Transpersonal Centre

DRAWING ON THE INNER WORLD: CONTACTING THE GUIDE WITHIN
with HAZEL MARSHALL, Sunday November 13th 2011

This day will give us an opportunity, using imaging, to contact our own inner Friends, Guardians or energies. We will do some recording and sharing, and spend time together. Our aim will be to draw upon some inner light and strengthen our power to see by that light. I hope you may wish to come.

UNDERSTANDING AND ENCOURAGING YOURSELF
with KAREN JOHN, Saturday February 25th 2012

On this journey of self-discovery, how do we habitually see ourselves and respond to life's challenges? Understanding the vulnerable, immensely courageous and creative child within can help us to reclaim our courage and creativity. As highly perceptive, unique and creative beings, we each found early ways to respond to internal and external demands and dilemmas. These helped us feel safe and find a place within our families, at school and in the community.

In this workshop we will collaboratively examine the meaning and relevance of feelings and behaviours that compromise your satisfaction with yourself and life. How, as child, did you survive, belong and achieve significance? How do you see yourself, others, the world and life itself? Where do you feel stuck or lost? How are your early beliefs and patterns of responding interfering with your wellbeing and enjoyment at work and in relationships?

Dr. Karen John is a researcher, trainer, consultant and psychotherapist/ counsellor. Her abiding aim is to help individuals, families, organisations and professionals to recognise and overcome the obstacles that interfere with their healthy functioning and development. She leads workshops to increase self-understanding and personal and inter-personal effectiveness and satisfaction.

INANNA: A JOURNEY OF INITIATION
with ELEANOR ALLITT, Saturday May 12th 2012

All the characters in traditional story live within our own psyches and so, by interacting with one another, each character plays out its own particular role. In the ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna and her descent into the underworld we are presented with a psychic map, or metaphor for our own personal journeys, and so this timeless story has much to tell us about ourselves.

Inanna emerges from her ordeal as one who appears the same but has inwardly been changed, transformed, moved up an octave. Likewise, though in a very different form, King Lear also embarks upon a journey to the underworld. He too, through suffering emerges changed.

How is female initiation different from masculine initiation? And what is the cost of this? We will make an exploration of these ideas through listening and discussing, and also through movement. Eleanor will tell the story of Inanna accompanied by her own digitally projected images.

Eleanor Allit is an illustrator and storyteller and has recently illustrated and published 'Daring to Descend: Inanna and her Descent into the Underworld'.

SYMPTOM AS SYMBOL
with Monica Anthony, October 13th, 2012

In this one-day workshop we will engage with the interface created between psyche and soma, exploring in depth the expression and release of emotional patterns and mental thought-forms held in the body. As part of that process, we will discover tools to enable us each to take our personal journey further.

We draw on Barbara Somers's material on 'Symptom as Symbol', which uses imaging in a deeply healing way and opens up rich therapeutic ground. The transpersonal approach and perspective engages the 'wise compassionate observer', the 'inner physician' within each of us (Upledger); facilitating inner and outer dialogue, we will aim to bring the experience of our personal growth within the bigger picture to another level of integration.

Monica Anthony is a transpersonal psychotherapist, craniosacral therapist, healer and astrologer. She originally trained and worked as a musician and has developed her interest in the relationship between mind, body and spirit since her first encounter with esoteric teachings and Transpersonal Psychology in 1975.

PASSAGES
with EMMA RAMSDEN, postponed until a Saturday in 2013

A passage connects us, takes us to somewhere else. It is the limbo in between, the transitional space. It may be dark - a burrow, or tunnel, or underground labyrinth - the light is blocked out. It may force us - we may have to enter it, move into and through and out of it, for our very lives. It may be a threshold leading to another level: to the subliminal, on to further journeying.

The aim of the day is to explore. Were there passages in houses you have known? What went on there? What passageways do you use now - what ginnels, snickets or alleyways, what narrow, walled lanes that lead from one street to another and sometimes, from one world to another? Who or what lives in them? When do people live in passages? What is kept in them? Is it important that there is nothing in them?

Emma Ramsden is a Practitioner/ Researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University where she is currently completing her doctoral thesis, 'A Study of Children's Psychological Voices in Drama therapy'. She has recently returned to clinical work in the high secure forensic psychiatric field, where she intends to collaborate with colleagues and further her research inquiries. A registered drama therapist, Emma is also a clinical supervisor and has a private practice based in South East London. This will be her fifth consecutive visit to Rock Bank