Michael and Nick are two of the best known figures in the UK whose work is both embodied and relational. They also work in rather different styles from each other, which means that the weekend is an opportunity to experience something of the range of ways in which one can be an embodied and relational therapist, rooted in one’s own authentic bodymind process.

For the last couple of years Nick and Michael have been leading an ongoing CPD group in Devon, each facilitating alternate weekends. It feels time for us both to be present for a workshop together; so this is both a one-off event, a part of an ongoing course, and an opportunity for new people to connect with the course and find out whether they are interested in joining it.

There will be no set agenda for the workshop, which will be experientially focused and responsive to the needs of participants and to the process which develops between us. In this way the weekend resembles the openended, structure-less and exploratory therapeutic space that we have with some of our clients some of the time, allowing us to explore how we might engage with the impulses, expectations and agendas that are, of course, always present. Questions which may be addressed include the following:

• How can attention to embodiment and relationship enhance your way of working within your therapeutic approach & modality ?
• What can your clients’ bodymind signals tell you about their inner world and emotional history?
• What can your internal process and body-mind relationship tell you about your client’s inner world and about the relationship between you?
• How can embodied perceptions, reflections and interventions expand your therapeutic repertoire and creativity?
• How can you make sense of the somatic experiences appearing in your stream-of-consciousness as a therapist?
• How do we decide which parts of our somatic and relational experience to share with our clients?
• What are the micro-skills of ‘implicit relational knowing’ that contribute to attunement and the repair of ruptures in the relationship?
• What kind of clients can benefit from explicit attention to the body? In what kind of situations and in what kind of relational contexts is attention to the body edgy?

To book a place on this workshop please contact Clare Brook at clare_brook@yahoo.co.uk.