Working in an ongoing therapy group provides us with the opportunity to learn about how we relate to ourselves and others. Witnessing others work in a trusting environment can permit us to share more of ourselves and get feedback on how others see and respond to us. We can develop new ways of communicating and connecting with others.
Pesso Psychotherapy
Over a fifty year career Albert Pesso created a unique and revolutionary body-based method, which combines classical psychology and the latest neuroscience to producing remarkable results.
Offerings with Sandy Cotter
Accredited Pesso Trainer BA, MA, MSc, UKCP Registered
‘Pesso Psychotherapy Touches Places Other Therapies Do Not Reach’
Weekend workshops that can ignite your life
The importance of committed and precise body work – that engages with the emotional and ‘storyline’ right brain – is widely acknowledged. Professor Van der Kolk reflects: “According to recent research, up to 90 percent of human communication occursin the nonverbal, right-hemisphere realm, and this was where Pesso’s work seemed primarily to be directed.” … “When you activate your gut feelings and listen to your heartbreak – when you follow the interoceptive pathwaysto your innermost recesses – things begin to change.” This is exactly the process of Pesso work.
About the Programme
The Format
A weekend offers a spacious and relaxed time frame for the tender and exciting adventure of self-discovery.
The Delegates
The group will have up to ten members.
You can attend as a FULL PARTICIPANT: which means you will have a one-hour personal ‘session’ or structure within the group setting. (See the description of a ‘structure’ on page 4 for more details). Alternatively, you can come along as an OBSERVER PARTICIPANT, which means that you take part in the enactment of the ‘structure’ and otherwise participate by being present as fellow delegates unfold their history and each creates a ‘new memory’ as a basis for a better future. (See the description of a ‘new memory’ on page 4 for further explanation). Group members report that they learn and grow in surprising ways by ‘bearing witness to’ the work of fellow delegates.
The Intention
The purpose of these groups is to provide a POSSIBILITY SPHERE of mutual trust and support where people can – in the words of Al Pesso – “become who they truly are”.
The Commitment
All group members undertake to be present for the full weekend – unless otherwise agreed – and to stay until the end of each day.
For more information please contact Sandy
sandycotter.centaur@gmail.com
Dates, Timings, Venue and Costs:
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About Sandy Cotter
Sandy is one of three accredited trainers in the Pesso method in the UK. In the mid 1960s she graduated with a first in Psychology from Michigan State University in the US and stepped straight into the exciting wave of the Human Potential Movement, which transformed psychology during the last third of the 20th century. Sandy had experienced a good many modes and models of working with people when she encountered Pesso Psychotherapy in 1997 while attending an introductory workshop led by Professor Lowijs Perquin – a central figure in the development of the method in Europe.
Sandy was taken by the beauty and effectiveness of the Pesso method and set about establishing the first Pesso Training Group in the UK with Dr. Perquin which ran from 1999 until 2003. Then, from 2004 until Al Pesso’s death in 2015 Sandy spent three weeks each summer learning this method under the direct tuition of its founder.
Within a wider professional picture, from 1985 Sandy worked primarily in leadership development in the corporate world. She co-founded the innovative Praxis Centre at Cranfield University’s School of Management which introduced Humanistic psychology into leadership learning.
Pesso Psychotherapy Weekends with Sandy Cotter in 2023
London
2023
October 28 & 29
December 2 & 3
2024
January 27 & 28
April 20 & 21
June 1 & 2
Venue
Barnsbury Therapy Rooms, 144 Liverpool Road, Islington, London N1 1LA
Bath
2023
November 10 (eve), 11 & 12
2024
February 9 (eve), 10 & 11
May 10 (eve), 11 & 12
July 5 (eve), 6 & 7
Venue
3 Widcombe Terrace, Bath, BA2 6AJ
Costs
Full Participant: £350 (£275 – Early Bird Booking*)
Observer Participant: £100
*An Early Bird booking is two months before the date of the workshop:
London Workshops: before August 5 2023.
