can become a minefield: on the one hand the client easily feels a ccused and shamed\, as if the message is that they have created their own symptom and are responsible for it. In reaction against this common guilt and shame\, many clients feel relieved by the idea that their illness is a purely organic\, genetic\, random physical affliction that can happen to anybody and has no emotional correspondence at all. The first category of clients feels totally responsible for their own symptom in an exaggerated irrational way\, the second category refuses all connection and accountabi lity in an exaggerated irrational way.
\nAs therapists we get caught and involved in these dualisms which are par t and parcel of the client’s inner world. We cannot refuse to get entangle d with these dichotomies\, without the client feeling that we have removed ourselves to a comfortably safe\, disengaged position\, where we restrict ourselves to dealing with the psyche and leave the medical profession to deal with the body. The client will feel that this is an artificial distin ction that fails to engage with the body-mind-psyche wholeness of their ex perience. They can only feel held by our care if we actively relate to the totality of their reality\, and what matters to them. Physical pain and s ymptoms\, psychosomatic disease and illness constitute a significant part of human suffering\, and our clients need us to engage profoundly and comp etently.
\nWith some illnesses - like hypertension\, chest a nd heart problems\, digestive illnesses\, symptoms of the immune system - it is scientifically established that emotional stress contributes to thei r origin. With many other psychosomatic problems\, like all kinds of pain\ , tinnitus\, insomnia\, chronic fatigue and many other unexplained symptom s\, it is known that the intensity of the suffering can be ameliorated thr ough psychological therapy that addresses the regulation and expression of emotion and de-stresses the mind.
\nStre ss is the catchall phrase that supposedly explains the influence of our ps ychological body-emotion-mind state on illness. However\, what is less wel l understood\, is how our bodymind does not just respond to stresses in ou r current situation and lifestyle\, but carries accumulated stress from th e past\, reaching all the way back to childhood. A holistic and bio-social -psychological understanding of stress needs to include lifelong patterns of the bodymind including developmental injury and trauma (what Wilhelm Re ich originally called character structures).
\nSometimes clients bring psychosomatic illness as a presenting issue to the therapy\, sometimes these symptoms actually evolve in direct respon se to the unfolding therapeutic process\, and the therapist gets implicate d in them\, e.g. “After last session I had a headache for three days!”
\nDirect links to body sensations and sympto ms as well as body image come up as part of our work in sessions every day \, in so many ways: tangible pains\, tensions\, trembling and shaking\, br eathing difficulties (hyperventilation\, asthma)\, the physical side of un bearable feelings like panic\, rage\, dread or terror. There are obvious s omatic aspects to presenting issues such as eating disorders or addictions . And then there are the psychological implications of actual\, sometimes terminal\, illnesses and psychosomatic symptoms and dis-ease.
\nHow do we work with these issues and symptoms in psychot herapy? What experiential ways of working are available to us\, to include the client’s ‘felt sense’\, their embodied self states\, their body aware ness and sensations\, their physiological experience in our interaction wi th them?
\nThrough including body-oriente d ways of working into the talking therapies\, we can learn to work with m any of these symptoms more directly\, more deeply and more effectively (as well as learning to recognise situations where the hope of ‘curing’ illne ss through psychology is an unreasonable idealisation).
\nThis CPD workshop is designed to expand your understandin g of the bodymind connection as well as offering a wide range of creative and body-oriented techniques to include in your practice.
\nIt will give you a framework for thinking about the rol e of the body as it is relevant in your own style of therapeutic work\, ba sed upon the different ways in which clients as well as therapists relate to ‘the symptom’. Throughout the workshop\, we will use roleplay of actual issues and dilemmas brought up by your clients. We will also identify and practice ways in which you can explore the emotional function and 'meanin g' of your client's physical symptom or illness.
\nMichael has been working with the psychological and bodymind connection o f illness and psychosomatic symptoms for many years. In the 1990s he initi ated a project called 'Soul in Illness'\, offering an integrative psychoth erapeutic perspective\, drawing on the wisdom which the different therapeu tic approaches have accumulated regarding illness\, both in terms of theor etical understanding and practical ways of working. He has run CPD worksho ps for therapists on ‘Working with Illness’ many times\, and has developed a relational and embodied way of engaging with the client’s bodymind. In 2005 he presented for the first time his model of ‘10 ways of relating to the symptom’\, which addresses the client’s own relationship to their symp tom\, as well as giving an overview of the different stances taken by ther apists in the various therapeutic approaches that correspond to each of th e ways of relating to the symptom. These ten ways of relating to the sympt om\, including the corresponding theoretical understandings as well as met hods and techniques for intervention\, will form the underlying framework for this workshop.
