A FOUR-DAY TRAINING COURSE

Maggie McKenzie

Action techniques in therapy is a four-theme programme which includes guided visualisation, transference and counter-transference, working with the body, and restructuring experience. Each year one of these themes is presented. The programme highlights the use of the self as well as teaching practical and systematic approaches to therapy and is designed so that, while the material builds on the previous year's work, each group can be taken separately.  

RESTRUCTURING EXPERIENCE

The 2009 course introduces the use and methodology of structures developed by and central to Pesso-Boyden System/Psychomotor Therapy which provides a comprehensive system of emotional re-education and growth. Structures are periods of therapeutic work where the client can experience symbolic interactions using role-play figures and accommodation to reach satisfaction of previously unmet needs, and thus enable the emergence and subsequent integration of previously unused parts of the self.

Tuesday-Friday, August 25-28, 9am-4pm, daily, 2009. £495.

GUIDED VISUALISATION

In 2010 the programme will focus on the use of guided visualisation which involves responding to and being led by a story, an image or set of ideas. Visualisation is valuable in developing awareness and possibilities for the future, which otherwise may lie dormant.  Thus we can use visualisation and our subsequent somatic responses towards resolving issues previously unresolved and towards deepening our relationship with ourselves. The workshop will introduce many guided visualisations that may be used to deal with a variety of problems and situations and participants will be given a manual of the work.

Tuesday-Friday, 24-27 August, 9am-4pm, daily, 2010. £505.