Please note – these are therapeutic weekends, and are open to all.
We have booked two lodges at Avon Tyrell in the New Forest for our bodypsychotherapy weekend from October 23rd to 25th Bookings are now open: bodypsychworkshops@gmail.com
Drawing on Radix®, Embodied-Relational Therapy, T.A., and Counselling, this residential weekend will be experiential, with a combination of larger and smaller groupwork, pair work, and individual work within the wider group.
What is Radix? Radix® is a powerful body-centred therapy that promotes change, growth, and healing. The word Radix means “root” or “source” and here refers to the flow of the life force underlying our thoughts, feelings and movements, our mind and our consciousness or spirit.
We will work with breath, movement, sound, touch, and vision to help restore the rhythmic flow of the life force throughout your being. To feel more alive, to express yourself authentically, and connect more deeply with others. Radix is a body centred approach and unlike other psychotherapies that are somatically informed, Radix has the body as the central focus with the emphasis on the somatic unfolding.
These weekends invite you to work with your process, and are intended to be transformative. We invite you to work at your own pace and depth with the material you bring.
Please note that these are therapeutic rather than training weekends. These weekends are open to anybody who is drawn to join us, though we ask you to consider paying attention to having sufficient therapeutic support and/or resource in your life to help integrate what can be a powerful and impactful therapeutic experience.
These weekends work well as either a stand alone therapeutic encounter or as an adjunct to 1:1 therapy. Our experience is that the resources of a group, over a weekend, can hold and facilitate processes differently, often more deeply and powerfully, than within our 1:1 work.
The Structure of the Weekend
After checking in on Friday 23rd October, and having had dinner, we will begin that evening with an orientation to the weekend, getting acquainted with fellow participants, and facilitators, in your first group session.
On Saturday and Sunday, you will have opportunity to take part in both larger and smaller group work, paired work, and individual sessions within the wider group.
You are welcome to stay over on Sunday night.
Timings: Friday: arrive from 4pm, session time: 6:30pm – 9pm
Saturday: 9:30 to approx 7pm Sunday: 9:30 to 5pm
Cost: between £650 and £400 – you choose
(Between £650 and £350 if booked by Friday 24th July – you choose)
Including all facilitation, 3 nights accommodation in twin shared rooms, breakfasts, and Friday evening meal.
If you are able to pay higher up the scale, this enables us to keep the lower price available for people who need it, many thanks. Payment by instalment is welcome if this makes it easier for you.
Food: We will cook a simple meal for the Friday evening from ingredients provided by us (feel free to help cook if you wish!), and we will also provide the ingredients for a simple breakfast for Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings.
Lunches and evening meals on Saturday and Sunday can either be at a local pub, or bring food to cook or/and share. Our experience is that this works well.
Contact bodypsychworkshops@gmail.com with queries and booking inquiries.
Please note that places are limited to 12 participants.
Facilitators
This is a unique weekend, co-led by four experienced practitioners, who have taken part in training together in Radix® in the last few years, who bring with them experience and expertise that inform their practices from a wide range of different fields:
Judith Salling-Ash originally trained in TA psychotherapy and became interested in body psychotherapy and Radix specifically as part of her journey to come home to her own body. She works in private practice in Swindon where she enjoys the privilege of connecting with and discovering other embodied souls. Her work is influenced by non-dual perspectives and supported by current neuroscience thinking. https://www.jsatherapy.co.uk/
Simon Bonnin is a relational body psychotherapist practicing in the North East of England. Originally trained in a person centered approach, he went on to extensively study and intergrate hypnotherapy and behavioural approaches into his practice before deepening his embodiment through training and study in Radix and other somatic approaches from the early 2000’s onwards.
www.sisusomatic.com
Tessa Fergusson is a certified Radix body psychotherapist and Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who runs a private practice in Cornwall. She works with individuals 1-1 and in groups focusing on embodiment and increased awareness and in the processing of held stories within the body. The focus of her practice is on aliveness rather than pathology and in tolerating in our human lives being more fully alive, felt, present and conscious allowing for more choice and creativity. Tessa Fergusson
Stephen Tame is a relational body psychotherapist, with decades of enthusiasm working with clients and trainees. He is a member of the Embodied-Relational Therapy training team. He continues to learn from his colleagues, clients, trainees, other trainers, and the wider world. http://www.stephentame.co.uk
Venue: Avon Tyrell Outdoor Activity Centre
Avon Tyrrell Activity Centre is in sixty-five acres of beautiful grounds in the New Forest National Park, located about 80 miles southwest of Heathrow airport. Its lakes are set amid a mixture of woodland and open spaces.
Our workshop space is Avon Lodge, which has open space for our workshop, a full kitchen, twin bedded shared rooms, 2 toilet/shower rooms.
Feedback from our previous weekends
“It felt that I did really get to experience the ability of my body to process the unprocessed, to heal itself, to release whatever it was holding onto and to come back to my more truest Self. I really appreciated the very safe container facilitated which allowed this all to happen.”
“I want to reiterate my huge gratitude for the safe and respectful space that you created, which enabled me to do some deep and valuable work.”
“To me the weekend flowed very well and Stephen and Simon brought a beautifully balanced presence and energy.
I suspect this is testimony to, amongst other things, a lot of thoughtful preparation, planning, behind the scenes and out-of-hours work – thank you!”
“A rich, diverse and profound experience. I felt affirmed by both therapists and other participants.”
“The experience was very fulfilling. It gave me a lot personally and professionally. I hope to get to come more workshops in the near future.”
“This has been life-changing for me. I’d definitely like to come back and carry on my journey with you”
“I found this weekend to be very powerful and surprised at the effects of working in this way – it felt like it was possible to get to the heart of things as they are.”
“I feel I have met with myself in a deeper, richer way and been able to connect more authentically with others.”
“The level of safety created enabled me to go deeper into my experience than I’ve done in the past.”
Contact bodypsychworkshops@gmail.com with queries and booking inquiries.
Please note that places are limited to 12 participants.