\nThis framework is no w almost 30 years old\, and has stood the test of time. It is based on the principle that all ten different ways of relating to the symptom are ther apeutically valid\, but all of them are also limited and partial\, and the y all can be used defensively and therefore become misleading and dangerou s in degrees. It is only their comprehensive integration which brings out their full potential\, in concert with all the other - very different\, so metimes contradictory but equally valid - ways of relating to the symptom. Over the weekend\, we will clarify what these ten different relationships are\, how to be sensitive to all of them as well as fluid between them.\n
This requires an appreciation of all the different techniques and ideas which different psychotherapeutic approach es have developed over the last 100 years in relation to illness. Drawing on a wide range of humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches (including Bod y Psychotherapy\, Process-oriented Psychology\, various schools of psychoa nalysis and Jungian perspectives) as well as the holistic paradigm underpi nning most complementary therapies\, we will weave together an interdiscip linary bodymind approach which is applicable within the therapeutic relati onship as we know it in counselling and psychotherapy.
\nFormat\, learning environment and scope of the wee kend
\nThis will be an online Zo om weekend\, organised in Greece for Greek therapists\, but taking place i n English with simultaneous Greek translation\, so all English-speaking th erapists from across the planet are invited. Michael's work and workshops are integrative\, therefore suitable and of interest for therapists from a cross the diverse therapeutic approaches and traditions. It will be most l ikely the participants will bring very different levels of experience to t his workshop - we will try to do justice to this and attempt to try and tu rn that problem into a productive feature of our work together.
\nAlthough we will be online\, communicating via co mputer screens\, Michael's teaching and workshops aim to be as experientia l as possible within these limitations. Over the course of the weekend\, M ichael will invite participants to volunteer examples from their work for supervision demonstrations in the middle of the group. Some of the work wi ll take place in small groups. Experiential work and theoretical input and discussions as well as group process and skills practice will interweave in response to the emerging needs and priorities of the group and its part icipants. We want to be especially mindful of confidentiality\, and commit to a shared undertaking that nothing from the workshop will be indiscreet ly shared with others\, other than your very own personal-professional res ponses to the workshop. Based on that understanding\, we are proposing to record the workshop\, so the recording can be shared amongst participants for future reference.
\nSome of t he possible learning objectives:
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Michael Soth is an integral-relation al Body Psychotherapist\, trainer and supervisor\, who studied\, lived and worked in the UK between 1982 and 2021. During those four decades\, he ta ught on a variety of counselling and therapy training courses\, alongside working as Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy.< /p>\n
Inheriting concepts\, values and ways o f working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions\, he is inter ested in the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two pe ople who are both wounded and whole.
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In his work and teaching\, he integrates an unusually wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches\, working towards ful l-spectrum integration of all therapeutic modalities and approaches\, each with their gifts\, wisdoms and expertise as well as their shadow aspects\ , fallacies and areas of obliviousness.
\nHis original training at Chiron in the early 1980’s was based on body-ori ented holistic psychotherapy\, strongly rooted in the Reichian and post-Re ichian tradition (including Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics\, David Boadel la's Biosynthesis and Gerda Boyesen's Biodynamic Psychology). These approa ches gave him a strong grounding in bottom-up\, energetic\, bodymind ways of thinking and working\, which were supplemented by Gestalt\, Process-ori ented Psychology and a variety of complementary holistic bodywork therapie s. Towards the end of the 1980s - through his practice and his own process - he began developing psychoanalytic understandings across a variety of p sychodynamic orientations\, including Jungian analytic psychology and Hill man's archetypal psychology. During the 1990s\, he became one of the early pioneers of psychotherapy integration in the UK\, reaching further into o ther traditions and approaches like existential\, systemic and family cons tellations.
