Description
Group therapy often replicates our family experiences, reflecting our fears of exclusion, acceptability and belonging, and how these early issues create a persistent pattern of relating to others and ourselves.
We get ‘stuck’ when we don’t risk stepping into the new, but stay in the familiar and unexciting in spite of how unstimulating it may be because we feel safe there. Thus, satisfying, intimate relationships are avoided or greater career opportunities seen as impossible etc.
Group work can help participants to get clearer about these avoidant patterns. It often creates a powerful atmosphere of trust and safety as well as encouragement for each other, so that group members are often surprised by what they actually do risk in the group and in their lives and the progress that they achieve.
Join Dr Ari Badaines in this one-day experiential Gestalt therapy group workshop in order to both have an experience of Gestalt therapy in a group setting and have the opportunity in the last hour of the day to ask questions about the process and interventions, as well as discuss general issues related to group facilitation.
Special offer when taken in conjunction with Polyvagal Theory: Enhancing Emotional Regulation and Safety in Connection
