Untangling the Knots
An introduction to untangling®Do you sense that your life is not yet expressing your deepest values and inspirations?
Do you want to make changes in yourself and the world but keep getting stuck?
Do you avoid or find it hard to turn towards life's challenges with creativity and kindness?
What will you learn?
This is a unique opportunity to join me on a 12 week closed group course to explore what keeps us from living with full aliveness. We will delve into those aspects of our lives that feel deeply tangled and gently find ways to unleash the energy and power in these places. We will meet the core aspects of these tangled places (the critic, the safety guardian and the wounded one) and find new ways to befriend them. We will learn to find hidden treasure there and in the most tricky areas of our life and we will find new ways forward. Some of the themes we will explore will be:
Safety and resourcing
What holds us back
Resources of: presence, metaphor and precision
Deep empathy
Befriending the Critic
Befriending the Safety Guardian
Befriending the Wounded One
Hidden treasure places: grief, shame, addiction and avoidance
Making steps towards change and freedom
The course will comprise of teaching sessions, demonstrations, paired and solo practice and optional practice sessions in between the sessions with other participants.
This being human is a guesthouse.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Rumi
The structure of the course
Untangling the Knots course is split into two 6 week sections, with a break in between.
Each class is 2 1/4 hours long, comprising of teachings, Focusing practice and group discussions.
PDF handouts and worksheets for each week
Outside of class, you’ll have a weekly partnership practice, plus access to a forum to chat with students and teachers.
What is Focusing Partnership?
Focusing Partnerships are a profound form of exploring Focusing, where you are simply an empathic listener to one another.
No advice, no questions… just pure listening. You don’t even have to know what the person is talking about.
During your weekly Focusing partnership practice on the course, your partner simply listens to you without judgment or agenda. The presence of someone who is completely present and accepting in this way has a profound effect!
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone whom has attended an introductory course with me or another teacher.
Or anyone who knows the paired form of Focusing Practice.
Dates
Begins 25th September (no class 6th Nov) 12 Thursday evenings. 7-9.15pm
Registration is limited to 20 participants per course
Costs
EARLY BIRD PRICES
£350 (£450 After 30th June)
Add “EARLY” into checkout to get the early bird rate.
FAQs
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Usually somewhere between 12 and 20 people.
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Yes, up to three weeks can be missed. I can send you the handouts and recording from the missed session.