Events
Throughout the year I will be facilitating therapy events and workshops. Details of these can be found below.
Three Day Workshop Friday Nov 22nd– Sunday Nov 24th 2024
Three Day Workshop Friday Dec 6th– Sunday Dec 8th 2024
Three Day Workshop Friday Jan 31st– Sunday Feb 2nd 2025
Healing Trauma Workshop
The Trauma workshops are based on the pioneering work of Pia Mellody. And her Survivors work at the Meadows Treatment Centre Arizona.
The Healing Trauma Workshop is a 3 day-long intensive programme, investigating the origins of adult dysfunctional behaviours. In this educational and experiential process, participants’ primary focus will be to learn to identify and address those early childhood and adolescent issues which have fuelled various addictions, depression/mood/anxiety disorders and painful relationships.
In this revolutionary process, We get in touch with the feelings that follow any ‘less-than-nurturing’ events which occurred in the past. Post Induction Therapy (PIT), is aimed at working through and correcting unhelpful and self-destructive thought processes, along with helping to resolve the consequential anguish and grief.
The Healing Trauma Workshop is divided into 3 phases.
The Informational/Educational Phase:
Group participants are educated on the 5 core symptoms of co-dependence, the secondary symptoms, and the resulting difficulty with intimacy and relationships, the nature of ‘less-than-nurturing or abusive behaviour, and the resulting feelings. Through interactive group discussion, individuals will become well informed on the need for healthy boundaries, and recognise the effect of boundary violations on adult behaviours. A blameless approach is used to focus on the individual’s perception of their childhood, and the significance of their relationship with their parents or primary caregivers.
Debriefing Phase:
Individuals will recollect traumatic childhood and adolescent events, explore the memories of the events that took place and work through the associated feelings and grief in a nurturing and safe environment, with the support of other individuals who have experienced similar circumstances.
Experiential Phase:
It is in this phase that individuals find the tremendous release of painful feelings, and carried shame and begin the transformation from victim to survivor. Individuals will learn to heal and thrive, finding the validation they’ve been looking for and making new associations with events that occurred throughout their early years. This work is symbolic, and confronts the issues of the shame core, alerts one to the source of his/her carried shame, helps one to understand how the sense of worthlessness originated and identify its point of origin, allows one to detoxify from his/her carried shame, or experience of worthlessness, reduces the number of intensity and length of shame attacks, allows one to identify those persons who are responsible for the trauma, establishes who is to be held accountable, places the responsibility for the healing process on oneself, retrieves self-esteem and empowers him/herself (through empowerment one experiences self-worth, and is a cleansing process in which the survivor gives back the shame and other feelings to the source). Inner child work is embarked on, as an intervention modality used in the re-parenting process. This process enhances your ability to take care of yourself, and maintain an adult ego state.
At the end of the Trauma Healing Workshop, individuals will be able to turn the volume down on overreactions to current day adult dysfunction and trauma. This is the process of becoming a Functional Adult or The Authentic Self allowing the person to become maturely relational
Attendance
To attend the workshop, I will first conduct a risk assessment with you.
Venue
Greenwich, London
Cost: £1,500.00 (workshop only) for accommodation and meals please make your own arrangements. Tea and coffee will be provided
Reservations
To reserve a place at the workshop, please complete the form on the contact page.