Workshops
How are workshops structured? What can you expect?
Whether workshops are online or in person the orientation of our workshops is fully experiential. Using meditation, sharing circle technology, body awareness, pair work and small group exercises, we will deepen into a learning field together. Surrendered Groupwork is a fully trauma informed approach to working with groups. It is not therapy but it is certainly grounded in and supported by a diverse family of therapeutic principles. The aim of Surrendered Groupwork is bridging the realms of therapy and meditation. If you are open to having a deep experience of yourself and growing in awareness then this is the work for you.
Surrendered Groupwork
Vulnerability Is Truth
‘Feeling safe in relationship’
NEXT In person workshop: 17th July 2022
NEXT Online workshop: 20th July 2022
Learning to embrace and internalize the experience of feeling safe is the key to truly being ourselves and finding an authentic and effortless expression of who we are in this life. We are conditioned into believing that expressing vulnerability is a weakness and something that we should supress at all costs, when in reality finding a deep enough feeling of safety to be able to make our vulnerability transparent is the pathway to healing trauma and realizing our true potential.
An integral part of finding a deeper degree of experienced safety in relation to the other is in the honouring of our survival parts. The parts of us that for so many years have kept us protected during times of overwhelm, difficulty and trauma. In the process of slowing down and honouring these aspects of who we are, we gain a greater access to healing states of consciousness and a deeper connection with who we really are.
Eventually being honest about how messy we are and how many issues we have becomes a kind of joy, a freedom, an aliveness. This work is about being human, getting real and realizing the beautiful mess that we are.
What you will get from this workshop?
- Learn how to slow down enough to be able to feel yourself
- Become more joyfully honest about who you are
- Safe space for being with whatever unresolved pains are holding you back in life
- Begin dropping the masks & roles. Become a more real and authentic human being
Core topics of this work
Slowing down
Honouring The Survivor
Gratitude & Appreciation
Somatic Experiencing
Relational Presence
Resourcing
Meditation
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Exploring Resonance
'Deepening in Relational Presence'
NEXT In person workshop: 31st July 2022
NEXT Online workshop: 3rd August 2022
So very often when communicating with others we close off to the experience of what is alive & present in the relationship in that moment and we end up talking more from an emotionally disconnected space, with a stronger identification to narrative and purpose. This unconscious and automatic way of communicating in relationship tends to be a trauma symptom & often ends up leaving us all feeling unheard and unseen. In this workshop we will open safe space for exploring resonance and deepening in relational presence with one another. We will support one another in the journey of becoming aware of what is already healing. What is it like to enter into deep resonance with one another? What does that experience bring up in us? How can we begin to experience a deeper capacity for love and intimacy in relationship to ourselves and others? What do I long for and what do I need in relation to others?
What you will get out of this workshop?
- Greater capacity to relate from the heart
- The possibility to begin healing relational wounding
- Begin dropping the masks and roles and become a more real and authentic human being, in your life and in relationships.
- Safe space to practice a deeper way of relating to others and bringing greater presence into relationship.
Core topics in this workshop:
- Slowing down & Deeper Listening
- Relationship as mirror & meditation
- Relational Presence
- Exploring Resonance
- Body awareness
- Healing Trauma & Deepening Intimacy
Surrendered Groupwork
Letting The Field Speak
'Become the leader that you are meant to be'
NEXT In person workshop: 14th August 2022
NEXT Online workshop: 15th August 2022
One of the essential tasks of leading and facilitation is creating a safe space for people to be heard and seen in some way. Safety is perceived through the voice of the leader, as leaders when our voice resonates in the heart then those listening also gain access to their heart’s voice and feelings of deep safety and permission to be totally real. When a leader’s voice resonates in survival energy without the honesty and humility about what they are going through to soften the space, then this also triggers the listeners into survival energy and ego resistance. So in this work I lead with my vulnerability out in the open. This truth challenges conventional approaches to leadership across different stratospheres, often there is the idea that exposing our 'weaknesses' is not OK, the idea that as leaders we should be somehow invisible and impersonal. I believe heart centred integrity has no need of rules and that when we truly take the risk of exposing ourselves to the whole listening field, the wisdom of the field can really begin to speak & operate through us in all our relations.
Most of our daily communication and expression happens out of our minds, plans, ideas, narratives and stories. The mind cloaks our deeper truth in various identities but what happens when we begin really letting our hearts speak? What happens when we get out of the way and begin allowing the wisdom of the field to speak through us? Moving us beyond the fear of the past and standing tall in our love and passion for this life? This is the core enquiry that underpins the intention and purpose of this movement. Space to practice surrendering to what is and what wants to happen free of the mind.
What you will get from this workshop?
- Confidence to allow more often the wisdom of your heart to shine through in all your relations
- Begin transitioning out of the paradigm of needing something from others in order to be authentically you and towards the paradigm of recognizing the safety of being alive in this moment right now.
- A safe supportive structure to practice letting the wisdom of the field speak through you.
- Begin dropping the masks and roles and become a more real and authentic human being, in your life and as a leader.
Who is it for?
This workshop is for leaders of all kinds. Leaders in waiting or Leaders already in action. If you are open to having a deep experience of life then you can benefit from this work.
Core Topics Of This Work
- Leading with Vulnerability
- Slowing Down
- Befriending Silence
- Befriending the Unknown
- Relational Presence
- Body awareness
- Meditation
- Resourcing
Surrendered Groupwork
Discovering A Deeper Reality
'Surrendering To What Is'
NEXT In person workshop: 28th August 2022
NEXT Online workshop: 29th August 2022