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Images: Artist Jennifer Keeler-Milne SOCIAL DREAMING: UNBLOCKING THE CREATIVE PROCESS WORKSHOP FRIDAY 16 AUGUST to 18 AUGUST 2019 Creativity is seen as central in our professional lives. Within the creative process we are working with what is seen and unseen. “The “Unthought known.” (Bollas 1991) We all dream and we can work with dreams individually and collectively, the latter is called ‘Social Dreaming.’ Social dreaming was discovered to be an important way of increasing awareness of aspects of collectively held unconscious. When a dream is considered to be more than just a mental activity, it delves into the totality of our existence, including our brains, bodies and souls. In this up and coming workshop, a Social Dreaming Matrix is introduced as a central methodology to uncover those hidden threads. The dreams that are offered in the Social Dreaming Matrix are worked with as belonging to the group. We will look for the collective meaning, for the community in which the dreamers dream. ‘The Social Dreaming Matrix is a place, or setting, outside the goal-orientated configurations experienced in daily life. It is a special space for the mind to be reflective, to enlarges itself through considering dreams as social phenomenon. In short, it is a unique, precious space for people to find the potential for being creative.’ [Creativity of Social Dreaming by Gordon Lawrence] Workshop Details Training workshop for Artists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors and Consultants Facilitated by Servaas van Beekum TSTA and Kathy Laverty TSTA Venue: Date and times: Cost: Booking online, details below. |
| FACILITATORS Servaas van Beekum TSTADrs (sociology and psychology), Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) Servaas is a social scientist (Universities of Nijmegen and Utrecht) with a background in analytic, relational, systemic and humanistic modalities.He is a founding member of several associations for Supervision and Consulting (EASC, AAoS, Group Relations Nederland and Group Relations Australia) and he has served as president of EATA and ITAA (Transactional Analysis Associations). He is the past president of Group Relations Australia.He has extended international and intercultural experience as a psychotherapist (PACFA reg.) supervisor and executive coach (AAoS reg.) and as a psychodynamic and systemic consultant.He is a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARRP). He has worked as a speaker and trainer in over 50 countries, is an author and runs a private practice for psychotherapy, supervision and consulting in Sydney. Servaas is a prolific author and the 2015 recipient of the International Eric Berne Memorial Award.http://www.acissydney.com.auKathy Laverty TSTA Kathy is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) (CTA). She specialises in psychotherapy application working with individuals, couples, families and groups. Kathy was the Australasia Regional representative on the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) Board of Trustees between 2009 and 2011. She has served as a Board Member of PACFA from 2013 to 2015 and as a Council Delegate from 2007. She is involved in national and international training and certification for the field of psychotherapy. Kathy was born in South Africa and founded the Kgodisong Youth Centre in Alexandra, where she worked with traumatised youth. She studied dance therapy in New York and is a graduate of the Royal Ballet School in London. Kathy lives in Sydney were she has run a private practise since 1999 working with individuals and couples in long and short-term psychotherapy. http://psychotherapistcounsellor.com
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A workshop for Artists, Creatives and Innovators
Join Kathy Laverty TSTA, psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor in a two-day workshop and discover a psychological theory that is designed to give you insights that can be applied personally and professionally.
Uncover a method of understanding communication patterns and how to identify what blocks them both internally and relationally. This is for Creatives who are interested in psychology, both a theory of personality and a system for the improvement of personal and social functioning.
Together we will explore the work of Berne, who taught the complex theory of psychiatry, and through his radical pioneering work developed a system of analysis, which can be applied to the structure of the personality. The analysis of transactions examine both social and psychological forms of human communication, using the ego state model to diagram what happens when communication breaks down.
Held at the International Screen Academy in Sydney, Kathy will introduce psychological principles, provide practical answers that empower the creative mind to build resilience and maintain mental health, and identify tools that can be applied when Creatives experience:
- Anxiety
- Blocked creativity
- Unhelpful internal dialogue
- Repetition compulsions
This exciting workshop will provide the participant with current helpful theoretical insights that will be applied through experiential learning – theory to practice.
