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MINDFULNESS, RESILIENCE AND HARMONY
MINDFULNESS, RESILIENCE AND HARMONY
A 6-day Summer School-Retreat for Practitioners
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SUNDAY 14 JULY - FRIDAY 19 JULY 2013
PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 14 JULY
 
15.00 Dr Stephen Harding
Deep Time Walk
Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth will lead you on a Deep Time Walk out in the country, looking at aspects of deep ecology, Gaia Theory and Deep Time.
 
19.30 - SUPPER AND WELCOME
 
MONDAY 15 JULY
 
10.00 Jane Ryan
Therapists and Sustainability
As well as offering great riches, the “impossible profession” demands a great deal from the practitioner - to relate, absorb, tolerate projections, and to listen to painful narratives of trauma while setting your own needs on one side. In this introductory session we will look at how one continues to do this work, and what you need personally to make it sustainable.
 
11.30 COFFEE
 
12.00 Nigel Wellings
Kindness and Acceptance
When we begin to know ourselves mindfully, what we initially find is not a blissful experience but what was already there though hidden - thoughts all over the place, crazy emotions and lots of aches and pains. Turning towards ourselves in this way offers an opportunity to drop the tyranny of self improvement and with, enormous kindness, begin to accept who we presently are. In this session we will discover how.
 
14.30 - 17.00 Nigel Wellings
Kindness and Acceptance - continued
 
17.45 - 19.15 Dr Bob Cutler
Processing Group - I
The daily Processing Groups during the week provide a space to reflect on what has come up or been important in the experience during the day. By sharing contributions from different perspectives members will have an opportunity to deepen and extend our understandings of some of the thoughts evoked by the workshops and explore how these find a place for them personally. Although the Groups are 'open', a consistent membership is best.
 
TUESDAY 16 JULY
 
10.00 Vicky Hadland
Finding your Voice
Research has proved singing to be beneficial to both mental and physical health. After 15 years experience as a workshop facilitator and choir leader Vicky Hadland believes that singing restores a feeling of well being, builds confidence, reduces stress and connects people. You don't have to read music or sing on your own. Just enjoy singing with others in beautiful harmony.
 
11.30 COFFEE
 
12.00 Dr Bonnie Meekums
Movement and Self-Care
As therapists, we all carry in our bodies the imprint of our interactions with clients. Embodied mindfulness that is focused on movement helps us to maintain a 'helicopter view' of what is going on in these relationships, and simultaneously allows for a deepened connectedness to the other. In this session you will be offered simple, movement-based practices that you can apply to both your experience of human connectedness and self-care as a practitioner. We will discover how to avoid burn-out and strengthen the observer stance, preparing us for client work and making it sustainable. Come in loose clothing and prepared for both fun and contemplation.
 
13.00 LUNCH
 
14.30 - 17.00 Dr Bonnie Meekums - continued
Movement and Self-Care
 
17.45 - 19.15 Dr Bob Cutler
Processing Group - II
 
WEDNESDAY 17 JULY
 
10.00 Gretchen Faust
Yoga for Body-mind Integration
Kum Nye is a Tibetan yoga that consists of a series of coordinated breathing and movement based exercises interspersed with alternating short periods of sitting practice.

Kum Nye practice helps to stabilise the mind and integrate awareness to aid in feeling at home in life, instead of estranged in some way. It is an embodied practice that results in a psychophysical integrated awareness which generates a quality of space and patience, equanimity and perspective in the practitioner. The exercises are simple and can be tailored to suit the young and old, frail or robust.
 
11.30 COFFEE
 
12.00 FREE TIME (because of evening session)
 
14.00 - 17.00 Dr Chris Johnstone
Narratives of Resilience and Positive Psychology
This workshop weaves together three approaches to cultivating resilience – a narrative approach, eco-psychology and positive psychology. The narrative approach invites an exploration of the many ways a story of resilience can go. When we know this story well, it becomes a source of strength within us as well as something we can help draw out in our clients. Eco-psychology attends to our rootedness in the world, looking at how we can be nourished by nature and inspired by a deepened sense of belonging. Positive Psychology considers how strengths can develop as a result of post-traumatic growth, and how we, as therapists, can help this happen more.
 
17.45 Dr Bob Cutler
Processing Group - III
 
19.15 SUPPER BREAK
 
20.30 - 22.00 Dr Chris Johnstone - continued
 
THURSDAY 18 JULY
 
10.00 Vicky Hadland
Finding your Voice - continued from Tuesday
 
11.30 COFFEE
 
12.00 Suzette Clough
Paint and Insight
In this workshop we will use painting in order to engage with another part of ourselves that is connected to a wider field of energy and consciousness. In ancient times this would be understood as an oracular space; a transitional space for the unconscious to reveal itself in the moment. The oracular space allows us to experience both the inner and outer worlds communicating in a mutually informing relationship. Suzette will be working with a process she has developed called Visual Medicine; a radically simple no-brush painting technique combined with a free associative writing process that facilitates access to this wider field of insight. Bring clothes for painting.
 
13.00 LUNCH
 
14.30 - 17.00 Suzette Clough - continued
 
17.45 Dr Bob Cutler
Processing Group - IV
 
FRIDAY 19 JULY
 
10.00 Gretchen Faust
Yoga for Body-mind Integration - continued
 
11.30 COFFEE
 
12.00 Margaret Landale
Calmness and Clarity
This workshop will explore some key mindfulness practices and concepts which can help resource the therapist, aid emotional self-regulation and promote calmness and clarity. Drawing on both the experiences of the week, and our own challenges as practitioners, we will explore a little deeper how to engage in affective mindful communication in our work by attuning mindfully to the client's sub-conscious communication and observing our reaction at a somatic-emotional level. We will pay particular attention to cultivating embodied and empathic presence and develop our capacity for acceptance and equilibrium when working with negative transference dynamics. As this last session of the week, we will also reflect on what insights into our own health and resilience we are taking away.
 
13.00 LUNCH
 
14.30 Margaret Landale - continued
 
17.30 END OF SUMMER SCHOOL
 
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