Saturday July 26th, 10 – 4.30pm at Natural Endings, the former postal depot, rise lane, Todmorden (arrive 9.30 for 10am start) Lunch included.
Chose from 3 morning workshops, each with related discussion groups in the afternoon.
Lohani Noor – Sex and relationships
Kim Harrison – art in nature/art and nature
Katye Coe– introduction to Somatic Experiencing
Workshops will be structured to give practical experience and theoretical underpinnings, while the afternoons are co facilitated to encourage questions and practical explorations to suit the participants’ needs and interests.
Tickets
More workshop and venue info below and tickets link
Full price £55 (including lunch) discounts for low waged. For further reductions/bursaries please contact me at todmordentherapy@gmail.com
Workshop and presenter information
Lohani Noor – Sex and relationships
A practical workshop on working with sex and relationships in therapy.
How do we as therapists treat sexual topics? Do we invite or avoid frank discussions?
This workshop covers general therapy skills theory and practice with a psychosexual lens, however the primary focus will be developing psychotherapeutic skills.
‘When was the last time you had an open and frank discussion about sexual pleasure, how it impacts your daily life, how you own it and wear it in/on your body. When was the last time, if ever that you said out loud… ‘I am a sexual being’ Join me in thinking about what it means to be just that.. a sexual being’.
Lohani is the Founding Director for ThIRST (The Institute for Relational and Sexual therapies). She is an experienced Psychotherapist and Psychosexual practitioner, accredited with COSRT and registered with UKCP. Lohani has a MSc in Psychosexual Therapies, a PGDip in Transactional Analysis and a PGDip in Urban Education, she also has a Cert Ed in Teaching post16 and is a qualified assessor.
Lohani has worked therapeutically with a wide range of clients in a wide range of settings including significant mental health, drug and alcohol dependent men and sex offenders. Lohani sits on the board of trustees for COSRT.
She is the author of Audible Classic: 12 Steps to Sexual Connection
More info about Lohani can be found within the thIRST website
Kim Harrison – Art in Nature
An experiential creative outdoor session combining nature-based mindfulness and art therapy activities. We will proceed whatever the weather, unless winds are above 30 mph, in which case we’ll do something similar but using guided visualization indoors.
Kim is a fully qualified, HCPC registered Art Psychotherapist, offering standard art therapy, or nature-based art therapy. These combine art therapy training with outdoor forest school and nature-based mindfulness.
She works with families, groups and individuals in a variety of settings online and outdoors from her practise in Thameside Greater Manchester.
Home | One heart nature connection
Katye Coe Somatic Experiencing
This workshop will introduce, Somatic Experiencing (SE).
“The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming patterns that get stuck and impact people’s daily lives. It can be used to support the resolution of PTSD and developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.”
I intend to bring for this workshop, a series of practical exercises and time for reflection, that can help to ground participants in some experiences and possible applications of basic SE tools.
I have been a professional dance performer, lecturer and facilitator for more than 30 years and I qualified as an SE practitioner 3 years ago in order to bring my experience and somatically informed approach toward a deeper dialogue with clients. I practise in Hebden Bridge and Manchester, and continue to work as a dancer and a teacher as well as facilitating nature connection work through Kinship Workshop.
More info about Katye here
Afternoon discussion groups
You are invited to stay with your group for the afternoon discussion where an experienced therapist will work with the group to make the discussion relevant and practical. The discussion is also a place to try things out, to really test the ideas presented in the morning and find out how they can benefit your practise.
Co-facilitater info
Kim Harrison & Amelia Scanlan humanistic and integrative psychotherapist
Also, in response to suggestions from last year, if anyone would prefer to form an open discussion group we can facilitate that on the day.
Venue info
Venue has no steps to the hall and accessible loo, but some workshops will be upstairs. Please contact me with any accessibility needs and I’ll try to help.
