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To Be Or Not To Be - A Mother
An integrative and exploratory approach with
Many women expect that they will be mothers at some point in
their lives but statistics show that an increasing number of people
from their late 30s onwards are without children. Some women
consciously choose a childfree life while others struggle with the
pain and bewilderment of medically unexplained infertility. A growing
number of women undergo the medical intervention of reproductive
technology, with its emotional and physical consequences.
Mothers too can be ambivalent about their role and their children.
Our experience and research shows that women feel isolated with
these feelings which remain taboo in our society. These can be
amongst the existential issues that propel clients into therapy.
They will necessarily impact on us too as therapists as we meet
these stories from the perspective of our own relationship with
generativity. This will have been constellated through our experience
as children in the mother/baby dyad, through which we will,
as adults, have an internalised relationship to a real or imagined
child.
As body psychotherapists we are interested in how these issues manifest somatically both in the client and the therapist and how this impacts upon the relationship. Using concepts from the work of object relations, relational psychoanalysis and Jungian archetypes we would like to inquire how these theories can inform our work. There will be an experiential component in which we will use our own clinical material to gain a bodily understanding of how these issues impact on our work. We will use guided visualisation, body awareness exercises, role-play and discussion of theory and practice to deepen our understanding of these issues.
Dates: Sat 24 and Sun 25 October 2009
Venue: 26 Eaton Rise, Ealing, LONDON W5 2ER
Time: 10AM - 5:30PM
Fee: £200
Please register by telephoning Chiron Centre, 0208 997 5219
A non-refundable deposit of £70 by 01-Oct-2009
The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 15-Oct-2009
As body psychotherapists we are interested in how these issues manifest somatically both in the client and the therapist and how this impacts upon the relationship. Using concepts from the work of object relations, relational psychoanalysis and Jungian archetypes we would like to inquire how these theories can inform our work. There will be an experiential component in which we will use our own clinical material to gain a bodily understanding of how these issues impact on our work. We will use guided visualisation, body awareness exercises, role-play and discussion of theory and practice to deepen our understanding of these issues.
Dates: Sat 24 and Sun 25 October 2009
Venue: 26 Eaton Rise, Ealing, LONDON W5 2ER
Time: 10AM - 5:30PM
Fee: £200
Please register by telephoning Chiron Centre, 0208 997 5219
A non-refundable deposit of £70 by 01-Oct-2009
The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 15-Oct-2009