BELOW IS A LIST OF OUR UPCOMING WORKSHOPS FOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
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2-Day Workshop
Saturday, 24th and Sunday, 25th November 2018
Decoding the Body: Exploring the Body-Mind Soul Connection
Facilitators: Anne McCormack & Jenny Dean
It is said ‘your biography becomes your biology’ and that we are the sum total of all that has happened to us. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a safe environment to explore where you are in your life right now and where you might be heading.
In the workshop we will provide a safe environment to work experientially, focusing on the importance of the body in sustaining and maintaining psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. We will also encourage you to explore the past and present stories of your life that support or hinder a connection with your own wisdom and life-force.
We combine a mix of bodywork techniques, group activities, creative activities, movement and meditation to support expression and body-mind awareness and all of our work is supported by a theoretical framework using specific techniques and activities to bring focus to the BodyMind. Some of those techniques include movement, dance, voice, and art to chart your journey through the weekend. Subtle body movement and interactive Bioenergetic exercises, which can connect to emotion in the moment and bring it through to safe expression. Meditation and mindfulness using active and guided meditations, body scanning and visualization for BodyMind awareness and relaxation. These meditations are a powerful way to feel into your body and become more present.
Anne McCormack MIAHIP, IACP. is an accredited Biodynamic & Integrative Psychotherapist & Trainer who has seventeen years’ experience working with group dynamics and training students of psychotherapy in the Tracht Psychotherapy Foundation. She also works in one to one private practice in both Athlone and Galway.
Jenny Deane MIAHIP is an accredited Biodynamic & Integrative Psychotherapist specializing in Body Orientated Psychotherapy and working in one to one private practice. She is an experienced group facilitator has been working with adults and young people for the past 15years, in many different settings. Jenny loves to work deeply, supporting people to see who they really are, in a safe, caring and fun way.
Participants are asked to wear loose fitting clothes (for the movement) and please bring a yoga mat/blanket and a pillow/cushion.
Saturday 1st December 2018
Moving Awareness: Somatisation of Transference and Counter-Transference
Facilitator: Bernadette Divilly
Moving Awareness practice through the use of Contemplative Dance and Authentic Movement practice provides therapists in supervision with a route to understanding how we metabolize our own internal states and those of our clients through the body awareness and action. It’s a gentle way to cultivate presence and to explore somatic counter-transference.
In this experiential workshop, participants will be introduced to the Contemplative Dance Practice (www.barbaradilley.com) translated by Dance Movement Psychotherapist Bernadette Divilly to explore the supervision process within psychotherapy and some of the witnessing principles of authentic movement.
Contemplative Dance Practice (CDP) mingles the discipline of meditation and improvisation in a simple structure using personal awareness practice, open space and discussion/ reflection time. Participants will practice tracking kinesthetic delight and cultivating awareness while engaging with the four pillars of mindful movement practices. The intention is to apply the CDP model to support supervision as an interactive field. Attention will be directed toward client care as the core activator of the movement process. This workshop is focused on being a support to the supervision processes and not as supervision. Its primary purpose will be to welcome and be with the unknown kindly. This workshop is suitable for experienced supervisors and professionals who are engaging with supervision in a variety of contexts.
Participants are asked to wear loose fitting clothes (for the movement) and please bring a yoga mat/blanket and a pillow/cushion.
Facilitator Bio
Bernadette Divilly trained as a humanistic psychotherapist at the Creative Counselling Centre in the early 90s. She has a private practice in Galway, where she runs a group for contemplative dance as a support for supervision. Contemplative movement practices and creativity are core to her practice. She also works as a choreographer, dance movement psychotherapist & dancer with an MA in Somatic Psychology & Dance Movement Therapy from Naropa University Boulder CO and Hons BA in Psychology from NUI Galway.
Sunday 2nd December 2018
Working effectively with Addiction
Facilitator: Mick Divine
This workshop seeks to present the dilemma of the addicted person, why it results in despair and helplessness for all involved and how it can be managed.
To do so it will draw from the following sources:
- Neuroscience of Addition,
- Categorization by ICD 10 and DSM V
- Trauma Informed Care
- Minnesota Model of addiction treatment incorporating principals of Twelve Step Fellowship
- Understandings of the Person as formulated by Psycho-Spiritual insights.
It will do so through
- Didactic Presentations
- Dyad and Triad groups work to facilitate the experiential learning process and to include participants experience in the field
Facilitator Bio
Mick Devine has supervised a team of addiction counsellors at a leading addiction treatment agency for 18 years. He is well versed in the psychology and philosophy of addiction and addiction treatment. He is working at the interface of the psychology and spirituality of the addicted person and is committed to unfolding the spiritual dimension of addiction treatment so necessary for full recovery and long-term success in managing addiction.