Learning objectives
In this workshop on Creativity and mental health you will develop a map informed by current psychological principles that empower the creative mind to build resilience, maintain and establish mental health and identify unhelpful patterns. The format of the workshop will provide participants with current, helpful theoretical insights that will be applied through experiential learning- theory to practice.
The workshop, through the theory, offers an approach to the question, ‘How do we get to be the people we are?’
‘The origins are embedded in the history of our childhoods, families, our culture and life experiences. A ‘life Script’ develops without our being aware of it, for the purposes of survival, approval and security, rather than for self-realisation. By analysing our script, we can reconsider the decisions we made when we were too little to realise what options existed.’
Projected outcomes
Able to describe and apply a TA101 understanding of,
The theory of communication
The theory of personality
The theory of life patterns
The definition of autonomy
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE THROUGH AN EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP
The next workshop is planned for mid 2019. Please contact Kathy to register your interest either by text message to Kathy, on 0414 423 734 or by email to Kathy_laverty@yahoo.com
Kathy will then contact you with details and confirmation of your place in the workshop.
NEXT TA 101 Workshop – Mid 2019
Email Kathy for details of the next TA 101 Workshop – also check out the video below
COUPLE’S RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT RETREATS
The strategically designed two and a half day Couple’s Relationship Enhancement (CRE) Retreat is a time to pause, reflect, revive and enhance your relationship.
It is a unique opportunity for you, as a couple, to further your understanding of psychological principles, communication and developmental patterns.
Relational Consulting’s CRE Retreat will be a time to invest, explore, transform and rekindle passionate desire in your relationship. As a couple, your participation in this retreat will equip you with key principles, based on current research, to discover how to build and restore your relational potency.
Your participation in one of Relational Consulting’s CRE Retreats will be an invaluable experience in understanding your partner, yourself and how you may enhance your relationship together.
LOCATIONS
Each CRE Retreat is facilitated within a luxurious 5-Star hide-away resort, chosen specifically for it’s location ‘away from distractions’.
Your time as a couple at this retreat has been designed to both equip and refresh you.
Exclusivity is of utmost importance to your CRE Retreat experience and as such, the format for each retreat is run within a small, intimate group setting.
RETREAT DATE AND VENUES
LILIANFELS BLUE MOUNTAINS RESORT & SPA
Next Retreat Dates:
Contact Kathy for more information about the next Retreat
Includes:
2 nights accommodation at Resort & Spa (Deluxe Room)
All meals (with the exception of dinner on Saturday evening)
Welcome Cocktail Party
All Retreat Materials
International Conference Workshop Presentations:
- 2015 Scientific Chair ITAA Conference – Sydney, Australia
- 2014 San Francisco & New Zealand – examined CTA’s, TSTA’s
- 2013 ITAA International Conference in Osaka, Japan – Workshop ‘The movement between isolation, belonging, power and vulnerability’
- July 2012, TA 101 Workshop held at Vision Rescue for leaders and counsellors, Mumbai, India
- 2011 World Dreaming 6th World Conference for Psychotherapy, Sydney, Australia, Co facilitator, Social Dreaming Matrix
- 2011 Transactional Analysis World Conference, Bilboa, Spain, Title: Covering and Uncovering Shame
- 2010 The Eric Berne Centenary Conference, ITAA International Conference, Montreal, Canada. Title: Covering and Uncovering Shame
- 2009 Transactional Analysis International World Conference, Peru. Title: Isolation and Belonging
- 2008 Transactional World Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa Title: Isolation and Belonging. Co-facilitator of Social Dreaming Matrix
- 2008 New Zealand Transactional Analysis International Conference. Co-facilitator of Social Dreaming Matrix
- 2007 Transactional Analysis International Conference, San Francisco, USA, Title: Power and Vulnerability and the Vulnerability of Power
- 2006 18th Australasia Transactional Analysis Conference. Co-facilitator of Social Dreaming Matrix.