Workshops, Events & Links
I look forward to welcoming Mike Wilson back to Glasgow in 2011 for a series of workshops.Mike Wilson: Psychotherapist, counsellor (UKAHPP Acc, UKCP Reg), educator and transpersonal psychology practitioner, with extensive experience in teaching and facilitating groups. His ongoing passion is the connection between psyche and nature and the expression of this through dreams and the imagination. Mike is also a member of the confederation for Analytical Psychology. He practises in Edinburgh and from his home in the Scottish Borders, and teaches throughout the UK and sometimes farther afield.
For centuries the wisdom traditions both East and West have emphasised the importance of self-compassion as the other side of, the more familiar, compassion towards other. Western psychology is increasingly turning its attention to the benefits of self compassion as a continuation of mindfulness practice, but also as a practice in its own right. This exciting development in psychology and therapy opens pathways for healing the mind, and enables you to face many of life's challenges with greater ease.
Through a series of exercises and explorations, balanced with appropriate theory, this day is an opportunity to explore what it means to be compassionate towards self. We will also consider obstacles to self-compassion, methods of overcoming these, as well as practical ways of carrying this forward into your own life.
Start Date: Saturday 19 February 2011
Dates/Times: Saturday 19th February 10.00am - 4.00pm
Fee: £55 (non returnable)
Contact: Aileen Ferguson
19 Grahams Avenue, Lochwinnoch, PA12 4EG
01505 843714
www.aileenferguson.com
"Certainly there is within each of us a self that is…out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity."
~ Mary Oliver
By attending to the spiritual dimension of experience, psychotherapy and counselling acknowledges an intrinsic aspect of a person's life, which is not always recognised or lived. The consequences of this can be far reaching. And it is often through paying particular attention to spirituality in therapy that a person's life is given greater significance, sometimes profoundly so.
For the practitioner, widening the therapeutic frame to give priority to spirituality can be challenging as well as enriching, and often demands a way of working which requires an ability to attune to the spiritual in the unique life of another, as well as to adopt a non-reductive therapeutic focus.
This weekend offers an opportunity to consider the spiritual side of therapeutic practice from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and will include a consideration of the importance of the quality of the therapist's way of being and "presence", the use of imagination, specific therapeutic interventions and techniques, working with dreams, and creative explorations which take body's wisdom into account.
DATES: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th April 20011. TIMES: 10.00am to 5pm both days. FEE: £120 (£40 non-returnable deposit). Booking for this weekend is through aileenferguson.counselling@virgin.net, 01505 843714. VENUE: Rokpa House , 7 Ashley Street, GLASGOW, G3 6DR.
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