LECTURE AND DEMONSTRATION IN THE UK WITH AL PESSO
CO-FOUNDER OF THE PBSP SYSTEM
THE ONLY OPEN WORKSHOP THIS YEAR IN ENGLAND
AL PESSO
International expert on Mind-Body therapy,
and co-founder of PBSP
Al recently said ‘After more than four decades of intensive, depth-work with clients, using the powerful, foundational, mind-body processes that Diane [my wife] and I discovered, developed and evolved into the complex, comprehensive process known as Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor®, PBSP®, an unexpected, breath-takingly, fresh, new series of realizations and procedures have flowered into being. They are firmly based upon what we already know, do and offer to the world, however the results from applying these new additions have been simply astonishing’.
If you know about this therapeutic methodology then come and experience the latest thoughts, if you are new to this therapy then you have a treat in store as you encounter Al Pesso, master therapist, giving a lecture and demonstration of his work.
Who should attend: Anyone who is interested. The day is open to all, be they members of the public who are interested, parents who want to learn about family dynamics, or those who are currently working as therapists.
There will be a new 3 year training which will start in 2010, and this workshop is designed so that as many people as possible can have a taste of the method. We are particularly keen to encourage those who might want to join the 2010 training (which will be with Al Pesso and Lowijs Perquin, details still to be finalized).
Albert Pesso co-founded Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor with his life partner, Diane Boyden-Pesso, in 1961. He has given numerous lectures on PBSP at universities, hospitals and clinics throughout the United States and Europe. Al conducts international training programs having long term programs in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Replublic, Portugal, USA and UK. At over 80 years of age he is an inspiration.
Albert Pesso is the author of “Movement in Psychotherapy”, New York University Press, 1969 and “Experience in Action”, New York University Press, 1973; co-editor with John Crandell of “Moving Psychotherapy: Theory and Applications of Pesso System/Psychomotor Therapy”, Brookline Books, 1991; co-author, with Willy van Haver, of “Het Gekwetste Zelf” (The Wounded Self) Acco (Leuven, Belgium) 1990; co-author with Tilmann Moser of “Strukturen des Unbewussten” (Structures of the Unconscious) Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1991; and the author of numerous articles on Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor psychotherapy.
Venue: Teddington Baptist Church, Church Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8PF. Close to the M3 (and A316). Some parking in nearby streets. Teddington Railway Station (Waterloo line) is 6 mins walk away. For directions: http://www.teddingtonbaptist.org.uk/tbcfind.htm Here is the link forSouth West Trains
Cost: £70 for the day. There will be a few concessionary places at £50 for those who cannot afford to attend at the full price. Please apply stating your circumstances to Juliet Grayson (click here to send email). No applications will be considered after October 15th. See 'To Book' (below)
Tea/Coffee: Tea and coffee will be provided.
Lunch: Lunch is not provided. There are cafe’s, and a supermarket nearby.
Timings: 9.30 arrive to start at 10.00 a.m. and finish at approx 5.45 p.m.
To book: You can book online by visiting the link below and paying by credit card. http://youraccount.ekmpowershop1.com/ekmps/shops/gatehouse/open-to-the-general-public-personal-development-workshops-for-everyone-24-c.asp. Or you can send a booking form and a cheque (made out to to PBSP-UK) and send to Courtyard House, Moynes Court, Mathern, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 6HZ. Any profit will go to PBSP UK, a not-for-profit organisation. PBSP UK is subsidising this event
Cancellations: Cancellations made more than 21 days before the event will receive the money paid less a 12% handling charge. No refunds given within 21 days of the event. In the event of us having to cancel, your monies will be fully refunded.
What Clinicians Say About PBSP:
"Al Pesso is a superb therapist, one of the best in the country [USA]. He has an uncanny ability to observe and amplify body movements into deep areas of difficulty and work with these in ways that are powerfully life enhancing. Any therapist genuinely interested in exploring the deepest reaches of psychotherapy should have an experience with Al”
Joen Fagen, Ph.D., Graduate Psychology Department, Georgia State University.
“Where a person has suffered severe developmental deficit the challenges of any therapy will be immense. In such cases, it will be hard for the patient to feel safe in the therapeutic relationship, and the answer lies in the kind of body work done by Albert Pesso in which a patient in a group context is able to orchestrate their own reparative somatic experience.
Someone like this needs a psychodramatic experience where they can physically feel what it's like to be little again, and be held and safe at the same time. They need to go into an altered state of consciousness where they can have that experience.”
Bessel A. Van der Kolk M.D. Past President of the Internationall Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School; Clinical Director of the Trauma Center, HRI Hospital, Massachusetts; quoted in Counselling & Psychotherapy Journal discussing effective therapy for treating trauma.
This event is being organised by Inter-action on behalf of PBSP UK.
Contact Juliet Grayson (organiser) email inter.action@virgin.net or call 01291 638805.
www.therapyandcounselling.co.uk
www.pesso-uk.org www.pbsp.com