PLACE: An online experiential group

Place is an online experiential group that also takes us outdoors. The group weaves Transactional Analysis, Ecotherapy and creativity together to gently explore our relationship to wounded and challenged places, reflecting on how land shapes us and how we shape land. The group will meet fortnightly, online, for eight sessions. In between online meetings participants are invited to undertake site visits to a place that is somehow challenged or wounded, and build a relationship with this place throughout the duration of the group. There are specific protocols for the outdoor work, based on ecotherapy practice, that respect and honour the place that we have chosen and that has chosen us to work with. From personal experience of this practice I understand that we can contact very meaningful material whilst doing this work. The group is for trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists who can access their own personal therapy if needed.

Picture is taken from my own ongoing practice at Hassockrig Colliery. A piece of coal, lies next to a green leaf and a twig, there is some frost on the coal and leaf.

COST: £240

ATTENDEES: Trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists who can access personal therapy, if needed, and have some knowledge of Transactional Analysis

NUMBERS: Limited to Six participants

TO BOOK: email me to express your interest norma@fourelementspsychotherapy.co.uk

There will be an initial zoom or telephone call to assess suitability.

I see this process as both an experiential group and a form of activism.

This work is informed by Transactional Analysis, Ecotherapy and the work of Hari Sams www.nwyfre-earth.co