| Ongoing Body Psychotherapy Group |
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Facilitator: Christopher Osborne
 This group will allow you to explore how you inhabit your body and your self and what may be in the way of inhabiting it more fully; how our histories are written in our bodies, and how we relate to each other; verbally, physically and energetically.
Exploring oneself within an on-going and committed group is an extraordinary and healing experience. It will give you the opportunity to redefine how you are with others and with yourself in a safe and supportive environment. The group will be a safe space in which to reflect, interact, experiment and play. You will be gently invited to be present as a whole person. Each meeting will include opportunities to talk about your week, to engage with the issues and stories of your life and to be supported by the group. This will be facilitated where appropriate by using dialogue, movement and voice-work. I will use my skills and experience to facilitate this and will invite group members to contribute to each other’s processes. The body can be thought of as the place where the unconscious mind resides. The hurts and the joys that we have experienced are stored within our bodies and written in our posture, our tissues and our nervous system. The group is a way of more fully owning oneself, taking charge of our potential, and regaining ownership of our bodies, with all the pains and triumphs to be found there.
If you would like to join this group this will involve a short telephone conversation with me. This will allow both allow both you and I to assess whether the group will meet your current needs. In the event that it doesn’t I will offer guidance on how you might best get your needs met. The group meets weekly, on a Friday afternoon, over a twelve week term. Members are asked to commit to a whole term. Dates: Friday's
First Term
Half Term Feb 15
Second Term
Half term May 31
Times: 12.30pm to 2.30pm
Venue: 12a The Mall Ealing
London W5 2PJ (map) The fee for this course is £30 for each group meeting payable by a deposit (for the first 4 meetings) of £120 Followed by a monthly direct debit.
If you would like to join this group this will involve a short telephone conversation with me. I can be contacted on: 07765 395 109 or via my website: www.bodymindpsychotherapy.co.uk
Christopher Osborne (UKCP) has a busy private practice in South East London. He has many years’ experience of facilitating personal growth both through one to one and group work. He is accredited by the Shiatsu Society UK as a teacher and practitioner of shiatsu and oriental medicine and continues to teach on the Ki Kai course run by Morley College. He co-founded the Ki Kai Shiatsu Centre in 1989 and has been closely involved with the development of bodywork in the treatment of addiction. He has a firm commitment to experiential learning both for himself and others and draws on eclectic theory including Object Relations and Gestalt to inform this work. He employs humanistic and psychodynamic terms of reference and is particularly interested in the relational aspects of embodiment. To Register for this group please contact me on 07765 395 109 or via my website: www.bodymindpsychotherapy.co.uk |