Demeter and Persephone; Emotional Cycles - Seasons Cycles
30 October Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm £90 (Graduate membership discount applies)
With Sarah Van Gogh
"Although the question of how to live does not arise for other animals, the problem for human beings is very real, as we have transcended the limitations of our instinctual programming..."
David Edwards, 'Free to be Human'.
Sheltered as many of us are in the West, by a constant supply of light, water, food, heat, entertainment, and opportunities for communication, we are still fundamentally animals that are linked viscerally to the sounds, smells, temperatures and quality of light in our environments.
Using the ancient myth of the Goddess Demeter's outrage and grief at her daughter's rape and disappearance, and the resulting failure of the human harvest, this day will focus on how we, as practitioners, might see the difficulties that clients bring to sessions as part of the deep natural cycles and patterns at play around us.
This workshop will offer an opportunity to look at how we include in our practice such elements as the human relationship with:
- the time of year,
- the weather,
- the rhythms of day and night,
- the skies and landscapes we look at,
- and the non-human life forms we have contact with.
Sarah Van Gogh is a BACP accredited counsellor and tutor at Re•Vision. She is a published poet, and has worked in the fields of theatre, community health and nursery education.
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