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In the mid-1990s he initiated the holistic health consultancy\, a pro ject exploring soul in illness\, offering a unique integrative holistic ap proach to psychosomatic symptoms\, dis-ease and chronic illness. Based on his experiences and work with clients who came to him through this avenue\ , he began distinguishing the 10 different relationships to the symptom\, which form the foundation for this workshop which was previously entitled 'Working with Illness in Psychotherapy'. For many years he used to run thi s workshop annually\, for counsellors and psychotherapists from across the various approaches\, supporting their attempts to integrate bodymind pers pectives and bottom-up ways of working into the talking therapies. Over th e last 25 years\, the somatic trauma therapies have made these perspective s and ways of working much more accessible and widespread\; however\, they often do not include psychoanalytic\, systemic and relational considerati ons in their work with the body's spontaneous processes. Therefore\, in ma ny regards\, this weekend offers an original and still rare opportunity to transcend the limitations of the fragmented traditions as we find them in the field of psychotherapy\, as well as the dualistic assumptions and par adigms inherent in the talking therapies.
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In 2021 Michael left the UK\, and is no w living near the rainforest in Central America\, where he continues to wo rk online as well as building a sustainable regenerative retreat and refug e\, which will host workshops and trainings in the future.
\nHe has written numerous articles and is a frequent pre senter at conferences. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Body Psychot herapy and Somatic Psychology\, published in 2015. Extracts from his published writing as well as hand-outs\, blogs and summaries of presentati ons are available through his website for INTEGRA CPD: www.integra-cpd.co. uk.
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150€ + VAT until March 10
\n210€ + VAT until March 30
\n270€ + VAT until workshop date April 13
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A series of three CPD Zoom workshops\, for therapeutic practitioners from across all modalities\, with Michael Soth
\nEach session includes some theor y\, a supervision demonstration and discussion
\nSunday afternoons Feb 9\, Mar 9\, April 6\, 13: 00 - 16:00 UK time
\nIntegrative CPD learning f or practising therapists from across all approaches\, developing principle s of relational groundedness when confronted with severe psychopathology\, without succumbing to objectifying and pathologising therapeutic manoeuve rs
\nIn this brief series of three online workshops\, we will work together towards establishing a frame\, an overview and some fundamental principles for engaging with clients whom you find disturbing\ , and whose way of relating\, attachment style\, trauma or extreme states make it hard for you to establish a working alliance.
\nMost likely you are wondering whether there's anything beneficial you have to offer\, and whether you\, your therapy\, or therapy in general are a suitable matc h for the client. You question your competence and whether what you can an d are doing is helpful\, or potentially damaging\, to the client or to bot h of you. This is typically the moment when your therapeutically-trained m ind will start to make sense of the vicissitudes of the relational field\, which you find yourself in\, via the medical notions and labels we have a cquired from psychiatry.
\nBeyond the limited usefulness of dubious psychopathological and diagnostic categories\, what are your options for r elating both on a human and professional level\, in a way that does justic e to the person in front of you\, both their suffering and their potentia l\, as well as protecting you from overreach\, damaging entanglements and ultimately complaints?
\nIn these few short hours\, we will not atte mpt to establish theoretical clarity in what is historically a conceptual minefield across the profession. Rather\, we will try to find relational g round in our own embodied sense of disturbance\, whether that manifests as \, for example\, mental confusion\, professional inadequacy\, traumatising imagery\, strong emotion or somatic countertransference. We will experien tially encounter - through supervision demonstrations that involve the who le group - a few typical examples of client-therapist situations\, volunte ered by participants. These will serve as illustrations and reference poin ts for our learning\, exploring how the perennial dilemmas and paradoxes o f the therapeutic position can be inhabited and navigated\, when we get pu shed beyond our comfort zone.
\nHowever\, we will not ignore the thi nking and the theories of the therapeutic traditions altogether\, but use them as imaginative material for associations that deepen our understandin g of our internal process within the therapeutic position. Your commitment to the course will include a few selected readings and other background m aterials that you need to study in preparation\, and which will give us a foundation for some shared language among participants. This should make o ur work together more precise and efficient\, and more helpful in you appl ying your learning to your everyday practice afterwards.
