Psychotherapy
Groups & Workshops
GROUPS
ONGOING GROUPS
Participants are encouraged to join with the aim
of working long term and a minimum commitment of one term is required.
If you have not worked with Susan before then she would like to meet
with you prior to your joining the group. The fee for the term is due
by the first session of each term at the latest, if you experience any
difficulties please talk to Susan about it to come to a mutual
arrangement.
For dates and further information on any of the below please contact
Susan. Dates are subject to mutual changes.
THE PRIME MOVER
An ongoing group for women
Our prime mover is our will, which moves us into action. It is
only when we do not move that others can move us. When we take action
and move we can not be moved by the will of others. In this group we
look at our relationship to our will, how we ignite ourselves and take
action.
This is an open group that offers a welcome gathering for us as
women to discover and explore ourselves by sharing our stories, dreams,
personal challenges and our life responsibilities. By belonging to a group we gain
support from others to develop our skills and honour our will and
wisdom as women in the world today.
There are currently spaces in the
group. This group is held on a Thursday evening from 6.30 to 9.30pm fortnightly. There are seven
sessions per term.
PACE AND SPACE
An ongoing group for men and women
This is an open group where participants can work with whatever
moves them. We will experiment in forming new responses, embracing
change and challenging attitudes that are obstacles to our personal
growth. The fact that this group has no specific agenda and is a mixed
group of men and women offers greater flexibility of focus, which
increases learning and creates a spontaneous and alive group
experience.
There are currently spaces in the group. This group is held on a
Wednesday evening from 6.30pm to 9.30pm monthly. There are three or four
sessions per term.
MANAGING MONEY
Financial management supervision
This group is for anyone who would like support from others and
supervision with managing accounts or money.
Some of us leave our accounts until we have to do them, others
regularly update them. Whether we are organised or not, we often
prepare our accounts and make decisions in isolation. What we can miss
out on is the planning, goal setting and how to make our dreams come
true around our business and personal needs.
Financial planning is a step towards making our dreams a
reality. This requires more than accounting for overall income and
expenditure. It is also helpful to talk through our dreams and goals
with each other to get support, ideas and suggestions to help our
vision grow.
This is a new group starting soon and will be held monthly on Monday
evenings from 7pm to 9pm. There are three or four sessions
per term.
WORKSHOPS
A deposit of £50 is
required to secure your place. The balance is due before or at the
first meeting at the latest. The deposit is not refundable but may be
transferable.
Participants are encouraged to join with a view to
being able to attend all sessions of the workshop. If you have
difficulty and have to miss any of the sessions please let Susan know
when booking a place. For dates and further information on any of the
below please contact Susan.
The following three workshops are run twice a
year, on four weekday evenings weekly from 6.30 to 9.30pm and one Saturday from 10am to 4pm.
MEETING DEMONS
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is not our darkness,
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you
not to be?'
Marianne Williamson, spoken by Nelson Mandela at his inauguration
speech.
Fear can be known or unknown, expected or unexpected. Fear can
be the appropriate response to a situation or a learnt response to
something we want to avoid. We have fears that are personal to us such
as conflict, being alone, illness or death, the unknown or intimacy.
Some of us fear flying, spiders or water. Fear is also passed from
generation to generation in culture, family and religion through
messages and symbols like snakes, the bogey man, demons, the dark,
monsters, Satan and God.
In this workshop we will identify our archetypal and personal
fears. We will look at how we organise our formed responses. Using
visualisation, role play and working within the state of hypnosis we
will deepen our experience, increase our awareness and discover our
resources to transform what we find into a fulfilling and more
satisfying experience.
Participants will have the opportunity to work individually
using the group as a resource as well as participating in the large
group and the work of others.
BEING
ASSERTIVE
Assertiveness is a bodily experience. Being assertive means
organising a bodily shape that supports being able to communicate in a
clear, honest, and defined manner, making a choice to take more
responsibility for ourselves and our actions, without violating another
person’s rights. To express your needs and feelings in a way that
reduces anxiety both for you and the other person.