Bath Workshops: before September 10.
For more information please contact Sandy
sandycotter.centaur@gmail.com
Dates, Timings, Venue and Costs:
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
2 New workshops
- Dates: Friday 15th and Saturday 16th September 2023
- Dates: Friday 3rd and Friday 10th November 2023
- Place: Barnsbury Therapy Rooms in Islington.
- Time: Arrive by 9.45am for a 10am start. Finish at 6.30 pm.
- Cost: £85 day
The workshops will be led by Chloe Chancellor and Florence Terry.
Pesso Boyden is a mind-body therapy which aims to free you to be who you truly are, fulfilling your unique potential in the world and experiencing more pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and connectedness.
While Pesso Boyden Psychotherapy is a very effective one-to-one therapy, there are great advantages to experiencing it as it was originally conceived: individual therapy within a group. One person at a time has the group’s support in doing a piece of therapy work, called a structure. This is a precisely constructed, symbolic, reparative experience, helping to heal the wounds of past trauma and loss. People often also benefit greatly from playing a role in someone
else’s structure or simply from witnessing their work. The energy and support of the group contribute a valuable dimension to this healing experience.
There will be four structures each day, lasting between 50 and 75 minutes. The person having a structure can bring a particular issue or simply start with whatever is present for them in that moment. Chloe and Florence will lead alternate structures.
There are eight structure places across the two days. These will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis to people who can attend both days. There are a further four places available each day for people who would like to participate without having a structure.
For further information and booking, please contact
Chloe Chancellor chancellortherapy@btinternet.com tel. 07928 603 344
Or
Florence Terry fjt@florenceterry.com tel. 07974 442 391
Chloe Chancellor is a Pesso Boyden Therapist and is accredited with BACP and EMDR Europe. She has many years of experience as a psychotherapist and supervisor. See more about Chloe Chancellor
Florence Terry is a Pesso Boyden Therapist, a senior accredited member of BACP and an EMDR Europe accredited practitioner. She specializes in working with anger and trauma. See more about Florence Terry
Meeting Ourselves
An ongoing therapy group for men with Rob Francis
We are living in a time of immense instability, transition and change of identities. Who we are, and how we experience and recognise ourselves as men, is a key part of this.
Working in a group offers us a community of belonging, collaboration and learning, as we do our own work, and witness and engage with others doing theirs. In the group we can practise and grow trust, and help each other to heal, develop, and become stronger. As we meet with each other, we also meet ourselves.
Through this, we can form a view of ourselves and a way of life that is truthful, compassionate and sustainable, over time. We can evolve, individually and collectively, by becoming aware of and ending old attitudes and patterns of being, thinking, feeling and behaving that are redundant and no longer work for us; and through shaping and establishing new patterns of living and communicating that support us to thrive and grow.
I am running this men’s group to provide a space to help us to deepen our awareness, experience and satisfaction; to explore and form new perspectives on ourselves, our lives and our relationships; and to become the men we are, not the men we think we should be.
How to join the group
If you think you would like to join the group, please email Rob Francis to arrange an initial meeting, to explore what you would like for yourself in joining, and to discuss the practicalities.
rob@robfrancis.net
Dates and times
Starting January 2023, we will meet monthly on eleven Sundays through the year, except for August:
29 Jan, 12 Feb, 12 Mar, 23 Apr, 21 May, 25 Jun, 23 Jul, 17 Sep, 8 Oct, 5 Nov, 3 Dec.
The days will run from 10:00 – 17:00 with a lunch break and a coffee and tea break.
Fee and commitment
The fee for the group is £360 per term, payable in monthly instalments. There will be a maximum of eight participants and the minimum commitment is three terms.
Venue
Homa, 26 Lloyd Baker Street, London WC1X 9AW. Homa is between Angel and King’s Cross tube stations.