\nGroup composition and configuration
These workshops have been initiated and requested by Michael's colleagues in Oxford\, UK\, through the professional referral network and community he helped to found in 2015\, OTS (Oxford Therapy and Self-Devel opment). Therefore\, the group will include a significant number of partic ipants who know each other and have worked with each other before. But all therapists\, from across the approaches and modalities\, and from all kin ds of geographical locations\, are invited to join in this rich learning o pportunity. Through Michael's previous teaching connections\, it is likely that the group will include therapists from Pakistan\, Greece and other c ountries. We can expect that participants will bring quite different level s of previous experience to these workshops as well as familiarity with a wide and diverse range of therapeutic approaches - we will try to do justi ce to this and attempt to try and turn that problem into a productive feat ure of our work together.
\nHow t o get the best out of working online
\nMichael has experimented for quite a few years now with the online format of Zoom for shared group experience\, in a way that maximises spont aneous and embodied engagement. Although there may be a significant theore tical element through slides and hand-outs\, even in the online workshops Michael's emphasis is on experiential work\, often in the middle of the gr oup\, sometimes in smaller breakout groups\, often through role-plays of c lient-therapist situations. Michael has been running similar CPD workshops since 2012\, both in person in different locations as well as online\, wi th different frequencies and formats. Like all other groups that Michael f acilitates\, this proposed group will be cross-modality\, aiming to stretc h across humanistic and psychodynamic traditions\, and embracing - what he calls a broad-spectrum - integrative perspective. That means he aims to d raw fluidly from all the disciplines and approaches of the psycho logical therapies\, and their accumulated gifts\, knowledge and wisdoms\, and that your particular approach and style will be welcome.
\nProposed format of this workshop series
\nAlthough Michael's workshops usual ly include significant degree of unstructured space and emergent process w ithin the group\, for the purpose of these workshops and the topic we need to be focused and structured.
\nEach ses sion will include an initial discussion of theory and basic principles whi ch we will then use as a foundation for observational tasks during the sup ervision demonstration that is to follow in the second part. Participants are invited to volunteer a particular case during the week preceding the s ession via email\, setting out the issues\, headlines and complications of the work. From the variety of client-therapist situations offered\, Micha el will have selected one that seems most promising both for their clinica l richness as well as for the learning opportunities they appear to offer for the group. Michael will aim to facilitate the supervision demonstratio n in a way that allows for stops and starts\, i.e. timeouts during which t he group is invited to help reflect on the process of the supervision\, be fore we go back and continue. This should offer significant opportunities for all participants to become involved as well as giving us a chance for paying attention to parallel processes.
\nThe third part of each session will allow for questions and answers\, int egration and discussion and further shared learning\, through reflecting t ogether on the demonstration.
\nR espect and confidentiality
\nWe want to be mindful of the delicacy of the proposed format\, in terms of th e volunteer's direct exposure to the group\, and the client's indirect exp osure as well. It is important that we all observe confidentiality\, and c ommit to a shared undertaking that nothing from the workshop will be indis creetly shared with others\, other than your very own personal-professiona l responses to the material.
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in English (with expert simultaneous Gr eek translation)
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\nMore info for participants from Greece: Dimitris Tzachani s - info@gesta ltsynthesis.gr
\nMore info for participants from UK\, US an d elsewhere: Mich ael Soth
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50 years ago\, when Fritz Perl s demonstrated Gestalt therapy for the first time on television\, many peo ple were gripped and inspired by the immediacy\, vibrancy and powerful imp act of working in the 'here & now'. The idea of attending to the 'phenomen ology of the present moment' - rather than focusing on the past\, the hist ory of the biography\, the roots of adult experience in childhood developm ent - profoundly changed the way we thought about what was possible in the rapy\, and how long it had to take.
\nBut now\, 50 years later\, for many people interested in self-development and therapy\, 'being here and now' has become an 'old' idea\, no longer fashi onable - apparently over the last few decades the idea has lost its revolu tionary and revelatory appeal. Of course\, to the eternal now\, our silly fashions and disenchantments are of no concern - the present moment just c ontinues\, undisturbed by our lack of appreciation of it. Of course it's a n 'old' idea\, thousands of years old. But apparently\, humanity still has n't got the point\, after all this time - how much continuous present has to pass before we wake up and get the message?
\nHumanity - and much of the therapeutic field - seems to be as busy as ever repeating and regurgitating the past\, or hankering after a futur e that is supposed to be more fulfilling than the present. All the while\, the potential of the present moment is being aborted by our frantic and m isguided efforts and our refusal or incapacity to let go into the 'here an d now'.