This workshop provides an opportunity to experience ourselves as
assertive, aggressive and passive and to recognise the difference. We
will learn to identify the ways in which we undermine ourselves in
situations with others. Using skills and techniques we will help
support our assertive body to establish a greater sense of self-esteem,
and to enable us to become more effective in the way we negotiate with
others.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Do you consider your relationship with food a healthy or
unhealthy one? Do you run to the cupboard or fridge when you feel
lonely, anxious or angry? Or do you starve yourself when under pressure
from a demand being made on you? Are you someone who eats on the run or
sits at the meal table feeling uncomfortable about something?
We live in times where eating has become something there is less
time given to and food is something we don’t know as much about
as our former generations. Many rely on the food industry to provide us
with healthy eating but obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart conditions
are on the rise. There are many recognised eating disorders today and
conditions caused by unhealthy eating.
In this workshop we will look at our relationship with food,
develop an understanding of how that has been shaped and take steps
towards changing it to a healthier one that fits our appetite and
lifestyle.
The following two workshops run on a Saturday and
Sunday from 10am to 5pm. They are held twice a year.
BEING ANGRY
Some of us are fearful of being angry ourselves and some are
fearful of others expressing anger around or at us. Everyone feels
angry regularly and most of us will have issues with anger learned in
our family of origin, school, through religious teaching and society.
Anger is a feeling that tells us we are not having a need met or we
have had enough of something.
On this weekend, the focus will be on defining what your belief
is about anger, what you do with your anger and what effect repressed
and expressed anger has on you and those around you. Some of the areas
covered will be:
- Recognition of the
feeling of anger
- What do I do with my
anger now
- How does anger inform
me
- The difference between
the feeling and the behaviour
- How do I express and
manage anger satisfactorily and safely
- How I manage myself
around someone else’s anger
MONEY MATTERS
We may only think about money as useful or necessary. Some of us
have plenty, some enough and some too little. The distress caused by matters
involving money is not necessarily caused only by having too little. Those
with plenty may not be totally contented and satisfied.
How we are around money is all about what we have been taught by
others around us as we grew up and what we have learned since becoming adult.
It is definitely not just a case of being good at maths or not. Our whole
attitude to money is shaped by the expectations of family, responsibility
and need. Managing money well and financial planning is part of making our
dreams a reality. Mismanaging it is often the factor in failing to reach
our goals. Money is often a bone of contention in relationships as one has
a totally different perspective than the other.
In this workshop we will look at our relationship to money, how that
has been shaped, take steps towards understanding its place in our lives
and how to manage it effectively.
The following workshop is a sequence in three
steps four months apart. The second and third step is open to those who
have completed the prior step/s. Each step is run on a Saturday and
Sunday from 10am to 5pm. The whole sequence is held over a one year
period.
LIVING YOUR DREAM
Step one: Creating the life you really want
Are you living your dream? What would your life be like if you
were doing the things that make you happiest, that you love the most?
Are you living and expressing your full potential? What is your vision
of the ideal life you would like to create for yourself?
On this weekend, the focus will be on defining your dream of the
life you want and learning practical methods for making your dream
become a reality. Some of the areas covered will be:
- defining your dream
- identifying and
transforming self-sabotage and limiting beliefs
- creating and
manifesting what you want
- use of affirmation and
visual imagery
- engaging the energy of
your higher self
- developing your plan
To follow what moves, excites and inspires us is to create a life
that is joyful and satisfying. We all have the challenge and the
opportunity of creating the life we really want for ourselves, by
following our dream.
Step two: Achieving
and maintaining your goals
Step three: Consolidating and embodying them
into your life
AVAILABILITY
Susan currently has spaces available for individuals and couples
during the daytime between 8am and 5pm Tuesday to Thursday and a few
evening spaces from 5pm to 10pm.
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