\nOur busy minds are lost and for getful\, clinging onto the past and grasping towards the future\, missing the only moment in which life can be found. With virtual reality and artif icial intelligence threatening to take over\, connecting with the vitality of flesh-and-blood bodymind intelligence in the 'here and now' seems more important than ever\, doesn't it?
\nSo m aybe we have to revisit and re-appreciate the old idea of 'being here and now'?
\nFor the purpose of self-developme nt\, the 'here and now' is the alpha and omega. No change has ever happene d in the past\, and no transformation will ever occur in the future\, howe ver desperately we are seeking. But how can our awareness milk the present moment for its sweet nectar\, how can we fully surrender and extract from it everything it offers and has always offered? How can we attend to the full potential of the emergent process in the 'here and now'?
\nOutside of Buddhist teaching and mindfulness where attention to the present moment is one of the foundational pillars of prac tice\, in the field of psychotherapy the significance of working in the 'h ere and now' has been declared and demonstrated most strongly and explicit ly by Gestalt therapy. But as a therapeutic approach that is now more than 70 years old\, Gestalt has its limitations. The more we understand what t hese limitations are\, and by complementing these with models\, ideas and techniques drawn from other therapeutic approaches\, the more we are able to reinvigorate the practice of Gestalt therapy with its original promise. Many people saw that promise manifested in Fritz Perls' famous TV present ations\, where he demonstrated his work in the 'here and now' with volunte ers from the audience. Many modern Gestalt therapists are very critical of Perls\, arguing that he set a bad example for what they consider the esse nce of Gestalt.
\nThe paradoxical principle of change
\nLike few other therapeutic approaches\, Gestalt is known for its focus on vibrancy\ , immediacy and experiential engagement. This is what many people are look ing for in effective therapy - a method they can experience as having imme diate\, 'here and now' impact\, that can be verified tangibly\, subjective ly. It does not require speculation or discipline or belief. As the client \, you do not have to sign up to anything\, you are not required to believ e or take on board anything that's not immediately obvious from your own e xperience. That doesn't mean it's easy - on the contrary: the more that Ge stalt invites us into the 'here and now'\, the more we discover a fundamen tal - and to some extent disturbing and frustrating - paradox\, discovered and formulated by Gestalt therapists 50 years ago: change happens whe n we accept what is. This apparently simple and innocuous phrase is a rabbit hole\, or maybe a wormhole\, into the mysteries of the 'here and n ow'.
\nThis online weekend workshop is an attempt to approach some of these existential mysteries through active\, experiential exploration\, by drawing on the wisdom and creativity of Gest alt as demonstrated by Fritz Perls\, whilst maintaining also an awareness of the criticisms and dangers that have been brought against it. It is an opportunity for you to access the best that Gestalt has to offer in terms of making your 'here and now' experience the centrepoint of everything\, a nd entering its transformative paradoxes. Will it make a profound differen ce to your life and change you? Yes\, if you can accept what is\, in the h ere and now!
\nThis will be an online Zoom weekend\, organised in Greece for Greek participants\, but taking place in English with simultaneous Greek transla tion\, so English-speaking participants from across the planet are invited . We can expect that participants will bring quite different levels of pre vious experience to this workshop as well as familiarity with different ki nds of therapy - we will try to do justice to this and attempt to try and turn that problem into a productive feature of our work together.
\nMichael has experimented for quite a few years now with the online format of Zoom for shared group experience\, in a way that maximises spontaneous and embodied engagement. Throughout the weekend \, he will offer brief thoughts around some fundamental principles\, givin g some theoretical frame to our exploration so that we can more deeply att end to each other's experience. But most of the weekend is dedicated to ex periential engagement through pair work\, small group work and especially to individual demonstrations\, reminiscent of Fritz Perls\, when Michael w ill work with volunteers. Most participants find that - whether they volun teer or not - they can identify and have their own issues touched and addr essed through somebody else's individual work that resonates deeply.
\nWe want to be mindful of confidentiality\, a nd commit to a shared undertaking that nothing from the workshop will be i ndiscreetly shared with others\, other than your very own personal-profess ional responses to the workshop.
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\nM ore Info & Booking: website: https://upliftingevent.com/
\nMore info for partic ipants from Greece: Dimitris Tzachanis - info@gestaltsynthesis.gr
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